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Why is the gap so great between our hopes, our intentions, even our decisions-and what we are actually able to bring about? Even when we are able to make important changes-in our own lives or the groups we lead at work-why are the changes are so frequently short-lived and we are soon back to business as usual? What can we do to transform this troubling reality?
In this intensely practical book, Harvard psychologists Robert Kegan and Lisa Laskow Lahey take us on a carefully guided journey designed to help us answer these very questions. And not just generally, or in the abstract. They help each of us arrive at our own particular answers that can solve the puzzling gap between what we intend and what we are able to accomplish. How the Way We Talk Can Change the Way We Work provides you with the tools to create a powerful new build-it-yourself mental technology.
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With an inspiring mix of organizational analysis, worksheets, and sample dialogues, the authors of this revolutionary new technology for personal learning, leadership, and organizational change, show how all managers and executives are actually leading "language communities". The workplace, they reveal, is a community where certain ways of talking are encouraged and others made apparently impossible. But by using the seven new workplace "languages" presented in this book to reveal the underlying feelings and motivation in one-to-one and group discussion at work, leaders can concentrate individual and social energy to transform communication and culture in the workplace.
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A simple and profound method for achievement.......2007-02-17
This book presents a simple worksheet to help you analyze your resistance to change. Once completed, you will understand the inner conflicts that hinder your personal and professional development despite your best intentions. Of course, simply understanding these conflicts isn't enough, so the authors present methods to understand the usefulness of your resistance, eliminate your judgement around it, and harness its power for change.
This method has helped me overcome my greatest dissatisfaction at work and I've experienced amazing results. I must warn, however, that despite being simple it entails quite a bit of self observation and continued effort. But this in itself is a huge asset.
I highly recommend this book for anybody experiencing even the slightest dissatisfaction at work or in life.
Finally Understanding Change Resistance as Useful Information.......2006-07-11
Imagine getting so much perspective on habits you're not happy about that you can actually keep your commitments to yourself. Using language structure as both the diagnostic and the cure, Kegan and Lahey offer up a fresh guide to creating sustainable change.
While it is designed to be used for workplace issues, it can also be used in other aspects of life. This book is clear, well-written, and so easily accessible it can even be used as a workbook. In fact the authors recommend a study group, and give clear steps to applying the model and specific case studies of participants who have successfully used it to create change. The significant difference between this and all other "managing change" books is a respectful recognition of competing commitments. That is, we don't need to conquer resistance, we need to understand it as a legitimate and experienced based reluctance designed for self-protection. Only then can the source and the solution be brought to light. This way of thinking is a treasure.
A great break down of common problems.......2005-08-02
I love the analysis of the way we communicate breaks down common misconceptions. This book shows the things that create negative responses and reactions. I think that while it shows ways to change, very few people actually change. I plan to use these concepts with my employees and see if it has an impact. My supervisor told me about this and advised trying it out with a partner first. I can see ways that I and others I work with fall into patterns that can be changed.
Judy
Superb treatment of the subject.......2002-07-02
The authors do a wonderful job of tying the science of languages and communication to the business of work and life. Filled with great examples from the world, it is easy to understand and digest.
Recommend also: "The Leader's Guide: 15 Essential Skills" (Ponder) and "7 Habits" (Covey)
Like a mirror to see yourself in.......2002-06-22
This book does for business leaders and their teams what the 7 Habits (Covey) did for individuals back in the 90s, but it goes a step forward: it's packed with case studies. I won't add to the discussion about the Seven Languages for Transformation, since my fellow reviewers have already gone into extensive detail about them. The key concept that the book left me was the idea of diving into conflicts to have them "solve" you, as opposed to running away from them or trying to solve them. The basis for this idea has to do with the learning opportunities that a conflict has to offer, and the opportunities of self-discovery to dig out blatant inconsistencies between what we say we care about and what our language and actions actually shows.
Overall, the book is a very easy read, whether you do it in order to seriously implement its suggested methodology (and it is one serious set of ideas it carries) or just as a mirror to help you laugh at your so-called professional commitments.
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Your kid's sexual education is likely to be a difficult topic to think about. Caught between fear of causing embarrassment and concern over the dangers of ignorance, it's a wonder that parents manage more than a blush and stutter while handing over a textbook. How Can We Talk About That? is designed to get at the root of the real problem: how your sexual history, fears, and hang-ups can get in the way of your ability to provide parental guidance in the matter of sex.
Neatly avoiding any discussion of relative morals, author Jane DiVita Woody has created a series of shorts tests that help both Mom and Dad honestly evaluate their sexual past--and present. From questions on your level of satisfaction to rating your worries as a parent, these tests are designed to provide a full understanding of your sexual fears, insecurities, and strengths.
Practical suggestions for using what you learn to improve communication with your partner are given; if you can't bring yourself to talk to your husband, will you do a good job teaching your child? Later chapters are devoted to appropriate topics of sexual education for different ages, all the way from a child's first year of life until she turns 18.
We all want to pass our values onto our kids, but we know that we can't depend on others to do it for us. Woody opens a clear path for starting the process by helping us better understand our own feelings about sex. --Jill Lightner
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How Can We Talk About That? is a down-to-earth resource that can help you overcome your hang-ups so you can talk to your kids openly and honestly about sex. Author Jane DiVita Woody's new approach will inspire you to examine your sexual history so you will be better able to give your children both accurate sex education and meaningful moral guidance. Throughout the book she offers parents practical ideas for making changes and gaining the information and communication skills they need to guide the next generation toward sexual health.
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A "Must Have" Reference for Mental Health Clinicians.......2002-01-25
Dr. Woody has created a remarkable resource for those of us who work with children. Inevitably, important questions arise that can be difficult for the most seasoned clinician to manage. When the subject is sexuality, even the most coordinated tongues get tied. Dr. Woody provides scientifically-based information and guidance, along with case examples, to enliven and support discussions between parents and their children. Dr. Woody's writing style is clear and easy to read. She engages the reader from the outset, inviting them to develop those skills certain to promote strong relationships between parents and children. In this increasingly dangerous world, it is comforting to know there is a resource like How Can We Talk About That? to help. Mental health clinicians now have a reliable resource, both to expand their skill-base, as well as to share with the parents and children in their care. On a cautionary note, if you lend this book out you may not get it back! This book will be a parent's best friend, one we can turn to time and again for assistance.
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Those who serve on mission fields in areas where Christian faith is not the dominant religion quickly come to understand a central truth: when one is sharing the gospel, one must have a place to start the conversation. If the person being addressed is unfamiliar with Christian concepts and terms, one must pick up on things with which he or she is familiar, and relate these to the Christian message. Without this middle ground, there can be no effective witness to God's salvation in Christ. Everyone who shares the good news today, Robert Tuttle points out, would do well to learn this basic truth for communicating the gospel. While the Christian message is universal,intended for all persons, everywhere, the language we use to convey this message may not be. The key is always to be sensitive to the deep questions with which one's friends and acquaintances are struggling, and to look for ways to relate the life-changing message of the gospel to these questions. Key Features: * Lively and direct writing style that offers a clear, user-friendly guide to sharing one's personal faith.* Illustrations and examples are drawn from both the North American context and the context outside North America.* Focused on the crucial and difficult task of communication the gospel to persons who have not grown up with the language and symbolism of the church. Key Benefits:* The reader will understand that efforts to communicate the gospel to persons unfamiliar with the terminology and concepts must first identify a common middle ground from which to begin and how to indentify that middle ground.* The reader will learn the basic tools for communicating the gospel.* The reader will learn for deep questions and will learn how to relate the life-changing message of the gospel to those questions.
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Informative, but leaves questions.......2005-01-20
Robert G. Tuttle provides a "transcultural" way for asking questions that allow Christians to better share their faith. He looks at universal common denominators that speak to a wide range of cultures and generations such as children and sports. One of the strengths of this book is that Tuttle backs up his evangelistic lip service with practicing what he preaches. He provides a lot of illustrations and teaches beyond the theory motif. This book is very short and can be read in an afternoon as well. I would have liked for the author to have provided more information about why the "Modern" way of evangelism is far less superior, there are many presuppositions within this account.
There are a lot of places where this book has really great theology but a few places let me confused like his term "Muslim-Christians?" I was also surprised to learn Jesus was a socialist in the Marxist sense, but that might explain why Tuttle was in Cuba. Maybe illegally? Also he says he is not an inclusiveness but after you read it you will discover this is not quite true. Still, the positives probably outweigh the negatives.
Yes, We Can!.......2004-12-01
Dr. Tuttle, in this book, attempts to give readers guidance in developing strategies for effective sharing of the gospel with people from vastly different cultures than our own. While he appears to fail in his search for a transcultural gospel (p.11), he does succeed in his search for phenomena that are fairly transcultural. He discusses those phenomena that can be used as analogies to help explain the gospel concepts, or at least to soften the heart of the non-believer to make the person ready to hear the evangelist's message. He indicates that these analogies are necessary to begin the process of evangelism with a person who has little in common with the evangelizer or has insufficient awareness or appreciation for gospel figures and their relationships. Dr. Tuttle uses many true stories to demonstrate the effectiveness of his transcultural tools, and, in the course of doing so, gives readers an ample supply of examples from which to learn.
The author's generous uses of evangelistic vignettes are advantageous to the reader. One cannot only learn about the tools he has discovered, but also identify the context in which they were used successfully. The book is easily read and understood. Most readers will enjoy reading the testimonies, situations and successes of Dr. Tuttle's experiences.
He identifies several transcultural phenomena, which can be compelling in their use with people, especially from non-Western cultures. These include sports, music, a high regard for children, the desire to measure up, the need for community, the need to overcome, and the quest for understanding our origin. Throughout the book, and especially in chapter seven, he demonstrates the effective use of these transcultural phenomena in short stories of his interactions involving people from around the globe and from vastly different backgrounds. He evangelizes in airports, train stations, planes, trains, and automobiles, on various parts of every continent, saving Antarctica.
The strength of this book lies in its efforts to sensitize the reader to various cultural differences and how those differences can impede the gospel message. Dr. Tuttle gives us tools to use which he has demonstrated with his life to be helpful in beginning and sustaining an evangelistic interaction.
An excellent cross-cultural evangelism primer.......2000-03-01
Tuttle's best contribution in this book is the way he identifies felt needs, regardless of a person's culture, that make him or her open to the gospel. Excellent book to teach intelligent active listening as a way to open doors for the gospel.
Talking about Christ across the table or across the world.......2000-02-15
"Can We Talk" reminds us that sharing our faith in Jesus Christ continually seeks relevance. Anyone who is familiar with Robert Tuttle will be delighted with his numerous illustrations and concepts with regard to sharing the gospel. The book will edify you personally and could also be useful as a small group study guide. To discover that the gospel is "Transcultural" is vital for our sharing of the faith in the present culture. Read Tuttle for a joyful trip around the world of sharing the gospel of Jesus Christ in relevant ways.
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"Everything we say to each other echoes with meanings left over from our past experience--both our history talking to the person before us at this moment and our history talking to others," says Deborah Tannen, one of the world's most famous linguists. We react not only to the message, but to the "metamessage": our interpretation of the unstated meaning, based on tone, relationship, and our past associations. Add in the connections and control issues among family members, and it's no wonder families have so much trouble understanding each other!
I Only Say This Because I Love You is aimed mostly at adult family interactions. Professor Deborah Tannen, the popular author of You Just Don't Understand, uses anecdotes filled with dialogues to illustrate why we hear criticism when the other person meant to convey caring, how family members create alignments with secrets and broken confidences, the dynamics of arguments, the power of apologies, gender patterns in family talk, and communication with teens. You're bound to recognize your family members--and yourself!--in Tannen's examples.
You won't find quick, easy answers for improving communication in your family, but you will discover another dimension of understanding what's really going on. Now if you could just get your mother to read the book! --Joan Price
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Why does talk in families so often go in circles, leaving us tied up in knots? In this illuminating book, Deborah Tannen, the linguist and and bestselling author of
You Just Don't Understand and many other books, reveals why talking to family members is so often painful and problematic even when we're all adults. Searching for signs of acceptance and belonging, we find signs of disapproval and rejection. Why do the seeds of family love so often yield a harvest of criticism and judgment? In
I Only Say This Because I Love You, Tannen shows how important it is, in family talk, to learn to separate word meanings, or messages, from heart meanings, or metamessages — unstated but powerful meanings that come from the history of our relationships and the way things are said. Presenting real conversations from people's lives, Tannen reveals what is actually going on in family talk, including how family conversations must balance the longing for connection with the desire for control, as we struggle to be close without giving up our freedom.
This eye-opening book explains why grown women so often feel criticized by their mothers; and why mothers feel they can't open their mouths around their grown daughters; why growing up male or female, or as an older or younger sibling, results in different experiences of family that persist throughout our lives; and much, much more. By helping us to understand and redefine family talk, Tannen provides the tools to improve relationships with family members of every age.
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The bestselling author of You Just Don't Understand and Talking from 9 to 5 shows how to understand talk in families and how to do it better.
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Fabulous new insights to relationships of all kinds.......2002-02-13
Chapter 1 of Tannen's latest book provides some fabulous new insights to relationships of all kinds. Her discussions of the connection-control schema and meta-messages concept allow the reader to gain new perspectives on those sometimes frustrating interactions with loved ones (or coworkers, or strangers...). The rest of the book is really just "gravy" on top of the information in Chapter 1. Wow, I loved this book-- a definite recommendation to anyone interested in better understanding relationship communication (I see my mother's "advice," formerly a source of frustration/anger, in a whole new light!).
I Only Say This to be Honest.......2001-08-25
Would that it were true that family relationships came down to the words we use when we talk to one another. Tannen tries to wrestle complex family dynamics into conversational styles, and fails dismally. Much of the "insights" are superficial, suggestions for improving relationships minimal, and the examples provided are tedious and boring. I had high hopes for this book but it provided little that was useful to me.
Solid Information, but haven't we heard it before?.......2001-08-20
I loved Tannen's _You Just Don't Understand_ because of the fresh insights it provided, so I was especially disappointed when _I Only Say This Because I Love You_ failed to provide the same feeling of discovery and excitement.
The book focuses on the frequent difference between the actual words that are spoken, and the meaning behind the words (meta-message), which is often about trying to create more connectedness or to alter the power and control dynamics of the relationship.
I found it interesting, but not revolutionary (and I'd come to expect revolutionary from Dr. Tannen).
By understanding the meta-messages both from ourselves and from others, we should have more power to address the meta-messages directly and not get involved in petty bickering and emotional responses that go nowhere except round-and-round.
Overall, I would say that the book contains useful insights and helpful advice, but for people who have already spent time analyzing their intimate relationships, there's probably not much new.
why can't you communicate with so-and-so? find out!.......2001-08-13
I considered myself a good communicator. Then I read this book. It brought things to my attention that I was unaware of, about how I communicate with those closest to me. I was confronted with my own mistakes, in a way that I could not deny, and it motivated me to work on those areas right away! I also saw everybody else I know in this book--because it is about the mistakes we all make. It encompasses all of the different family relationships there are, goals of communication, why certain communication styles don't work, and suggestions for making it easier. The best chapter of all was called "I'm sorry, I'm not apologizing." It talked about why women apologize more than men, why apologizing is harder for men, power issues involved with apologizing, issues around accepting responsibility, and most importantly, the key components of a good apology. I will definitely have a better marriage as a result of reading this book, and I will be recommending it to everyone I know. It was interesting reading, and for me, hard to put down. It is an accessable and very knowledgable reference.
Insightful reference on the levels of how we communicate.......2001-08-08
Exceptional reference for the verbal and the non verbal communicator. Best analogy "Do you hear what I mean?" As a wife of a non verbal communicator and a mother of three one who masters the english language and has strong communication skills to the youngest who struggle with basic communication, I have personally found this title to be instrumental in navigating through our own family and our verbal form of expression.
When exposed to those that struggle with the command of the english language I have had to learn new ways to communicate. This tile is completely on target and goes to posture, stance, tone and so much more.
How our presentation can make a positive or negative impact on the receiver. Often our intent of caring is misunderstood due to our presentation and/or the preconceived disposition of our intended audience.
After reading I was able to grasp the fact that sometimes no matter what was said it was improperly "processed." Truly it is the processing that counts most. Understanding that not everyone processes the same information in the same fashion can be eye opening and yet become an obvious reality.
The author drives home that we need to educate and understand and to be educated and understanding with our communication skills.
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In this unusual advice book, teenagers from around the country talk openly of their real feelings about their parents and other important adults in their lives. They offer insights and strategies for connecting with adolescents in this all-important stage of life.
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Wonderful read.......2005-04-15
"What We Can't Tell You : Teenagers Talk to the Adults in Their Lives" is a great book! I was sent a proof to read and found that the information it holds is key to improving communication between parents and their children.
Helpful all around.......2005-04-08
I was sent a proof copy of this book. I was not really going to read it until my mother read it and said something to me. I found the title to be most interesting and once I had read it, I found the book to be very helpful. I never really knew there were other kids out there like me. It opened a lot of topics for me and my parents to discuss. This book hit on topics that we go though and topics that are not an issue for us. I would suggest if you have teenagers in the house that you read this. For it was help in ways that it said it would be and in ways unstated. I found it helpful just to know that there are other kids going through the same things I am. But also that I have it pretty good compared to others.
Interesting book does open conversations.......2005-04-08
I was sent a proof copy of this book for review. At first I was skeptical because most of the teenagers interviewed seem to have lived a life far different from my children. We are part of the "minority" of single nuclear unbroken families. Our children are not plagued by a lot of the problems described in this book. However, two of my teenagers were captivated by the title of the book when they saw me reading it, and proceeded to tell me what they thought I should know about their thinking. The book itself was not relevant to our lives, but it did, as promised, start a conversation between myself and my teens that was enlightening and made for a wonderful evening together.
Helpfulness aside, it was well-written and very interesting to read even without the conversational side-effects.
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- Can We Listen to God?
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- Anybody Who Prays to God Should Read This
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Can We Talk To God?
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More than ever, people the world over are making a conscious attempt to find meaning in their lives. The excessive materialism of the late 20th century has proven an inadequate substitute for God. As we have acquired more things, we have developed an ever-growing emptiness. Even the popular media today are telling us there is a great hunger for the inner peace that comes from prayerful communion with a higher power. Can We Talk to God? offers readers a framework for prayer that is compatible with traditional religion, yet moves beyond it in the recognition of a divine presence within each person. This book sets forth the teaching of Ernest Holmes, called Science of Mind, which is a synthesis of the greatest ideas of religion, science and philosophy. Originally published in 1934 as The Ebell Lectures on Spiritual Science, it is as fresh and profound today as it was then, offering readers answers to such important questions as: What is the nature of God? What is our relationship to God? How do we communicate with God? What is the secret of spiritual power? Where is humanity headed? How can a prayer be used to help ourselves and others? Many readers wonder, Can I talk to God? This beautiful book answers with a resounding YES!, and shows readers the way. The method of prayer it teaches will open the door to healthier, happier living.
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Can We Listen to God?.......2006-12-29
I remember taking this book with me to the beach one day. It was a perfectly dreary day. Fog, Haze, you name it. It really was a crappy day for the beach. At the time, I was studying to become a Religious Science Practitioner and I wanted to do some "homework" while hanging out on the beach. I began to really enjoy Ernest Holmes' writing. Not only was it inspiring and deep, it triggered within me a knowing, a feeling, a deep, inner sensing that behind his words was the Infinite Love, the Immeasureable Peace, the Inexhaustible Joy that is God Itself. This book was no exception. He made the point that most people talk "at" God. This, for a lot of people, is called praying. They express to the Divine what they want, what they need, what they would like to see appear in their lives. This is fine, but it only goes so far. It also makes it seem as though our good is separate from us. Holmes' suggests "affirmative prayer" where we are in posession of what we want, need, and desire now. Our good is not in some future place...our good is not withheld from us...affirmative prayer is to "align" our mind, our heart, and our soul with the One Mind, the One Heart, the One Soul of God Itself. We become in posession of what we desire now mentally and emotionally. This is not trying to trick the mind or deceive the mind or even hypnotize the mind. This is simply believing that what we desire is ours now. How could it be anything but? If we are able to have the thought of our good, our good is ours and must come to us, through us.
Anyway, I put the book aside and decided to meditate upon some of the words that I found particularly meaningful. I closed my eyes to all the dreariness that was the beach that day and I began to breathe in...and I began to breathe out...I got in a rhythm of my breathing with the the waves crashing up on shore. I began to mentally and emotionally sense the Presence of the One Creative Power. I began to feel the Truth behind the Bible verses, "Seek ye first the Kingdom of God, and all things will be added unto you..." and "The Kingdom of God is not here or there, it is within..." And in my mind I just knew that I was One with God; that the eye with which I see God, is the same eye with which God sees me.
After about twenty minutes of the best meditation I ever had, Iopened my eyes and all I see was Golden Light. It was the most beautiful thing I had ever seen. Everything appeared to be lit up from the inside. I told my buddy who I went to the beach with, "It sure did clear up, didn't it?" He looked at me like I had six heads, "Uhhhh...yeah, whatever, John. It's a miserable day out today..." I was astonished that he would say that. Everything looked so bright, so beautiful, so filled to overflowing with Light and then slowly my eyes adjusted and the Light disappeared from sight. The clouds, the haze, the fog took over.
I often wondered about that experience and I came to the conclusion that what I was seeing, the Golden Light, was Infinitely more real than the gray haze. We don't sense God, or feel God in our activities because we "pretend" that God isn't present. We talk "at" God rather than "to" God because we think God is too busy to concern Itself with us. But just like waves that rise up out of the ocean are manifestations of the ocean and can never be separate from their Source, we arise up out of Spirit and we are never once separate from our Good which is also our God.
God is here.
God is now.
God is speaking to you now...are you listening? I was directed to writing this review. You were directed to read it. God is here. Sense the Presence, Feel the Presence, Know the Presence and know, feel, and sense that It is right where you are.
Get this great book...get two...get three...start a study group...a prayer circle where everyone participates in affirmative prayer and expect miracles to happen, because y'know what, they will!
Peace & Blessings to all,
john, 'the Light coach'
INSPIRATIONAL CLASSIC.......2002-04-05
The message of this book is that every individual's good is already available and that anyone ready to receive can build her/his world by means of effective prayer. The ancient principles involved are explained with clarity and understanding. Holmes discusses the operation of divine principle as a law of cause and effect and how, when you impress your thought upon it, it is its nature to take that thought and bring it into manifestation in your reality. But there's something more than the law - an intelligence to which we may go for inspiration, guidance and direction; a power responding to us and a presence existing within us. In the author's own words: "Our communication with God must of necessity be, and always remain, an inner light; we communicate with the indwelling God." This is what the sages and mystics from all traditions have been claiming for thousands of years, and Holmes had a brilliant gift for delivering this ancient message in the 20th century. Not only that, but he has been proved correct in his prophetic vision. Remember, this book was compiled from his lectures in 1934, many decades before the stirring of what is now called "New Age" for want of a better term, and also long before the work of Carl Jung became widely disseminated. I love Ernest Holmes' engaging style and ability to explain difficult concepts in a simple way. Similar authors that I have found to be equally inspiring include Joseph Murphy, Catherine Ponder, Frederick Bailes, Ralph Waldo Trine and Thomas Troward.
Anybody Who Prays to God Should Read This.......2001-12-31
This book is very interesting and I feel that anyone who prays to God should read this!
Don't Waste Money and Time.......2001-12-29
You don't need to read a book to know that you can talk to God. If there is no way to talk to God, then what's the purpose of praying? Praying is the way to talk to God.
Don't waste money and time on this book.
Encouraging Book for Christians.......2001-12-11
This book is ideal for hopeless, spineless Christians who need to ask favors from God often.
Strongly recommended for these people.
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- Required reading for parents
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Teenagers, especially in light of recent violent acts at schools, are in desperate need of understanding from their parents, yet many of them can't talk about the really important issues in their lives. Why Can't We Talk? What Teens Can't Tell Their Parents is written for teenagers by teenagers as a tool to improve communication and understanding between teens and their parents. The heart of the book is a collection of writings from teenagers from all economic, social and ethnic backgrounds who write with heartfelt honesty about the situations in their lives that they are unable to discuss with their parents. They also share their frustrations with their parents, who are often unwilling to listen. The messages from these contributors will help teen readers realize that they are not alone in the feelings, and will offer them alternative ways to express their concerns and fears.
Each chapter contains contributions from about twenty teens and ends with a recap of the main concerns by Trujillo, including observations, inspirational encouragement, and suggestions and challenges for future actions. Chapters include: Understand Me; Expectations; Communication; Trust; Divorce; Acceptance; Alcohol; Drugs; Sex; Advice to Parents; and Hope.
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Required reading for parents.......2004-07-28
Miki's (Mrs. Trujillo's) book is required reading for parents that have or are about to have teenage children. It is very important to communicate with your children and this book helps you the parent with those skills.
Confusing.......2000-07-12
I bought this book thinking it was for parents but I got confused as to who this book was for. That isn't such a big deal, I guess but as I read on I didn't find any earth shattering information. It is clear that the author cares and that is good, but I think more research and a clearer title might have helped this book. It is extremely difficult to be a parent of a teenager today. We know all the things that our parents did wrong and we know we don't want to repeat those mistakes. BUT we don't have clear and researched advice on what to replace those old mistaken methods with. This is what I was hoping for. I was dissappointed, although I don't feel it was terrible book, I just didn't get anything from it.
Great.......2000-05-27
This book is great and Mrs.T is a great person and I hope she comes out with more books!
Why Can't We Talk.......2000-04-27
This book is an insperation for teens and thier parents. It shows teens that the problems they are having are normal and they are not alone. It also helps parents to understand thier childs point of view and hopefully will open up the lines of communication. Mikki Trujillo did an excellent job and the book is amazing!
Mrs. Trujillo is awesome.......2000-04-07
Mrs. T is my teacher and she is a wonderful person. Her book includes something for everyone and you are sure to find something you can relate to in it. With so many stories and points of view it covers every aspect of what teens are feeling.Reading it makes you see that you are not alone and that there is always someone out there that feels the same way you do. Buy this book!
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Can We Talk and Other Stories (African Writers Series)
Shimmer Chinodya
Manufacturer: Heinemann
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Book Description
A collection of Zimbabwean stories following the transition from childhood to adult life. Youthful desires for prosperity, love and a purpose in life are undermined for Chinodya's characters as they grow up. The disappointments they face reflect a wider disillusionment and decline in post-independence Zimbabwe. In the final story, "Can We Talk", cynicism turns to anger at the breakdown of a marriage.
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Beverly Daniel Tatum emerged on the national scene in 1997 with "Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?," a book that spoke to a wide audience about the psychological dynamics of race relations in America. Tatum's unique ability to get people talking about race captured the attention of many, from Oprah Winfrey to President Clinton, who invited her to join him in his nationally televised dialogues on race.
In her first book since that pathbreaking success, Tatum starts with a warning call about the increasing but underreported resegregation of America. A selfdescribed "integration baby"—she was born in 1954—Tatum sees our growing isolation from each other as deeply problematic, and she believes that schools can be key institutions for forging connections across the racial divide.
In this ambitious, accessible book, Tatum examines some of the most resonant issues in American education and race relations:
•The need of African American students to see themselves reflected in curricula and institutions
•How unexamined racial attitudes can negatively affect minority-student achievement
•The possibilities—and complications—of intimate crossracial friendships
Tatum approaches all these topics with the blend of analysis and storytelling that make her one of our most persuasive and engaging commentators on race.
Can We Talk About Race? launches a collaborative lecture and book series between Beacon Press and Simmons College, which aims to reinvigorate a crucial national public conversation on race, education and democracy.
"What Tatum seeks to do above all is trigger sometimes challenging discussions about race, and infuse those discussions with a reality-based focus on how race affects us all. Her latest book does that beautifully, asking touch questions, and patiently, inclusively seeking answers."
—Boston Globe
Beverly Daniel Tatum is author of "Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?" and Assimilation Blues. She is currently president of Spelman College in Atlanta, where she lives with her husband.
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very honest straight forward book.......2007-04-30
this book is very detailed about Race in America and also the effects within the school structure. it examines why there is a strong feeling of Resegregation in schools and Beyond that is legal without as so much as a Why or how come and why has it come back to this?? this Book asks those Questions and gives Answers at how Education can truly knock those walls away if given the full push it needs. Beverly Daniel Tatum, PHD does a Fantastic Job in this Book in detailing and offering solutions for a Better Tommorrow and Future. but Her words need to be heeded today. Education is the Key. a must have and read book.
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Why does talk in families so often go in circles, leaving us tied up in knots? Linguist Deborah Tannen reveals why talking to family members is so often painful and problematic -- even when we're all adults.
Searching for signs of acceptance and belonging, we find signs of disapproval and rejection. Why do the seeds of family love so often yield a harvest of criticism and judgment? In I Only Say This Because I Love You, Tannen shows how important it is, in family talk, to learn to separate word meanings, or messages, from heart meanings, or metamessages -- unstated but powerful meanings that come from the history of our relationships and the way things are said.
Presenting real conversations from people's lives, Tannen explores what is actually going on in family talk, including how family conversations must balance the longing for connection with the desire for control, as we struggle to be close without giving up our freedom.
This eye-opening audiobook explains why grown women so often feel criticized by their mothers -- and why mothers feel they can't open their mouths around their grown daughters, why growing up male or female, or as an older or younger sibling, results in different experiences of family that persist throughout our lives. BY helping us to understand and redefine family talk, Tannen provides the tools to improve relationships with family members of every age.
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