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Don't Shoot the Dog!: The New Art of Teaching and Training

Don't Shoot the Dog!: The New Art of Teaching and Training

by Karen Pryor

"Whatever the task, whether keeping a four-year-old quiet in public, housebreaking a puppy, coaching a team, or memorizing a poem, it will go fast, and better, and be more fun, if you know how to use reinforcement."--Karen Pryor. Now Karen Pryor clearly explains the underlying principles of behavioral training and through numerous fascinating examples reveals how this art can be applied to virtually any... (more)

A Leader Becomes a Leader: Inspirational Stories of Leadership for a New Generation

A Leader Becomes a Leader: Inspirational Stories of Leadership for a New Generation

by J. Kevin Sheehan

A Leader Becomes a Leader opens with a window on history: Henry David Thoreau riding a borrowed horse and wagon into the woods around Concord, Massachusetts to Walden Pond in 1845. There, he writes a classic work that has a powerful effect on the lives and philosophies of seminal leaders in the next century as diverse as Mohandas Gandhi, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and Nelson Mandela. Thoreau believed that a... (more)

The Greatest Secret in the World

by Og Mandino

Mandino offers an explanation of his famous Ten Greatest Scrolls of Success.

The Greatest Miracle in the World

by Og Mandino

A great inspirational writer tells his greatest story--an amazing narrative revealing exciting new secrets for your personal happiness and success.

The Places That Scare You: A Guide to Fearlessness in Difficult Times (Shambhala Library)

The Places That Scare You: A Guide to Fearlessness in Difficult Times (Shambhala Library)

by Pema Chodron

We always have a choice, Pema Chödrön teaches: We can let the circumstances of our lives harden us and make us increasingly resentful and afraid, or we can let them soften us and make us kinder. Here Pema provides the tools to deal with the problems and difficulties that life throws our way. This wisdom is always available to us, she teaches, but we usually block it with habitual patterns rooted in fear. Beyond... (more)

Start Where You Are: A Guide to Compassionate Living (Shambhala Library)

Start Where You Are: A Guide to Compassionate Living (Shambhala Library)

by Pema Chodron

Start Where You Are is an indispensable handbook for cultivating fearlessness and awakening a compassionate heart. With insight and humor, Pema Chödrön presents down-to-earth guidance on how we can "start where we are"—embracing rather than denying the painful aspects of our lives. Pema Chödrön frames her teachings on compassion around fifty-nine traditional Tibetan Buddhist maxims, or slogans, such as: "Always... (more)

Turning the Mind into an Ally

by Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche

Sakyong Mipham shows how to cultivate a strong stable mind and no longer live "at the mercy of our moods." His stories and wisdom from American culture, as well as from the great Buddhist teachers, help demystify this essential discipline and place it in the framework of Western culture. Accessible, practical, and clear, it provides readers with the necessary tools for taming the mind.

Behavior Problems in Dogs

by William E. Campbell

by William E. Campbell Does your dog have some behavior that you just can't find a way to stop? Then this is the book for you. Behavior Problems in Dogs will help you understand what is going on inside your dog's head. It also explains how your attempts to resolve the problem may actually make it worse. Once you know the basics this book can help you resolve the problem behavior. Some chapters include:... (more)

How to Be a Help instead of a Nuisance: Practical Approaches to Giving Support, Service, and Encouragement to Others

How to Be a Help instead of a Nuisance: Practical Approaches to Giving Support, Service, and Encouragement to Others

by Karen Kissel Wegela

Practical advice is given from contemplative psychology on how to become one of those amazing people whose efforts to help really work. Readers will learn how to listen, how to be a mindful companion to the ill or dying, when to offer advice, and how to give and receive helpful feedback. Karen Kissel Wegela, Ph.D., is director of Contemplative Psychology at Naropa Institute in Boulder, Colorado.

The Tough Kid Tool BoxWilliam R. Jenson, Ginger Rhode, H. Kenton Reavis

The Tough Kid Tool Box

by William R. Jenson, Ginger Rhode, H. Kenton Reavis

Manual of Canine Behaviour

by Valerie O'Farrell

The new edition of BSAVA Manual of Canine Behaviour incorporates the latest insights and information on the normal and abnormal behaviour of dogs. This is a valuable book for all veterinary surgeons working in this increasingly important area of small animal practice. BSAVA, BVNA and FECAVA members can claim their member discount by ordering direct from: British Small Animal Veterinary Association Woodrow... (more)

No More Mondays: Fire Yourself -- and Other Revolutionary Ways to Discover Your True Calling at Work

No More Mondays: Fire Yourself -- and Other Revolutionary Ways to Discover Your True Calling at Work

by Dan Miller

Is Your Job Making You “Stupid”? Adam Smith, author of The Wealth of Nations , once wrote that a person who spends his life performing the same repetitive tasks “generally becomes as stupid and ignorant as it is possible for a human creature to become.” Wow! Now that’s not a pretty picture. Unfortunately, much of our work today consists of those boring, repetitive tasks. But maybe you’re one of the many... (more)

HOW TO BEHAVE SO YOUR CHILDREN WILL, TOO!

HOW TO BEHAVE SO YOUR CHILDREN WILL, TOO!

by S. SAVERE

Listen to Me, Listen to You

by Anne Kotzman, Mandy Kotzman

This step-by-step guide is a companion to the popular Listen to Me, Listen to You: A Practical Guide to Self-awareness, Communication Skills and Conflict Management. It is designed for use by anyone working in communication skills and personal development training. Resource material is grouped under major headings: Orientation; Self-esteem; Self-awareness and self-knowledge; Effective listening; Self-assertion;... (more)

Basic Guitar Lessons: Play Guitar With Happy Traum Omnibus Edition (Guitar Books)

Basic Guitar Lessons: Play Guitar With Happy Traum Omnibus Edition (Guitar Books)

by Happy Traum

Books 1, 2, 3, and 4 all brought together in one complete volume.

Applied Behavior Analysis for Teachers (7th Edition)

Applied Behavior Analysis for Teachers (7th Edition)

by Paul A. Alberto

This market-leading book provides comprehensive coverage of behavior management concepts and techniques and presents them in a versatile and practical manner for teachers. This new edition has been shortened and streamlined and chapters flow step-by-step through an actual behavior analysis, using classroom-based examples and practices firmly grounded in research. Content is presented in the order of... (more)

Behavioral Intervention for Young Children With Autism: A Manual for Parents and Professionals

Behavioral Intervention for Young Children With Autism: A Manual for Parents and Professionals

by Catherine Maurice

...provides a wealth of practical information for parents professionals, & others concerned with helping such children ...

Awake at Work: 35 Practical Buddhist Principles for Discovering Clarity and Balance in the Midst of Work's Chaos

Awake at Work: 35 Practical Buddhist Principles for Discovering Clarity and Balance in the Midst of Work's Chaos

by Michael Carroll

When we think of work, we often think of drudgery, frustration, and stress. For too many of us, work is the last place in our lives we expect to experience satisfaction, fulfillment, or spiritual growth. In this unique book, Michael Carroll—a meditation teacher, executive coach, and corporate director—shares Buddhist wisdom on how to transform the common hassles and anxieties of the workplace into valuable... (more)

House Thinking: A Room-by-Room Look at How We Live

House Thinking: A Room-by-Room Look at How We Live

by Winifred Gallagher

Ethan Allen and HGTV may have plenty to say about making a home look right, but what makes a home feel right? In House Thinking , journalist and cultural critic Winifred Gallagher takes the reader on a psychological tour of the American home. By drawing on the latest research in behavioral science, an overview of cultural history, and interviews with leading architects and designers, she shows us not only how our... (more)

The Greatest Salesman in the World

by Og Mandino

This is a reprint of Og Mandino's quintessential positive thinking parable which has stirred many to action in pursuit of their dreams.

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by Karen Pryor

by J. Kevin Sheehan

by Og Mandino

by Og Mandino

by Pema Chodron

by Pema Chodron

by Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche

by William E. Campbell

by Karen Kissel Wegela

by William R. Jenson, Ginger Rhode, H. Kenton Reavis

by Valerie O'Farrell

by Dan Miller

by S. SAVERE

by Anne Kotzman, Mandy Kotzman

by Happy Traum

by Paul A. Alberto

by Catherine Maurice

by Michael Carroll

by Winifred Gallagher

by Og Mandino