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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'As GMTV anchor, I interview hundreds of people every year. However well they interview, every single person would find it easier to explain their case by following these simple principles.' EAMONN HOLMES, GMTV Presenter'[Drop the Pink Elephant].tackle[s] every aspect of personal communication in a crisp, entertaining style.' THE PLAIN ENGLISH SOCIETY'There can be no whitewash at the White House.' (Richard Nixon). These nine words turned the American nation against their President. Why Because people hadn't linked the White House with a cover up until Nixon himself made the connection. His own denial created the story.It is perhaps the most famous Pink Elephant in history. But what exactly is a 'Pink Elephant' Pink Elephants are the unnecessary negatives that clutter your conversation and meaning, sending out the wrong signals to anyone you communicate with.In Drop the Pink Elephant, Bill McFarlan reveals how to avoid the deadly trap of allowing poor communication skills to obscure your meaning and reduce your effectiveness. Drop the Pink Elephant is filled with helpful, simple and practical advice on how to make your words count for more. Put these straightforward lessons into practice and you will notice immediately how much more effectively you are able to communicate with others.Sharpen your conversation by:\* FIRST SPOTTING, THEN DROPPING THE PINK ELEPHANT\* GETTING RID OF THE JARGON\* LEARNING TO SPEAK IN PICTURES\* RECOGNISING WHEN YOU SHOULD APOLOGISE OR THANK PEOPLE\* CAPTIVATING AN AUDIENCEN.B. No animals were hurt in the making of this book. (Can you spot your first Pink Elephant ).

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - How to pick up basic Japanese-fastJapanese is the fifth most studied language in the U.S., with over 40,000 college students enrolled in Japanese courses every year, and Japan ranks as the eighth most popular international destination for American travelers. Focusing on real-world language skills that people can put to use right away-from asking directions to talking numbers-this phrasebook is a must for travelers and students.Eriko Sato, PhD, is a native Japanese speaker and Professor of Japanese at SUNY Stony Brook.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This is the first biography in twenty years of James Clerk Maxwell, one of thegreatest scientists of our time and yet a man relatively unknown to the wider public. Approaching science with a freshness unbound by convention orprevious expectations, he produced some of the most original scientific thinkingof the nineteenth century - and his discoveries went on to shape the twentiethcentury.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Keep it cool or heat things up.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Essentials of Research Methods is a concise and accessible introduction to research methods in the social sciences.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This book brings attention to the interface of psychotherapy and psychological theory with the somatic practices of bodywork and movement therapy. To offer a client only psychotherapy, or only bodywork may subtly or directly reinforce the body-mind split from which so many of us suffer; in some cases this will be a reinforcement of a dilemma central to the client's problems. Hartley views body psychotherapy and transpersonal psychotherapy as building bridges between the once separated processes of psyche, soma, and spirit. Today the emerging field of somatic psychology is also contributing to the expanded field of psychology a subtle differentiation of bodymind process, developed through almost a century and a half of research and practice in somatic therapy and education.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Gothic novels tell terrifying stories of patriarchal societies that thrive on the oppression or even outright sacrifice of women and others. Donna Heiland s Gothic and Gender offers a historically informed theoretical introduction to key gothic narratives from a feminist perspective.The book concentrates primarily on fiction from the 1760s through the 1840s, exploring the work of Horace Walpole, Clara Reeve, Sophia Lee, Matthew Lewis, Charlotte Dacre, Charles Maturin, Ann Radcliffe, William Godwin, Mary Wollstonecraft, Mary Shelley, John Polidori, James Malcolm Rymer, Emily Bronte, Charlotte Bronte, Charlotte Smith, and Charles Brockden Brown. The final chapter looks at contemporary fiction and its relation to the gothic, including an exploration of Margaret Atwood s The Blind Assassin and Ann-Marie Macdonald s Fall on Your KneesA Coda provides an overview of scholarship on the gothic, showing how gothic gradually became a major focus for literary critics, and paying particular attention to the feminist reinvigoration of gothic studies that began in the 1970s and continues today.Taken as a whole the book offers a stimulating survey of the representation of gender in the gothic, suitable for both students and readers of gothic literature.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Published by Blackwell in association with the British Psychological Society, Health Psychology in Practice provides a comprehensive overview of the UK professional Stage 2 Qualification in Health Psychology. - An essential text for professional training in health psychology, both for trainees and teachers and supervisors contributing to health psychology courses. - Published in association with the British Psychological Society. - Covers the core competencies necessary for qualification as a health psychologist. - Includes sections on professional issues, research, consultancy and interventions, teaching and training and other professional roles. - The final chapter contains a series of individual commentaries on health psychology training in a variety of countries, which will be of great interest to an international audience. - The editors helped to establish the British Psychological Society's health psychology professional training programme.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Activity-Based Statistics helps build real statistical understanding through a set of innovative hands-on activities that can be used each day in conjunction with other texts. The second edition continues to emphasize discovery by motivating readers to apply the skills they have learned to discover the everyday relevance of statistics. There are over 45 activities and five long-term projects that have been updated and extended to encourage readers to experience statistics in context. While the second edition includes updated technology extensions for Fathom, technology is used throughout the book to extend activities and is not required to complete them.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Emphasis on clustering of data of gene tissues\* Includes new research findings and activities in molecular biology\* Highlights the important general field of bioinformatics and genomics and discusses the impact of microarray analysis on both.