Social Conflict

Julie Ethan and her husband, Larry, were religious conservatives raising five children and running a family business. Their closest friends and allies were a mixed-race couple with liberal political convictions. As a mini-memoir, Julie narrates this unlikely, yet exquisite friendship spanning more than three decades and several election cycles. As a guide, learn practical ways to depolarize and build bridges in your politically opposite relationships.

How can you possibly be successful in life if you're not successful with your relationships? How do rewarding relationships manage to turn into relationship problems? Have you ever felt no matter what you do to make things right, you end up feeling the same pain, disappointment, and despair of relationships gone bad? How do you let people know you just want to get along? Whether it's family, friends, coworkers, neighbors, business partners, fellow students, teachers - or any other relationship - this book will help you uncover hidden habits and patterns that are silently damaging your relationships.

Walk the path of one estranged mother and your parental life views will be forever challenged. Alienated from one's family, estrangement exchanges parenthood values for questions with no answers. Unexpected outcomes become soul-building exercises with no limits. Tempestuous disappointments build resistance, until surrender is the only option. Then, an epiphany surfaces: an evolution in triumph resulting from lessons learned and insights hard-won. Offered here are legitimate theories and persuasions to untangle the mystique behind this silent epidemic. This thought-filled guide includes ...

In The New Border Wars, border expert Klaus Dodds journeys into the geopolitical clashes of tomorrow in an eye-opening tour of border walls - literal and figurative - from the Gaza Strip to the space race. In the Himalayas, the Mediterranean, and elsewhere, the tension inherent to trying to divide the world into separate parcels has not gone away.

Imagine ser capaz de aliviar a tensão e promover acordos mesmo nas situações mais difíceis - apenas mudando a maneira de falar. Durante décadas, Marshall Rosenberg fez exatamente isso, resolvendo pacificamente conflitos em famílias, escolas, empresas e governos, em mais de 30 países. Neste audiolivro, Marshall apresenta seu sistema, a Comunicação Não Violenta, para nos ajudar a falar as verdades mais profundas, abordar nossas necessidades e emoções não reconhecidas, e honrar essas mesmas preocupações quando nos relacionamos com os outros.

All businesses experience the insidious cost of conflict. Unfortunately, few have the skills or resources to combat this toxic and pervasive problem. Until now!

In Toxic Relationships 101, you'll discover the insidious tactics used by toxic people to undermine your self esteem and manipulate your decisions.

America and the Just War Tradition examines and evaluates each of America’s major wars from a just war perspective. Using moral analysis that is anchored in the just war tradition, the contributors provide careful historical analysis evaluating individual conflicts. Each chapter explores the causes of a particular war, the degree to which the justice of the conflict was a subject of debate at the time, and the extent to which the war measured up to traditional ad bellum and in bello criteria.

An accessible guide showing all people how to create and sustain diversity and inclusivity in the workplace - no matter your identity, industry, or level of experience.

The defense of human rights is often marked by ethical dilemmas, which are especially acute in Israel, where lawyers have for decades sought redress for the abuse of Palestinian rights in the country's High Court - that is, in the court of the abuser. In The Wall and the Gate, Michael Sfard chronicles this struggle - a story that has never before been fully told - and in the process engages the core principles of human rights legal ethics.

Even the most well-adjusted moms and dads can experience peer pressure and conflicts with other adults that make them act like they're back in seventh grade. In Queen Bee Moms and Kingpin Dads, Rosalind Wiseman gives us the tools to handle difficult situations involving teachers and other parents with grace.

Fun fact: Blondes do not have more fun! The Mainland is Samara Yancy’s new home. Away from the authorities on The Rock, who view her as a felon. But life here is no picnic. It turns out, no amount of blood money or minions can bring you happiness. But, if she doesn’t return voluntarily, her family will suffer in her stead. So, it’s time to rally her allies and craft a strategy to get her people out; regardless of the consequences. But as usual, nothing goes according to plan. As each layer of deception unfolds, she discovers the depth of rot within her once beloved city/state ...

Anxiety is a normal human condition. For most people, anxiety is temporary and manageable. However, for some people, anxiety can become acute and/or pervasive. The cause of this anxiety can come from a variety of sources.

People enter into conflict for many different reasons. An argument could arise between coworkers, friends, acquaintances, strangers, you name it. It is nearly impossible to avoid conflict, but it can be handled wisely and carefully. Learn how to use and befriend conflict to navigate these different areas in life.

The classic guide to bringing out the best in people at their worst - updated with even more can't-standable people!

Wade didn’t remember much about his early childhood. He did remember being sick constantly and he remembered his mother. She wasn’t really his mother at the time, just a kind and caring woman who lavished him with attention. He had been trapped in the facility with twenty other children, the nice lady and her husband. One morning he awakened and she was no longer there. Later he learned that she and her husband had escaped from the facility with one of the other kids. Over time he learned the nature of his illness which was tied to the nature of the facility. He learned that all of his ...

Do countries fight wars for oil? Given the resource's exceptional military and economic importance, most people assume that states will do anything to obtain it. Challenging this conventional wisdom, The Oil Wars Myth reveals that countries do not launch major conflicts to acquire petroleum resources. Emily Meierding argues that the costs of foreign invasion, territorial occupation, international retaliation, and damage to oil company relations deter even the most powerful countries from initiating "classic oil wars".

At 4:30 AM on Monday, May 31, 2010, Israeli commandos, boarding from sea and air, attacked the six boats of the Gaza Freedom Flotilla as it sailed through international waters attempting to bring humanitarian relief to the beleaguered Palestinians of Gaza. Within minutes, nine peace activists were dead. In these pages, a range of activists, journalists, and analysts piece together the events that occurred that May night, mixing together first-hand testimony and documentary record with hard-headed analysis and historical overview.

Hello, my name is Dr. Randy Gilchrist. As a licensed clinical psychologist and marriage and family therapist with more than two decades of therapy experience, I share my immense training, knowledge, and experience in this concise book full of powerful, effective ideas. No fluff, just what will help you have more influence with the man in your life, as well as men in general. Well worth the small investment, as you will see.

Are you craving more profound, more authentic relationships in a world that often feels disconnected? Do you navigate surface-level conversations, longing for genuine emotional intimacy and trust? If so, Connection Code is the transformative guide to creating more robust, more meaningful bonds with everyone in your life—whether it’s with family, friends, colleagues, or even new acquaintances.