Recommended Books

The books listed here are among the best on their respective subjects. At the right you will find an index where you can click on an individual title to read about that book or you can click on a category to see the descriptions of all the books in that category. For further information about a book, click on the image of its cover and you will be taken to the appropriate page at amazon.com.

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Nonviolent Communication

A  language of life
by Marshall B. Rosenberg

Discover how the language you use can strengthen your relationships, build trust, prevent conflicts instead of causing anger and disharmony.

1,000,000 copies sold worldwide • Translated in More Than 30 Languages. What is Violent Communication? If “violent” means acting in ways that result in hurt or harm, then much of how we communicate—judging others, bullying, having racial bias, blaming, finger pointing, discriminating, speaking without listening, criticizing others or ourselves, name-calling, reacting when angry, using political rhetoric, being defensive or judging who’s “good/bad” or what’s “right/wrong” with people—could indeed be called “violent communication.”

Nonviolent Communication is the integration of 4 things:

1. Consciousness: a set of principles that support living a life of empathy, care, courage, and authenticity
2. Language: understanding how words contribute to connection or distance
3. Communication: knowing how to ask for what we want, how to hear others even in disagreement, and how to move toward solutions that work for all
4. Means of influence: sharing “power with others” rather than using “power over others”

Nonviolent Communication serves our desire to do three things:

1. Increase our ability to live with choice, meaning, and connection
2. Connect empathically with self and others to have more satisfying relationships
3. 3: Sharing of resources so everyone is able to benefit

“Nonviolent Communication shows us a way of being very honest, without any criticism, insults, or put-downs, and without any intellectual diagnosis implying wrongness.” — Marshall B. Rosenberg, PhD

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2001 German and English Idioms

by Henry Strutz.

 Here you can find the English translation of your favorite German expression or vice versa.

Understanding idiomatic expressions is vital for gaining fluency in a second language. Both English-speaking students of German and German-speaking students of English will find this dictionary invaluable for improving their conversational skill when speaking in their second language. They'll discover that the book also comes in handy as quick word finder when they read popular newspapers or magazines in the second language. Updated to keep pace with current idioms, this two-part phrasebook translates 2001 expressions from German to English and from English to German. All entries are illustrated with sample sentences.

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