In this inspiring and instructive book from internationally acclaimed therapist and self-help author Beverly Engel, readers learn why apology is so important to our emotional and physical well-being-and why our inability to apologise is the source of a great deal of the dysfunction and unhappiness in all aspects of our lives. With the help of many moving, real-life stories, Engel passionately demonstrates the transformative power of apology and offers practical, easy-to-follow prescriptions for putting the power of apology to work in our own lives. Approximate running time: 180 minutes. Two audiocassettes.
A New Model of School Discipline: Engaging Students and Preventing Behavior Problems
Mounting evidence shows that zero-tolerance policies, suspensions, and restrictive security policies fail to improve school safety and student behaviors, and are linked with increased risk of dropping out. Minority students are suspended at disproportionate rates, and over a million cases of corporal punishment are reported each year. Against this dismal backdrop, David Dupper presents a transformative new model of school discipline that is preventive, proactive, and relationship-based.
The natural condition of any classroom is harmonious, satisfying, and productive, so why do so many teachers struggle with problems of apathy, hostility, anxiety, inefficiency, and resistance?
This monograph develops a unique approach to thinking about the transformative power of literature by drawing upon the much-neglected concept of experience in Foucault's work. For Foucault, an 'experience book' is a book which transforms our experience by acting on us in a particular way. In this book, Timothy O'Leary develops a unique approach to thinking about the transformative power of literature by drawing upon this often neglected concept and applying it to literary texts.
Added by: marta_marta | Karma: 38.09 | Fiction literature | 15 March 2008
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After the tragic sinking of a cargo ship, one solitary lifeboat
remains bobbing on the wild, blue Pacific.The crew of the surviving
vessel consists of a hyena, a zebra (with a broken leg), a female
orang-utan, a 450-pound Royal Bengal tiger and Pi - a 16-year-old
Indian boy.The scene is set for one of the most extraordinary pieces of
literary fiction of recent years.
Yann Martel's Life of Pi is a transformative novel,
a dazzling work of imagination that will delight and astound readers in
equal measure. It is a triumph of storytelling and a tale that will, as
one character puts it, make you believe in God.