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The Power of Apology (Audiobook)
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The Power of Apology (Audiobook)The Power of Apology (Audiobook)

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.

REUPLOAD NEEDED

 
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Tags: apology, power, Engel, lives, transformative, Power, Apology
A New Model of School Discipline: Engaging Students and Preventing Behavior Problems
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A New Model of School Discipline: Engaging Students and Preventing Behavior ProblemsA 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.
 
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Tags: policies, school, presents, transformative, discipline, Problems, Model, Preventing
Transformative Classroom Management: Positive Strategies to Engage All Students and Promote a Psychology of Success
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Transformative Classroom Management: Positive Strategies to Engage All Students and Promote a Psychology of Success

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?


 
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Tags: Management, Positive, Classroom, Transformative, resistance
Foucault and Fiction: The Experience Book
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Foucault and Fiction: The Experience Book

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.

 
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Tags: experience, power, literature, concept, transformative
Life of Pi
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Life of PiAfter 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.

 
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