Who's Pulling Your Strings?: How to Break the Cycle of Manipulation and Regain Control of Your Life
Added by: withdrawn | Karma: 115.62 | Black Hole | 22 September 2009
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"Braiker, a clinical psychologist, talk-show regular, and best-selling author (The Disease To Please), succeeds at showing readers how to break free from manipulation.Pointing out that everyone is subject to manipulation but that some people are more susceptible than others, she helps readers recognize manipulation and assess and reduce their own vulnerability and teaches resistance tactics to use when faced with manipulation. Her thesis is best stated this way: 'The only effective way to change a manipulator is to make her tactics ineffective by changing yourself.
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Added by: dovesnake | Karma: 1384.51 | Other exams, Audio | 22 July 2009
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Discover and practise phrases and expressions which you can use in all kinds of different situations, whether it's to order a drink in a restaurant or have an argument with someone! Each unit has audio and texts. There are also quizzes and exercises to help you practise what you have learnt.
You'd think getting into college was the hard part -- years of studying for great grades, taking SATs, filling out the applications, waiting in agony for the acceptance letters. You ought to be able to just slide right into the college scene after all that work! Someone should have told you that was just the beginning.
This little book resurrects a British translation that has long been out of print. While Laughter won't quite explain why the French love Jerry Lewis, or keep you in stitches, it's a bracing read that will make you think twice about laughing the next time someone stumbles into a lamppost. --Robert Burns Neveldine
