The proprietor of the landmark New York restaurant combines two dozen representative recipes and quotes and reminiscences by famous guests for a retrospective of the Russian Tea Room's last sixty-five years
A transformational approach to conflict argues that conflicts must be viewed as embedded within broader relational patterns and social and discursive structures. Central to this book is the idea that the origins of transformation can be momentary, situational, and small-scale or large-scale and systemic. The momentary involves shifts and meaningful changes in communication and related patterns that are created in communication between people. Momentary transformative changes can radiate out into more systemic levels, and systemic transformative changes can radiate inward to more personal levels. This book engages this transformative framework by bringing together current scholarship that epitomizes and highlights the contribution of communication scholarship and communication-centered approaches to conflict transformation in personal, family, and working relationships and organizational contexts. The resulting volume presents an engaging mix of scholarly chapters, think pieces, and personal experiences from the field of practice and everyday life. The book embraces a wide variety of theoretical and methodological approaches, including narrative, critical, intersectional, rhetorical, and quantitative. It makes a valuable additive contribution to the ongoing dialogue across and between disciplines on how to transform conflicts creatively, sustainably, and ethically.
Effective communication is essential to meeting basic human needs. In the latest edition of their popular text, Smith and Tague-Busler are joined by new author Starla Herbig in presenting interpersonal communication concepts and techniques in a lively, accessible manner. Updated examples and exercises enhance established chapter coverage and minor reorganization prompts readers to explore the role of self-concept and self-esteem in their interactions with others before authors introduce elements of interpersonal communication. Affordable and straightforward, The Key to Survival is intended for those with varying backgrounds. Engaging chapter-opener narratives link common miscommunication experiences to essential topics. Boxes throughout chapters provide sidebar commentary on primary topics and approachable exercises. Key terms, discussion questions, and a comprehensive glossary support an enjoyable teaching and learning experience.
After an abusive marriage and an ugly divorce, Toni needs to rebuild her self-confidence and start a new life. In her Hometown again, she confronts people she'd hurt when she'd left. She'd hung onto the idea of buying a long-abandoned old house and remodeling it to help her recover. But a man from her past has recently purchased it for his business. That's her emotional breaking point and she does something reckless. Now she must pay the legal consequences of her foolish actions...by working for him. Chad's job as a lawyer working to protect the rights of the abused elderly consumes his time and energy. It cost him his marriage. Now he works harder, guards his bruised heart. Then someone he'd held secret feelings for comes back to town. She upsets his world, starting with minor destruction of his business property and causing him minor injury. He shouldn't become involved in helping this troubled woman, yet he can't keep from doing so. Two heart-damaged people have trouble trusting love again.
Dr. Starla Fitch went into medicine for all the right reasons. But not long after she began her practice, the demands of the profession coupled with the bureaucracy of the system began to take their toll. On the verge of burnout, she knew she had to find a way to reconnect with the reasons she became a physician. She did and now she helps other doctors do the same.Remedy for Burnout: 7 Prescriptions Doctors Use to Find Meaning in Medicine, shares Starla's story and those of fellow physicians who tapped into their own passions and talents and discovered the meaning in medicine unique to each of them. Her seven prescriptions provide actionable advice that doctors can take to assess their current situations and reconnect with the reasons why they put on their white coats every day.
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