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In today's confrontational and connected world, communication is
the key strategic act. This book uses drama theory-a radical
extension of game theory-to show how best to communicate so as to
manage the emotionally charged confrontations occurring in any
worthwhile relationship. Alongside a toolset that provides a
systematic framework for analysing conflicts, drama theory explains
why people need to listen to, and rely on, their feelings to help
shake themselves out of fixed, unproductive positions and to find
new ways of solving tough problems. This guide provides a
sufficient grounding in the approach to enable you to apply it
immediately for your own benefit and for the benefit of those with
whom you work. A host of inspirational examples are included based
upon actual situations in social and personal relations, business
and organisational relations, defence and political management.
These will give you an entirely fresh way of seeing how power is
exercised in everyday interpersonal exchanges and a greater
critical awareness of such factors as subtext and plotholes in
public narratives. Using this approach you will be able to overcome
the dilemmas of credibility and disbelief to build compelling
messages that underpin your strategic intent. Moving beyond the
vague platitudes of concepts like emotional intelligence, drama
theory will also help you to avoid the pathologies that bedevil the
process of managing conflicts and find ways of achieving authentic
resolutions.
Farmers once knew how to make a living fence and fed their flocks
on tree-branch hay. Rural people knew how to prune hazel to foster
abundance: both of edible nuts and of straight, strong, flexible
rods for bridges, walls and baskets. Townspeople cut beeches to
make charcoal to fuel ironworks. Shipwrights shaped oaks to make
hulls. In order tp prosper communities cut their trees so they
would sprout again. Pruning the trees didn't destroy them. Rather,
it created healthy, sustainable and diverse woodlands. From these
woods came the poetic landscapes of Shakespeare's England and of
ancient Japan. The trees lived longer. William Bryant Logan travels
from the English fens to Spain, California and Japan to rediscover
and celebrate what was once a common and practical ecology-finding
hope that humans may again learn what the persistence and
generosity of trees can teach.
In today's confrontational and connected world, communication is
the key strategic act. This book uses drama theory-a radical
extension of game theory-to show how best to communicate so as to
manage the emotionally charged confrontations occurring in any
worthwhile relationship. Alongside a toolset that provides a
systematic framework for analysing conflicts, drama theory explains
why people need to listen to, and rely on, their feelings to help
shake themselves out of fixed, unproductive positions and to find
new ways of solving tough problems. This guide provides a
sufficient grounding in the approach to enable you to apply it
immediately for your own benefit and for the benefit of those with
whom you work. A host of inspirational examples are included based
upon actual situations in social and personal relations, business
and organisational relations, defence and political management.
These will give you an entirely fresh way of seeing how power is
exercised in everyday interpersonal exchanges and a greater
critical awareness of such factors as subtext and plotholes in
public narratives. Using this approach you will be able to overcome
the dilemmas of credibility and disbelief to build compelling
messages that underpin your strategic intent. Moving beyond the
vague platitudes of concepts like emotional intelligence, drama
theory will also help you to avoid the pathologies that bedevil the
process of managing conflicts and find ways of achieving authentic
resolutions.
Farmers once knew how to make a living fence and fed their flocks
on tree-branch hay. Rural people knew how to prune hazel to foster
abundance: both of edible nuts and of straight, strong, flexible
rods for bridges, walls and baskets. Townspeople cut beeches to
make charcoal to fuel ironworks. Shipwrights shaped oaks to make
hulls. In order to prosper communities cut their trees so they
would sprout again. Pruning the trees didn't destroy them. Rather,
it created healthy, sustainable and diverse woodlands. From these
woods came the poetic landscapes of Shakespeare's England and of
ancient Japan. The trees lived longer. William Bryant Logan travels
from the English fens to Spain, California and Japan to rediscover
and celebrate what was once a common and practical ecology-finding
hope that humans may again learn what the persistence and
generosity of trees can teach.
Professional arborist and award-winning nature writer William
Bryant Logan deftly relates the delightful history of the
reciprocal relationship between humans and oak trees since time
immemorial a profound link that has almost been forgotten. From the
ink of Bach s cantatas, to the first boat to reach the New World,
to the wagon, the barrel, and the sword, oak trees have been a
constant presence throughout our history. In fact, civilization
prospered where oaks grew, and for centuries these supremely
adaptable, generous trees have supported humankind in nearly every
facet of life. With an unabashed enthusiasm for his subject (Carol
Haggas, Booklist) Logan combines science, philosophy, spirituality,
and history with a contagious curiosity about why the natural world
works the way it does. At once humorous and reverent, this splendid
acknowledgment of a natural marvel (Publishing News) reintroduces
the oak tree so that we might see its vibrant presence throughout
our history and our modern world."
You are about to read a lot about dirt, which no one knows very
much about. So begins the cult classic that brings mystery and
magic to that stuff that won t come off your collar. John Adams,
Thomas Jefferson, Saint Phocas, Darwin, and Virgil parade through
this thought-provoking work, taking their place next to the dung
beetle, the compost heap, dowsing, historical farming, and the
microscopic biota that till the soil. With fresh eyes and heartfelt
reverence, William Bryant Logan variously observes, There is
glamour to the study of rock; The most mysterious place on Earth is
right beneath our feet; and Dirt is the gift of each to all.
Whether Logan is traversing the far reaches of the cosmos or
plowing through our planet s crust, his delightful, elegant, and
surprisingly soulful meditations greatly enrich our concept of
dirt, that substance from which we all arise and to which we all
must return."
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Island India Goes to School (Hardcover)
Edwin R (Edwin Rogers) 1883 Embree; Margaret Sargent Simon; Created by W Bryant (William Bryant) B Mumford
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R873
Discovery Miles 8 730
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Island India Goes to School (Paperback)
Edwin R (Edwin Rogers) 1883 Embree; Margaret Sargent Simon; Created by W Bryant (William Bryant) B Mumford
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R530
Discovery Miles 5 300
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Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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Kepler (Paperback)
Walter W. (Walter William) Bryant
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R609
Discovery Miles 6 090
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This book is part of the TREDITION CLASSICS. It contains classical
literature works from over two thousand years. Most of these titles
have been out of print and off the bookstore shelves for decades.
The book series is intended to preserve the cultural legacy and to
promote the timeless works of classical literature. Readers of a
TREDITION CLASSICS book support the mission to save many of the
amazing works of world literature from oblivion. With this series,
tredition intends to make thousands of international literature
classics available in printed format again - worldwide.
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Kepler (Hardcover)
Walter W. (Walter William) Bryant
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R906
Discovery Miles 9 060
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Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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This book (hardcover) is part of the TREDITION CLASSICS. It
contains classical literature works from over two thousand years.
Most of these titles have been out of print and off the bookstore
shelves for decades. The book series is intended to preserve the
cultural legacy and to promote the timeless works of classical
literature. Readers of a TREDITION CLASSICS book support the
mission to save many of the amazing works of world literature from
oblivion. With this series, tredition intends to make thousands of
international literature classics available in printed format again
- worldwide.
Air sustains the living. Every creature breathes to live,
exchanging and changing the atmosphere. Water and dust spin and
rise, make clouds and fall again, fertilizing the dirt. Twenty
thousand fungal spores and half a million bacteria travel in a
square foot of summer air. The chemical sense of aphids, the
ultraviolet sight of swifts, a newborn's awareness of its mother's
breast-all take place in the medium of air. Ignorance of the air is
costly. The artist Eva Hesse died of inhaling her fiberglass
medium. Thousands were sickened after 9/11 by supposedly "safe"
air. The African Sahel suffers drought in part because we fill the
air with industrial dusts. With the passionate narrative style and
wide-ranging erudition that have made William Bryant Logan's work a
touchstone for nature lovers and environmentalists, Air is-like the
contents of a bag of seaborne dust that Darwin collected aboard the
Beagle-a treasure trove of discovery.
This is a collection of poems. The work published here is of a
reflective and observational nature. These poems vary in subject
from love, divorce, mortality, metaphysics and the occult, to
horror, comedy and politics. A deep love for poetry and all art
permeates the entire work. The Absurd Poems of William H Bryant III
have been highly influenced by the writings of Albert Camus and his
philosophy of the absurd. Other influences include; E.A. Poe,
Aliester Crowley, William. Butler Yeats, Charles Bukowski, C. G.
Jung and Nietzsche. This book contains a journey of journeys
fitting for lovers of poetry, thinkers of deep thoughts and
ponderers existential questions.
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