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50 Activities for Conflict Resolution
HRD Press 1999; US$ 149.95This collection of activities, self-assessments, and exercises is especially useful as a resource to introduce the issue of conflict and its resolution as a part of workshops on management, leadership, communication, negotiation and diversity. The book is fully reproducible and flexibly organized in two sections. Part One includes twenty-five interactive... more...
The Psychology of Genocide, Massacres, and Extreme Violence
Greenwood Publishing Group 2007; US$ 50.00A psychologist explains how and why "normal" people are transformed, in a relatively short amount of time, into sadistic torturers and mass killers for a cause. more...
Global Conflict Resolution Through Positioning Analysis
Springer 2007; US$ 69.99Positioning theory is the study of the nature, formation, influence and ways of change of local systems of rights and duties as shared assumptions about them influence small scale interactions. This title offers a framework for understanding historical conflict, and brings vital perspectives to political and ideological battles. more...
Researching the Vulnerable
SAGE Publications 2006; US$ 60.00This book explores qualitative methods using international examples from the wide variety of contexts that might count as 'researching the vulnerable'. Numerous salient points for the conduct of research within vulnerable groups of people are considered, and discussed in the context of sensitive and innovative research methods. more...
Violence Assessment and Intervention
Taylor & Francis 2008; US$ 92.95Presents practical approaches to applying behavioral science to threats of violence in communities, businesses, and schools, and describes how to effectively intervene to preserve the safety of victims. This book covers information gathering, victimology, and formulas and tools for risk assessment. more...
How to Be in a Personal Relationship
HRD Press 2007; US$ 34.95Master the fundamental skills necessary to maintain a personal relationship. There are many books out there on relationships. But this one is different. It teaches social, intellectual and emotional skills you can actually apply in your life to create a lasting and intimate relationship whether youre married, engaged or in a committed... more...
Powerful People Skill
Marshall Cavendish International (Asia) Ptd Ltd 2009; US$ 12.80This book provides easy to follow methods for building people skills, providing dos, donts, fast facts, common myths, and simple mental checklists to help you form strong, long-lasting, and powerful relationships in work and life. more...
Acquaintances
McGraw-Hill Education 2009; US$ 186.00The distinction between friends and acquaintances is often made in everyday conversation but the significance of this distinction is under-explored. This book argues that acquaintanceship is a topic worthy of investigation in its own right and assesses the overall significance of acquaintances in late modern society. more...
Governing Ethnic Conflict
Taylor and Francis 2010; US$ 146.00This book offers an intellectual history of an emerging technology of peace and explains how the liberal state has come to endorse illiberal subjects and practices. The idea that conflicts are problems that have causes and therefore solutions rather than winners and losers has gained momentum since the end of the Cold War, and it has become more... more...
Bloodlust
Free Press 2011; US$ 24.00THROUGHOUT HISTORY AND ACROSS CULTURES, the most common form of violence is that between family members and neighbors or kindred communities?in civil wars writ large and small. From assault to genocide, from assassination to massacre, violence usually emerges from inside the fold. You have more to fear from a spouse, an ex-spouse, or a coworker... more...









