For anyone dealing with negativity in their personal or professional life, "Positive Engagement: Handling Negative People: Strategies to Transform Toxic Interactions" is a vital resource. Whether dealing with a tough coworker, a demanding relative, or an unwilling client, this book offers helpful advice and strategies to help you handle these situations with poise and confidence.Fundamentally, this book teaches you how to comprehend the underlying causes of bad conduct, which will ...

God strongly condemns any form of abuse.In recent years, the struggles of Latter-day Saints in abusive relationships have made national headlines. The media attention has highlighted a deeply unfortunate perception: many Latter-day Saints fear that by choosing to leave an abusive relationship, they are at risk of breaking their covenants with God. Mental health professionals and law enforcement officers who work with Latter-day Saint populations attest to the number of people who c...

Take an indie trip through 25 years of dreampop, shoegaze, post-rock, ambient and electronic music with Ryan Anderson - musician and former editor of the music zine Masstransfer.Over the past year, he has pulled together all of the music content from issues covering 1997-2003, adding contemporary commentary and updates on many of the bands and musicians who are still active.In addition to almost 40 band profiles--from The American Analog Set to Windy & Carl--Ryan covers sev...

Czy chłopiec może zostać „uwięziony” w ciele dziewczynki? Czy współczesna medycyna może „zmienić” płeć? Czy nasza płeć jest nam w ogóle „przypisana”? Jaka jest najbardziej empatyczna odpowiedź dla osoby doświadczającej konfliktu płci? Co powinno mówić nasze prawo w kwestii „tożsamości płciowej”?Książka Kiedy Harry stał się Sally dostarcza przemyślanych odpowiedzi na pytania związane z naszym momentem transgenderowym. Czerpiąc z aktualnej wiedzy z zakresu biologii, psycholog...

Imagine a roomful of kids on Sunday absolutely enraptured by dynamic Bible teaching. Here and there a mouth hangs open as the kids engage the story of Boaz and Ruth with the kind of enthusiasm usually reserved for their new Xbox 360. Isn’t that what you want as a Sunday school teacher? You long to reach your kids on Sunday in a way that actually makes a difference in their lives on Monday. But how? A new book of crafts and activities? Nope. Fifty new conversation starters for kids and lead...

You may have noticed them—the kids who are hiding their pain under long sleeves or wristbands. Or you might never notice them—the ones who seem to have life together except for the deep secret that they keep hidden beneath their clothes. This is no longer a fringe issue that occurs only in the most extreme cases. The truth is that many teens today are dealing with their emotional pain by inflicting physical pain upon themselves, whether we can see it on the surface or not.While we may neve...

The world ended the night I was born. Coincidence? I think not.Stuck living in the catacombs underneath what used to be NYC, I've managed to stay hidden and alive and safe-ish.But when my guardian fails to return from a supply run, I'm forced to contemplate life on the surface.Worse? Three warriors have infiltrated my home, insisting that I am the last gold dragon they've been searching for. That everything I know everything I've believed is a lie.And more?

Can a boy be “trapped” in a girl’s body? Can modern medicine “reassign” sex? Is our sex “assigned” to us in the first place? What is the most loving response to a person experiencing a conflicted sense of gender? What should our law say on matters of “gender identity”? When Harry Became Sally provides thoughtful answers to questions arising from our transgender moment. Drawing on the best insights from biology, psychology, and philosophy, Ryan Anderson offers a nuanced view of human embodi...

On December 3, 1976, just before the Jamaican general election and two days before Bob Marley was to play the Smile Jamaica Concert, gunmen stormed his house, machine guns blazing. The attack nearly killed the Reggae superstar, his wife, and his manager, and injured several others. Marley would go on to perform at the free concert on December 5, but he left the country the next day, not to return for two years.Deftly spanning decades and continents and peopled with a wide range of ...

The Wes Anderson Collection: Isle of Dogs takes readers behind the scenes of the beloved auteur’s stop-motion animated film.Foreword by movie/TV critic Matt Zoller SeitzIntroduction by Every Frame a Painting video essay series cocreators Taylor Ramos andTony ZhouThrough the course of several in-depth interviews with film critics Lauren Wilford and Ryan Steven...

At least one fifth of the people we know are neurodivergent. They are the ones who think, feel, and sense the world differently. They may have a formal diagnosis such as ADHD, autism, or dyslexia. Or they may have a unique brain, whether from birth or experience, that means they process information differently from the majority of people around them. If you've ever felt frustrated, upset, put off, or misunderstood by a neurodivergent person in your life—and also want to be a better partner...

From Philosophy to Technology, Tracing the Origin of Identity PoliticsHow did the world arrive at its current, disorienting state of identity politics, and how should the church respond? Historian Carl R. Trueman discusses how influences ranging from traditional institutions to technology and pornography moved modern culture toward an era of "expressive individualism." Investigating philosophies from the Romantics, Nietzsche, Marx, Wilde, Freud, and the New Left, h...