Dealing with uptight, high-stress people in your workplace, family, or home can be an enormous challenge, but this book provides invaluable insight and practical advice enabling readers to handle these "problem" personality types successfully. It is often stated that communication is the most important aspect of creating an effective relationship or achieving goals when working with another individual or within a team. But how does one communicate with someone who is too intense, anxious, or self-absorbed to hear anything you're trying to say? In Uptight and In Your Face: Coping with an Anxious Boss, Parent, Spouse, or Lover the author presents an invaluable tutorial to successfully interact with the most frustrating and taxing people in your life. This text examines the five most common types of uptight people to illustrate how the underlying patterns of intensity, anxiety, and self-absorption are displayed. Considerable attention is given to help readers understand how they may be contributing to their own distress. The final chapters present numerous coping and self-development strategies that will help reduce or eliminate many of the detrimental effects of interacting with high-stress people. Descriptions of complex psychological concepts are explained in everyday language.

A New York Times Bestseller! This is a book for new believers, lifelong followers, and the merely curious. Jesus is ____. How would you finish that sentence? The subject is there, and so is the verb, but what comes next? Your answer could shed light on the path to becoming who you were made to be. In these pages, Judah Smith fills out that sentence again and again, each time further revealing the character of Jesus. He writes as if to a friend, revealing the Jesus that somber paintings and hymns fail to capture. With passion, humor, and conviction, he shows that Jesus is life. Jesus is grace. Jesus is your friend. Jesus is a new and better way to be human.

Mara has come to a decision: it’s time to break up with her boyfriend, Jake. In truth, they’ve been as good as broken up since he left for New York without a thought for her. But almost as soon as Mara gets on the plane, things start to take an unexpected turn. It’s almost as though fate is driving Mara into Brian’s arms. At the start of the flight he offers her his seat and, by the end, they are sharing neighboring hotel rooms while they wait for a storm to pass and their diverted flight to continue on its way. But when the bad weather continues to block their flight, an impatient Brian rents a car and invites Mara to drive to New York with him. Things quickly heat up and Mara does something that’s both wild and wonderful, but when she receives a shocking phone call, her world spins out of control! Has Mara made the worst mistake of her life?

Think Good — Feel Good is an exciting and pioneeringnew practical resource in print and on the internet for undertakingCBT with children and young people. The materials have beendeveloped by the author and trialled extensively in clinical workwith children and young people presenting with a range ofpsychological problems. Paul Stallard introduces his resource by covering the basictheory and rationale behind CBT and how the workbook should beused. An attractive and lively workbook follows which covers thecore elements used in CBT programmes but conveys these ideas tochildren and young people in an understandable way and uses reallife examples familiar to them. The concepts introduced to thechildren can be applied to their own unique set of problems throughthe series of practical exercises and worksheets. 10 modules can be used as a complete programme, or adapted forindividual use Little else available for this age range Can be used as homework or self-help material Available in print and as a downloadable resource on theinternet.

Best-selling classics by Norman Vincent Peale The Power of Positive Thinking (special 35th anniversary edition). The greatest inspirational best seller of the century offers confidence without fear and a life of enrichment and luminous vitality. Inspiring Messages for Daily Living. Realistic, practical answers to the hundreds of problems we face from day to day -- ordinary problems encountered in personal difficulties, in family relationships, on the job, and in dealing with those around us. You Can if You Think You Can. Dramatic, heartwarming stories of how men and women -- of all ages and in all walks of life -- transformed their lives and careers by following Dr. Peale's philosophy of positive thinking. Learn to develop the vital knowledge of inner power to carry you over every obstacle. The Art of Real Happiness (written with Smiley Blanton, M.D.). An unusual blend of age-old truths and modern psychiatric techniques. Peale and Blanton identify -- and show how to overcome -- essential problems and conflicts that so often plague us and frustrate our chances for happiness.

WHAT A MAN'S GOTTA DO… J. D. Turner couldn't let Tally select a mate without understanding how things should be between a man and a woman. Especially since the innocent beauty was going to be raising his little boy! So he took it upon himself to show her just how life and real love could be. Tally Smith had a plan to find the right man to marry and create the perfect family for little Jed. That is, until J.D. kidnapped her on the premise that he was going to show her what she and Jed really needed. Well, she had a little news for him—what this woman and child needed was him!