The Mediator's Handbook presents a time-tested, step-by-step model for helping people work through conflict from first contact through reaching a lasting resolution. The Toolbox section details the skills mediators need to understand conflict,facilitate the process, and help participants make decisions.

Models of Madness 2nd Edition challenges the simplistic, pessimistic and often damaging theories and treatments of the 'medical model'of madness.

An overview of modern consciousness research and how our brain works.

David Bohm identified creative dialogue, a sharing of assumptions and understanding, as a means by which the individual, and society as a whole, can learn more about themselves and others and achieve a renewed sense of purpose.

The Oxford Handbook of Cultural Neuroscience and Global Mental Health is the first ever comprehensive overview of this field. It explores how culture influences and affects the neurobiological mechanisms underlying mental health, and the disparities that exist in the treatment of mental health across the world.

This accessible introductory textbook in persuasive communication speaks directly to the student by focusing on real-life experiences in personal, social, and professional contexts. It is a student-friendly introduction suitable for use in undergraduate courses in persuasion, health communication, and business communication.

This accessible introductory textbook in persuasive communication speaks directly to the student by focusing on real-life experiences in personal, social, and professional contexts. It is a student-friendly introduction suitable for use in undergraduate courses in persuasion, health communication, and business communication.

This book examines the discourse of a "post-AIDS" culture, and the medical-discursive shift from crisis and death to survival and living.