Listening doesn't just resolve conflict, "It creates us," said writer Brenda Ueland, "makes us unfold and expand." In her brave and wise guide, The Tell Me More Gesture author Janet Rowles carries the torch lit by Ueland and shines a light on putting the power of listening to practical use. Conflict? Bring it on! --Eric Utne, founder, Utne Reader Learn to welcome--not fear--conflict to improve and deepen your relationships Janet Rowles taps into her own experiences of both high-conflict mediator (professionally) and instigator (personally) to take an empathic approach toward helping you self-manage--and even welcome--your own conflicts. She encourages you to lean into conflict by saying three simple words: "Tell me more." Throughout every chapter, it is clear that embracing conflict rather than suppressing it is essential for fulfilling your fundamental desires for deeper and more meaningful relationships. With her unassuming style, Rowles utilizes a rich assortment of teaching methods to support your study of the Tell Me More Gesture: Real-life scenarios for deeper understanding Exercises for essential practice Journaling pages that invite personal reflection Online readers' forum to engage with Janet and other readers who are developing their own practice of the Tell Me More Gesture These complementary parts create an invaluable resource for readers of all backgrounds. In her mediation practice, Janet Rowles specializes in high conflict and emotionally difficult situations. She teaches the Tell Me More Gesture in workshops and speaking engagements, and trains mediators and other professionals in dealing with high conflict. A Minnesota native, Janet holds a master's degree in human development and a certificate in alternative dispute resolution. In 2013, Janet received a Peacemaker of the Year Award from Minneapolis Public Schools.

This book explores how we move our hands when we talk, and what it means when we do so. Focusing on what we can discover about speakers—adults and children alike—by watching their hands, Goldin-Meadow discloses the active role that gesture plays in conversation and, more fundamentally, in thinking.

Photographs of hands gestures show the differences between cultures around the world.

Jay Maisel, hailed as one of the most brilliant, gifted photographers of all time, is much more than that. He is a mentor, teacher, and trailblazer to many photographers, and a hero to those who feel Jay’s teaching has changed the way they see and create their own photography. He is a living legend whose work is studied around the world, and whose teaching style and presentation garner standing ovations and critical acclaim every time he takes the stage. Now, for the first time ever, Jay puts his amazing insights and learning moments from a lifetime behind the lens into a book that communicates the three most important aspects of street photography: light, gesture, and color. Each page unveils something new and challenges you to rethink everything you know about the bigger picture of photography. This isn’t a book about f-stops or ISOs. It’s about seeing. It’s about being surrounded by the ordinary and learning how to find the extraordinary. It’s about training your mind, and your eyes, to see and capture the world in a way that delights, engages, and captivates your viewers, and there is nobody that communicates this, visually or through the written word, like Jay Maisel. Light, Gesture & Color is the seminal work of one of the true photographic geniuses of our time, and it can be your key to opening another level of understanding, appreciation, wonder, and creativity as you learn to express yourself, and your view of the world, through your camera. If you’re ready to break through the barriers that have held your photography back and that have kept you from making the types of images you’ve always dreamed of, and you’re ready to learn what photography is really about, you’re holding the key in your hands at this very moment.

The second novel from the critically acclaimed New York Times–bestselling author Chang-rae Lee. His remarkable debut novel was called "rapturous" (The New York Times Book Review), "revelatory" (Vogue), and "wholly innovative" (Kirkus Reviews). It was the recipient of six major awards, including the prestigious Hemingway Foundation/PEN award. Now Chang-rae Lee has written a powerful and beautifully crafted second novel that leaves no doubt about the extraordinary depth and range of his talent. A Gesture Life is the story of a proper man, an upstanding citizen who has come to epitomize the decorous values of his New York suburban town. Courteous, honest, hardworking, and impenetrable, Franklin Hata, a Japanese man of Korean birth, is careful never to overstep his boundaries and to make his neighbors comfortable in his presence. Yet as his story unfolds, precipitated by the small events surrounding him, we see his life begin to unravel. Gradually we learn the mystery that has shaped the core of his being: his terrible, forbidden love for a young Korean Comfort Woman when he served as a medic in the Japanese army during World War II. In A Gesture Life, Chang-rae Lee leads us with dazzling control through a taut, suspenseful story about love, family, and community—and the secrets we harbor. As in Native Speaker, he writes of the ways outsiders conform in order to survive and the price they pay for doing so. It is a haunting, breathtaking display of talent by an acclaimed young author.

One glorious summer on the banks of the Loire, James Barton fell irrevocably in love with Catherine D'Aumant. But their love affair was not to last. The Duke D'Aumant did not consider an American idealist a suitable match for his daughter. Nineteen years later, despite a reasonably happy marriage and a successfully career with the FBI, memories of Catherine and their all-consuming passion continue to plague James and he is haunted by a desire to return to France. Then James is summoned to France to help solve a series of the most bizarre murders in national history. There he encounters Paul D-Aumant - Catherine's manipulative brother and the current duke - and is disturbed by a beguiling young girl whose sensual behaviour arouses sexual desires beyond his control. James also discovers that Catherine is no longer the woman he remembers... Struggling to come to terms with this, James tracks a heinous killer and pieces together the events of the last nineteen years to reveal an intricate pattern of forbidden passion, sexual obsession and revenge.

Against her wishes, noblewoman Catherine Shreveton is sent to London to make her debut. In a pique, the saucy miss disguises herself as a dowdy, poor spinster, but as she plays a game of wits against a dashing Marquis, neither realizes that love is the prize. Original Regency romance.

Spanning religious, historical, and political themes, a new collection from the award-winning poet I think now more than half Of life is death but I can’t die Enough for all the life I see In Sometimes I Never Suffered, his seventh collection of poems, Shane McCrae remains “a shrewd composer of American stories” (Dan Chiasson, The New Yorker). Here, an angel, hastily thrown together by his fellow residents of Heaven, plummets to Earth in his first moments of consciousness. Jim Limber, the adopted mixed-race son of Jefferson Davis, wanders through the afterlife, reckoning with the nuances of America’s racial history, as well as his own. Sometimes I Never Suffered is a search for purpose and atonement, freedom and forgiveness, imagining eternity not as an escape from the past or present, but as a reverberating record and as the culmination of time’s manifold potential to mend.

Get to know your stains—and then bid them goodbye forever! Learn everything about more than 100 stains—including their habits, their habitats, and (most importantly) how to make them go away. From wine to wiper fluid, Field Guide to Stains provides effective techniques for rescuing clothes, upholstery, carpet, and wallpaper from stains caused by: Fruits and vegetables Dairy products Household items Office supplies Sauces and condiments Beauty products Bodily functions And more! Featuring a glossary of cleaning techniques and the basic products any would-be clean person should have on hand, this guide is the perfect accoutrement for the laundry room, kitchen, nursery, garage, or any other place stains might occur.

Gestures is a novel, written as the autobiography of one Jeremy Burnham, career diplomat and gentleman, who in his 83rd year sets down his life story. It begins in the Venice of the twenties, just as the Fascists are taking over the government and ends in war-torn Amsterdam, desperate and destitute after the Allied victory.