the three most important ideas or skills you learned, communications homework help
In a two page(approximately), typed, single-spaced report, you will summarize the main
theme or idea of the book and discuss the following:
• the three most important ideas or skills you learned;
• how the book relates to your own life;
• any life changes influenced by the book; and
• an overall critique (positive or negative) of the ideas presented in the book
Here is the book list, any book below is OK ( only one book)
Impressions
How to Make People Like You in 90 Seconds or Less – Nicholas Boothman
Don’t take the last donut : new rules of business etiquette – Judith Bowman.
Quiet: The power of introverts in a world that can’t stop talking – Susan Cain
Improve your Conversations – Patrick King
Small Talk Hacks: The people skills and communication skills you need to talk to anyone and be instantly likable
– by Akash Karia
Emotions
Nothing’s Wrong: A Man’s Guide to Managing His Feelings – David Kundtz
The Secret Language of Feelings – Calvin D. Banyan
Don’t Call Me a Drama Queen!: A Guide for the Overly Sensitive and Their Significant Others Who Need to
Learn How to Lighten Up and Go with the Flow (2008) – Dr. Debra Mandel
Why Is It Always About You? : The Seven Deadly Sins of Narcissism (2003) – Sandy Hotchkiss
Its So Hard to Love You Staying Sane When Your Loved One Is Manipulative, Needy, Dishonest, or Addicted
(2007) – Bill Klatte and Kate Thompson
Letting Go of Anger: The Eleven Most Common Anger Styles & What to Do About Them – Ronald T.
Potter-Efron and Patricia S. Potter-Efron
Working with you is killing me: freeing yourself from emotional traps at work (2006) – Katherine Crowley and
Kathi Elster (DeAnza Library: HF5548.8 .C685 2006)
Emotions revealed : recognizing faces and feelings to improve communication and emotional life (2004). – ‘
by Paul Ekman (DeAnza Library: BF591 .E35 2004)
Relationships
Gifts from the Heart – Randy Fujishin
How to win friends and influence people – dale Carnegie
You Just Don’t Understand: Women and Men in Conversation – Deborah Tannen 1990
That’s not what I meant – Deborah Tannen
10 stupid things couples do – Laura Schlessinger
The friendship factor – LeRoy McGinnis
Coping with difficult people – Robert Bramson
I kissed dating goodbye – Joshua Harris
When Mars and Venus Collide – John Gray
It’s Called a Breakup Because It’s Broken: The Smart Girl’s Break-Up Buddy – Greg Behrendt and Amiira
Ruotola-Behrendt
Deal Breakers: When to Work On a Relationship and When to Walk Away (2008) – Dr. Bethany Marshall
Why Can’t You Read My Mind? Overcoming the 9 Toxic Thought Patterns that Get in the Way of a Loving
Relationship (2003) – Jeffrey Bernstein and Susan Magee
100 simple secrets of great relationships: what scientists have learned and how you can use it – David Niven
(DeAnza Library: HM1106 .N58 2006)
(for/about)Women
Women who try too hard – Kevin Leman
How to say no without feeling guilty – Patti Breitman
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The dance of anger – Harriet Lerner
10 stupid things women do – Laura Schlessinger
(for/about)Men
10 stupid things men do – Laura Schlessinger
Wisdom of our fathers – Tim Russert
Bringing up Boys – James Dobson
Gender Communication
You just don’t understand: women and men in conversation – Deborah Tannen
Talking from 9 to 5: women and men at work – Deborah Tannen (DeAnza Library: HF5718 .T36 2001)
The Myth of Mars and Venus: Do men and women really speak different languages? By Deborah Cameron
Marriage/Families
Getting the love you want – Harville Hendrix
I only say this because I love you talking to your parents, partner, sibs, and kids when you’re all adults – Deborah
Tannen (DeAnza Library: HQ734 .T23 2002)
The love list – Les and Leslie Parrott
Covenant marriage – Gary Chapman
Wonderful Marriage: A Guide to Building a Great Relationship That Will Last a Lifetime (2008) – Lilo
Leeds, Gerard Leeds, and Terrence Real
Respectful Parents, Respectful Kids: 7 Keys to Turn Family Conflict into Cooperation (2006) – Sura Hart and
Victoria Kindle Hodson
How to talk so kids will listen & listen so kids will talk (2004) – Adele Faber (DA Library: HQ755.8 .F3 2004)
You’re wearing that? : Understanding mothers and daughters in conversation (2006) – Deborah Tannen (DeAnza
Library: HQ755.86 .T366 2006)
5 Love Languages of Children – Gary Chapman and Ross Campbell
7 Habits of Highly Effective Families – Stephen Covey and Sandra Covey
Communication
Five love languages – Gary Chapman
Five love language for singles – Gary Chapman
Conversationally speaking – Alan Garner
Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life – Marshall B. Rosenberg
Don’t Be Nice, Be Real: Balancing Passion for Self with Compassion for Others
– Kelly Bryson
Difficult Conversations – Douglas Stone, Bruce Patton, and Sheila Heen
The Book of No – Susan Newman
Secret Language of Leadership – Stephen Denning
The leadership challenge. (2007) J. Kouzes (DeAnza Library: HD57.7 .K682007)
The honest truth about dishonesty: How we Lie to everyone- especially ourselves – Dan Ariely
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Life Transitions
The Conscious Bride – Sheryl Paul
Meetings at the edge: Dialogues with the Grieving and the Dying, the Healing and the Healed- Stephen Levine
How to go on living when someone dies – Therese Rando
When bad things happen to good people – H. Kushner
Necessary losses – Judith Viorst
On Death and Dying – E. Kubler-Ross
Perception
Learned Optimism: How to Change Your Mind and Your Life – Martin Seligman
The Gift of Fear: Survival Signals That Protect Us from Violence- Gavin deBecker
Self Concept/Self-Esteem, Intrapersonal Communication/Spiritual
Maximum Self-Esteem: The Handbook for Reclaiming Your Sense of Self-Worth
-Jerry Minchinton
The four agreements – Don Miguel Ruiz
The Power of Now – Eckhart Tolle
The Untethered Soul – Michael A. Singer
How to Wow: Proven Strategies for Selling Your [Brilliant] Self in Any Situation (2009) – Frances Cole Jones
Listening
The lost art of listening – Michael Nichols
The Art of Talking So That People Will Listen – Paul W. Swets (communicating with children)
Conflict Resolution
Getting to Yes – William Ury
Getting Past No – William Ury
Power of a Positive No – William Ury
Mediating Dangerously – Kenneth Cloke
Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes are High – Kerry Patterson, Joseph Grenny, Ron
McMillan, Al Swiztler
How to disagree without being disagreeable : Getting your point across with the gentle art of verbal self-defense
(1997) – Suzette Haden Elgin (DeAnza Library: BF637 .V47 E4314 1997)
Nonverbal Communication
The Complete Idiot’s Guide To Body Language by Peter A. Anderson, Ph.D.
The Power of Body Language by Tonya Reiman
The Nonverbal Advantage: Secrets and Science of Body Language at Work (2008) – Carol Kinsey Goman
2006
The definitive book of body language (2006) – Allan Pease (DeAnza Library: BF637 .N66 P43)
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Communication and Drive/Motivation/Success
Mindset: The Psychology of Success (Carol Dweck)
How Children Suceed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character
Drive: The surprising truth about what motivates us – Daniel H. Pink
To Sell is Human: The surprising truth about moving others – Daniel H. Pink
Predictably Irrational: The hidden forces that shape our decisions – Dan Ariely
Big Magic – Elizabeth Gilbert
You are a Badass – Jen Sincero
Year of Yes – Shonda Rhimes
Presence – Amy Cuddy
