Michael Houston: 14 books

Thank you for being here and thank you for supporting this effort, an effort much more challenging than I’d originally conceived. Simply put: this is a book of true stories. There is an eternal and timeless element inherent in stories. They convey something that can’t be conveyed any other way or...

This book was put out 12 years ago and mainly used in courses and coaching. This book was mainly used as a work-book in coaching and courses. As such it saw real application in the face of real world problems, issues, wants and desires. This track record and success ration demanded a re-release. This...

Als ehemalige CIA-Mitarbeiter gehören Philip Houston, Michael Floyd und Susan Carnicero zu den absoluten Profis auf dem Gebiet der Lügendetektion. In Erkenne den Lügner verraten die Experten, wie sie die von Phil Houston entwickelten Techniken bei der Aufdeckung von Verbrechen einsetzen und wie...

Three former CIA officers—among the world's foremost authorities on recognizing deceptive behavior—share their proven techniques for uncovering a lie Imagine how different your life would be if you could tell whether someone was lying or telling you the truth. Be it hiring a new employee,...

Following in the tradition of the Southern Women series, Arkansas Women highlights prominent Arkansas women, exploring women’s experiences across time and space from the state’s earliest frontier years to the late twentieth century. In doing so, this collection of fifteen biographical essays productively...

Getting someone to tell the truth is an essential skill that very few people possess. In the boardroom, classroom, or our own homes, every day we interact with others and try to get the truth from them. People are often untruthful out of fear of negative consequences associated with divulging...

"The gold standard of introductory books on the ancient Maya." —Expedition The Maya has long been established as the best, most readable introduction to the New World’s greatest ancient civilization. Coe and Houston update this classic by distilling the latest scholarship for the general...

想知道套話的最佳方法嗎？這本書完全展現如何辦到。 暢銷書《CIA教你識人術》作者最新力作 從日常溝通到談判，從職場、商場到家庭， 只要一開口，就讓對方毫不保留的對你坦誠。 前CIA頂尖情報高手最強效的溝通心理學： ．【短期思維模式的驚人力量】：能讓對方聚焦於我們所希望的重點上，並讓可能影響對方決定的因素愈少、愈直接。 ．【獨白的力量】：使用適合的轉折語句，保持泰然自若且輕聲細語，就不會引發對方的防衛心及製造敵對關係。 ．【合理化行為的力量】：每個人做每件事都有合理化的解釋。幫對方設想出理由或藉口，可以保全對方面子。 ．【表現真誠的力量】：用對說話方式，放慢說話速度、降低音量，能讓對方相信你所說皆出自於真心。 在家中、教室，乃至辦公室，我們每天都跟他人互動，也常遇到有人隱瞞真相、說謊，像是孩子為何翹課、學生為何鬧事，面試者誇大經歷，同事或員工有不誠實之處…… 想擁有讓他人能夠毫不保留說出真心話，與個人魅力無關，根本核心在於影響力。如何在對方身上施加影響力？該用什麼方法，才能使對方吐露真心話？在《CIA教你讓人說出真心話》一書中，前美國中情局頂尖情報員教你如何讓人甘心情願對你坦誠，說出你想知道的訊息。 書中透過精彩案例，有步驟地引導如何讓人說出事實的方法。每一個案例都會解說一種溝通技巧，例如 ．拆穿蘇聯情報員的雙面特工身份——保持對方處於短期思維模式。 ．員警供認與未成年者發生不道德行為——說一個能引起共鳴的獨白。 ．中情局特工承認出售情報給外國間諜——處理拒絕和情緒爆發。 這套方法應用於日常生活、工作或談判時，同樣效果驚人。當你試圖發揮影響力，希望從他人身上獲取誠實的答案時，本書將是您最實用的指引。 媒體好評 這本由前情報員撰寫的新指南，保證能訓練你從｢目標對象｣身上套取真相，不論對方是水電工或你自己的孩子。 ─《衛報》（The...

Over 40 years ago the historic Kerner Commission Report declared that America was undergoing an urban crisis whose effects were disproportionately felt by underclass populations. In America's Urban Crisis and the Advent of Color-blind Politics, Curtis Ivery and Joshua Bassett explore the persistence...

In Keywords for Southern Studies, editors Scott Romine and Jennifer Rae Greeson have compiled an eclectic collection of new essays that address the fluidity of southern studies by adopting a transnational, interdisciplinary focus. The essays are structured around critical terms pertinent both to the...

We have written “The Debt Resolution Handbook,” a step by step guide to debt reduction. We’ve produced an easy to follow resource designed to assist you in reducing debt through negotiation, disputing uncollectable debt, and eliminating thousands of dollars in debt by understanding and beating...

Received the ‘highly commended’ award by the Society for Educational Studies for books published in 2010. What is learned in universities today? Is it what students expect to learn? Is it what universities say they learn? How far do the answers to questions such as these differ according...

Students trained in traditional exercise physiology have learned the basic concepts of energy but often don’t fully understand human energy consumption at the molecular level. Biochemistry Primer for Exercise Science, Fourth Edition, provides an introduction to biochemistry that will give readers...

Object-Oriented Design with Applications has long been the essential reference to object-oriented technology, which, in turn, has evolved to join the mainstream of industrial-strength software development. In this third edition--the first revision in 13 years--readers can learn to apply object-oriented...