Ronald: 2667 books

"Roles, Rigidity, Repair, and Renovation in Relationships and Therapy." Structural theory and therapy principles are applicable not merely with the family, but also applicable to the couple and other relationships, as well as for individual intrapsychic issues among various personas, the ego, id,...

“Out of the Monkey Trap, Breaking Negative Cycles for Relationships and Therapy.” Therapists can help clients break repetitious cycles of negative behavior in dysfunctional relationships through using strategic principles. Individuals' experiences are to being stuck riding a personal train...

"I Don't… You Don't… It Don't Matter, Depression and Anxiety in Couples and Couple Therapy" Depression and anxiety are at the root of many relationship problems or are intricately and mutually related to several emotional, psychological, and intrapersonal or interpersonal dynamics. Feelings...

“Conflict, Control, and Out of Control in Couples and Couple Therapy” addresses the continuum of assertion, aggression, and abuse between partners. The therapist is guided how to promote appropriate assertiveness and aggression while avoiding crossing the boundary of abuse. Conflict is intrinsic...

The therapist must anticipate complications- anticipate uncovering a "can of worms," that confuse and overwhelm the partners and therapy. Issues arise or intrude that ignite intense emotional reactivity from beneath the psychic surface to make easy living difficult if not impossible. Often minor issues...

Distinguished Book Award, Philosophy of Communication Division, National Communication Association, 2017 Top Book Award, Communication Ethics Division, National Communication Association, 2017 Philosopher Emmanuel Levinas’s ethics as first philosophy explicates a human obligation and...

What does Jesus have to say about violence, just war, and killing? Does Jesus ever want his disciples to kill in order to resist evil and promote peace and justice? This book by noted theologian and bestselling author Ronald J. Sider provides a career capstone statement on biblical peacemaking....

Talk That Counts is a sociolinguistic study of variation in discourse employing quantitative methods to explore age, gender, and social class differences in the use of features such as you know, I mean, adverbs, and pronouns. Unlike many studies of discourse variation that focus on a single social...

For the first time in human history, a significant percentage of the world’s population no longer believes in God. This is especially true in developed nations, where in some societies nonbelievers now outnumber believers. Unless religion collapses completely, or undergoes a remarkable resurgence,...

This volume offers a timely look at the important topic of integrity. What does integrity mean? What does it involve? How do we "do" integrity? Drawing on his experience as a Christian, a minister, and a pastoral counselor, Ronald J. Greer explores the two sides of integrity: personal integrity...

When twenty-three-year-old John S. Davis received baptism into The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints on 19 April 1846, he was employed as a typesetter by the Reverend John Jones in the village of Rhydybont, Carmarthenshire. Five months earlier, the reverend's younger brother Dan began using...

THIS POETRY EMERGES out of occasions when the intersection of word and deed comes to the surface in the form of a dissident poem. Such poetry gives us prophetic alerts to pay attention to things that matter, like peace not war, like economic and immigrant justice, like an earthy passion for life more...

Financed by nothing but a whim while bouncing from one European country to another, author Ronald Dane eventually finds himself in Gibraltar, where he and a friend decide to visit the continent across the Strait. This trip, however, was almost his last. In this travel memoir, Dane narrates the story...

For centuries, Christians have gathered to hear messages of forgiveness and redemption, hope and abundant life. They have come from far and near to drink from the waters of everlasting life. Living Water is a collection of sermons conceived to reveal the love of God poured out in Jesus Christ as the...