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GENERAL INTEREST
Many subjects have general application to spiritual life.  This department shows titles that we in Biame Network can make available to you.
Life is rich and full and lots of people can contribute to us as we live.  Given the abundance available, this area is only a small sample of what we can find from other people's wisdom.
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TAKING CHARGE
Task Analysis, Problem Solving, Option Development
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Ken Mellor (PIT Press, Melbourne, 1980) (387 pages)

Provides simple ways of thinking about a wide range of issues, including: goal-setting, planning for success, understanding simple to complex tasks, feelings, problems, problem solving, options, and deciding between priorities.

With the simple understanding of complex issues and events that these provide, the reader is much better able to manage and make the most of his/her life in these areas.

The book is cleverly devised to promote easy learning. In each chapter the ideas and approaches are presented basically in the beginning and with increasing sophistication as the end approaches.

BACK OFF BULLY - A crash course in stopping bullies
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This wonderful little book offers great explanations, and lots of simple, effective ways of dealing with bullies

Mark Dobson (Doubleday 2002) 90 pages

Everyone gets bullied at some stage in their lives. Back Off Bully provides practical strategies to help you and your family deal with:

  • the schoolyard bully
  • bullies in the workplace and
  • bullies within the family

Mark Dobson has a talent for using exactly the right words and examples that people (children and adults) who are being bullied can understand.  This is a gem of a book.

Written to teenagers and adults.  These approaches really work!

BULLY BUSTING
How to help children deal with teasing and bullying
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This is a book for both children and adults who are bullied
 
Evelyn Field  (Finch Publishing, Sydney, 1999) (265 pages)

Bully Busting is a practical book that offers help to children to deal with bullies.  It also provides ways to take care of the damaging effects of teasing and bullying.  Special activity pages, with an emphasis on fun, give young people ways to practise dealing with bullies in different situations. 

The book is designed for parents to use with children of primary and secondary school age.

Ken and Elizabeth highly recommend this book for both children and adults who need to learn to deal with bullying people.