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Understanding Laboratory Tests: A Quick Reference - E-Book

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In an effort to simplify the complex world of laboratory testing and diagnosis, this easy-to-use guidebook was developed by an experienced educator in response to student demand. Using clear, easy-to-understand terminology, this everyday reference covers common lab tests and testing methods. Causes of conditions, signs and symptoms, lab findings, normal values and ranges, and interpretation of results are also addressed. This resource covers the need-to-know aspects of lab tests and diagnoses with a student-friendly approach, a focus on key content, and outstanding visual tools to help engage the student in the subject matter. "Did You Know" boxes provide additional key facts as quick references throughout the book! Every health care student and professional needs this unique pocket-sized reference.Student-friendly design: presents core content in an easy-to-understand approachFocus on key basic contentOutstanding pedagogical tools: including boxes, tables, photos, illustrations, figures, learning outcomes and key terms help engage the student in the subject matter"Did You Know" boxes: Providing additional key facts for quick reference throughout the book

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Myocardial Infarction: A Companion to Braunwald's Heart Disease E-Book

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Get the tools and knowledge you need for effective diagnosis, evaluation, and management of patients with acute myocardial infarction. Myocardial Infarction: A Companion to Braunwald's Heart Disease, by David A. Morrow, MD, is a comprehensive, hands-on resource that provides practical guidance from a name you trust. Concise and easy to use, this text explores the most recent tools for diagnosis and therapeutic decision-making, as well as the full range of available management strategies, providing outcomes data for each strategy. Myocardial Infarction also includes regular updates with late-breaking clinical trials, reviews of important new articles, and the latest guidance on clinical practice, all selected and masterfully edited by Dr. Eugene Braunwald.

- Provides thorough discussions of ECG, established and emerging biochemical markers, angiography, nuclear cardiology, echocardiography, and cardiac MRI and CT.
- Features an extensive treatment section that covers the latest drugs and most recent clinical trials of antiplatelet therapy, coronary revascularization, gene therapy, and approaches to reperfusion injury and ventricular remodeling.
- Discusses special considerations for the evaluation of acute coronary syndromes in the emergency department, and use of advanced technologies in cardiac critical care.
- Covers key topics such as in-hospital complications, cardiogenic shock, transitions to post-discharge care, and cardiac rehabilitation.
- Includes Clinical Practice/Controversy chapters that highlight management-focused, practical topics covering expert approaches for areas of uncertainty.
- Offers guidance on the management of special populations.
- Consult this title on your favorite e-reader for access to regularly added update content, to conduct rapid searches, and adjust font sizes for optimal readability.

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The "RIGHT-WAY" Guide to Using Gem Identification Tools

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Explains in non-technical terms how to use the ultraviolet lamp to identify diamonds and colored gems, and how to separate natural gems from imitations, treated gemstones, synthetics, and look-alikes. The approach is direct and practical, and its style is easy to understand. With this highly accessible guide booklet, anyone can begin to master gem identification using the ultraviolet lamp.

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Seventy-Five Extraordinary People Who Changed the World in the Past Century

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Fascinating profiles of the most important spiritual leaders of the past one hundred years. An invaluable reference of twentieth-century religion and an inspiring resource for spiritual challenge today.

The result of a nationwide survey of experts in leading universities and seminaries, as well as leading representatives of dozens of religious traditions and spiritual persuasions, this authoritative list of seventy-five includes martyrs and mystics, intellectuals and charismatics from East and West. Their lives and wisdom are now easily accessible in this inspiring volume.

A celebration of the human spirit, ideal for both seekers and believers, the curious and the passionate, thinkers and doers, Spiritual Innovators is an authoritative guide to the most creative spiritual ideas and actions of the past century--a challenge for us today.

An empowering guide to the most creative spiritual ideas of the past century, and a challenge for today, Spiritual Innovators profiles seventy-five remarkable people together in one accessible volume.

Each profile includes:

* Synopsis of innovators life and the evolution of their spiritual leadership and influence.

* Inspiring quotes--words of wisdom indicative of the innovators life and teachings.

* A guide to further examination of their works, ideas, organizations, movements, legacy.

* Resources for more in-depth study.

Spiritual innovators covered:

Chogyam Trungpa

Mary Daly

Mary Baker Eddy

Robert Funk

G. I. Gurdjieff

Aimee Semple McPherson

Elijah Muhammad

Bhaktivedanta Prabuphada

Bertrand Russell Zalman Schachter-Shalomi

William J. Seymour

Shirdi Sai Baba

Starhawk

Desmond Tutu

Abdul Baha

Daniel Berrigan

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Abraham Isaac Kook

C. S. Lewis

Huston Smith

D. T. Suzuki

Simone Weil

Dorothy Day

Catherine de Hueck Doherty

Maha Ghosananda Mawlana Muhammad Ilyas

Mother Teresa

Walter Rauschenbusch

Albert Schweitzer

Robert Holbrook Smith

Thich Nhat Hanh

Bawa Muhaiyaddeen

Black Elk

Deepak Chopra

Bede Griffiths

Hazrat Inayat Khan

J. Krishnamurti

Meher Baba

Seyyed Hossein Nasr

Paramahansa Yogananda

Andrew Weil

Ajahn Chah

Thomas Keating

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

Thomas Merton

Pema Chodron

Ramana Maharshi

Seung Sahn

Shunryu Suzuki

--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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SSEF Diamond-Type Spotter and Blue Diamond Tester Made Easy

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The "RIGHT-WAY" Guide to Using Gem Identification Tools

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Explains in non-technical terms how to use the SSEF Diamond-Type Spotter and SSEF Blue Diamond Tester to identify diamonds, and how to separate natural diamonds from imitations, treated diamonds, synthetics, and look-alikes. The approach is direct and practical, and its style is easy to understand. With this highly accessible guide booklet, anyone can begin to master gem identification using the SSEF Diamond-Type Spotter and SSEF Blue Diamond Tester.

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Chelsea and Synthetic Emerald Filters Made Easy

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The "RIGHT-WAY" Guide to Using Gem Identification Tools

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Explains in non-technical terms how to use the Chelsea filter and synthetic emerald filter to identify diamonds and colored gems, and how to separate natural gems from imitations, treated gemstones, synthetics, and look-alikes. The approach is direct and practical, and its style is easy to understand. With this highly accessible guide booklet, anyone can begin to master gem identification using the Chelsea filter and synthetic emerald filter.

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Southeast Treasure Hunter's Gem & Mineral Guide (6th Edition)

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Where & How to Dig, Pan and Mine Your Own Gems & Minerals

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Updated 6th edition with new sites & museums!
Learn Where & How to Dig, Pan and Mine Your Own Gems & Minerals

SOUTHEAST

Alabama  Arkansas  Florida  Georgia  Kentucky  Louisiana 
Mississippi  Missouri  North Carolina  South Carolina 
Tennessee  Virginia  West Virginia

Whether you're digging for the first time or are an experienced rockhound or "prospector," with a simple rock hammer and a little luck, you too can strike it rich ... or at the very least, have fun trying.

This guide offers you easy-to-use information on the ins and outs of "fee dig" mining, complete with locations, costs, tips on technique, entertaining legends and important information on everything from safety kits to the location of the nearest restrooms.

Included are resources for use in identifying your finds, exploring the lapidary arts, and further pursuing an excitingand possibly profitablehobby.

    Equipment and Clothing: What you need and where to find it (or how to make it yourself).
    Mining Techniques: Step-by-step instructions on panning for gold, sluicing for gems and other methods.
    Gem and Mineral Sites: Directions and maps, hours, fees and equipment needed. Also includes info on guide services, local camping facilities and more.
    Museums and Mine Tours: Where to visit commercial and historical mines, as well as museums with exhibits of gems and minerals (for help in learning what to look for).
    Special Events and Tourist Information: Listings of regional events involving gems and minerals, and sources of general travel and tourism information for every state.
    Other Features: Where to find your birthstone, your anniversary stone or your zodiac stone; Index by State; Index by Gem/Mineral; U.S. State Gems & Minerals Chart; and more!

The Treasure Hunter's Gem & Mineral Guides to the U.S.A. in 4 regional volumes:

Northeast ISBN: 978-0-9970145-0-1

Northwest ISBN: 978-0-9904152-8-2

Southeast ISBN: 978-0-9970145-1-8

Southwest ISBN: 978-0-9904152-9-9

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Today's Most Inspiring Teachers Help You on Your Way

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Practical advice for the curious seeker on how to jump-start a spiritual life. Todays most inspiring teachersmeditation experts, alternative health practitioners, monks, medical doctors, and spiritual and popular self-help authorsprovide you with insight and guidance on seeking spiritual understanding and focusing on what is most important in life. Other innovative featuresincluding self-tests, spiritual practice suggestions and time capsule exercisesmake this book an inviting first step on your path to a rewarding spiritual life.

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The "RIGHT-WAY" Guide to Using Gem Identification Tools

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Explains in non-technical terms how to use the refractometer to identify diamonds and colored gems, and how to separate natural gems from imitations, treated gemstones, synthetics, and look-alikes. The approach is direct and practical, and its style is easy to understand. With this highly accessible guide booklet, anyone can begin to master gem identification using the refractometer.

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The "RIGHT-WAY" Guide to Using Gem Identification Tools

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Explains in non-technical terms how to use the loupe and dark-field loupe to identify diamonds and colored gems, and how to separate natural gems from imitations, treated gemstones, synthetics, and look-alikes. The approach is direct and practical, and its style is easy to understand. With this highly accessible guide booklet, anyone can begin to master gem identification using the loupe and dark-field loupe.

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A powerful collection of writings about Yom Kippur that will add spiritual depth and holiness to your experience of the Day of Atonement.

As Rosh Hashanah ends and you look ahead to Yom Kippur, what do you think about? The familiar melody of Kol Nidre? The long hours of fasting? The days of self-examination? You know that the Day of Atonement is the holiest on the Jewish calendar, but sometimes it just feels long, tiresome and devoid of personal meaning. The readings in this book are for anyone seeking a deeper level of personal reflection and spiritual intimacyand a clearer understanding of just what makes Yom Kippur so holy.

Drawn from a variety of sourcesancient, medieval, modern, Jewish and non-Jewishthis selection of readings, prayers and insights explores the opportunities for inspiration and reflection inherent in the themes addressed on the Day of Atonement: sin, forgiveness, repentance, spiritual growth, and being at one with self, family, community and God. These readings enable you to enter into the spirit of Yom Kippur in a personal and powerful way while they uplift and inform. They will add to the benefits of your High Holy Day experience year after year.

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Dr. Arthur Green, Rabbi Dov Peretz Elkins

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Northeast Treasure Hunter's Gem and Mineral Guide (6th Edition)

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Where and How to Dig, Pan and Mine Your Own Gems and Minerals

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Updated 6th edition with new sites & museums!
Learn Where & How to Dig, Pan and Mine Your Own Gems & Minerals

NORTHEAST

Connecticut  Delaware  District of Columbia  Indiana  Illinois  Maine
Massachusetts  Maryland  Michigan  New Hampshire  New Jersey
New York  Ohio  Pennsylvania  Rhode Island  Vermont  Wisconsin

Whether you're digging for the first time or are an experienced rockhound or "prospector," with a simple rock hammer and a little luck, you too can strike it rich ... or at the very least, have fun trying.

This guide offers you easy-to-use information on the ins and outs of "fee dig" mining, complete with locations, costs, tips on technique, entertaining legends and important information on everything from safety kits to the location of the nearest restrooms.

Included are resources for use in identifying your finds, exploring the lapidary arts, and further pursuing an excitingand possibly profitablehobby.

    Equipment and Clothing: What you need and where to find it (or how to make it yourself).
    Mining Techniques: Step-by-step instructions on panning for gold, sluicing for gems and other methods.
    Gem and Mineral Sites: Directions and maps, hours, fees and equipment needed. Also includes info on guide services, local camping facilities and more.
    Museums and Mine Tours: Where to visit commercial and historical mines, as well as museums with exhibits of gems and minerals (for help in learning what to look for).
    Special Events and Tourist Information: Listings of regional events involving gems and minerals, and sources of general travel and tourism information for every state.
    Other Features: Where to find your birthstone, your anniversary stone or your zodiac stone; Index by State; Index by Gem/Mineral; U.S. State Gems & Minerals Chart; and more!

The Treasure Hunter's Gem & Mineral Guides to the U.S.A. in 4 regional volumes:

Northeast ISBN: 978-0-9970145-0-1

Northwest ISBN: 978-0-9904152-8-2

Southeast ISBN: 978-0-9970145-1-8

Southwest ISBN: 978-0-9904152-9-9

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The best-selling author of The Essential Kabbalah now
offers readers the best introduction to the Zohar.

The splendor and enigmatic appeal of the Zohar, the major text of the Jewish mystical tradition, has never intrigued readers of all faiths more than it does today. But how can we truly understand it?

Daniel C. Matt brings together in one place the most important teachings from the Zohar, the cornerstone of Kabbalahdescribed as a mixture of theology, mystical psychology, anthropology, myth, and poetryalongside facing-page stories, notes, and historical background that illuminate and explain the text. Ideal for the first-time reader with no prior knowledge of Jewish mysticism.

Guides readers step-by-step through the texts that make up the Zoharmidrash, mystical fantasy, commentary, and Hebrew scriptureand explains the inner meanings of this sacred text, recognized by kabbalists as the most important work of mystical teaching, in a way that is both spiritually enlightening and intellectually fascinating.

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An exploration of Judaism's most sacred statement and world-changing idea. "Hear O Israel, the Eternal is Our God, the Eternal is One!" There is arguably no more important statement in Judaism than the Sh'ma. Its wordscalling us to hear, to listen, to pay attentiondefy direct translation and have meant different things throughout history. In a deeply personal exploration of this sacred proclamation, command, and prayer, Rabbi Joseph B. Meszler delves into the spiritual history of the Shma, inspiring you to claim your own personal meaning in these enduring words. By examining how the Shma has been commented upon by ancient sages and contemporary thinkers, he opens the doors between each generation that has found a different dimension of truth in the Shma. Each chapter focuses on a major historical figure and includes a sacred story, an exploration into the storys many meanings, and a suggestion for a new way of "hearing" the voice in the story. Experience the Shma through the lives of: w MosesFighting Idolatry w Akiba ben JosephThe Sages Offer Their Lives w Saaida GaonProving the One w Moses MaimonidesNothing Like God w Haim VitalCommuning with the One w Moses Haim Luzzatto Master of the Universe w Abraham Isaac KookA Nation Reborn w Leo BaeckOne Moral Standard w Abraham Joshua HeschelA Prophecy: One World or No World

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Nancy Barrett Chickerneo, PhD, Rabbi Joseph B. Meszler, Eileen Fisher, Rabbi Elyse Goldstein

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Voices of Strength, Faith, Healing, Hope and Courage

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A celebration of the voices of women of color in prayer

Women of color pray and have prayed out of necessity for survival, out of love for the Divine and because we believe in the power of prayer. Prayer has been the prevailing force behind the education of our children, protection and courage for our men, hope for our daughters and the balm that heals sorrows.
from the Introduction

Prayers by women around the worldfrom China and Japan, to Syria and Ghanato African American, Asian American, Native American and Hispanic women in the United States including:

Teresa Palomo Acosta Yolanda Adams Rabia Al-Adawiyya Paula Gunn Allen Savitri Bess Mary McLeod Bethune Irene I. Blea Sandra Cisneros Marian Wright Edelman Rachelle Ferrell Monique Greenwood Joy Harjo Linda Hogan Patricia Locke Janice Mirikitani Toni Morrison Naomi Quinonez Della Reese Cathy Song Susan L. Taylor Sojourner Truth Harriet Tubman Iyanla Vanzant Phillis Wheatley CeCe Winans Empress Yamatohime ... and many others

This beautiful collection of prayers will take you on a journey into the spiritual walk of women of color around the worldincluding Asia, the Middle East and Africaas well as Native American, African American, Asian American and Hispanic women in the United States. Through these prayers, poetry, lyrics, meditations and affirmations, you will share in the strong and undeniable connection that women of color share with God. As you delve into the words of unwavering faith, perseverance, resistance, celebration and communion with God and family that fill each page, you will find your ideas about prayer challenged and your own prayer life inspired and renewed.

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Teresa Palomo Acosta, Yolanda Adams, Christal M. Jackson

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Push your writing through the trite and the boring to something fresh, something transformative.

"Writing as spiritual practice has nothing to do with readers per se. You aren't writing to be read; you are writing to be freed. Writing as spiritual practice is conspiratorial rather than inspirational. It conspires to strip away everything you use to maintain the illusion of certainty, security and self-identity. Where spiritual writing seeks to bind you all the more tightly to the self you imagine yourself to be, writing as spiritual practice intends to free you from it."
from Ramis Preface

This isnt about how to write spiritual books. It isnt about the romance of writing. It doesnt cover the ins and outs of publishing and building a brand. Instead, this fresh and unapologetic guide to writing as a spiritual practice approaches writing as a way to turn the spiral of body, heart, mind, soul and spirit that leads to spiritual awakening.

Lead by renowned spirituality teacher Rami Shapiro and award-winning writer and writing coach Aaron Shapiroand featuring over fifty unique, practical exercisesit takes you beyond assigning inspirational words to the page. It shows you how to use your writing to unlock the joy of life and the infinite perspectives and possibilities that living provides.

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The Hasidic Masters on Contemplative Prayer

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The power of prayer for spiritual renewal and personal transformation is at the core of all religious traditions. Because Hasidic literature contains no systematic manual of contemplative prayer, the texts included in this volume have been culled from many sources. From the teachings of the Hasidic Mastersthe Ba'al Shem Tov, the Maggid Dov Baer of Meidzyrzec, and their immediate disciplesthe editors have gleaned "hints as to the various rungs of inner prayer and how they are attained."

Hasidism, the Jewish revivalist movement that began in the late eighteenth century, saw prayer as being at the heart of religious experience and was particularly concerned with the nature of a persons relationship with God. The obstacles to prayer discussed by the Hasidic mastersdistraction, loss of spirituality, and inconstancy of purposefeel very close to concerns of our own age. Through advice, parables, and explanations, the Hasidic masters of the past speak to our own attempts to find meaning in prayer.

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The first and only full-length biography of one of
the most charismatic spiritual innovators of the twentieth century.

Through his widely popular books and lectures, Alan Watts (1915-1973) did more to introduce Eastern philosophy and religion to Western minds than any figure before or since. Watts touched the lives of many. He was a renegade Zen teacher, an Anglican priest, a lecturer, an academic, an entertainer, a leader of the San Francisco renaissance, and the author of more than thirty books, including The Way of Zen, Psychotherapy East and West and The Spirit of Zen.

Monica Furlong followed Watts's travels from his birthplace in England to the San Francisco Bay Area where he ultimately settled, conducting in-depth interviews with his family, colleagues, and intimate friends, to provide an analysis of the intellectual, cultural, and deeply personal influences behind this truly extraordinary life.

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Sure to generate great controversy as it provides new insights, "Who Is a Jew?" courageously takes on this timely and controversial question. It provides the full range of perspectives necessary to let us draw our own conclusions. A seasoned journalist, Meryl Hyman weaves her own life experiences into this complex and controversial subject, exploring profound and highly personal questions of identity in conversations with Jew and non-Jew. The daughter of a Jewish father and a Christian mother, she set out to find out why so many Jews say she is not a Jew, even though she has practiced Judaism and identified herself as a Jew since birth. She found a people struggling with its own history, customs, and laws; a people who fear that their unity may be sacrificed. Featured in "Who Is a Jew?" are leaders from all parts of the Jewish world, eminent scholars, and others from all spectrums of belieffrom Israel, England, and the United Stateswho speak out on the subject and delve into such questions as: What are the many-faceted "answers" to this seemingly simple question? Why are these answers crucial for all Jews? Why does Jewish identity have a bearing on all cultural, religious, and ethnic groups? Why and how does Israel's answer to the question matter to Jews everywhere in the world?

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Christian Wisdom on Dialogue as a Habit of the Heart

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Learn How to Contribute More Effectively and Compassionately to
the Conversations that Shape Your Life

"Anything could happen when we start to talk. Nothing will happen if we don't. That alone makes the way of dialogue a journey worth taking."
from the Epilogue

Think of an issue that makes your blood boil. Now imagine lunch with a friend who is just as passionate about iton the other side. How can the two of you even broach the issue, let alone hear each other with curiosity and compassion?

The answer begins long before the lunch does, by learning to engage dialogue as a habit of the heartan inner transformation that the ancient practices of Christian spirituality can address. This highly readable and timely guide to restoring dialogue shows you how to cultivate this transformation while preparing you to approach your adversaries with curiosity, civility and compassion. With dialogue expert John Backman leading the way, you will:
Examine the obstacles that keep you from dialogue: black-and-white thinking, a distraction lifestyle, the fear of change and negative impressions from others.Explore the strength of character from which healthy dialogue springsand the work of the soul that cultivates them.Learn practical guidelines for dialogue and how they work in an imperfect world.Encounter anecdotes of dialogue in action, from resolutions of interpersonal conflict to difficult dialogues on some of the most divisive issues of our age.Use provocative questions at the end of each chapter to stimulate group discussion and individual reflection.