Twenty Years After the L.A. Riots, Rodney King Releases "The Riot...

Tuesday, 24 April 2012 10:28

While Rodney King is now an icon, he is by no means an angel. King has had run-ins with the law and continues a lifelong struggle with alcohol addiction. But King refuses to be bitter about the crippling emotional and physical damage that was inflicted upon him that night in 1991. While the nation has made strides during those twenty years to heal, so has Rodney King, and his inspiring story, The Riot Within, offers lessons of forgiveness, redemption, and renewal, both as individuals and as a nation.

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The Riot Within: My Journey from Rebellion to Redemption by Rodney King "It’s now time for me to try to reach out and help others get t...

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New Book "Brain Wars" Provides Paradigm-Shifting Evidence for...

Tuesday, 24 April 2012 08:57

In 'Brain Wars,' acclaimed neuroscientist Mario Beauregard reveals compelling new evidence set to provoke a major shift in understanding of the mind-body debate: research showing that the mind and consciousness are transmitted and filtered through the brain—but are not generated by it. Following his boundary-breaking neuroscience book The Spiritual Brain: A Neuroscientist’s Case for the Existence of the Soul, co-authored with Denyse O’Leary, Brain Wars makes a powerful and provocative case against the widely held view equating human beings to complex biological computers. Brain Wars: The Scientific Battle Over the Existence of the Mind and the Proof That Will Change the Way We Liv...

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Mompreneur Bucks the Digital Trend by Publishing Children"s Books...

Tuesday, 24 April 2012 07:28

Former award-winning journalist ventures into uncharted waters to champion handwriting and creative writing with unique children's books. Spies Inc., The Adventures of Dash Danger “Most kids in today’s high-tech world never met a screen they didn’t like, including my own kids,” says Carolyn Starks. “That’s why I was determined to publish books that could go toe-to-toe with any screen."

A mom who spent her career writing is bucking the digitaltrend by creating interactive books guaranteed to entice kids away from screens and into writing. With Pencils. On paper.

“Most kids in today’s high-tech world never met a screen they didn’t like, including my own kids,” says Carolyn...

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Kilmann Diagnostics Announces Its Critical Thinking Course

Tuesday, 24 April 2012 06:42

Kilmann Diagnostics, an e-learning company that specializes in providing online courses for conflict management and change management, now provides “Critical Thinking” in a six-hour recorded format. This online course teaches people how to uncover and then revise the outdated assumptions behind their most cherished beliefs—which is the heart of critical thinking. Critical Thinking Course Because the world has changed so dramatically during the past few decades, so many of our assumptions that used to be true are now clearly false.

Kilmann Diagnostics (KD), the exclusive provider of online training for the Thomas-Kilmann Conflict Mode Instrument (TKI), has also developed a five-step process for helping people to define and solve their most complex problems: (1) sensing problems, (2) defining problems, (3) deriving solutions, (4) implementing solutions, and (5) evaluating outcomes. Whether facing problems in one’s home or vocational life, making an error in any of these five steps will prevent any problem—or conflict—from being resolved to the satisfaction of all key stakeholders.

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