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Co-Founding the ACLU, Fighting for Labor Rights and Other Helen Keller Accomplishments Students Don’t Learn in School

By Olivia B. Waxman — 2020

Most students learn that Keller, born June 27, 1880, in Tuscumbia, Ala., was left deaf and blind after contracting a high fever at 19 months, and that her teacher Anne Sullivan taught her braille, lip-reading, finger spelling and eventually, how to speak. However, there is still a great deal about her life and her accomplishments that many people don’t know.

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No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference

No One Is Too Small to Make A Difference brings you Greta in her own words, for the first time.

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We Can Work It Out: Resolving Conflicts Peacefully and Powerfully

The tenets of Nonviolent Communication are applied to a variety of settings, including the classroom and the home, in these booklets on how to resolve conflict peacefully.

Marshall B. Rosenberg

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Speak Peace in a World of Conflict: What You Say Next Will Change Your World

Speak Peace is filled with inspiring stories, lessons and ideas drawn from over 40 years of mediating conflicts and healing relationships in some of the most war torn, impoverished, and violent corners of the world.

Marshall B. Rosenberg

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Getting Past the Pain Between Us: Healing and Reconciliation Without Compromise

You can transform emotional pain, depression, shame, and conflict into empowering connections. Rosenberg shares that behind all emotional pain are unmet needs. He provides simple steps to create the heartfelt presence necessary for healing to occur.

Marshall B. Rosenberg

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Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life (3rd Edition)

Nonviolent Communication is the integration of four things: • Consciousness: a set of principles that support living a life of compassion, collaboration, courage, and authenticity • Language: understanding how words contribute to connection or distance • Communication: knowing how to...

Marshall B. Rosenberg, Deepak Chopra (foreword)

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Living Nonviolent Communication: Practical Tools to Connect and Communicate Skillfully in Every Situation

Living Nonviolent Communication gives you practical training in applying Dr.

Marshall Rosenberg

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No Future without Forgiveness

The establishment of South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission was a pioneering international event. Never had any country sought to move forward from despotism to democracy both by exposing the atrocities committed in the past and achieving reconciliation with its former oppressors.

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Emotional Freedom: Liberate Yourself from Negative Emotions and Transform Your Life

Picture yourself trapped in a traffic jam feeling utterly calm. Imagine being unflappable and relaxed when your supervisor loses her temper.

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Bouncing Back: Rewiring Your Brain for Maximum Resilience and Well-Being

Resilience is the ability to face and handle life’s challenges, whether everyday disappointments or extraordinary disasters. While resilience is innate in the brain, over time we learn unhelpful patterns, which then become fixed in our neural circuitry.

Linda Graham, Rick Hanson (foreword)

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Resilient: How to Grow an Unshakable Core of Calm, Strength, and Happiness

These days it’s hard to count on the world outside. So, it’s vital to grow strengths inside like grit, gratitude, and compassion—the key to resilience, and to lasting well-being in a changing world. True resilience is much more than enduring terrible conditions.

Rick Hanson, Forrest Hanson

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