Resolving 21st Century Disputes: Best Practices for a Fast-Paced World
by Geoff Drucker
“Essential reading for lawyers who aspire to be problem-solvers. Jargon-free writing and practical examples bring each point to life.”
– Kim M. Keenan
Past President, National Bar Association and District of Columbia Bar
“A highly insightful analysis of how the human mind works, how it gets us into conflicts and how it can successfully get us out of them . . . Drucker provides highly practical ways of analyzing and understanding the causes of conflicts – from interpersonal relations and wars – and eminently successful ways to resolve them”.
– Christopher Moore
Author of The Mediation Process: Practical Strategies for Resolving Conflict
“Geoff Drucker has offered those of us fascinated by and involved in dispute resolution a comprehensive understanding of what is happening within and between the participants in disagreements of all kinds and in a broad array of circumstances. The author describes with great care how our minds work to attempt to make wise choices. He describes the tricks that our unconscious and our conscious thought processes play on us to exacerbate our disagreements and inhibit our ability to come to wise resolution when in dispute. I highly recommend this book to any and all who deal on a regular basis with situations in which reasonable people can differ and still need to come to common agreements.”
– Douglass T. Lind, D. Min., ThD., Phd.
Founding Partner, The Sigma Group LLC.
Geoff Drucker is the Manager of Dispute Resolution Services for the American Health Lawyers Association; teaches Alternative Dispute Resolution and Mediation at George Washington University’s School of Law; and teaches Conflict in Organizations at George Mason University’s School of Conflict Analysis and Resolution. He holds a BA from Stanford University, a JD from the UCLA School of Law, and an MS in Conflict Analysis and Resolution from George Mason University.
Paperback – 166 pages – $15.95
978-1-935212-74-4
Ebook available in all formats – $8.99 Digital List Price
978-1-935212-73-7
January 5, 2012
www.geoffdrucker.com
Little Did I Know – A novel by Mitchell Maxwell
Little Did I Know takes place in the summer of 1976, when the seemingly endless party celebrating America’s two-hundredth birthday was in full swing, in all its glory. From May to September, young men and women recklessly came of age under Cape Cod’s star-studded skies, lit by orange-neon moons.
Sam August seeks his glory during that fantastic summer, his sights set on a career as a theater impresario. Through sheer serendipity, he discovers the oldest barn theater in America, just one hundred yards from Plymouth Bay. Although worn, decaying, and unused for years, August sees the place as the gem it once was. He sets out on a quest to reignite and reinvent—to paint new light, color, and magic on the building’s blank canvas. Infused with an unmitigated ferocity of purpose, he restores the ancient theater and catches lightning in a bottle.
Along the way he falls in love, rails against local corruption, skirts the numerous disasters of his imagined bulletproof youth, and protects the many friends who have joined him on this wondrous roller-coaster ride of a summer.
Little Did I Know is told at breakneck speed, with the urgency of youth. August’s journey is a wild, sexy romp of surprise, challenge, and the realization that the pursuit of big dreams does not come with a road map. It is an education on the human condition, a boundlessly entertaining story that proves the only option in pursuing a life of meaning and consequence is to follow your heart.
Hardcover – 336 pages – $25
978-1-935212-57-7
October 5, 2011
It’s OK to Tell: A Story of Hope and Recovery
Lauren Book, with a Foreword by Lisa Ling
Lauren Book was eleven years old when her new nanny, Waldina Flores, joined the family. For the next six years, Lauren endured daily sexual and physical abuse. “I was a people pleaser,” she says. “I was beaten every day . . . Waldy was very smart, like all predators are. She hit me and bruised me where my parents wouldn’t look. When you are thirteen or fourteen, parents never look at their children’s stomachs or lower backs or butts or upper thighs.”
In 2002, after being encouraged by her boyfriend, Lauren told her therapist what had been happening. The therapist called her parents and her father fired Flores, who fled to Oklahoma where she was arrested two months later. While in prison, Flores broke the terms of her probation by writing love letters to Lauren and was sentenced to an additional prison term.
Since then, Lauren and her father have successfully mounted a legislative onslaught against predators. The many Florida laws they are responsible for include the right of a victim to require that an accused or charged predator take an HIV test, with results guaranteed to the victim within forty eight hours, a law eliminating the statute of limitations on civil and criminal prosecutions when the victim of sexual abuse is under the age of sixteen, a ban on molesters ever contacting their victims or families, and legislation to create a statewide network of sexual-assault treatment centers.
Lauren’s story is about hope in the face of extreme adversity. Although it deals with a tremendously sensitive and “dark” subject, It’s OK to Tell carries a lasting positive impact. Lauren’s story empowers us all to address abuse issues in our own lives. Her memoir moves us to understand the deep emotional matrix that results from abuse and the incredible ability of an individual to recover and embrace life.
Hardcover – $19.95
978-1935212-43-0
Publication Date: March 11, 2011
Lauren Book established Lauren’s Kids to prevent sexual abuse through awareness and education, and to help survivors heal with guidance and support.
Healing America
Hope, Mercy, Justice and Autonomy in
the American Health Care System
Roger J. Bulger, MD
Roger is still able to ‘see around corners’ and now we know how and why. He captures the power of the health care system, then and now, from the sum total of the individual formed by family, education, experiences, social values, professional values, and economic status. He writes from the perspective of the often forgotten person in the healthcare system, the patient. His descriptions are touching and poignant. His views insightful and prophetic – a great read for all.
– Barbara Ross-Lee, M.D., CEO, Academic Health Centers and President
of Faculty Practice Plan, New York Institute of Technology