High conflict : why we get trapped and how we get out / Amanda Ripley.
By: Ripley, Amanda [author.]
Language: English Publisher: New York : Simon & Schuster, [2021]Copyright date: © 2021Edition: First Simon & Schuster hardcover editionDescription: xiv, 352 pages : illustrations ; 22 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781982128579Subject(s): Social conflict | Interpersonal conflict | Conflict managementDDC classification: 303.6 LOC classification: HM1121 | .R57 2021| Item type | Current location | Home library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Amanda Ripley received a B.A. in government from Cornell University in 1996. She is a journalist whose stories on human behavior and public policy have appeared in Time, The Atlantic, and Slate and helped Time win two National Magazine Awards. She is the author of The Unthinkable: Who Survives When Disaster Strikes - and Why, which was turned into a PBS documentary, and The Smartest Kids in the World - and How They Got That Way. She is currently an Emerson Fellow at the New America Foundation.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Part I. into conflict
the understory of conflict
the power of the binary
the fire starters
part II. out of conflict. buying time
making space
reverse engineering
complicating the narrative
appendix I: how to recognize high conflict in the world
appendix II: how to recognize high conflict in yourself
appendix III: how to prevent high conflict
"In the tradition of bestselling explainers like The Tipping Point, the first popular book based on cutting edge science that breaks down the idea of extreme conflict, the kind that paralyzes people and places, and then shows how to escape it"-- Provided by publisher.
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