by Roger Fisher and Daniel Shapiro. New York: Penguin Books, 2006.

Emotions matter. In Beyond Reason, you will discover how to use emotions to turn disagreements - big or small, personal or professional - into an opportunity for mutual gain.

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From The Boston Globe

September 11, 2008

By Daniel Shapiro

March 19, 2008

by Daniel Shapiro

A growing number of U.S. military commanders have come to recognize that stabilizing the insurgent and sectarian violence in Iraq necessitates dealing with population stability and civil support. As the army’s new operations manual itself states, “Winning battles and engagements is important, but alone is not sufficient. Shaping the civil situation is just as important to success.” Battles are one thing. But how do you “win” the hearts and minds of local Iraqis?

by Judith Herman. New York: Basic Books, 1997.

Herman draws on her own cutting-edge research in domestic violence as well as on the vast literature of combat veterans and victims of political terror, to show the parallels between private terrors such as rape and public traumas such as terrorism. The book puts individual experience in a broader political frame, arguing that psychological trauma can be understood only in a social context.

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by Robert Jay Lifton. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1993.

"We are becoming fluid and many-sided. Without quire realizing it, we have been evolving a sense of self appropriate to the restlessness and flux of our time. This mode of being differs radically from that of the past, and enables us to engage in continuous exploration and personal experiment..."

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