Most Popular Books by Richard Nelson

In Nikolai and the Others Richard Nelson imagines the relationships between Balanchine and Stravinsky, their friends, lovers, wives and ex-wives, supporters, and dancers (including Maria Tallchief and Nicholas Magallanes), at the time of their historic collaboration on the ballet Orpheus. Later that year, Orpheus would be the spectacular inaugural production of the newly formed New York City Ballet. The play also explores the controversial ways American art and artistic institutions were funded at the outset of the Cold War--including the subtle hand of the State Department in the post-war cultural scene.

This year''s edition faces squarely the "workquake" that is shaking up the jobmarket around the world and gives not only simple steps but also steady hope.48 pp.

Abstract: A concise guide helps job-seekers to identify job applications which closely fit their talents and desires. The text is organized into 3 preparative sections: identifying specific, enjoyable personal skills; identifying specific applications for these skills; and identifying the kind of job desired, and the organizations that have that type of job in the desired geographical location. The overall information is then synthesized into actual interviews with people having the authority to hire (not the personnel department). The design of the text is intended to serve as a map leading to specific interviews for the desired job, offering the greatest potential for hiring. Illustrations and exercises are given throughout the text. (wz).

A new edition of a highly regarded textbook that reviews the major theories of counselling and psychotherapy and explains their practical applications in working with individual clients.

In clear and concise language and drawings, these booklets describe the common species the reader is likely to come across in Southwestern terrain.

Explains how to identify personal goals and interests and reveals how to apply that information toward obtaining satisfying employment, with tips on interviews, salary-negotiation techniques, and career searching online.

This practical bestseller from leading expert Richard Nelson-Jones introduces the essential counselling skills for the helping professions. Now in its fourth edition, it guides you through the key skills for helping work across a range of settings, such as counselling, nursing, social work, youth work, education and many more. It explores 17 key counselling skills, including: -asking questions -monitoring -facilitating problem solving -negotiating homework Each chapter describes a particular skill, illustrates it using clear case examples across a range of settings and then helps you consolidate and practise what you′ve learned through a set of creative activities. Further chapters cover professional issues including a new chapter on managing crises and chapters on ethical dilemmas, supervision, working with diversity and more.

Cognitive Humanistic Therapy describes a new approach to psychotherapy and self-development, based on an understanding of what it means to be “fully human.” In a unique integration of theory and practice, the book synthesises ideas from the cognitive and humanistic domains of psychotherapy and the religious worlds of Buddhism and Christianity.

Here is Nelson''s luminously wise account of his exploration of an unnamed island in the Pacific Northwest. This book revises our own relationship with nature, allowing us to observe it and also to participate in it with reverence and a sense of wonder.

′Relate counsellors interested in extending their learning about cognitive therapy will find this manual a comprehensive guide′- Jan Hobbs, Relate News ′An easy-to-read, comprehensive text which provides a practical guide to skills for starting, maintaining and cultivating successful relationships, whether of opposite sexes or the same sex′ - The Australian Journal of Counselling Psychology Creating Happy Relationships is written in a comfortable non-academic style, using simple everyday English, and incorporates recent research and theory. In addition to many vignettes of partners creating and cultivating happiness there are plenty of practical activities for improving partner skills. This book is a major resource for prospective partners, couples, for marriage preparation and counselling courses, and human communication and relationship education courses in schools, colleges and universities.

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This sixth edition provides a step-by-step guide to using counselling and helping skills with confidence and proficiency. The author′s three-stage model of counselling - relating, understanding and changing - is designed to facilitate developing lifeskills in clients and to help them to change how they feel, think, communicate and act. It includes new chapters on ′Technology mediated counselling and helping′, with updated research and references throughout. Using practical activities and case examples, the book takes you beyond the basics to more advanced skills, making it an essential companion for all counselling skills courses. Richard Nelson-Jones has many years′ experience as a counsellor, trainer and psychotherapist. His books have helped train thousands of counsellors and helpers worldwide. He is a Fellow of the British and Australian Psychological Societies and of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy.

This has been the bestselling job-hunting book in the world for over three decades, and it continues to be the job-hunter''s bible--even in times of a strong, robust economy, when conventional wisdom says, "Job-hunting books don''t sell." This edition is revised and updated.

Outdoor Advertising looks at its practical side, the contractor, the agent, the designer, and the planning side, including site selection, as well as examining specific campaigns and how their audience have received them. This, then, is a book about outdoor advertising, its design and colourful presentation, its place in the advertising and marketing story.