Communication Hard

Surrounded by incompetence? Feeling like you’re trapped in a never-ending meeting with clueless coworkers? Welcome to the survival guide you didn’t know you desperately needed. For anyone navigating today’s chaotic workplace filled with baffling decisions, endless meetings, and maddening mediocrity, How to Work with Stupid People offers a practical, witty, and research-backed blueprint to protect your sanity — and your career. Drawing on 30 years of experience inside corporate madhouses, JS Paxton unpacks the psychology of irrational behavior and gives you tactical strategies to ...

Ben Horowitz, cofounder of Andreessen Horowitz and one of Silicon Valley's most respected and experienced entrepreneurs, offers essential advice on building and running a startup—practical wisdom for managing the toughest problems business school doesn’t cover, based on his popular ben’s...

THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES AND USA TODAY BESTSELLER Oprah Daily Best Self-Help Books for Personal Growth in 2025 – New York Post Best of the Month The beloved relationship coach, teacher, and host of the top relationship podcast Jillian on Love reveals nine core truths about love and...

An essential guide to recognizing negative relationship patterns, embracing healthy love and attachments, and how to co-create a corrective new love experience, from bestselling author and therapist John Kim What are the markers of a healthy relationship? How do you know if you are in love? When...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Discover the keys to upholding your vows while staying sane in this hilariously candid guide to relationships, from the husband-and-wife team of comedian Kevin Fredericks and influencer Melissa Fredericks FINALIST FOR THE NAACP IMAGE AWARD “Kev and Melissa...

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ONE MILLION COPIES SOLD! The ultimate guide to making changes and following through, from the authors of Made to Stick and Decisive—hailed as “witty and instructive” (The Wall Street Journal), “packed with examples and hands-on tools that will get you...

Mikael Krogerus and Roman Tschäppeler have tested the forty-four most important communication theories and distilled them in book form....

Future-proof your career and maximize your competitive advantage by learning the skill necessary to stay relevant, reinvent yourself, and adapt to whatever the workplace throws your way in this essential guide that goes beyond the insights of popular works such as Extreme Productivity, Deep Work...

#1 national bestselling author of Don’t Sweat the Small Stuff is back with a fresh, innovative book that offers simple, practical advice that has the power to transform lives All of us are looking for practical ways to take control of our lives, whether in our personal relationships, our...

The bestselling author of Alienated America traveled the country asking families and experts the same two questions: Why is parenting so hard now? And why are the results so bad? Our culture tells parents there's one best way to raise kids: enroll them in a dozen activities, protect them from...

Pat Summitt, the all-time winningest coach in NCAA basketball history and bestselling author of Reach for the Summitt and Raise The Roof, tells for the first time her remarkable story of victory and resilience as well as facing down her greatest challenge: early-onset Alzheimer's disease. Pat...

Stop barking, pulling, and chaos — discover the 10 secrets dog trainers rely on every day. Award-winning service dog trainer Kendall Brown has spent over 13 years raising and training dogs that must be calm, focused, and reliable in every situation. In 10 Secrets of a Lazy Dog Trainer, she reveals the exact shortcuts professionals use to turn chaos into calm — without endless drills, expensive classes, or confusing jargon. Inside, you’ll learn how to: Understand how your dog thinks, feels, and makes decisions Discover your own Dog Parent Type and how it shapes your training style ...

"Narrators Daniel Thomas May and Caitlin Davies breathe life into the large cast of Burke's debut science fiction...both excel at utilizing accents, inflections, and personality traits to quickly build characterizations. The unusual cadence and inflections used for the aliens work to captivating...

Master your emotional reactions to stop feeling hijacked by conflict and build profound empathy in every relationship. Whether you are navigating workplace tension, arguments that spiral out of control at home, or the lingering silent distance with a partner, you can train your mind to respond...

A literary descendent of Ursula K. Le Guin, Ruthanna Emrys crafts a novel of extraterrestrial diplomacy and urgent climate repair bursting with quiet, tenuous hope and an underlying warmth. A Half-Built Garden depicts a world worth building towards, a humanity worth saving from itself, and an...

This guidebook is your best bet for guiding you through the entire process of improving your social skills.

Managing conflict is a core capability for today's leaders. In this book, Mark Rosenberg draws on his extensive experience as an executive coach and mediator to provide leaders with insights and practical tools to improve communication and master hard conversations. Mastering Hard Conversations provides a proven, practical, structured approach to help you become a better leader by improving your communication and conflict management skills.

An empowering, healing guide that reveals the true cost of avoidant behavior in a relationship—disconnection, disengagement, and divorce—and shows how we can instead learn to speak up and start connecting with the ones we love most. “I wish I had spoken up sooner." People think...

Owen Hale is the only one who survived the crash. His crew, his ship, his only way of calling home, all of it is gone, twenty light-years from anyone who might come looking. So he does what he was trained to do. He works the problem. Air. Water. Power. A desperate, long-shot launch built from a piece of hardware never designed to carry anything heavier than a soil sample. When it fails, and the math runs out, and the silence on this planet starts to feel like it's never going to break, Owen has nothing left to try. He's alone out here. Genuinely, completely alone, with nothing but the ...

The definitive guide to creating the sex life of your wildest dreams—just by talking about it!—from sexpert couple Vanessa and Xander Marin. INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER AARP.org Books to Improve Your Love Life Why is it so hard to talk about sex, even with the person who regularly sees...