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LAP Lending LibraryTitles in Alphabetical Order with DescriptionIndex: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z A
This book offers ways to help the bereaved survivor begin the sometimes long and painful road of working through your grief. A Guide to Setting Up and Running Your Law Office (OR State Bar) Information on getting a new office started, screening clients, conflicts of interest, calendaring, time management, and practicing contract law. A Special Calling: My Life in Addiction Treatment and Care This is the biography of Dr. Bell, who opened a treatment for addictions clinic near Toronto when such treatment was virtually unknown in Canada. After the Tears This guide is for individuals affected by parental alcoholism and dysfunction who want grief resolution. Alcoholics Anonymous The story of how Alcohol Anonymous works for thousands of men and women. Another Country: Navigating the Emotional Terrain of our Elders The author cared for her dying mother for a "horrid," guilt-filled year while this book was being written and says that she wanted "to help others in my situation feel less alone." She also aims to help each generation understand the other. Around the Corporate Campfire: How Great Leaders Use Stories To Inspire Success Discover why Nike employees owe their careers to a track coach and a waffle iron, Costco buyers are inspired by Calvin Klein jeans, and workers at Armstrong International are inspired by their CEO's $248,000 round of golf. The leaders of these companies know storytelling is the most effective way to communicate values, celebrate heroes, and keep everyone focused on the mission. Ask the Headhunter: reinventing the interview to win the job This book provides effective methodology and techniques to help people locate jobs that are right for them and win job offers. BBeyond Codependency Melody Beattie's provides tools for individuals to free themselves from the ingrained attitudes and patterns that keep them from making the most of their lives. In Beyond Codependency, Beattie maps out the steps necessary to begin living authentically. CCame To Believe A compilation of short reflections of peoples' spiritual experiences in recovery. They range from the "bolt of lightening" to the slow emergence of everyday spirituality. Clarence Darrow, The Journeyman Clarence Darrow left all attorneys some important lessons about living and practicing law in a way that rejects the "hand me down" notions about what the life of a lawyer should look like. Close to the Bone Dr. Jean Shinoda Bolen explores what it means when serious illness brings one "close to the bone": close to the soul's needs. Closing Doors, Opening Worlds Millions of people experience mid-life crisis, job changes, unemployment, and retirement every year. This book is for any adult who wants to thrive and grow through each of these changes…and beyond. The Counselors-At-Law: A Collaborative Approach to Client Interviewing and Counseling This book contains a discussion of legal interviewing and counseling, as well as the different recognized approaches to these two most common and important lawyer tasks. Crazy Time: Surviving Divorce and Building A New Life The author charts the emotional journey, identifying the common phases in the evolution from marriage to separation to divorce, and eventually to a new life. She offers individuals a better understanding of their own experience and the message that they are not alone in their pain and confusion. D
Written by the nation's leading professional expert on sexual addiction, this landmark book helps us better understand all addictions and the difficult path to recovery. Drawing on the Artist from Within Betty Edwards has decoded the secrets of the creative process to help you tap your full creative potential and apply that power to everyday problems. How? Through the power of drawing -- power you can harness to see problems in new ways. Drinking Problem? Guidance for any person who has any concern about his own or someone else's drinking. Case histories and sound information help the reader determine if choice or compulsion directs his drinking. Drinking, A Love Story In this extraordinarily candid and revealing memoir, Knapp offers important insights not only about alcoholism, but about life itself and how we learn to cope with it. EEmployment Power: Take Control of Your Career This guide is a distillation of the author's in-person career counseling. It also contains some helpful advice about how and why career stress causes relationship stress. Empowerment and Leadership: Tried and True Methods for Women Lawyers This book is a hands-on guidebook from women who have scaled the barriers of leadership and have the scars to prove it. The Environmental Law Handbook (OR State Bar) This is a malpractice avoidance guide for Oregon lawyers. Essential Lawyering Skills The traditional study of interviewing, counseling, and negotiation is discussed along with the vital area of fact analysis in order to give the readers a deeper and more solid foundation of those subjects. Essentials of Starting, Surviving & Successfully Managing Your Solo or Small Firm Practice This WSBA CLE course book contains information on supporting yourself and your solo practice, planning the layout of the law office, taxation and professional liability insurance. F
Based on a course taught at the New School for Social Research, this book offers readers a clear-cut plan for action that, when followed, should help them unlearn their misconceptions about of fear and replace them with attitudes of strength and conviction. Fees/Billing/Ethics: A New RX For an Ailing Profession Information on alternative billing methods and how to change, grow, and prosper using these methods. Filling the Void The author exposes the underlying dynamic which produces that terrible 'void' after a loss, whether that be the loss of a job, a marriage, or a loved one, and offers a prescription for comfort and fulfillment. Fifty Things to Do With the Rest of Your Life Are you doing things with your life from month to month, year to year, that you truly want to do? Or are your schedule and resources hopelessly ruled by zestless tasks, impromptu and frivolous decisions, lethargy, and the demands other people impose on you? The author believes the key to taking control of your future is planning. Fighting for Your Marriage This book offers strategies for couples on how to handle conflict more constructively, protect their happiness, and reduce the odds of breaking up. The Flying Boy This story is about one man's journey out of co-dependent and addictive relationships. This is a book for all men and women who grew up in dysfunctional families and are now ready for some fresh insights into their past and their pain. Flying Solo: A Survival Guide for the Solo Lawyer (2nd Ed.) Information is presented on establishing your office and practicing as a solo lawyer. For Parents and Teenagers: Dissolving the Barrier between You and Your Teen Dr. Glasser spells out the seven deadly habits parents practice, and then shows them how to accomplish goals by changing their own behavior. G
This self-help manual is for battered woman struggling with the decision to leave or stay in a relationship. The author discusses new and traditional values, getting help to make the decision, and how to survive once the decision has been made. Giving Sorrow Words The founder of MADD (Mothers Against Drunk Driving), who lost her thirteen-year-old daughter to a drunk driver, shares her own and others' stories in a unique and sensitive approach to a subject that everyone must face at least once in a lifetime. HHealing the Child Within Whitfield's book is a road map you can follow from discovery to recovery, helping you create the gift of personal freedom in your life. Healing the Shame That Binds You The author shows us how toxic shame is the core problem in our compulsions, co-dependencies, addictions and the drive to super-achieve. Highlights of the Proposed Rules of Professional Conduct Written by the WSBA's Professional Responsibility Counsel, Chris Sutton, this booklet provides commentary on the RPC's. How To Start & Build A Law Practice (3rd Ed.) A basic text for opening a new law practice, each chapter deals with a specific problem you will undoubtedly encounter when you open your law office. How to Understand and Overcome Depression From time to time, we all experience depression that makes our live joyless and spiritually empty. This book focuses on the psychological cause and the spiritual answer of what prayer can do to help. Humor Your Stress (Video) Loretta LaRoche, a nationally recognized speaker on stress management, makes cognitive therapy both accessible and fun. She discusses the Simplicity Movement and gives eight ways to "lightening our ways." I
A source book that reveals how you can find a richly rewarding career rooted in your heart's desire. In Search of Atticus Finch: A Motivational Book for Lawyers The way that Harper Lee's fictional character lived demonstrates qualities that are still relevant for lawyers today: excellence in conduct and purpose. Interview Power (Video) A nationally recognized author and speaker on career topics teaches the viewer how to prepare for successful interviews and how to answer difficult questions through easy to understand demonstrations. It Will Never Happen To Me! Survival techniques practiced as children and adolescents cause problems in adulthood. This book shares some of the experiences of children of alcoholics, explains the process of what happens and what can be done to both prevent and handle these problems. It's Never Too Late To Have a Happy Childhood Written by the founder of the Adult Children of Alcoholics (ACOA) movement, this is an inspiring collection of healing messages that offer comfort and encouragement, serenity and hope, to anyone who has survived a painful childhood. It's Only Too Late If You Don't Start Now Author Barbara Sher helps readers reclaim their creativity, recapture long-lost dreams, and embark on an exciting new life! JJob Interviews for Dummies This reference guide helps to prepare for the interviewing process. LLaw Partnership: Its Rights and Responsibilities This volume describes the rights and duties of partners in law firms. Lawyers as Counselors: A Client-Centered Approach The client-centered approach is an attitude of looking at problems from clients' perspectives, of seeing problems' diverse natures, and of making clients true partners in the resolution of their problems. Let Your Life Speak Vocation does not come from willfulness, no matter how noble one's intentions. It comes from listening and accepting "true self" with its limits as well as its potentials. Author Parker Palmer begins an insightful and moving meditation on finding one's true calling. The Lawyers Guide to Retirement, 2nd and 3rd editions This guide offers information on saving, investing, and planning for your retirement. Living on the Edge This guide to intervention is for families with drug and alcohol problems. Living Sober Medical experts on alcoholism assure us that any drinking at all leads to trouble for the alcoholic or problem drinker, so not drinking at all becomes the basis for recovery from alcoholism. This book shows how living sober can become much more exciting than our drinking days. Living with Grief: When Illness is Prolonged Produced as a companion to the Hospice Foundation of America's fourth annual national bereavement teleconference, this book was created to assist in coping with the process of death, grief, and bereavement. Lost in the Shuffle This book is written for those who seek to find themselves and break free of their troubled past and their present addiction to the rules the co-dependent lives by. MMaking Contact Learn to live with your feelings, to be the person you are deep inside. Making Work Work For You Lawyers and judges from different areas of practice who have managed to retain their enjoyment of the legal profession discuss their approaches to enhancing their work. Managing Clients Trust Accounts: Rules, Regulations, and Common Sense A booklet prepared by the Washington State Bar Association as a guide in dealing with trust accounting questions. Marriage on the Rocks: Learning to Live with Yourself and an Alcoholic Written for those who live with alcoholic spouses and hope to leave the maze of hopelessness and despair into full, rich, and happy lives. Menopause, Naturally This book contains facts and information about preparing for and dealing with menopause. The Middle Passage: From Misery to Meaning in Midlife Author James Hollis's eloquent reading provides the listener with an accessible and yet profound understanding of a universal condition—or what is commonly referred to as the Mid-life crisis. Mission Possible: Creating a Mission Statement for Work and Life Mission Possible is an inspirational yet practical new book that introduces a unique process for creating a mission for work and life. It is organized into five easy steps by which the reader creates a personal and professional vision statement, a vessel, a mission statement, goals and an action plan. Mr. Gish, May I go to the bathroom? The first year anxieties and exhilaration of a freshman teacher are described. My Money, Myself This book helps you to explore your relationship with money so that you can deal with money more effectively in your personal and business relationships. The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari Written as a fable, this story contains a series of lessons for life improvement that fuses the spiritual wisdom of the east with the success principles of the West. NThe 1994 What Color is Your Parachute? A career-planning and job-hunting guide that helps individuals define and embark on a new career. Nonlegal Careers for Lawyers Part of a series designed by the ABA, this book offers realistic first-hand accounts and guidance on setting and obtaining certain career goals. Nonprofit Community Resource Directory for Washington State Contact information for non-profit organizations in Washington State. The Noonday Demon The author examines depression in personal, cultural, and scientific terms. Not-God: A History of Alcoholics Anonymous This book is an authoritative account of the discovery and development of the program and fellowship that we know today as Alcoholics Anonymous. OThe 110 Biggest Mistakes Job Hunters Make This valuable resource book catalogues common pitfalls in an effort to educate those seeking employment about the harsh realities of the search process itself. P
This guide to recovery describes the six stages of recovery from chemical dependency and offers sound advice for working through the challenges of each stage. Positive Parenting with a Plan The author provides instruction to parents to change their home from a place of chaos and rebellion to one of wholeness and peace. Power Networking Many applications of networking are described, from job searches to increased productivity in any field. You'll learn to write effective introductory and follow-up letter, maintain relationships over time, catalog your contacts, and network via the Internet. RThe Relationship Cure This book shows how the simplest, nearly invisible gestures of care and attention hold the key to successful relationships with those we love and work with The Resume Doctor For people with a work history that could land them in hot water, composing a strong resume is essential. Marcus demonstrates resume-writing methods that will smooth over those rough areas of employment history. Resumes in Cyberspace This book's goal is to give you the skills you need to add an electronic dimension to your resume and to help you step boldly into the computerized world of today's new job search. The Road Less Traveled Drawing upon his own professional experience, the author suggests ways to confront and resolve problems, reaching a higher understanding of oneself. Rogue Nation The author explores the historical roots of our country's unilateral impulse and shows how it now influences every important area of American Foreign Policy Running from the Law This book features interviews with successful practitioners who have left the law to find greater personal and financial rewards. It offers a unique and candid examination of the legal field today, and gives career tips and support options for lawyers who are ready to get out. SSame House Different Homes This book gives the results of a study of more than 1,000 adult children of alcoholics, describing their differences and giving hope for an optimistic future. Silencing theSelf: Women and Depression The author offers insights into the roots of female depression that draw on a new understanding of the importance of relationships in women's lives. The Self-Sabotage Syndrome The author, who specializes in working with dysfunctional families and individuals, discusses how the Adult Children of Alcoholics often suffer from work-related problems and how to make worklife more satisfying and effective. The Soloist The difficulties encountered by "gifted and talented" children are dispassionately chronicled in this unusual story about a musical prodigy who as an adult must come to terms with his own mediocrity. The Soul of the Law The professional habits of lawyers can isolate them, driving them to drink or even to suicide. An ex-lawyer turned psychologist, Sells knows the mentality that brings distressed barristers into his office. The Staying Sober Workbook Based upon the CENAPS Model of treatment, this workbook presents a method for relapse prevention. Stress Management for Lawyers Such stressors as time pressures, competition and conflict can rob you of a satisfying career and a fulfilling personal life. However, you don't have to suffer in silence. You can take action! Stress Map This book is a measurement tool that integrates all major stress research to give you a revealing self-portrait of the state of your stress health. Struggle for Intimacy The author discusses the struggle for intimacy by adult children of alcoholics. TTaming Your Gremlin The author discusses his method for gaining freedom from self-defeating behaviors and beliefs. The 12 Steps: A Way Out The twelve step program is utilized as a tool for those seeking to identify and resolve painful issues from their childhoods. The Dance of Intimacy: A Woman's Guide to Courageous Acts of Change in Key Relationships This book takes a careful look at relationships where intimacy is most challenged, be it with a husband, family member, lover, or best friend. It shows us specific changes to make to achieve a more solid sense of self and a more intimate connection with others. Whatever your definition of intimacy, The Dance of Intimacy will challenge and enlarge it. The Theft of the Spirit His insightful approach to using ritual along with "Western Medicine," helps us explore ourselves, our lives and our place in the world. The Thinking Person's Guide to Sobriety Written by an accomplished civil trial attorney, Bert Pluyman hopes to reach intelligent and confident men and women who are playing at the edge of an abyss. There is no space between us An introduction to the work of Stephen R. Schwartz, a spiritualist who teaches that God is in everything we see. Through the Client's Eyes New approaches to get clients to hire you again and again are presented in this book. Transitions In a recent survey, people were asked to list the most disturbing and disruptive things in their lives, and rank them according to difficulty to handle. It was seen that the highest proportion of difficulties involved transitions in people lives -- moving, new jobs, divorce, marriage, new child, death, etc. The book is divided into two broad topics: The Need for Change and The Transition Process. Turning Points A variety of strategies are presented to help the reader prepare for and protect his or her future. Chapters cover investing for retirement, getting the most out of social security, and practical advice on tax and estate planning. 12 Hours to a Great Marriage This book offers effective strategies to help couples develop and protect their love, easily and at their own pace. UUnhappy Teenagers: A Way for Parents and Teachers To Reach Them This book presents a powerful approach for helping troubled teens. He asks parents to reject the "common sense" that tells them to "lay down the law" by grounding teens and instead offers new strategies based upon Choice theory. WWelcome to Reality: A New Lawyer's Guide to Success A book about the things not taught in law school that will face the new lawyer in his first few years of legal practice. What Can You Do With a Law Degree? This lawyer's guide describes different career alternatives inside, outside, and around the law. Whether you're a veteran practitioner or a new grad, this expanded third edition challenges its readers and helps them to discover their widest career options. What We May Be A practical guide for enhancing the process of psychological and spiritual growth, this book introduces the reader to psychosynthesis which is both a psychology of self-actualization and a philosophy in the art of living. Wherever You Go, There You Are This clear and practical guide helps readers learn and love meditation. Who Gets Sick This is a revised, expanded edition of the 1988 classic that won a prestigious Ben Franklin Award for the best book on health. It was one of the first to give the public an understanding of how beliefs and attitudes affect the body. Why Women Earn Less A practical, step by step guide for underearning women who are ready to turn their lives around. It demystifies the process of underearning, explores its underlying psychological and emotional issues, and offers practical advice and strategies to help overcome it. Why Zebras don't get Ulcers This book is a primer about stress, stress-related disease, and the mechanisms of coping with stress. Wishcraft: How to Get What You Really Want The author offers effective strategies for making real change in your life. Women Lawyers On the basis of more than one hundred interviews with women in the law, the author pinpoints the key factors holding women back in a profession still dominated by males. Women-At-Law The author interviewed over 100 women lawyers of all ages, backgrounds, and lifestyles in a wide variety of practice settings to discover how women today are meeting the challenges of competing in an often all-consuming profession without sacrificing their desire for a multi-dimensional life. Work + Life: Finding the Fit That's Right For You This book will show you why and how anyone can have more flexibility. And it will inspire you to live life the way you want to live it. YYou Just Don't Understand Acclaimed sociolinguist Deborah Tannen uses telling examples ranging from real life to literary realism, as she stunningly demonstrates how--even in the closest relationships--women and men live in "different worlds." You've Earned It, Don't Lose It Suzie Orman gives readers eight vital areas to look at in order to protect the money they've earned and saved. |