Present at the Creation: My Years in the State Department

5 best books like Present at the Creation: My Years in the State Department (Dean Acheson): The Hot Young Widows Club: Lessons on Survival from the Front Lines of Grief, The Little Duke, The Civility Solution: What to Do When People Are Rude, Uncommon Therapy: The Psychiatric Techniques of Milton H. Erickson, M.D., Their Finest Hour

The Hot Young Widows Club: Lessons on Survival from the Front Lines of Grief

Author

Nora McInerny Purmort

From the host of the popular podcast, Terrible, Thanks for Asking, comes a wise, humorous roadmap and caring resource for anyone going through the loss of a loved one—or even a difficult life moment.

In the span of a few weeks, thirty-something Nora McInerny had a miscarriage, lost her father...

The Little Duke

Author	Charlotte Mary Yonge
ISBN	1406955302

On a bright autumn day, as long ago as the year 943, there was a great bustle in the Castle of Bayeux in Normandy. The hall was large and low, the roof arched, and supported on thick short columns, almost like the crypt of a Cathedral; the walls were thick, and the windows, which had no glass, were very small,...

The Civility Solution: What to Do When People Are Rude

Author	P.M. Forni
ISBN	0312368496

Many of us find ourselves confronted with rudeness every day and don't know how to respond. From the intrusive cell-phone user who holds loud conversations in public to the hostile highway driver who cuts one off with a quick swerve of his car, politeness seems to be on a downward spiral, surprising us...

Uncommon Therapy: The Psychiatric Techniques of Milton H. Erickson, M.D.

Author	Jay Haley
ISBN	0393310310

This book provides a comprehensive look at Dr. Erickson's theories in practice, through a series of case studies covering the kinds of problems that are likely to occur at various stages of the human life cycle. The results Dr. Erickson achieves sometimes seem to border on the miraculous, but they are...

Their Finest Hour

Author	Winston S. Churchill
ISBN	0141441739

Winston Churchill's six-volume history of the cataclysm that swept the world remains the definitive history of the Second World War. Lucid, dramatic, remarkable both for its breadth and sweep and for its sense of personal involvement, it is universally acknowledged as a magnificent reconstruction...