Bøger af Suzette Haden Elgin

From Simon & Schuster, More on the Gentle Art of Verbal Self-Defense is Suzette Haden Elgin's guide to disarm verbal attacks at work, at home, and in-between.Designed to help you defend yourself in any verbal context, More on the Gentle Art of Verbal Self-Defense is your road map to becoming the cool, calm, and collected communicator you want to be.

In this feminist science fiction classic, a secret language created by women holds the power to overthrow an oppressive ruling order.

In the sequel to the feminist classic Native Tongue, a covert female agent is sent to infiltrate the resistance.

A feminist classic of science fiction comes to the Masterwork list - praised by Ursulua Le Guin, this is a cult novel due to be rediscovered.

As bestselling author Suzette Haden Elgin proves, you don't have to live your life on red alert. With her Gentle Art of Verbal Self-Defense techniques, you'll be able to respond clearly to hostile comments from others--or deliver necessary negative messages of your own--without sacrificing your dignity or principles.

Based on her proven techniques, Suzette Haden Elgin gives parents, teachers, youth workers, law enforcement personnel, and anyone who needs to talk effectively with children a system of language behaviour that makes the task of communication easier and more effective.

You can't say that to me! "Can't you do anything right?" "I can't believe you would feed that junk to your child!" "What is this? And don't tell me it's a casserole, I already know that. " "If you really cared about me, you wouldn't behave this way.