The definition of Ritual (adj.) is an action when it is done in exactly the same way...makes that person feel good. Trainer, Joel Silverman translates this to animal behavior and teaches that you can build on a dog's natural behavior.Understanding your dog's rituals gives dog owners the advantage of understanding your dog - particularly because each dog has its own natural behavior. Rituals emphasizes the importance of taking the time to recognize your dog's need ...

More What Color is Your Dog? picks up where the first book left off. Learn proven techniques to work with each personality of dog, as defined through Joel Silverman’s brilliant dog personality color descriptions. Using a series of easy-to-follow phases with a focus on each individual sequence, Joel Silverman is able to break down a dog’s behavior into understandable steps that dog owners can use with their own pets.

The old rules don't always apply to adopted dogs, whose training and past behaviors may be a complete mystery. In Joel Silverman's Training Rescued Dogs, the author acknowledges the special needs of these dogs and covers the training methods that really work for rescue dogs that hail from animal shelters, breed rescue programs, and humane societies.Joel's training method includes information on:• Where to adopt• Guidelines for adoption success• Housebreaking and...

This exciting dog training book is based on the original techniques of Hollywood dog trainer and Animal Planet's Good Dog U host, Joel Silverman. In What Color Is Your Dog? Silverman presents his groundbreaking color-coding technique, developed over his thirty-year career training dogs for film, television, and commercials as well as working with killer whales in Sea World. By determining what color is an owner's dog, he is able to recognize and then enhance his dog's behavior, following t...

College can be unpredictable, even messy. In Real College, students get realistic tools for navigating college with reflection and intention, as well as a clear-eyed look at the challenges, growth, and surprises that make the journey worth it.Real College is a practical, honest guide to first-year college success—one that never strays from the real lives of today’s students. It covers all the essentials: adjusting from high school, managing time and money, buildin...

Born to a Jewish immigrant shopkeeper in a small Alabama town, Morris Ernst used aggressive self-promotion and exaggeration—what he called “exhibitionism”—to transcend his insecurities and his part-time legal training to become one of America’s most famous lawyers. During the first half of the twentieth century, Ernst championed free speech, sexual education, birth control, and reproductive health, and his landmark defense of James Joyce’s Ulysses in 1933 cemented Ernst’s reputation as the...

: Understanding your dog's rituals gives dog owners the advantage of understanding your dog - particularly because each dog has its own natural behavior. Rituals emphasizes the importance of taking the time to recognize your dog's need for "the game." Joel Silverman demonstrates how the natural behavior a dog plays out now has the ability to escalate over time. The escalation of the behavior can both be a good thing or a bad thing. Either way, that behavior becomes a Ritual.

The bestselling author of Anatomy of Misfit and The Fall of Butterflies,Andrea Portes, is back with another irresistible snarky heroine in Liberty.What is a hero? Paige Nolan knows. Edward Raynes, the young man who exposed America’s unconstitutional spying techniques, is a hero, even if half the dum-dums in the country think he’s a traitor. Or Paige's parents, journalists who were captured by terrorists while telling stories of the endangered and oppresse...

So much of recovery from codependence has to do with figuring out where we stop and another person begins. Growing up in an alcoholic or dysfunctional family often prevents us from creating healthy physical, emotional, intellectual, and spiritual boundaries. This pamphlet offers meaningful insight on how to build healthy boundaries.So much of recovery from codependence has to do with figuring out where we stop and another person begins. Growing up in an alcoholic o...

"This is a must-read for every family that yearns to create peace and harmony.”--Shefali Tsabary, Ph.D., New York Times bestselling author of The Conscious ParentTired of yelling and nagging? True family connection is possible--and this essential guide shows us how.Popular parenting blogger Rebecca Eanes believes that parenting advice should be about more than just getting kids to behave. Struggling to maintain a meaningful connecti...

Control issues are common among those of us who are chemically dependent. This pamphlet provides constructive methods to let go of self-defeating behaviors.Control issues are common among those of us who are chemically dependent. This pamphlet provides constructive methods to let go of self-defeating behaviors.

Stop the Chaos is a practical guide that identifies the telltale signs of addiction, offers suggestions for living alcohol- or drug-free, and teaches the skills necessary for healthy livingStop the Chaos, a comprehensive, practical guide, identifies the telltale signs of addiction, offers suggestions for living alcohol-or drug-free, and teaches the skills neccessary for healthy thinking and living.