Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life

A PuddleDancer Press Book

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Author: Marshall B. Rosenberg, PhD

Editor: Lucy Leu

Copyeditor: Kyra Freestar

Project director: Jeanne Iler

Cover and interior design: Lightbourne (www.lightbourne.com)

Phyllis Linn, INDEXPRESS and Kathleen Strattan, EDITORIAL SUPPORT SERVICES

Manufactured in the United States of America

3rd Edition, 1st Printing, September 2015

10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1

ISBN: 978-1-892005-28-1

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Rosenberg, Marshall B.

Nonviolent communication : a language of life / Marshall B. Rosenberg, PhD. — 3rd edition.

pages cm

ISBN 978-1-892005-28-1 (trade paper : alk. paper)

1. Interpersonal communication. 2. Interpersonal relations. 3. Nonviolence. I. Title.

BF637.C45R645 2015

153.6—dc23

2015011660