Being Genuine
Stop Being Nice, Start Being Real
©2007 PuddleDancer Press
A PuddleDancer Press Book

Originally published in French by Les Editions de L’Homme
©2001, Les Editions de L’Homme
une division du groupe Sogides

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Author: Thomas d’Ansembourg
Translated by: Godfrey Spencer
Editor: Dan Shenk, CopyProof, ShenkCopyProof@aol.com
Index: Phyllis Linn, Indexpress

Manufactured in the United States of America

1st Printing, May 2007
2nd Printing, December 2008
3rd Printing, March 2010

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ISBN: 978-1-892005-21-2

Publisher’s Cataloging-in-Publication
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D’Ansembourg, Thomas.

Being genuine: stop being nice, start being real / Thomas d’Ansembourg.

   p. cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 1-892005-21-2

ISBN 978-1-892005-21-2

   1. Interpersonal communication. 2. Nonviolence.

I. Title.

BF637.C45D36 2007         158.2
                                    QBI07-600002