An asshole, according to The Grownups' ABCs of Conflict Resolution, is not a person, but a behavior. It's also not just one person, but two. No one can be an asshole alone in his or her room. An "asshole" is therefore a relationship in crisis.

The Grownups' ABCs of Conflict Resolution is a primer on the ways in which disputes develop and can be resolved. 

Within the book’s pages, you’ll learn:

• How to deepen and maintain your friendships when conflict threatens to disrupt them
• How to deal with bullies of all sorts
• Why it takes courage to face and resolve conflict
• How disputes arise out of contests over scarce resources or conflicting values
  
• How to make peace across religious, national, racial and political divides
• Why we and our fellows are sometimes kind and cooperative and at others malicious and combative
• ... and more!
  

The ABCs is an illustrated guide with each letter of the alphabet standing for a particular type of difficult person with whom we all must deal at one time or another, even when that difficult person is oneself.