Ortego, Alicia
Summary: Kindness is something anyone can learn: Give to others and ask nothing in return. Helping others is simply the best thing to do. When you are kind, kindness comes back to you.
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Publisher / Publication Date: [Alicia Ortego] 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE ORTAlber, Diane
Summary: The world could use a little more empathy and this little SPOT is showing how easy it is to see things from another person's perspective and show kindness!
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Publisher / Publication Date: Diane Albert Art LLC 2021
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Summary: In the US, political developments in the 21st century have shown that deep racial divides remain. The persistence of inequality indicates the stubborn resilience of the institutions that maintain white supremacy. Givens calls for 'radical empathy' : moving beyond an understanding of others' lives and pain to understand the origins of our biases, including internalized oppression. She offers...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Policy Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.896 GIVDaniels, Ezra Claytan
Summary: "Why do some of us feel more empathy for neglected dogs than black victims of police brutality? How can someone claim to cherish the sanctity of life while excusing child deaths at border detention centers as collateral damage? Are You at Risk for Empathy Myopia considers the idea that we subconsciously force our experiences into moral narratives to satisfy an evolutionary desire for order. But...
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Publisher / Publication Date: [Independent/Ezra Claytan Daniels] 2019
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 DANNorthrup, Christiane
Summary: "Highly sensitive people--or empaths--see life through the eyes of compassion and caring. They were born that way. As a result, they carry a tremendous amount of inner light. But they're also the favored prey of "vampires" who feed off empaths' energy and disrupt their lives on every level--physical, emotional, and financial. In Dodging Energy Vampires, Christiane Northrup, M.D., draws on the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hay House 2018
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Summary: Learning to Be Kind and Understand Differences is a practical guide that aims to teach kids with AD/HD how to better get along with their peers, understand what they are feeling, and learn to recognize and talk about the feelings of other people. Includes interactive activities, a "Message to Readers," and "Resources for Parents, Teachers, and Counselors."
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Publisher / Publication Date: Magination Press 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 616.8 GLAMiller, Verity
Summary: "There are billions of people in this world, and while we're all human beings, most of us are pretty different from each other! Sometimes it can be hard to understand why other people feel the way they do and why they look at situations in a different way. Empathy is understanding and sharing how other people feel, even when they're different from you. In this guide, readers will find more...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rosen Publishing 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 152.4 MILEyre, Linda.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 1995
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 649.7 EYRKrznaric, Roman
Summary: "This book is a call to save ourselves and our planet by targeting the root of our inaction: extreme short-sightedness. It outlines six practical ways we can retrain our brains to save our future and create a "time rebellion"-shifting our allegiance from our generation only to all humanity, present and future."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Experiment 2020
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Summary: What happens when one child chooses kindness to start the day? It starts a chain reaction! Watch kindness (empathy) ripple through the community... Spreading happiness like sunshine, connecting diverse groups like a footbridge, and lifting hope like a kite string. How can you lift others with kindness?
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cardinal Rule Press 2020
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE SCHWaal, F. B. M. de (Frans B. M.)
Summary: Primatologist Frans de Waal examines how empathy comes naturally to a great variety of animals, including humans.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tantor Audio 2009
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Summary: From an internationally renowned authority on primatology and psychology comes a fascinating investigation of empathy in both humans and animals.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harmony Books 2009
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Summary: "Bestselling author Michele Borba offers a 9-step program to help parents cultivate empathy in children, from birth to young adulthood--and explains why developing a healthy sense of empathy is a key predictor of which kids will thrive and succeed in thefuture. In our hyper-connected, social-media-saturated society, many of us (especially young people) are so obsessed with snapping "selfies"...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Touchstone 2016
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Ginott, Haim G.
Summary: Offers advice to a current generation of parents on how to develop empathetic yet disciplined child rearing skills that place an emphasis on good communication and avoid negative reinforcements.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Three Rivers Press 2003
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Summary: "The author of the international bestseller Happiness makes a passionate case for altruism--and why we need it now more than ever,"--Amazon.com.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 170 RICPatnaik, Dev
Contents: Introduction -- The map is not the territory -- The way things used to be -- The power of affinity -- Walking in someone else's shoes -- Empathy that lasts -- Open all the windows -- Reframe how you see the world -- We are them and they are us -- The golden rule -- The hidden payoff.
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Publisher / Publication Date: FT Press 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 658.8 PATPorges, Marisa
Summary: ""A powerful book about how we can raise girls to become bold, ambitious women." --Adam Grant A former White House strategist and fighter jet pilot now at the helm of one of the premier schools for girls in the country illuminates the ways parents and educators can support audacity and ambition in girls everywhere What do girls really need to succeed? As a student at the all-girls Baldwin...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2020
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 305.2308 PORSzalavitz, Maia.
Summary: In a book on empathy, a renowned psychiatrist explores the trait's startling importance in human evolution and its significance for children and for society.
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 649.1 SZATurkle, Sherry
Summary: "MIT psychologist and bestselling author of RECLAIMING CONVERSATION and ALONE TOGETHER, Sherry Turkle's intimate memoir of love and work In this vivid and poignant narrative, Sherry Turkle ties together her coming-of-age story and her groundbreaking research on technology, empathy, and ethics. Growing up in post-war Brooklyn in a house filled with mysteries, Turkle searched for clues. She...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2021
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1 available in Adult, Call number: B TURKLE TUREpley, Nicholas
Summary: An exploration of the human mind's capacity for instinctive undertanding about the feelings and desires of others explains how the ability or inability to understand the minds of those around us leads to connection or conflict.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Inc 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 152.4 EPLJamison, Leslie
Summary: A collection of essays explores empathy, using topics ranging from street violence and incarceration to reality television and literary sentimentality to ask questions about people's understanding of and relationships with others.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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Summary: An insightful exploration of what social media, AI, robot technology, and the digital world are doing to our relationships with each other and with ourselves.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little A 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 303.4833 PHICopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: 303.4833 PHIRiess, Helen
Summary: "A neuroscience-based view that argues not only that empathy is necessary for our personal happiness and planetary survival, but its essential components, how to gain them, and how to use them in any circumstance"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sounds True 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 152.4 RIESharlet, Jeff
Summary: "As a journalist suddenly skeptical of the power of words to tell the deepest truths of other people's stories, Jeff Sharlet turned to taking snapshots and posting them on Instagram- images that he then reflected on in words of extraordinary intimacy and power. A visionary work of radical empathy, this collection of images and reflections is framed by the two years between his father's heart...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020