Borba, Michele
Summary: The bestselling author of unselfie explains why the old markers of accomplishment (grades, test scores) are no longer reliable predictors of success in the 21st century - and offers 7 teachable traits that will safeguard our kids for the future. Michele Borba has been a teacher, educational consultant, and parent for 40 years - and she's never been more worried than she is about this current...
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Publisher / Publication Date: G. P. Putnam's Sons 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Parent-Teacher Collection, Call number: JPT 155.4 BORGivens, Terri E.
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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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: 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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Place a hold to request this item.Borba, Michele
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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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 649 BORGinott, 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: "A timely, nuanced work that dissects the thorny debate around cultural appropriation and the literary imagination. How do we properly define cultural appropriation, and is it always wrong? If we can write in the voice of another, should we? And if so, what questions do we need to consider first? In Appropriate, creative writing professor Paisley Rekdal addresses a young writer to delineate how...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 808.02 REKRicard, Matthieu
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 PATSzalavitz, 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 TURJamison, 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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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 RIEBrehony, Kathleen A.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 177.7 BREFallon, James H.
Summary: A compelling career memoir by an award-winning neuroscientist describes how while studying his own family's brain scans for research he made the disturbing discovery that his own reflected a pattern he recognized from those in the brains of serial killers, a finding that offered new insights into the role of biology in behavior.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Current 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.8582 FALHare, Brian
Summary: "For most of the approximately 200,000 years that our species has existed, we shared the planet with at least four other types of humans. They were smart, they were strong, and they were inventive. Neanderthals even had the capacity for spoken language. But, one by one, our hominid relatives went extinct. Why did we thrive? In delightfully conversational prose and based on years of his own...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 155.7 HARUrban, Hal
Contents: Humility -- Patience -- Empathy -- Giving -- Forgiveness -- Thinking -- Possibilities -- Renewal -- Courage -- Excellence -- Mission -- Scripture -- Prayer -- Wisdom -- Joy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 170.44 URBCorbett, Rachel
Summary: "The extraordinary story of one of the most fruitful friendships in modern arts and letters. Paris, 1902: Renowned sculptor Auguste Rodin has just completed The Thinker. Rainer Maria Rilke is a delicate young visitor from Prague, broke and suffering froma case of writer's block. When Rilke is commissioned to write a book about Rodin, everything changes. . . . You Must Change Your Life reveals...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W. W. Norton & Company 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 CORMartinez, Raoul
Summary: In Creating Freedom, Raoul Martinez brings together a torrent of mind-expanding ideas, facts, and arguments to dismantle sacred myths central to our society--myths about free will, free markets, free media, and free elections. From the lottery of our birth to the consent-manufacturing influence of concentrated power, this far-reaching manifesto lifts the veil on the mechanisms of control that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2016
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Summary: "Homelessness is a perennial topic of concern at libraries. In fact, staff at public libraries interact with almost as many homeless individuals as staff at shelters do. In this book Dowd, executive director of a homeless shelter, spotlights best practices drawn from his own shelter's policies and training materials"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: ALA Editions 2018
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