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Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Somewhere in this world, there is someone just like you, who finds the same things funny and who laughs the way you do. If they needed you, would you help them? This moving call to action reminds kids through lyrical, rhyming text and stunning illustrations that people share more similarities than differences and that kindness is doable and actionable, even when you’re small."--
Author
Publisher
Rise x Penguin Workshop
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"This formative board book is an appreciation of our global community and the many ways in which it helps develop empathy, compassion, and collective responsibility. Specific examples of shared community are depicted across twelve countries, inviting young readers to connect with and acknowledge the importance of caring about and for one another, and the Earth we share."--
Author
Series
Publisher
Rise x Penguin Workshop, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Through a handful of specific yet universal school scenarios, young readers will understand what it means to be a part of a school community and celebrate how to share with and care for one another"--
Author
Publisher
Vergara
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
Español
Description
"La medico de urgencias que receta amor y empatía a sus pacientes. ¿Que es el amor? Contestar a esta pregunta es difícil, pero cuando uno es capaz de sentirlo plenamente, el mundo cambia. De hecho, nuestro organismo experimenta los primeros signos de la transformación gracias a las sustancias que inundan el torrente sanguíneo. La práctica del amor y la compasión modifica la estructura del cerebro. Cambian nuestros pensamientos y comienza...
Author
Series
Frankie and friends volume 1
Publisher
Walker Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
In a charming new chapter-book series by a social-change advocate, young Frankie emulates her journalist mama by reporting on household news with the help of her sister and an unlikely news crew.
Author
Publisher
Duke University Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"The Other Side of Empathy argues that empathy itself is a culturally created and maintained affective ideology deployed to make sense of a world that has been irrevocably distorted by colonization and technology. Understanding empathy culture, and empathy as an ideology allows for an exploration of its arbitrariness, cultural contradictions, and limits. An analysis of "human zoos," as presented in colonial photography and in their digital afterlife,...
10) American mother
Author
Publisher
Etruscan Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"In late 2021, Diane Foley sat at a table across from her son's killer, Alexanda Kotey, a member of the ISIS group known as "The Beatles" who plead guilty to the kidnapping, torture, and murder of her son seven years before. Kotey was about to go serve life imprisonment and this was Diane's chance to talk to the man who had been involved with brutally taking her son's last breath. What would she say to his killer? What would he reveal to her? Might...
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