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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
Publisher
Peachtree Publishing Company
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Ellie, the littlest elephant, is in a big hurry. She's just learned to swim, and she's excited to get in the pool. She better get dashing if she wants to be the first one in! But as she crashes through the jungle, Ellie doesn't stop to see all the creatures she's knocked out of the way. Until...she steps on a tiger tail"--Front jacket flap.
Author
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Caregiving can be enormously challenging, terrifically rewarding, and potentially draining. Caregivers often wonder how they will navigate the tumultuous waters of caregiving and not lose themselves completely. The Mindful Caregiver highlights two major approaches to help transform the journey: adopting a practice of mindfulness, which helps caregivers become more self-aware and fully present with the person with whom they are caring, and honoring...
46) Breaking news
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
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"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 mastered the codes that governed her secretive mother's world....
48) Wally & Freya
Author
Publisher
Good Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Freya the fox takes the time to ask Wally, a known bully, why he acts the way he does, which leads all the animals to a surprising discovery.
49) The baker's wife
Author
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
"Reverend Geoff Bofinger lost his congregation when Sergeant Jack Mansfield exposed a scandal at his church. With the hope of making a fresh start and restoring their family's good name, Geoff and his wife, Audrey, purchase a failing bakery business. One morning while driving to work, Audrey has a collision and gets out of her car to discover she has hit a scooter. Though the scooter is bloody, there is no victim to be found. The missing victim turns...
50) I wish you knew
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
After Estrella's father is deported because he is an illegal immigrant, her teacher at school invites her and the other students to meet around an old oak tree and share the things they wished their teacher knew about their life at home.
Author
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
"A woman describes a series of encounters she has with various people in the ordinary course of her life: an ex she runs into by chance at a public forum, an Airbnb owner unsure how to interact with her guests, a stranger who seeks help comforting his elderly mother, a friend of her youth now hospitalized with terminal cancer. In each of these people the woman finds a common need: the urge to talk about themselves and to have an audience to their...
Author
Publisher
Policy Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
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 practical steps to call out racism and bring about radical...
Author
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
In Think Like a Horse, veteran "horse whisperer" and leadership expert Grant Golliher applies his hard-won horse sense to teach invaluable lessons anyone can use to live a fuller, more successful life. rant Golliher is what some would call a "horse whisperer," able to get a wild horse to calmly accept a saddle and a rider without the use of force. Through training thousands of horses, many traumatized or abused, Golliher was able to learn essential...
54) Life skills
Author
Publisher
DK Publishing
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Discover how you can be the awesome person you want to be with this brilliant guide to the life skills kids need to learn. This book helps kids to tackle the difficulties they face and will help to prepare them for whatever the future may hold. Life Skills includes practical advice and real-life examples that teach problem solving, how to make good decisions, and excellent communication skills. Kids will learn how to better understand themselves and...
56) Listen
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
A lyrical picture book intends to inspire empathy by showing how everything and everyone on Earth is connected.
Author
Publisher
Wisdom Publications
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"When a group of children are having a playful day at the beach, the fun of building sand castles is forgotten when they start arguing about whose castle is best. While fighting over "I," "me," and "mine," they end up destroying and abandoning the castles they so carefully constructed. The timely arrival of a magical wise man teaches the children that unlike the sand castles, it is the things we can't see that really matter most" --
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