empathy

Presents a collection of true stories and inspiring thoughts about helping others, saving lives, mentoring teens, and much more.

Nicholas gains a better understanding of his elderly, cranky neighbor, Mr. Robinson, after a sprained ankle sidelines him from soccer for a week and makes him crabby with everyone.

A graphic novel in which photographer Anna Gilmour stumbles upon a ten-foot-tall alien that has fallen to Earth and takes him into her home, where they encounter even stranger figures who complicate Anna's life.

Readers in need of a boost to their social I.Q. learn the necessary strategies and exercises that will redirect the orientation of their perception outwards, to take in other people, what they are saying, what they are signaling, what they want and need and hope for and expect.

When Hyena puts a banana skin in Giraffe's path, causing a chain reaction of accidents that Hyena finds hilarious, he soon learns what it is like to be the butt of a joke.

In order to protect her, Dora's parents put anything that might frighten or hurt her into a box and tell her never to open it, but when she eventually does, her life is enriched by what she finds.

Nine-year-old Meggie resents spending time with a strange, smelly old man who calls her mother whenever he needs a ride, but when Christmas finds him in the hospital she knows what she must do.

Includes twenty first-person stories about young risk takers who benefited from taking a chance.

The author examines how the so-called empathy circuit in the brain works in an attempt to understand the difference between those who exhibit lack of empathy, such as autistic people, but manage to function within society without violence, and violent individuals. In addition, he argues that social and environmental factors are just as important factors in violent behavior as biological ones.

A study of empathy, drawing evidence from the observed social behaviors of a variety of animals to argue that animals and humans are "preprogrammed" to reach out to one another.