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I was fortunate to be present at a recent presentation Roman Krznaric made to a judicial training day. It made me think about what books I have read which might contain themes of both empathy and law. Arthur & George immediately came to mind.

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A gifted Canadian writer's fictionalized account of her family's struggle with suicide -- that of her father and her older sister.

 

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'Dimensions,' is a complex, disturbing and extraordinary short story buried in the middle of 'Too much happiness', a recent (2010) collection by Alice Munro.
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What would you do if someone murdered your child? Could you forgive? Feel empathy for the perpetrator?

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Are men and women ‘differently wired’? Danny certainly is. When he meets Barbara, he tells her frankly that he’s going to get her drunk and have sex with her all night. She laughs, but soon she realises that there‘s a reason this handsome man has no filter.
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In the entry on ‘Down and Out in Paris and London,’ The Empathy Library celebrates George Orwell as an empath and social chronicler. Here, we celebrate him as a writer of fiction who inspired generations.
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Many researchers have contributes to this book containing 16 chapters. It is a scholar book, but it is readable by people who are not familiar with neuroscience.

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'I am a red balloon,' reflects Esperanza Cordero, 'a balloon tied to an anchor.' The House on Mango Street is the coming-of-age story of Esperanza, a teenage Puerto Rican girl with a big family and huge dreams about escaping her cramped house and impoverished neighbourhood.
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 Set in the Ottoman Empire during World War I, and in contemporary Los Angeles, Orhan's Inheritance tells the story of one man coming to terms with his family's and his nation's past.

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Marian Keyes's tenth glorious doorstop of a novel focuses on the inner lives of the inhabitants of 66 Star Street, a Dublin townhouse with a blue door and a banana-shaped knocker; a gift from a previous tenant, a metalworker with a sense of humour (who everyone hated).

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