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Essential. The group of scientists involved with the creation of this book: Paul Ekman, Daniel Goleman, and Richard Davidson are at the forefront of affective neuroscience (the study of the neural mechanisms of emotion) and its attendant social sciences.

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The life of Solomon Northup. This book gives you an insight as to what life is like when living under a great injustice. Forgot the film, this book is hard hitting.

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I met Shannon Moroney at a restorative justice conference in November of 2011.

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Written by the editor of Elle magazine following a severe, incapacitating stroke who wrote this book letter by letter with his speech therapist. It describes his experience of being in hospital, poor communication of healthcare staff & being objectified.

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I highly recommend this book for anyone who questions life and wonders if it has any meaning or value. Frankl's reason for writing his life affirming book:

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This is a true story of a young teen named Maddie, who while undergoing chemotheraphy saw something on TV that changed the way she saw the world, and her role in it. Touched by vision of an orphaned boy in Africa, Maddie was moved to help.

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This how-to guide for teenagers  instructs and inspires readers how to start a grass-roots organization to solve any kind of social problem they are passionate about through exercises and all kinds of practical entrepreneurial advice for both nonprofit and for-profit entities.

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Lindqvist has amassed a body of evidence in this enlightening history of bombing warfare, making use of a huge range of historical sources.

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Homeless persons are among the most misunderstood people in America. We clump the whole lot of them into a pile called "the homeless" and seem to be OK with them living, in some cases, like stray dogs.

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For eleven years, educator Catherine Cadden ran the bold experiment called TEMBA, a K-8 academic school based on the tenets of nonviolence and founded on the conviction that children who have the opportunity to practice peace in the classroom wouldn't just survive school - they'd thrive.

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