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Mastering Civility: A Manifesto for the Workplace

Christine Lynne Porath - Grand Central Publishing
Format: Print book

From the leading authority on workplace incivility, Christine Porath, shows why it pays to be civil, and reveals just how to enhance effectiveness in the workplace and beyond by mastering civility. Incivility is silently chipping away at people, organizations, and our economy. Slights,...
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The Meaning of Nice: How Compassion and Civility Can Change Your Life (and The World)

Joan Duncan Oliver - Berkley
Format: Hardcover

Discover the hidden power of nice. The Meaning of Nice is a multi-faceted exploration of a simple word and how it has developed over time and among various disciplines. With emphasis on philosophy, positive psychology and interpersonal relationships, Joan Duncan Oliver probes theories and practices...
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Compassion is the Key to Everything: Find Your Own Path

Alexandra Chauran - Llewellyn Worldwide, Ltd, 2016.
Format: Print book

Compassion is the Key to Everything is a practical, non-denominational book on how to discover and exemplify your own idea of what it means to be a compassionate person. Alexandra Chauran shows how to stop judging yourself and others and start making the world a better place.
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Do I Have to Say Hello? Aunt Delia's Manners Quiz for Kids and Their Grownups

Delia Ephron - Blue Rider Press
Format: Print book

Twenty-five years after its original publication, Do I Have to Say Hello? Aunt Delia's Manners Quiz for Kids and Their Grown-ups is back, and do we and our kids all need it. In a series of light-hearted multiple choice quizzes, alternate scenarios, and true-or-false questions, Delia...
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A Fearless Heart: How the Courage to Be Compassionate Can Transform Our Lives

Thupten Jinpa - Hudson Street Press
Format: Hardcover

The Buddhist practice of mindfulness caught on in the west when we began to understand the everyday, personal benefits it brought us. Now, in this extraordinary book, the highly acclaimed thought leader and longtime English translator of His Holiness the Dalai Lama shows us that compassion...
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Training in Compassion: Zen Teachings on the Practice of Lojong

Norman Fischer - Shambhala
Format: Paperback

Lojong is the Tibetan Buddhist practice that involves working with short phrases (called "slogans") as a way of generating bodhichitta, the heart and mind of enlightened compassion. Though the practice is more than a millennium old, it has become popular in the West only in the last...
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Is It Just Me?: Or Is It Nuts out There?

Whoopi Goldberg - Hachette Books
Format: Book

Have you noticed people aren't as polite as they once were or that rudeness is no longer an exception but a lifestyle? Sure you have. All you need to do is set foot outside your door to see that bad manners are taking over everywhere. Just look and you'll see: People yak on cell...
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