Altruism


Doing Good Better: How Effective Altruism Can Help You Make a Difference
The Life You Can Save: How to Do Your Part to End World Poverty
Altruism: The Power of Compassion to Change Yourself and the World
The Most Good You Can Do: How Effective Altruism Is Changing Ideas About Living Ethically (Castle Lectures in Ethics, Politics, and Economics)
Strangers Drowning: Grappling with Impossible Idealism, Drastic Choices, and the Overpowering Urge to Help
Moral Ambition: Stop Wasting Your Talent and Start Making a Difference
What We Owe the Future
The Precipice
The Selfish Gene
Animal Liberation
Naked Empire (Sword of Truth, #8)
Famine, Affluence, and Morality
80,000 Hours: Find a fulfilling career that does good
Moral Origins: The Evolution of Virtue, Altruism, and Shame
Faith of the Fallen (Sword of Truth, #6)
The Fairy Queen and the Heart of the Lake by Kristen LindemanThe Elephant's Christmas Wish by Ania DanyloThis Little Boy Could Be Good by Lady Nicole JohnsonA Sick Day for Amos McGee by Philip C. SteadHorton Hears a Who! by Dr. Seuss
Picture Books About Kindness
150 books — 124 voters

Persepolis by Marjane SatrapiPink and Say by Patricia PolaccoThe Librarian of Basra by Jeanette WinterHow I Learned Geography by Uri ShulevitzThe Yellow Star by Carmen Agra Deedy
Picture Books About Times of War
228 books — 47 voters
The Fairy Queen and the Golden Flower by Kristen LindemanA Year of Living Kindly by Donna    CameronManners Will Take You Where Brains and Money Won't by Donald G. JamesThe Hidden Words Of Bahá'u'lláh by Bahá'u'lláhHow to Practice by Dalai Lama XIV
Books about importance of kindness
17 books — 26 voters

The King's Prey by Susan PeekA Soldier Surrenders by Susan PeekCrusader King by Susan PeekSaint Magnus, The Last Viking by Susan PeekThe Ipswich Bus by Robbie Franklin
Unfamous Real Life Heroes / Heroines
40 books — 26 voters
Vägivallatu suhtlemine by Marshall B. RosenbergKuidas kasvatada lapses emotsionaalset intelligentsust, Emots... by Lawrence E. ShapiroVäike tunneteraamat by Liv LarssonUku suur süda by Helen VoogKESKENDUMINE by Daniel Goleman
Empaatia
11 books — 1 voter

Arundhati Roy
“ Wars are never fought for altruistic reasons. ”
― Arundhati Roy

David Almond
“ I thought how you can never tell just by looking at them what they were thinking or what was happening In their lives. Even when you got daft people or drunk people on buses, people that went on stupid and shouted rubbish or tried to tell you all about themselves, you could never really tell about them either... I knew if somebody looked at me, they'd know nothing about me, either. ...more ”
― David Almond, Skellig

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