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If I understood you, would I have this look on my face? : my adventures in the art and science of relating and communicating / Alan Alda.
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Title:If I understood you, would I have this look on my face? : my adventures in the art and science of relating and communicating / Alan Alda.
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Author/Creator:Alda, Alan, 1936- author.
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Published/Created:New York : Random House, [2017]
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In:Midwest Best Sellers
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Location:WOODWARD LIBRARY stacksWhere is this?
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Call Number: BF637.C45 A424 2017
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Number of Items:1
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Status:Available
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Location:WOODWARD LIBRARY stacksWhere is this?
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Library of Congress Subjects:Interpersonal communication.
Interpersonal relations.
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Medical Subjects: Interpersonal Relations.
Communication.
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Genre/Form:Self-help publications.
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Description:xviii, 213 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
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Summary:The actor and founder of the Alan Alda Center for Communicating Science traces his personal quest to understand how to relate and communicate better, from practicing empathy and using improv games to storytelling and developing better intuitive skills.
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Notes:Includes index.
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ISBN:9780812989144
0812989147
9780812989151
0812989155
9780812989168 (ebook)
0812989163
9780812989168
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Contents:Machine generated contents note: pt. ONE Relating Is Everything
ch. 1 Relating: It's the Cake
ch. 2 Theater Games with Engineers
ch. 3 Heart and Head of Communication
ch. 4 Mirror Exercise
ch. 5 Observation Games
ch. 6 Making It Clear and Vivid
ch. 7 Reading Minds: Helen Riess and Matt Lerner
ch. 8 Teams
ch. 9 Total Listening Starts with Where They Are
ch. 10 Listening, from the Boardroom to the Bedroom
ch. 11 Training Doctors to Have More Empathy
pt. TWO Getting Better at Reading Others
ch. 12 My Life As a Lab Rat
ch. 13 Working Alone on Building Empathy
ch. 14 Dark Empathy
ch. 15 Reading the Mind of the Reader
ch. 16 Teaching and the Flame Challenge
ch. 17 Emotion Makes It Memorable
ch. 18 Story and the Brain
ch. 19 Commonality
ch. 20 Jargon and the Curse of Knowledge
ch. 21 Improvisation of Daily Life.