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PeriodicalLarge Print Book
Author Alda, Alan, 1936- author.

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.

Publication Info. New York : Random House Large Print, [2017]
©2017

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Location Call No. Status
 Bristol, Main Library - Large Print Materials  LP153.6 ALDA    Check Shelf
 Windsor, Main Library - Adult Department  LP-153.6 AL    Check Shelf
Edition First large print edition.
Description xx, 314 pages (large print) ; 24 cm
Physical Medium large print rda
Note Includes index.
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.
Contents Relating: it's the cake -- Theater games with engineers -- The heart and head of communication -- The mirror exercise -- Observation games -- Making it clear and vivid -- Reading minds: Helen Riess and Matt Lerner -- Teams -- Total listening starts with where they are -- Listening, from the boardroom to the bedroom -- Training doctors to have more empathy -- My life as a lab rat -- Working alone on building empathy -- Dark empathy -- Reading the mind of the reader -- Teaching and the flame challenge -- Emotion makes it memorable -- Story and the brain -- Commonality -- Jargon and the curse of knowledge -- The improvisation of daily life.
Subject Interpersonal communication.
Interpersonal relations.
Large type books. (OCoLC)fst00992678
Interpersonal communication. (OCoLC)fst00977344
Interpersonal relations. (OCoLC)fst00977397
Large type books.
Genre/Form Large type books.
ISBN 9781524781927 (paperback)
1524781924 (paperback)
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