About the Book
Is it really human nature to stab one another in the back in our climb up the corporate ladder? Competitive, selfish behavior is often explained away as instinctive, thanks to evolution and "survival of the fittest," but, in fact, humans are equally hard-wired for empathy. Using research from the fields of anthropology, psychology, animal behavior, and neuroscience, Frans de Waal brilliantly argues that humans are group animals--highly cooperative, sensitive to injustice, and mostly peace-loving--just like other primates, elephants, and dolphins. This revelation has profound implications for everything from politics to office culture.
About the Author :
Frans de Waal (1948―2024) was a world-renowned primatologist who earned many awards and honoros and was named one of Time magazine's 100 Most Influential People in 2007. He wrote several bestselling books, including Peacemaking among Primates, which won the Los Angeles Times Book Award, and Different: Gender through the Eyes of Primates, which was longlisted for the PEN/E. O. Wilson Award for Science Writing. He was C. H. Candler Professor Emeritus of Primate Behavior at Emory University and the former director of the Living Links Center at the Yerkes National Primate Research Center. He was a member of the United States National Academy of Sciences and the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Winner of several AudioFile Earphones Awards and a multiple finalist for the APA's prestigious Audie Award, Alan Sklar has narrated nearly two hundred audiobooks, including Black Hawk Down by Mark Bowden, The Kennedys: America's Emerald Kings by Thomas Maier, and The Looming Tower by Lawrence Wright. Named a Best Voice of 2009 by AudioFile magazine, his work has earned him a Booklist Editors' Choice Award (twice), a Publishers Weekly Listen-Up Award, and Audiobook of the Year by ForeWord magazine. The Dartmouth graduate's theatre credits include Hamlet, The Taming of the Shrew, The Seagull, and many modern roles. Alan has also narrated thousands of corporate videos for clients such as NASA, Sikorsky Aircraft, IBM, Dannon, Pfizer, AT&T, and SONY. For several years, he has been the spokesman for TracFone Wireless Co. and can often be seen and heard on TracFone radio and TV spots and infomercials. "I am so pleased, as is my husband, to have found a narrator that holds our attention so well that we have come to compare every other narrator to him (you). So far we have found none with such a talent as yours. We very much plan to listen to as many of your works as we can find." -Sandi King, a letter to Mr. Sklar Winner of several AudioFile Earphones Awards and a multiple finalist for the APA's prestigious Audie Award, Alan Sklar has narrated nearly two hundred audiobooks, including Black Hawk Down by Mark Bowden, The Kennedys: America's Emerald Kings by Thomas Maier, and The Looming Tower by Lawrence Wright. Named a Best Voice of 2009 by AudioFile magazine, his work has earned him a Booklist Editors' Choice Award (twice), a Publishers Weekly Listen-Up Award, and Audiobook of the Year by ForeWord magazine. The Dartmouth graduate's theatre credits include Hamlet, The Taming of the Shrew, The Seagull, and many modern roles. Alan has also narrated thousands of corporate videos for clients such as NASA, Sikorsky Aircraft, IBM, Dannon, Pfizer, AT&T, and SONY. For several years, he has been the spokesman for TracFone Wireless Co. and can often be seen and heard on TracFone radio and TV spots and infomercials. "I am so pleased, as is my husband, to have found a narrator that holds our attention so well that we have come to compare every other narrator to him (you). So far we have found none with such a talent as yours. We very much plan to listen to as many of your works as we can find." -Sandi King, a letter to Mr. Sklar
Review :
Alan Sklar delivers an in-depth narration of fascinating stories about the ability of mammals to show sincere empathy.-- "AudioFile"
"A psychology professor with proof positive that, like other creatures who hang out in herds, we've evolved to be empathetic...The Age of Empathy offers advice to cutthroat so-called realists: Listen to your inner ape."
-- "O, The Oprah Magazine"
"De Waal is an excellent tour guide, refreshingly literate outside his field, deft at stitching bits of philosophy and anthropology into the narrative."
-- "Globe and Mail (Toronto)"
"Dr. de Waal has gathered ample evidence that our ability to identify with another's distress--a catalyst for compassion and charity--has deep roots in the origin of our species. It is a view independently reinforced by recent biomedical studies showing that our brains are built to feel another's pain."
-- "Wall Street Journal"
"Freshly topical....a corrective to the idea that all animals--human and otherwise--are selfish and unfeeling to the core."
-- "Economist"
"Given the nature of business survival in a competitive world, de Waal's clarion call that greed is out and empathy is in may be a call we should all hear."
-- "Psychology Today"
