Mark McCrindle - The Power of Good: True Stories of Great Kindness from Total Strangers
Here you can read online Mark McCrindle - The Power of Good: True Stories of Great Kindness from Total Strangers full text of the book (entire story) in english for free. Download pdf and epub, get meaning, cover and reviews about this ebook. year: 2011, publisher: Port Campbell Press, genre: Detective and thriller. Description of the work, (preface) as well as reviews are available. Best literature library LitArk.com created for fans of good reading and offers a wide selection of genres:
Romance novel
Science fiction
Adventure
Detective
Science
History
Home and family
Prose
Art
Politics
Computer
Non-fiction
Religion
Business
Children
Humor
Choose a favorite category and find really read worthwhile books. Enjoy immersion in the world of imagination, feel the emotions of the characters or learn something new for yourself, make an fascinating discovery.
- Book:The Power of Good: True Stories of Great Kindness from Total Strangers
- Author:
- Publisher:Port Campbell Press
- Genre:
- Year:2011
- Rating:4 / 5
- Favourites:Add to favourites
- Your mark:
The Power of Good: True Stories of Great Kindness from Total Strangers: summary, description and annotation
We offer to read an annotation, description, summary or preface (depends on what the author of the book "The Power of Good: True Stories of Great Kindness from Total Strangers" wrote himself). If you haven't found the necessary information about the book — write in the comments, we will try to find it.
Seventy short, heart-warming stories of acts of kindness by strangers with contributions by prominent Australiana, including comedian Jean Kittson, writer Peter FitzSimons, news presenter Tracey Spicer, Youth Off the Streets Father Chris Riley, media personality David Richardson, Wayside Chapels Reverend Graham Long, politician Pru Goward, Pulitzer Prize winner Geraldine Brooks, and many others. This is an inspiring look at the best of humanity. From small acts of charity to selfless acts of kindness, The Power of Good shows that the human spirit is replete with noble and generous deeds.
Mark McCrindle: author's other books
Who wrote The Power of Good: True Stories of Great Kindness from Total Strangers? Find out the surname, the name of the author of the book and a list of all author's works by series.
The Power of Good: True Stories of Great Kindness from Total Strangers — read online for free the complete book (whole text) full work
Below is the text of the book, divided by pages. System saving the place of the last page read, allows you to conveniently read the book "The Power of Good: True Stories of Great Kindness from Total Strangers" online for free, without having to search again every time where you left off. Put a bookmark, and you can go to the page where you finished reading at any time.
Font size:
Interval:
Bookmark:
- McCrindle Research survey (2010) The Pursuit of Happiness, www.AustraliaSpeaks.com
- McCrindle Research survey (2010) The Power of Good, www.AustraliaSpeaks.com
- McCrindle Research survey (2010) Giving and receiving kindness, www.AustraliaSpeaks.com
- McCrindle Research survey (2010) The Power of Good, www.AustraliaSpeaks.com
- ibid.
- Page, J. 2002, Is mateship a virtue?, http://eprints.qut.edu.au/archive/00003567/01/3567_1.pdf
- HarperCollins Australia 2009, About the Book, www.harpercollins.com.au/books/9780732290108/BlackSaturday_Stories_of_love_loss_and_courage_from_theVictorian/index.aspx
- Wilikinson, G. 2009, Tonnes of goods donated to Black Saturday victims are still sitting in warehouse, Herald Sun, www.heraldsun.com.au/news/tonnes-of-goods-donated-to-black-saturday-victims-are-still-sitting-in-warehouse/story-e6frf7jo-1225811538471
- The Rotary Club of Whittlesea 2009, Black Saturday Fires: Thenand Now, www.rotary9790.org.au/clubs/stoz/whittlesea/ftp/BushFireReport.pdf
- 2005, Australian aid sets the standard: Oxfam, The Age, www.theage.com.au/news/Asia-tsunami/PM-pledges-1bn-in-aid/2005/01/06/1104832185285.html
- 2005, Australian donations surpass $100 million, The Age, www.theage.com.au/news/Asia-tsunami/Australian-donations-surpass-100m/2005/01/05/1104832167314.html
- 2005, Become a volunteer, www.aemvf.org.au/default.aspx?s=volunteer
- McCrindle Research survey (2010) The Pursuit of Happiness, www.AustraliaSpeaks.com
- Readers Digest (July 2010) Australias most trusted, p. 62 and McCrindle Research survey (2010), Giving and receiving kindness, www.AustraliaSpeaks.com
- McCrindle Research survey (2010) Charitable giving, www.AustraliaSpeaks.com
- McCrindle Research survey (2010) The Power of Good, www.AustraliaSpeaks.com
- McCrindle Research survey (2010) Giving and receiving kindness, www.AustraliaSpeaks.com
- McCrindle Research figures (2010), www.AustraliaSpeaks.com 230
- 2007, The kindness of strangers, The Age, www.theage.com.au/news/in-depth/kindness-of-strangers//2007/02/18/1171733606589.html?page=fullpage
- ibid.
- ibid.
- Kind things to do, http://kindness.com.au/cms/index.php 23
- McCrindle Research survey (2010) Giving and receiving, www.AustraliaSpeaks.com
- ibid.
- n.d. Random acts of kindness, www.auscharity.org/kind.htm 26
- 2007, The kindness of strangers, The Age.
- ibid.
- n.d. Sometimes, a hug is all that we need, www.freehugscampaign.org/
- 2007, The kindness of strangers, The Age.
- n.d. Other kindness organisations, http://kindness.com.au/cms/content/view/18/40/
- 2006, Free hugs campaign arrives in Taiwan, IndependentOnline. Corriere Della Sera 2006, www.corriere.it/Primo_Piano/Cronache/2006/11_Novembre/06/abracci.shtml n.d.The gift of giving back, http://www2.oprah.com/tows/slide/200610/20061030/slide_20061030_284_101.jhtml 2006, A little tenderness in a world of roughness, 20 Minutes, www.20min.ch/ro/news/geneve/story/22448721, 2006, Huggers end up in police custody, China Daily, www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2006-11/06/content_725199.htm 2007, Free hugs for France, News.com.au, www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,21366606-401,00.html 232
At the time of publication, websites devoted to spreading kindness included:
Table 1.2
| The Random Acts of Kindness Foundation | www.actsofkindness.org |
| The Good Deeds Organisation | www.TheGoodDeedsOrganisation.com |
| The Power of Giving | www.power-of-giving.com/random-actsof- kindness.html |
| Random Acts of Kindness | http://acts-of-random-kindness.blogspot. com/ |
| Random Ideas | http://www.noogenesis.com/malama/ kindness/Stories/ideas01.html |
| So what can I do? | http://sowhatcanido.blogspot. com/2005/01/commit-random-acts-ofkindness- open.html |
| Help Others | http://www.helpothers.org/ |
| The True Tales of Random Acts of Kindness | http://www.grandtimes.com/kind.html |
| A Magazine of People and Possibilities | http://www.intouchmag. com/33kindnessstories2.html |
| Miss Foundation | http://www.missfoundation.org/kindness/ stories.html |
| Angels Camp | http://www.angelscamp.com/r-sugst.htm |
| Kind Acts | http://www.kindacts.net/ideas_resources/ RAK_week/RAK_week.shtml |
| Chicken Soup for the Soul | http://www.chickensoup.com/ |
The Random Acts of Kindness Timeline
| 1993 | A book called Random Acts of Kindness was released by Conari Press. |
| 2000 | Movie Pay It Forward, based on the book of the same name (which was inspired by the Pay it Forward Foundation), was released. |
| 2001 | The French film Le Fabuleux destin dAmlie Poulain or Amlie, which follows a young woman who engages in various random and often anonymous acts of kindness, was released. |
| 2002 | A group called Join Me was started in London by humorist Danny Wallace; the groups purpose was to encourage members to perform random acts of kindness, particularly on Good Fridays. |
| 2006 | A Free Hugs campaign was made popular by a music video on YouTube. Scott Mills, a British DJ on BBC Radio 1, used the term random acts of kindness as the name of a regular feature of his program. |
| 2006 (cont.) | An American talk radio host, David Stein of The Celebration of Life Through Sports, declared every Monday Random Act of Kindness Day. A Random Acts of Kindness Week was scheduled for 13-19 February. |
| 2007 | South African radio program Kfm Breakfast ran a Random Act of Kindness Day, collecting 50,000 kilograms of tinned food for Cape Towns homeless shelters. The box-office success Evan Almighty was released. The movie ended with Evan and his family on a weekend hiking trip when God reappeared to Evan, telling him that the way to change the world was by doing one act of random kindness (ARK) at a time. |
| 2008 | A Pay It Forward Day was scheduled for 4 April, a day where people perform random acts of kindness to become better people. |
Free-Hugs Timeline
| October 2006 | A college student, Yu Tzu-wei, began a campaign in Taipei to hug everyone in Taiwan. A mass free hugs day was scheduled at Pitt Street Mall, Sydney, where the free hugs campaign began. Several free hugs campaigns were organised in a number of cities in Italy. Juan Mann was invited by Oprah Winfrey to appear on her show after her producers doctor saw the Free Hugs video on YouTube. Juan Mann made an appearance outside her studio that morning, offering free hugs to the crowd waiting to see the taping of that days episode. |
| November 2006 | Geneva Online organised the first free hugs event in Geneva, Switzerland. A group of eleven people led by a 24-yearold man named Baigu tried the same campaign in Shanghai, only to be detained for one hour for not having a permit to hold a gathering in a public place. Two friends, Amber Gribben and Nicholas Markos, had a free hugs outing in Chicago, and persuaded the police to join in the hugging. |
Font size:
Interval:
Bookmark:
Similar books «The Power of Good: True Stories of Great Kindness from Total Strangers»
Look at similar books to The Power of Good: True Stories of Great Kindness from Total Strangers. We have selected literature similar in name and meaning in the hope of providing readers with more options to find new, interesting, not yet read works.
Discussion, reviews of the book The Power of Good: True Stories of Great Kindness from Total Strangers and just readers' own opinions. Leave your comments, write what you think about the work, its meaning or the main characters. Specify what exactly you liked and what you didn't like, and why you think so.