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Author : David M. Williams
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2019-03-21
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781107110434
Provides a new approach to psychological hedonism and applies it to the growing global epidemic of unhealthy behavior.
Author : David Michael Williams,Ryan E. Rhodes,Mark T. Conner
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 537 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9780190499037
In the last 20-30 years, research on affective determinants of health behavior has proliferated. Highlighting this burgeoning area of research, Affective determinants of health behavior brings together contributions from leading experts who focus, in their chapters, on a fascinating range of affective concepts, including hedonic response, incidental affect, perceived satisfaction, anticipated affect, affective attitudes, affective associations, and more. In the first part of the book, the authors explore the role of affective concepts in health behavior, including theories of action control, dual-processing, temporal self-regulation, self-determination, and planned behavior, along with a new theory of hedonic motivation. The second part of the book focuses on the role of affective concepts in specific health behavior domains, including physical activity, eating, smoking, substance use, sex, tanning, blood donation, the performance of health professionals, cancer screenings, and cancer control. Affective determinants of health behavior offers readers an important window into existing research and serves as a showcase for important insights on new directions and implications for intervention.
Author : Tony Bennett,Lawrence Grossberg,Meaghan Morris
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 470 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2013-05-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781118725412
Over 25 years ago, Raymond Williams’ Keywords: A Vocabulary of Culture and Society set the standard for how we understand and use the language of culture and society. Now, three luminaries in the field of cultural studies have assembled a volume that builds on and updates Williams’ classic, reflecting the transformation in culture and society since its publication. New Keywords: A Revised Vocabulary of Culture and Society is a state-of-the-art reference for students, teachers and culture vultures everywhere. Assembles a stellar team of internationally renowned and interdisciplinary social thinkers and theorists Showcases 142 signed entries – from art, commodity, and fundamentalism to youth, utopia, the virtual, and the West – that capture the practices, institutions, and debates of contemporary society Builds on and updates Raymond Williams’s classic Keywords: A Vocabulary of Culture and Society, by reflecting the transformation in culture and society over the last 25 years Includes a bibliographic resource to guide research and cross-referencing The book is supported by a website: www.blackwellpublishing.com/newkeywords.
Author : Egbert Harmsen
Publisher : Amsterdam University Press
Page : 501 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789053569955
The thesis analyses the role of Muslim voluntary welfare associations in Jordan from the perspective of their religious discourse and the related social activities, to assess whether they contribute to empowerment or reinforce dependency
Author : Perfection Learning Corporation
Publisher : Turtleback
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1663607346
Author : Morten L. Kringelbach,Kent C. Berridge
Publisher : Affective Science
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780195331028
Pleasure is fundamental to well-being and the quality of life, but until recently, was barely explored by science. Current research on pleasure has brought about ground-breaking developments on several fronts, and new data on pleasure and the brain have begun to converge from many disparate fields. The time is ripe to present these important findings in a single volume, and so Morten Kringelbach and Kent Berridge have brought together the leading researchers to provides a comprehensive review of our current scientific understanding of pleasure. The authors present their latest neuroscientific research into pleasure, describing studies on the brain's role in pleasure and reward in animals and humans, including brain mechanisms, neuroimaging data, and psychological analyses, as well as how their findings have been applied to clinical problems, such as depression and other disorders of hedonic well-being. To clarify the differences between their views, the researchers also provide short answers to a set of fundamental questions about pleasure and its relation to the brain. This book is intended to serve as both a starting point for readers new to the field, and as a reference for more experienced graduate students and scientists from fields such as neuroscience, psychology, psychiatry, neurology, and neurosurgery.
Author : Per Pinstrup-Andersen,Peter Sandøe
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2007-07-20
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781402061318
This unique book adds an ethics dimension to the debate and research about poverty, hunger, and globalization. Scholars and practitioners from several disciplines discuss what action is needed for ethics to play a bigger role in reducing poverty and hunger within the context of globalization. The book concludes that much of the rhetoric is not followed up with appropriate action, and discusses the role of ethics in attempts to match action with rhetoric.
Author : Anna K. Schaffner
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2016-06-21
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780231538855
Today our fatigue feels chronic; our anxieties, amplified. Proliferating technologies command our attention. Many people complain of burnout, and economic instability and the threat of ecological catastrophe fill us with dread. We look to the past, imagining life to have once been simpler and slower, but extreme mental and physical stress is not a modern syndrome. Beginning in classical antiquity, this book demonstrates how exhaustion has always been with us and helps us evaluate more critically the narratives we tell ourselves about the phenomenon. Medical, cultural, literary, and biographical sources have cast exhaustion as a biochemical imbalance, a somatic ailment, a viral disease, and a spiritual failing. It has been linked to loss, the alignment of the planets, a perverse desire for death, and social and economic disruption. Pathologized, demonized, sexualized, and even weaponized, exhaustion unites the mind with the body and society in such a way that we attach larger questions of agency, willpower, and well-being to its symptoms. Mapping these political, ideological, and creative currents across centuries of human development, Exhaustion finds in our struggle to overcome weariness a more significant effort to master ourselves.
Author : Hoyle Leigh
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2010-06-14
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781441956712
What produces mental illness: genes, environment, both,neither? The answer can be found in memes—replicable units of information linking genes and environment in the memory and in culture—whose effects on individual brain development can be benign or toxic. This book reconceptualizes mental disorders as products of stressful gene-meme interactions and introduces a biopsychosocial template for meme-based diagnosis and treatment. A range of therapeutic modalities, both broad-spectrum (meditation) and specific(cognitive-behavioral), for countering negative memes and their replication are considered, as are possibilities for memetic prevention strategies. In this book, the author outlines the roles of genes and memes in the evolution of the human brain; elucidates the creation, storage, and evolution of memes within individual brains; examines culture as a carrier and supplier of memes to the individual; provides examples of gene-meme interactions that can result in anxiety, depression, and other disorders; proposes a multiaxial gene-meme model for diagnosing mental illness; identifies areas of meme-based prevention for at-risk children; and defines specific syndromes in terms of memetic symptoms, genetic/ memetic development, and meme-based treatment.
Author : Daniel A. Bell,Avner de-Shalit
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2013-10-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780691159690
A lively and personal book that returns the city to political thought Cities shape the lives and outlooks of billions of people, yet they have been overshadowed in contemporary political thought by nation-states, identity groups, and concepts like justice and freedom. The Spirit of Cities revives the classical idea that a city expresses its own distinctive ethos or values. In the ancient world, Athens was synonymous with democracy and Sparta represented military discipline. In this original and engaging book, Daniel Bell and Avner de-Shalit explore how this classical idea can be applied to today's cities, and they explain why philosophy and the social sciences need to rediscover the spirit of cities. Bell and de-Shalit look at nine modern cities and the prevailing ethos that distinguishes each one. The cities are Jerusalem (religion), Montreal (language), Singapore (nation building), Hong Kong (materialism), Beijing (political power), Oxford (learning), Berlin (tolerance and intolerance), Paris (romance), and New York (ambition). Bell and de-Shalit draw upon the richly varied histories of each city, as well as novels, poems, biographies, tourist guides, architectural landmarks, and the authors' own personal reflections and insights. They show how the ethos of each city is expressed in political, cultural, and economic life, and also how pride in a city's ethos can oppose the homogenizing tendencies of globalization and curb the excesses of nationalism. The Spirit of Cities is unreservedly impressionistic. Combining strolling and storytelling with cutting-edge theory, the book encourages debate and opens up new avenues of inquiry in philosophy and the social sciences. It is a must-read for lovers of cities everywhere. In a new preface, Bell and de-Shalit further develop their idea of "civicism," the pride city dwellers feel for their city and its ethos over that of others.
Author : Friedrich Nietzsche
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1997-06-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781603848800
Twilight of the Idols presents a vivid, compressed overview of many of Nietzsche’s mature ideas, including his attack on Plato’s Socrates and on the Platonic legacy in Western philosophy and culture. Polt provides a trustworthy rendering of Nietzsche’s text in contemporary American English, complete with notes prepared by the translator and Tracy Strong. An authoritative Introduction by Strong makes this an outstanding edition. Select Bibliography and Index.
Author : Robert M. Sapolsky
Publisher : Holt Paperbacks
Page : 559 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2004-09-15
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781429935654
Renowned primatologist Robert Sapolsky offers a completely revised and updated edition of his most popular work, with over 225,000 copies in print Now in a third edition, Robert M. Sapolsky's acclaimed and successful Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers features new chapters on how stress affects sleep and addiction, as well as new insights into anxiety and personality disorder and the impact of spirituality on managing stress. As Sapolsky explains, most of us do not lie awake at night worrying about whether we have leprosy or malaria. Instead, the diseases we fear-and the ones that plague us now-are illnesses brought on by the slow accumulation of damage, such as heart disease and cancer. When we worry or experience stress, our body turns on the same physiological responses that an animal's does, but we do not resolve conflict in the same way-through fighting or fleeing. Over time, this activation of a stress response makes us literally sick. Combining cutting-edge research with a healthy dose of good humor and practical advice, Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers explains how prolonged stress causes or intensifies a range of physical and mental afflictions, including depression, ulcers, colitis, heart disease, and more. It also provides essential guidance to controlling our stress responses. This new edition promises to be the most comprehensive and engaging one yet.
Author : Corinna Elsenbroich,Nigel Gilbert
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2013-07-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789400770522
The book focusses on questions of individual and collective action, the emergence and dynamics of social norms and the feedback between individual behaviour and social phenomena. It discusses traditional modelling approaches to social norms and shows the usefulness of agent-based modelling for the study of these micro-macro interactions. Existing agent-based models of social norms are discussed and it is shown that so far too much priority has been given to parsimonious models and questions of the emergence of norms, with many aspects of social norms, such as norm-change, not being modelled. Juvenile delinquency, group radicalisation and moral decision making are used as case studies for agent-based models of collective action extending existing models by providing an embedding into social networks, social influence via argumentation and a causal action theory of moral decision making. The major contribution of the book is to highlight the multifaceted nature of the dynamics of social norms, consisting not only of emergence, and the importance of embedding of agent-based models into existing theory.
Author : G. Roberts
Publisher : Springer
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2015-02-19
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781137440679
Christian Scripture and Human Resource Management provides a much-needed Christian faith-based perspective on human resources management written for both line and human resource managers using the framework of servant leadership, the mandated leadership approach used by Jesus.
Author : Friedrich Nietzsche
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2003-02-20
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0521008875
This volume offers new and accurate translations of a selection of Nietzsche's late writings.