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  • Building Resistance to Stress and Aging

    The Toughness Model

    by R. Dienstbier ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    The toughness model proposed in this book incorporates psychological research and neuroscience to explain how a variety of toughening activities - ranging from confronting mental and physical challenges to meditation - sustain our brains and bodies, and ultimately build our mental and psychological capacities degenerated by stress and by aging. ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • Premodern History and Art through the Prism of Gender in East-Central Europe

    by Daniela Rywiková, Milena Bartlová, Jan Dienstbier, Tereza Kalousková, Martin Šorm, Vera Soukupová, Dáša Francíková, Michaela Antonín Malaníková, Jennifer Vlcek Shurr0, Hana Jadrná Matejková1 ...
    Premodern History and Art through the Prism of Gender in East-Central Europe is a representative collection of current Czech research in premodern history and art history, using gender as a tool of analysis. The common denominators of the texts collected in this volume are the art history of the premodern period, gender perspectives, and, to a certain degree, the Czech milieu. The book is divided ... Read more

    $105.99 USD

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  • Understanding and Overcoming Misophonia

    A Conditioned Aversive Reflex Disorder

    by Thomas H Dozier ...
    Does the sound of other people chewing fill you with rage? Do certain sights and sounds make you crazy when they don’t bother anyone else? If so, you are not alone. Although rarely known, misophonia is quite common, and there is hope.Are you tired of misophonia ruining your life? Are you ready to tackle your misophonia (or help a loved one)? If so, this book is for you.Misophonia is a neurological ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Cerebral Visual Impairment in Children

    Visuoperceptive and Visuocognitive Disorders

    by Josef Zihl, Gordon N. Dutton ...
    Cerebral visual disorders have far-reaching consequences for child development. These have profound adverse effects on children’s education and success in school and also in later life, but, unfortunately, cerebral visual disorders often remain undiagnosed and untreated in the pediatric population. This book provides a state-of-the-art account of what is known about the development and disorders ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

  • On the Psychobiology of Personality

    Essays in Honor of Marvin Zuckerman

    Edited by Robert M Stelmack ...
    Zuckerman received his Ph.D. in psychology from New York University, Graduate School of Arts and Science in 1954 with a specialization in clinical psychology. After graduation, he worked for three years as a clinical psychologist in state hospitals in Norwich, Connecticut and Indianapolis, Indiana. While in the latter position the Institute for Psychiatric Research was opened in the same medical ... Read more

    $152.99 USD

  • Emotions of Animals and Humans

    Comparative Perspectives

    Edited by Shigeru Watanabe, Stan Kuczaj ...
    Series series Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
    This book takes a multidisciplinary approach to emotion, with contributions from biologists, psychologists, neuroscientists, robot engineers, and artists. A wide range of emotional phenomena is discussed, including the notion that humans’ sophisticated sensibility, as evidenced by our aesthetic appreciation of the arts, is based at least in part on a basic emotional sensibility that is found in ... Read more

    $143.99 USD

  • Father Time: The Social Clock and the Timing of Fatherhood

    by W. Goldberg ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    Men's biological clocks may not be ticking loudly, but what about the social clock? Are there benefits to being in-step with social norms for the timing of parenthood? In a clear and accessible style, this book examines the advantages and disadvantages of early, on-time, and delayed first fatherhood. The book includes a foreword by Ross D. Parke. ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • Intermarriage and Mixed Parenting, Promoting Mental Health and Wellbeing

    Crossover Love

    by R. Singla ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    Marriages across ethnic borders are increasing in frequency, yet little is known of how discourses of 'normal' families, ethnicity, race, migration, globalisation affect couples and children involved in these mixed marriages. This book explores mixed marriage though intimate stories drawn from the real lives of visibly different couples. ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • The Metamorphoses of the Brain – Neurologisation and its Discontents

    by Jan De Vos ...
    Series series Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
    What are we exactly, when we are said to be our brain? This question leads Jan De Vos to examine the different metamorphoses of the brain: the educated brain, the material brain, the iconographic brain, the sexual brain, the celebrated brain and, finally, the political brain. This first, protracted and sustained argument on neurologisation, which lays bare its lineage with psychologisation, should ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Adolescent Brain Development

    Implications for Behavior

    by Michelle K. Jetha, Sidney Segalowitz ...
    This comprehensive yet brief overview of the adolescent human brain discusses how the brain develops during this critical period of life and how that development impacts decision-making and risk-taking behavior in the adolescent. - This originated as a white paper requested by the Canadian government for a specific group looking to understand adolescent brain development in the context of ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • The Single-Neuron Theory

    Closing in on the Neural Correlate of Consciousness

    by Steven Sevush ...
    Series series Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
    This book presents an engaging account of a provocative new theory which explores how our brain generates conscious experience and where this occurs. It suggests that conscious experience happens not at the whole brain level but at the level of individual nerve cells. The notion that the brain as a whole is sentient is an illusion created by the exquisite organization of the individually conscious ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • Developmental Disorders of the Brain

    Edited by Nicole J. Rinehart, John L. Bradshaw, Peter G. Enticott ...
    Series series Brain, Behaviour and Cognition
    Developmental Disorders of the Brain: Brain and Behaviour addresses disabilities that occur or have their roots in the early, developmental phase of life which are of utmost concern to parents, siblings, carers and teachers.This text describes the latest clinical and behavioral findings of disorders which largely or entirely involve the frontostriatal (basal ganglia) system including Tourette’s, ... Read more

    $77.99 USD