Author: Richard S. Lazarus PhD
Publisher: Springer Publishing Company
Keywords: synthesis, new, emotion, stress
Number of Pages: 360
Published: 2006-05-04
List price: $30.00
ISBN-10: 0826102611
ISBN-13: 9780826102614

This volume is a sequel to the landmark work that established an exciting new field of study, Stress, Appraisal and Coping (Lazarus and Folkman, 1984). The author now explores the newest trends in research and theory, focusing on the rationale for a cognitive-mediational approach to stress and emotions. He makes clear distinctions between social stress, physiological stress, and psychological stress. By integrating both stress and emotion into one theoretical framework, with appraisal and coping as its basis, this book takes a narrative approach to both theory and research. Lazarus concl

Author: Susan Sontag
Publisher: Picador
Keywords: essays, falls, stress
Number of Pages: 368
Published: 2002-11-09
List price: $16.00
ISBN-10: 0312421311
ISBN-13: 9780312421311

Thirty-five years after her first collection, the now classic Against Interpretation, America’s most important essayist has chosen more than forty longer and shorter pieces from the last twenty years. Divided into three sections, the first "Reading" includes ardent pieces on writers from her own private canon - Machado de Assis, Barthes, W. G. Sebald, Borges, Tsvetaeva, and Elizabeth Hardwick. In the second, "Seeing" she shares her passions for film, dance, photography, painting, opera, and theater. And in the final section, "There and Here" Sontag explores her own commitments to the wor

Author: Cary L. Cooper
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: stress, organizational, theories
Number of Pages: 296
Published: 2000-05-11
List price: $70.00
ISBN-10: 019829705X
ISBN-13: 9780198297055

The costs of stress in the workplace in most of the developed and developing world have risen, according to recent statistics revealing an increase in the number of sick days taken, labor turnover, employee burnout, premature death and decreased productivity. In one volume, this book provides all the major theories of organizational stress from the leading researchers and writers in the field.

Author: E. Usdin
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: neurotransmitters, catecholamines, role, stress
Number of Pages: 1160
Published: 1984-01-01
List price: $709.00
ISBN-10: 2881241026
ISBN-13: 9782881241024

Author: Gisela Storz
Publisher: Unknown
Keywords: responses, stress, bacterial
Number of Pages: 500
Published: 2000
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 1555811922
ISBN-13: 9781555811921

Author: Bob Lancer
Publisher: GDG Publishing
Keywords: stress, love, parenting
Number of Pages: 262
Published: 2007-08-31
List price: $16.95
ISBN-10: 0979662583
ISBN-13: 9780979662584

Learn how to bring our your child’s great potential as you maintain your peaceful and loving self-control. Guide your child’s behavior without anger, power struggles or stress. Make daily transitions such as mealtime, bedtime, homework and getting ready in the morning positive experiences and smooth routines. Transform your anger into love, your impatience into patience and your insecurity into confidence. Your flexibility in setting a positive example will absolutely eliminate those draining, futile power struggles with your child that simply need not be.

Author: W.A. Pryor
Publisher: Elsevier Science
Keywords: status, stress, oxidative, assays, bio
Number of Pages: 296
Published: 2001-11-23
List price: $136.00
ISBN-10: 0444509577
ISBN-13: 9780444509574

This work contains over thirty chapters by leading researchers in the field of oxidative biology, originally presented as articles in an extended Forum in the highly-cited journal, Free Radical Biology & Medicine. The papers in this Forum (or Symposium-in-print) spanned seven issues of the journal, over many months. This is the first time that all of these expert contributions are presented in one place.Reliable methods for measuring OSS in organisms are essential. These would, amongst other things, offer applications as early warning signals for cancer and heart disease - eventually gi