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Fall 2021 - TAKE CARE OF YOURSELF and each other
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Slow Media by Jennifer RauchCall Number: HM1206 .R376 2018
ISBN: 9780190641795
Publication Date: 2018-10-09
Today we recognize that we have a different relationship to media technology--and to information more broadly--than we had even five years ago. We are connected to the news media, to our jobs, and to each other, 24 hours a day. But many people have found their mediated lives to be too fast, too digital, too disposable, and too distracted. This group--which includes many technologists and young people--believes that current practices of digital media production and consumption are unsustainable, and works to promote alternate ways of living.
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Thank You for Being Late by Thomas L. FriedmanCall Number: HM846 .F739 2016
ISBN: 9780374273538
Publication Date: 2016-11-22
In Thank You for Being Late, a work unlike anything he has attempted before, Thomas L. Friedman exposes the tectonic movements that are reshaping the world today and explains how to get the most out of them and cushion their worst impacts. You will never look at the world the same way again after you read this book: how you understand the news, the work you do, the education your kids need, the investments your employer has to make, and the moral and geopolitical choices our country has to navigate will all be refashioned by Friedman's original analysis.
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The Beautiful Cure by Daniel M. DavisCall Number: QR181 .D29 2018
ISBN: 9780226371009
Publication Date: 2018-09-28
The immune system holds the key to human health. In The Beautiful Cure, leading immunologist Daniel M. Davis describes how the scientific quest to understand how the immune system works--and how it is affected by stress, sleep, age, and our state of mind--is now unlocking a revolutionary new approach to medicine and well-being.
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The Enlightened Gene by Arri Eisen; Yungdrung Konchok; Dalai (Foreword by)Call Number: BL240.3 .E365 2018
ISBN: 9781512600001
Publication Date: 2017-10-03
Eight years ago, in an unprecedented intellectual endeavor, the Dalai Lama invited Emory University to integrate modern science into the education of the thousands of Tibetan Buddhist monks and nuns in exile in India. This project, the Emory Tibet Science Initiative, became the first major change in the monastic curriculum in six centuries. Eight years in, the results are transformative. The singular backdrop of teaching science to Tibetan Buddhist monks and nuns offered provocative insights into how science and religion can work together to enrich each other, as well as to shed light on life and what it means to be a thinking, biological human.
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Hype by Nina Shapiro; Kristin LobergCall Number: R729.9 .S55 2018
ISBN: 9781250149305
Publication Date: 2018-05-01
An engaging and informative look at the real science behind our most common beliefs and assumptions in the health sphere
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Rethinking Thin by Gina KolataCall Number: RM222.2 .K576 2007
ISBN: 9780374103989
Publication Date: 2007-05-01
"In this eye-opening book, New York Times science writer Gina Kolata shows that our society's obsession with dieting and weight loss is less about keeping trim and staying healthy than about money, power, trends, and impossible ideals." "Rethinking Thin is at once a story of the place of diets in American society and a critique of the weight loss industry.
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Food and Nutrition by P. K. NewbyCall Number: RA784 .N482 2018
ISBN: 9780190846633
Publication Date: 2018-09-05
From cleanses and raw veganism to the clean eating and paleo diets, it seems that every day there is news about some new super-nutrient, super diet, or super food that promises to help us to be healthier, smarter, happier, fight disease, lose weight, or live longer. Some of this information propels temporary food or diet fads, some of it is subsequently discredited, and some becomes staid wisdom of healthy eating.
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Eating Well for Optimum Health by Andrew WeilCall Number: RA784 .W425 2000
ISBN: 9780525431794
Publication Date: 2017-04-18
At last, a book about eating (and eating well) for health -- from Dr. Andrew Weil, the brilliantly innovative and greatly respected doctor who has been instrumental in transforming the way Americans think about health.
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Overwhelmed by Brigid SchulteCall Number: HQ759.48 .S33 2014
ISBN: 9780374228446
Publication Date: 2014-03-11
Can working parents in America--or anywhere--ever find true leisure time? According to the Leisure Studies Department at the University of Iowa, true leisure is "that place in which we realize our humanity." If that's true, argues Brigid Schulte, then we're doing dangerously little realizing of our humanity.
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The Psychology of Happiness by Peter WarrCall Number: BF575.H27 W367 2019
ISBN: 9781138090668
Publication Date: 2019-04-15
Is happiness all down to luck? Do events in our life influence how happy we feel? Can too much of a good thing make us less happy? The Psychology of Happiness introduces readers to the variety of factors that can affect how happy we are. From our personality and feelings of self-worth, to our physical health and employment status, happiness is a subjective experience which will change throughout our lives.
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Manage Your Stress by Clare WilsonCall Number: BF575.S75 W55 2020
ISBN: 9781529707038
Publication Date: 2019-11-23
Knowing how to stay on top of stress is a vital life skill. Manage Your Stress equips you with practical, effective techniques to manage life at uni in a stress-free way.
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Happiness: a Very Short Introduction by Daniel M. HaybronCall Number: BF575.H27 H39 2013
ISBN: 9780199590605
Publication Date: 2013-10-01
Happiness is an everyday term in our lives, and most of us strive to be happy. But defining happiness can be difficult. In this Very Short Introduction, Dan Haybron considers the true nature of happiness. By examining what it is, assessing its subjective values, its importance in our lives, and how we can (and should) pursue it, he considers the current thinking on happiness, from psychology to philosophy.
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Emotion: a Very Short Introduction by Dylan EvansCall Number: BF531 .E78 2019
ISBN: 9780198834403
Publication Date: 2019-12-01
Was love invented by European poets in the Middle Ages or is it part of human nature? Will winning the lottery really make you happy? Is it possible to build robots that have feelings?In this Very Sort Introduction Dylan Evans explores these and many other intriguing questions in this guide to the latest thinking about the emotions. Drawing on a wide range of scientific research, from anthropology and psychology to neuroscience and artificial intelligence, Evans takes the reader on a fascinating journey into the human heart, discussing the evolution of emotions and their biological basis, the science of happiness, and the role that emotions play in memory and decision making.
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One Nation under Stress by Dana BeckerCall Number: BF575.S75 B343 2013
ISBN: 9780199742912
Publication Date: 2013-03-11
Examining both research and popular representations of stress in cultural terms, Becker traces the evolution of the social uses of the stress concept as it has been transformed into an all-purpose vehicle for defining, expressing, and containing middle-class anxieties about upheavals in American society.
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Beyond Boredom and Anxiety by Mihály CsíkszentmihályiCall Number: BF515.C74
ISBN: 9780875892610
Publication Date: 1975-11-01
Filled with brilliant wisdom and insights, Beyond Boredom and Anxiety offers a timeless introduction to the concept of flow and the scientific basis behind it-all through the work of one of the field's great scientists, Mihaly Csikzentmihalyi. Through real-life examples, discover how enjoyable activities provide a common experience-a satisfying, often exhilarating, feeling of creative accomplishment and heightened functioning-and under what conditions 'serious' work can also provide this intrinsic enjoyment.
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Integrating Mental Health Research into Legal Reform by Robert T. Carter; Thomas D. ScheuermannCall Number: BF76.45 .C37 2020
ISBN: 9781138553439
Publication Date: 2019-11-19
This book proposes a comprehensive approach to confronting racism through a foundational framework as well as practical strategies to correct and reverse the course of the past and catalyze the stalled efforts of the present. It will do so by focusing on those specific aspects of law and legal theory that intersect with psychological research and practice. In Part I, the historical and current underpinnings of racial injustice and the obstacles to combating racism are introduced. Part II examines the documented psychological and emotional effects of racism, including race-based traumatic stress. In Part III, the authors analyze the application of forensic mental health assessment in addressing race-related experiences and present a legal and policy framework for reforming institutional and organizational policies. Finally, in part IV the authors advocate for a close, collaborative approach among legal and mental health professionals and their clients to seek redress for racial discrimination. Confronting Racism provides a framework for legal, mental health, and other related social science professionals and leaders to acknowledge and act on the harmful aspects of our societal systems.
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Adaptation and Well-Being by Knud S. LarsenCall Number: BF335 .L275 2018
ISBN: 9781138092990
Publication Date: 2017-10-19
"According to Leo Tolstoy''s famous statement "all happy families are alike, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way". Knud Larsen in his book on human happines proves the opposite. Summarizing the classical and recent research in successful human adaptation, adjustment and well-being of the soul and body he shows the many faces of individual human happiness.
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Boost! by Michael Bar-EliCall Number: BF481 .B275 2018
ISBN: 9780190661731
Publication Date: 2017-11-01
To perform better in any situation - in your career, hobbies, relationships, or in any facet of your life - it is critical to develop psychological skills, which, just like physical abilities, can be taught, learned, and practiced. Both as individuals and as groups, we can tone these psychological skills and use them to heighten awareness, foster talents and technical abilities, and reach peak performance. Mental preparedness and psychological awareness are the keys to thriving in any environment.
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The Mind's Own Physician by Dalai Lama; Jon Kabat-zinn (Editor); Richard J. Davidson (Editor); Zara Houshmand (As told to)Call Number: BQ4570.P76 M56 2011
ISBN: 9781572249691
Publication Date: 2012-01-02
By inviting the Dalai Lama and leading researchers in medicine, psychology, and neuroscience to join in conversation, the Mind & Life Institute set the stage for a fascinating exploration of the healing potential of the human mind. The Mind's Own Physician presents in its entirety the thirteenth Mind and Life dialogue, a discussion addressing a range of vital questions concerning the science and clinical applications of meditation: How do meditative practices influence pain and human suffering? What role does the brain play in emotional well-being and health? To what extent can our minds actually influence physical disease? Are there important synergies here for transforming health care, and for understanding our own evolutionary limitations as a species? Edited by world-renowned researchers Jon Kabat-Zinn and Richard J. Davidson, this book presents this remarkably dynamic interchange along with intriguing research findings that shed light on the nature of the mind, its capacity to refine itself through training, and its role in physical and emotional health.
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Sustainable Happiness by Joe LoizzoCall Number: BF575.H27 L65 2012
ISBN: 9780415878166
Publication Date: 2012-06-20
Today's greatest health challenges, the so-called diseases of civilization--depression, trauma, obesity, cancer--are now known in large part to reflect our inability to tame stress reflexes gone wild and to empower instead the peaceful, healing and sociable part of our nature that adapts us to civilized life. The same can be said of the economic challenges posed by the stress-reactive cycles of boom and bust, driven by addictive greed and compulsive panic. As current research opens up new horizons of stress-cessation, empathic intelligence, peak performance, and shared happiness, it has also encountered Asian methods of self-healing and interdependence more effective and teachable than any known in the West. Sustainable Happiness is the first book to make Asia's most rigorous and complete system of contemplative living, hidden for centuries in Tibet, accessible to help us all on our shared journey towards sustainable well-being, altruism, inspiration and happiness.
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