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High employee stress can cause problems in the workplace. While not only increasing the employee's risk for health problems, it also can cost the company thousands in lost work days and increased medical costs. The 10 Minute Guide to Stress Management is the perfect solution for busy managers and professionals. Expert author Jeff Davidson walks workers through ways to decrease their stress level and increase their productivity. Readers learn how to:
-- Understand why they are stressed
-- Identify inducers -- both at work and at home
-- Manage information and that overwhelmed feeling
-- Implement practical tips that work for reducing stress such as sleep and eating habitsBR>-- Make exercise and private time work for managing stress
-- Understand why they are stressed
-- Identify inducers -- both at work and at home
-- Manage information and that overwhelmed feeling
-- Implement practical tips that work for reducing stress such as sleep and eating habitsBR>-- Make exercise and private time work for managing stress
Not just an anti-aging book, The 100 Year Lifestyle is a total life approach for increasing quality and quantity of years. This revolutionary book reveals the secret of making the most of our extended lifestyle. It gives the mindset, tools, and strategies to enjoy the highest quality of life as we age in years without aging in body and mind, including diet nutrition, exercise, mental agility, creativity, finances, friends and family, work, community, and a sense of purpose. This unique program for optimum health and happiness is as interactive as it is informative, offering readers the opportunity to customize their new 100 Year Lifestyle to suit their own needs.
Why do baby sharks, hyenas, and pelicans kill their siblings? Why do beetles and mice commit infanticide? Why are twins and birth defects more common in older human mothers? A Natural History of Families concisely examines what behavioral ecologists have discovered about family dynamics and what these insights might tell us about human biology and behavior. Scott Forbes's engaging account describes an uneasy union among family members in which rivalry for resources often has dramatic and even fatal consequences.
In nature, parents invest resources and control the allocation of resources among their offspring to perpetuate their genetic lineage. Those families sometimes function as cooperative units, the nepotistic and loving havens we choose to identify with. In the natural world, however, dysfunctional familial behavior is disarmingly commonplace. While explaining why infanticide, fratricide, and other seemingly antisocial behaviors are necessary, Forbes also uncovers several surprising applications to humans. Here the conflict begins in the moments following conception as embryos struggle to wrest control of pregnancy from the mother, and to wring more nourishment from her than she can spare, thus triggering morning sickness, diabetes, and high blood pressure. Mothers, in return, often spontaneously abort embryos with severe genetic defects, allowing for prenatal quality control of offspring. Using a broad sweep of entertaining examples culled from the world of animals and humans, A Natural History of Families is a lively introduction to the behavioral ecology of the family.
For three fascinating, disturbing years, writer Patricia Hersch journeyed inside a world that is as familiar as our own children and yet as alien as some exotic culture--the world of adolescence. As a silent, attentive partner, she followed eight teenagers in the typically American town of Reston, Virginia, listening to their stories, observing their rituals, watching them fulfill their dreams and enact their tragedies. What she found was that America's teens have fashioned a fully defined culture that adults neither see nor imagine--a culture of unprecedented freedom and baffling complexity, a culture with rules but no structure, values but no clear morality, codes but no consistency. Is it society itself that has created this separate teen community? Resigned to the attitude that adolescents simply live in "a tribe apart," adults have pulled away, relinquishing responsibility and supervision, allowing the unhealthy behaviors of teens to flourish. Ultimately, this rift between adults and teenagers robs both generations of meaningful connections. For everyone's world is made richer and more challenging by having adolescents in it.
The bestselling author of Quantum Healing and Perfect Health combines ancient mind/body wisdom with current anti-aging research to show that the effects of aging are largely preventable. With the passage of time, it is possible to retain physical vitality, creativity, memory, and self-esteem.
Alfred Tarski, one of the greatest logicians of all time, is widely thought of as 'the man who defined truth'. His mathematical work on the concepts of truth and logical consequence are cornerstones of modern logic, influencing developments in philosophy, linguistics and computer science. Tarski was a charismatic teacher and zealous promoter of his view of logic as the foundation of all rational thought, a bon-vivant and a womanizer, who played the 'great man' to the hilt. Born in Warsaw in 1901 to Jewish parents, he changed his name and converted to Catholicism, but was never able to obtain a professorship in his home country. A fortuitous trip to the United States at the outbreak of war saved his life and turned his career around, even while it separated him from his family for years. By the war's end he was established as a professor of mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley. There Tarski built an empire in logic and methodology that attracted students and distinguished researchers from all over the world. From the cafes of Warsaw and Vienna to the mountains and deserts of California, this first full length biography places Tarski in the social, intellectual and historical context of his times and presents a frank, vivid picture of a personally and professionally passionate man, interlaced with an account of his major scientific achievements.
Fulghum writes from the heart with wit and real insight about everyday things, about small lives with large meanings. These essays may make readers chuckle or weep or simply pause to reflect on their own lives, but readers will never be left unaffected.