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The Brain in Your Kitchen
A Collection of Essays on How What We Buy, Eat, and Experience Affects Our Brains
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2012
Every day, we’re faced with choices about what to eat, wear, and purchase. Blinded by a tsunami of information-some good, some bad, some intentionally misleading—often our brains are too overwhelmed to examine all the details. So how do we know we’re making the best decisions for us?Author and...
The Creation of Reality in Psychoanalysis
A View of the Contributions of Donald Spence, Roy Schafer, Robert Stolorow, Irwin Z. Hoffman, and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
It has become almost de rigueur in contemporary psychoanalysis to cite Freud's positivism-especially his commitment to an objective reality that can be accessed through memory and interpretation-as a continuing source of weakness in bringing the field into the postmodern era. But is it so simple to...
The Organizational Psychology of Sport
Key Issues and Practical Applications
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2016
This ground-breaking book is the first to provide a comprehensive overview of how organizational psychology can be used to understand and improve performance in elite sport. Using recent theoretical advances from this burgeoning area of research, each chapter offers key conceptual issues and practical...
Routledge Companion to Sport and Exercise Psychology
Global perspectives and fundamental concepts
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2014
Written by an international team of expert contributors, this unique global and authoritative survey explores in full but accessible detail the basic constructs and concepts of modern sport and exercise psychology and their practical application.
The book consists of 62 chapters, written by...
Re-Designing Youth Sport
Change the Game
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2016
Many observers have pointed out what is wrong with youth sport: an emphasis on winning at all costs; parental over-involvement; high participation costs that exclude many families; lack of vigorous physical activity; lack of player engagement; and no focus on development. Currently, most attempts...
Religious Freedom at Risk
The EU, French Schools, and Why the Veil was Banned
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2015
This book examines matters of religious freedom in Europe, considers the work of the European Court of Human Rights in this area, explores issues of multiculturalism and secularism in France, of women in Islam, and of Muslims in the West. The work presents legal analysis and ethnographic fieldwork,...
The Mindful Athlete
Secrets to Pure Performance
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2015
Michael Jordan credits George Mumford with transforming his on-court leadership of the Bulls, helping Jordan lead the team to six NBA championships. Mumford also helped Kobe Bryant, Andrew Bynum, and Lamar Odom and countless other NBA players turn around their games. A widely respected public speaker...
Outnumbered
From Facebook and Google to Fake News and Filter-bubbles – The Algorithms That Control Our Lives
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2018
'Fascinating' Financial Times
Algorithms are running our society, and as the Cambridge Analytica story has revealed, we don't really know what they are up to.
Our increasing reliance on technology and the internet has opened a window for mathematicians and data researchers to gaze through...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2016
The Handbook of Psychophysiology has been the authoritative resource for more than a quarter of a century. Since the third edition was published a decade ago, the field of psychophysiological science has seen significant advances, both in traditional measures such as electroencephalography, event-related...
by John Woods, Cliff A. Hooker, Dov M. Gabbay
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2011
The domain of nonlinear dynamical systems and its mathematical underpinnings has been developing exponentially for a century, the last 35 years seeing an outpouring of new ideas and applications and a concomitant confluence with ideas of complex systems and their applications from irreversible thermodynamics....
Wheeling to Healing...Broken Heart on a Bicycle
Understanding and Healing Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs)
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2017
A native of Boliva, James Encinas twice crossed the United States—Los Angeles to New Jersey—on a bicycle. The first trip, during his mid-twenties, was done in hurt and fueled by anger. The second, at age 55, was done in the pursuit of healing himself and others. Having experienced...
by françois arago
Language: French
Release Date: January 23, 2018
Language: French
Release Date: January 23, 2018
Introduction Jeunesse de Monge ; ses dispositions précoces. — Il est admis dans la seconde division de l’école de Mézières Monge est nommé répétiteur et professeur à l’école de Mézières. — Travaux de Monge sur la géométrie descriptive et sur l’analyse transcendante. —...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2015
The book aims to provide an overview of the state of the art on the mechanics of arches and masonry structures. It is addressed to an international audience, arising from the international context in which the Associazione Edoardo Benvenuto has carried out its activities in recent years, under the...
Architecture and Mathematics from Antiquity to the Future
Volume II: The 1500s to the Future
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2015
Every age and every culture has relied on the incorporation of mathematics in their works of architecture to imbue the built environment with meaning and order. Mathematics is also central to the production of architecture, to its methods of measurement, fabrication and analysis. This two-volume edited...