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• Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
• Psychological approaches to happiness — Psychological definitions of happiness — Philosophical approaches to happiness — Spiritual approaches to happiness — Happiness and society — Positive education — Happiness and organizations — Relationships and happiness — Development, stability, and change of happiness — Happiness interventions.
• In recent decades there has been a shift in focus from psychological and social problems-what might be called the dark side of humanity-to human well-being and flourishing. The Positive Psychology movement, along with changes in attitudes toward organisational and societal health, has generated a surge of interest in human happiness. The Oxford Handbook of Happiness is the definitive text for researchers and practitioners interested in human happiness. Its editors and chapter contributors are world leaders in the investigation of happiness across the fields of psychology, education, philosophy, social policy and economics. The study of happiness is at the nexus of four major scientific developments: the growing field of Positive Psychology which researches the conditions that make people flourish advances in the biological and affective sciences which have contributed to the understanding of positive emotions Positive Organizational Scholarship, an emerging discipline aimed at investigating and fostering excellence in organisations and findings from economics indicating that traditional markers of economic and societal well-being are insufficient. The Oxford Handbook of Happiness offers readers a coherent, multi-disciplinary, and accessible text on the current state-of-the-art in happiness research. This volume features ten sections that focus on psychological, philosophical, evolutionary, economic and spiritual approaches to happiness happiness in society, education, organisations and relationships and the assessment and development of happiness. Readers will find information on psychological constructs such as resilience, flow, and emotional intelligence theories including broaden-and-build and self-determination and explorations of topics including collective virtuousness, psychological capital, coaching, environmental sustainability and economic growth. This handbook will be useful to academics, practitioners, teachers, students, and all those interested in theory and research on human happiness.

Subjects:

• Happiness.
• Joy.
• Well-being.
• Satisfaction.
• Happiness. fast (OCoLC)fst00951160
• Joy. fast (OCoLC)fst00984249
• Satisfaction. fast (OCoLC)fst01105825
• Well-being. fast (OCoLC)fst01402723

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• Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Goliath : Am I a dog that you should come to me with sticks? — pt. 1. The advantages of disadvantages (and the disadvantages of advantages) — Vivek Ranadivé: It was really random. I mean, my father had never played basketball before. — Teresa DeBrito: My largest class was twenty-nine kids. Oh, it was fun. — Caroline Sacks: If I’d gone to the University of Maryland, I’d still be in science. — pt. 2. The theory of desirable difficulty — David Boies: You wouldn’t wish dyslexia on your child. Or would you? — Emil Jay Freireich: How Jay did it, I don’t know. — Wyatt Walker: De rabbit is de slickest o’ all de animals de Lawd ever made. — pt. 3. The limits of power — Rosemary Lawlor: I wasn’t born that way. This was forced upon me. — Wilma Derksen: We have all done something dreadful in our lives, or have felt the urge to. — André Trocmé: We feel obliged to tell you that there are among us a certain number of Jews.
• This book uncovers the hidden rules that shape the balance between the weak and the mighty and the powerful and the dispossessed. In it the author challenges how we think about obstacles and disadvantages, offering a new interpretation of what it means to be discriminated against, or cope with a disability, or lose a parent, or attend a mediocre school, or suffer from any number of other apparent setbacks. He begins with the real story of what happened between the giant and the shepherd boy (David and Goliath) those many years ago. From there, the book examines Northern Ireland’s Troubles, the minds of cancer researchers and civil rights leaders, murder and the high costs of revenge, and the dynamics of successful and unsuccessful classrooms, all to demonstrate how much of what is beautiful and important in the world arises from what looks like suffering and adversity. — From book jacket.

Subjects:

• Motivation (Psychology)
• Struggle — Psychological aspects.
• Opportunity.
• Success.
• Motivation.
• Achievement.
• Kampf. gnd
• Unterlegenheit. gnd
• Motivationspsychologie. gnd
• Erfolg. gnd

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• Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Looking for friendship in the bible — Philosophers and clerics — Premodern nuns — Gossips and soul mates — Precious ladies — Patriotic friendships — Romantic friendships — Quilt, pray, club — College girls, city girls, and the new woman — Eleanor Roosevelt and her friends — From couplehood to sisterhood — Friendtimacy — Give and take : friendship in a market economy — Can women and men be just friends ?
• Examines the history of female friendship, looking at how women were once considered to be incapable of the highest forms of friendship, and how they were able to co-opt this relationship ideal for themselves over the years. –Publisher’s description.

Subjects:

• Female friendship.
• Female friendship. fast (OCoLC)fst00922609

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• Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
• Chapter 1. Introduction: the evolution of mindfulness science / Kirk Warren Brown, J. David Creswell, and Richard M. Ryan — Part I. Historical and conceptual overview of mindfulness — Chapter 2. Buddhist Conceptualizations of mindfulness / Rupert Gethin — Chapter 3. Developing attention and decreasing affective bias: toward a cross-cultural cognitive science of mindfulness / Jake H. Davis and Evan Thompson — Chapter 4. Reconceptualizing mindfulness: the psycholgical principles of attending in mindfulness practice and their role in well-being / James Carmody — Part II. Mindfulness in the context of contemporary psychological theory — Chapter 5. Mindfulness in the context of attention system / Yi-Yuan Tang and Michael I. Posner — Chapter 6. Mindfulness in the context of processing mode theory / Edward R. Watkins — Chapter 7. Being aware and functioning fully: mindfulness and interest taking within self-determination theory / Edward L. Deci, Richard M. Ryan, Patricia P. Schultz, and Christopher P. Niemiec — Chapter 8. Mindfulness in contextual cognitive-behavioral models / Thomas G. Szabo, Douglas M. Long, Matthieu Villatte, and Steven C. Hayes — Part III. The basic science of mindfulness — Chapter 9. From conceptualization to operationalization of mindfulness / Jordan T. Quaglia, Kirk Warren Brown, Emily K. Lindsay, J. David Creswell, and Robert J. Goodman — Chapter 10. The neurobiology of mindfulness meditation / Fadel Zeidan — Chapter 11. Cognitive benefits of mindfulness mediation / Marieke K. van Vugt — Chapter 12. Emotional benefits of mindfulness / Joanna J. Arch and Lauren N. Landy — Chapter 13. The science of presence: a central mediator of the interpersonal benefits of mindfulness / Suzanne C. Parker, Benjamine W. Nelson, Elissa S. Epel, and Daniel J. Siegel — Chapter 14. Did the Buddha have a self?: no-self, self, and mindfulness in Buddhist thought and western psychologies / Richard M. Ryan and C. Scott Rigby — Part IV. Mindfulness interventions for healthy populations — Chapter 15. Mi
• An authoritative handbook, this volume offers both a comprehensive review of the current science of mindfulness and guide to its ongoing evolution. Leading scholars expore mindfulness in the context of contemporary psychological theories of attention, perceptual processing, motivation, and behavior, as well as within a rich cross-disciplinary dialogue with the contemplatitive traditions, After surveying basic researchfrom neurobiological, cognitive, emotional/affective, and interperspectives, the book delves into applications of mindfulness practices in healthy and clinical populations, reviewing a growing evidence base. Examined are interventions for behavioral and emotion dysregulation disorders, depression, anxiety, and addictions, and for physical health conditions. — back.

Subjects:

• Mindfulness (Psychology)
• Attention.
• Awareness.
• Meditation — Therapeutic use.

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• Grounded in cutting-edge scientific research, this book presents innovative ways to explore and work with emotions in psychotherapy. Preeminent clinician-researcher Stefan G. Hofmann accessibly explains how emotions operate, what influences them, and how they can cause distress. He presents strategies that can significantly improve existing evidence-based treatments and promote positive affect and happiness. Clinicians are guided to help clients with any diagnosis gain emotional awareness and use emotion regulation techniques, mindfulness-based practices, and other effective strategies. In Practice sidebars highlight specific clinical issues and offer illustrative case vignettes — Provided by publisher.
• Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Machine generated contents note: 1. The Nature of Emotions — 2. Individual Differences — 3. Motivation and Emotion — 4. Self and Self-Regulation — 5. Emotion Regulation — 6. Appraisal and Reappraisal — 7. Positive Affect and Happiness — 8. Neurobiology of Emotions — Appendix I. Common Self-Report Measures — Appendix II. Progressive Muscle Relaxation — Appendix III. Expressive Writing.

Subjects:

• Emotions.
• Emotion-focused therapy.

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• Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Families and reading — Emergent literacy — Learning to read words — Skilled word reading — Reading fluency — Vocabulary — Theoretical models of reading comprehension — Components of reading comprehension — Motivation to read — Linguistic variation and reading — Why reading? : The psychosocial benefits of readin.

Subjects:

• Reading, Psychology of.

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• DVD Region 1 Dolby digital.
• In English. Dubbed in French. Optional subtitles in English, French or Spanish. Closed-captioned.
• Julie Harris, James Dean, Raymond Massey, Burl Ives, Richard Davalos, Jo Van Fleet, Albert Dekker, Lois Smith, Harold Gordon, Nick Dennis.
• Director of photography, Ted McCord film editor, Owen Marks music by Leonard Rosenman.
• Based on the novel East of Eden by John Steinbeck.
• Originally produced in 1954.
• MPAA rating: PG for thematic elements and some violence.
• The saga of three generations of the Trask and Hamilton families in the early 1900′s in Northern California. Cal vies for the affection of his hardened father with his favored brother Aron.
• disc 1. The movie — disc 2. Special features.
• Special features: Disc 1: commentary by Richard Schickel — Disc 2: 50th-anniversary documentary East of Eden: art in search of life vintage documentary Forever James Dean additional scenes screen tests wardrobe, costume and production design tests 1955 premiere footage.
• Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, 1955 (Jo Van Fleet)
• Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, 1955 (Jo Van Fleet)
• The saga of three generations of the Trask and Hamilton families in the early 1900′s in Northern California.

Subjects:

• Fathers and sons — California — Salinas River Valley — Drama.
• Twins — California — Salinas River Valley — Drama.
• Brothers — California — Salinas River Valley — Drama.
• Problem youth — California — Salinas River Valley — Drama.
• Sibling rivalry — California — Salinas River Valley — Drama.
• Salinas River Valley (Calif.) — Drama.
• Feature films. lcgft
• Video recordings for the hearing impaired. lcgft

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• DVD.
• Presenter, Dane Archer.
• Videodisc release of a 1997 production.
• Copyright from guide.
• A world of differences is one videotape in the University of California video series on Nonverbal communication, gender, and cultural differences –guide t.p.
• Examines 14 different facets, both verbal and nonverbal, of cross-cultural misunderstanding.

Subjects:

• Documentary films. lcgft
• Intercultural communication.
• Communication — Cross-cultural studies.
• Interpersonal communication.
• Nonverbal communication.

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• Sixth grade — Summer before seventh grade — Seventh grade — Summer before eighth grade — Eighth grade.
• The author revisits her middle school diary, commenting on her experiences with bullying, crushes, popular culture, and what it means to be labeled a slut.

Subjects:

• Lindin, Emily — Childhood and youth — Juvenile literature.
• Middle school students — Juvenile literature.
• Bullying — Juvenile literature.
• Diaries — Juvenile literature.
• Lindin, Emily — Childhood and youth.
• Middle school students.
• Women — Biography.
• Bullying.
• Diaries.
• Autobiographies. lcgft

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• With a new afterword by the author. –Cover.
• Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Goliath : Am I a dog that you should come to me with sticks? — The Advantages of Disadvantages (and the Disadvantages of Advantages). Vivek Ranadivé: It was really random. I mean, my father had never played basketball before. Teresa DeBrito: My largest class was twenty-nine kids. Oh, it was fun. Caroline Sacks: If I’d gone to the University of Maryland, I’d still be in science. — The Theory of Desirable Difficulty. David Boies: You wouldn’t wish dyslexia on your child. Or would you? Emil Jay Freireich: How Jay did it, I don’t know. Wyatt Walker: De rabbit is de slickest o’ all de animals de Lawd ever made. — The Limits of Power. Rosemary Lawlor: I wasn’t born that way. This was forced upon me. Wilma Derksen: We have all done something dreadful in our lives, or have felt the urge to. André Trocmé: We feel obliged to tell you that there are among us a certain number of Jews. — Afterword: Konrad Kellen: Tell ihm he knows nothing at all about his enemy.
• The author of The Tipping Point, Blink, Outliers, and What the Dog Saw draws upon history, psychology, and powerful storytelling to challenge how we think about obstacles and disadvantages, and to fundamentally reshape the way we think about suffering and adversity.
• This book uncovers the hidden rules that shape the balance between the weak and the mighty and the powerful and the dispossessed. In it the author challenges how we think about obstacles and disadvantages, offering a new interpretation of what it means to be discriminated against, or cope with a disability, or lose a parent, or attend a mediocre school, or suffer from any number of other apparent setbacks. He begins with the real story of what happened between the giant and the shepherd boy (David and Goliath) those many years ago. From there, the book examines Northern Ireland’s Troubles, the minds of cancer researchers and civil rights leaders, murder and the high costs of revenge, and the dynamics of successful and unsuccessful classrooms, all to demonstrate how much of what is beautiful and important in the world arises from what looks like suffering and adversity. — From book jacket.

Subjects:

• Motivation (Psychology)
• Struggle — Psychological aspects.
• Opportunity.
• Success.

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