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Dangerous Curves: Latina Bodies in the Media (Critical Cultural Communication #5)

by Isabel Molina-Guzman

With images of Jennifer Lopez’s butt and America Ferrera’s smile saturating national and global culture, Latina bodies have become an ubiquitous presence. Dangerous Curves traces the visibility of the Latina body in the media and popular culture by analyzing a broad range of popular media including news, media gossip, movies, television news, and online audience discussions.Isabel Molina-Guzmán maps the ways in which the Latina body is gendered, sexualized, and racialized within the United States media using a series of fascinating case studies. The book examines tabloid headlines about Jennifer Lopez’s indomitable sexuality, the contested authenticity of Salma Hayek’s portrayal of Frida Kahlo in the movie Frida, and America Ferrera’s universally appealing yet racially sublimated Ugly Betty character. Dangerous Curves carves out a mediated terrain where these racially ambiguous but ethnically marked feminine bodies sell everything from haute couture to tabloids.Through a careful examination of the cultural tensions embedded in the visibility of Latina bodies in United States media culture, Molina-Guzmán paints a nuanced portrait of the media’s role in shaping public knowledge about Latina identity and Latinidad, and the ways political and social forces shape media representations.

Our Brain and the News: The Psychophysiological Impact of Journalism

by Isabel Nery

This book explores the impact of news and literary journalism on human cognition and emotion. Providing an innovative analysis of psycho-physiological measures, including emotional response, perception of pain, and changes in heartbeat, Nery seeks to understand how readers react to journalistic texts. There is a growing enthusiasm in the search for understanding the processing of information, with some already arguing for the establishment of the neuroscience of communication as a new discipline. By combing neuroscience methods with communication research studies, specifically journalistic research and theory, Nery offers us a unique way of exploring and thinking about news, literary journalism, and the brain.

Karl Abraham: The Birth of Object Relations Theory (Biblioteca Nueva Ser.)

by Isabel Sanfeliu

This book provides an in-depth analysis of the major milestones in Karl Abraham's career, and highlights his interest in mythology and his permanent focus on the libido. It explores his development of two different forms of early object relations: incorporation and destruction.

Angewandte Psychologie für das Projektmanagement: Ein Praxisbuch für die erfolgreiche Projektleitung

by Michael A. West Monika Wastian Isabell Braumandl Lutz Von Rosenstiel

Projektmanagement ist mehr als nur planen und organisieren: Personen führen, mit Konflikten und Krisen umgehen, kommunizieren, Meinungsbildung und Projektumfeld steuern, die Identifikation der Mitarbeiter fördern, Wissen und Kreativität managen. Worauf es dabei ankommt, erklären in dem Handbuch erfahrene Psychologen und Experten aus der Projektmanagement-Praxis: Ausgehend von typischen Problemen aus dem Projektalltag werden psychologische Hintergründe erläutert und Lösungen präsentiert. Mit Tipps zum Selbstmanagement, Fallbeispielen und Checklisten.

Applied Psychology for Project Managers: A Practitioner's Guide to Successful Project Management (Management for Professionals)

by Michael A. West Monika Wastian Isabell Braumandl Lutz Rosenstiel

This book offers an essential manual for project managers, project management offices (PMO's), trainers and consultants, addressing the psychological side of project management. Written by leading scholars in organizational psychology and by top experts in project management, it covers all major psychological topics that are key to project success. The book features dedicated chapters on leadership and teamwork, including virtual and intercultural cooperation, commitment and motivation of project teams. It adds a psychological perspective to personnel management, decision-making, information and knowledge management and communication in project work. Power, influencing tactics and other aspects of stakeholder management are covered, as well as project coaching, innovation and creativity, self-management and the management of conflicts, risks and crises.

Building a Cybersecurity Culture in Organizations: How to Bridge the Gap Between People and Digital Technology (Studies in Systems, Decision and Control #284)

by Isabella Corradini

This book offers a practice-oriented guide to developing an effective cybersecurity culture in organizations. It provides a psychosocial perspective on common cyberthreats affecting organizations, and presents practical solutions for leveraging employees’ attitudes and behaviours in order to improve security.Cybersecurity, as well as the solutions used to achieve it, has largely been associated with technologies. In contrast, this book argues that cybersecurity begins with improving the connections between people and digital technologies. By presenting a comprehensive analysis of the current cybersecurity landscape, the author discusses, based on literature and her personal experience, human weaknesses in relation to security and the advantages of pursuing a holistic approach to cybersecurity, and suggests how to develop cybersecurity culture in practice. Organizations can improve their cyber resilience by adequately training their staff. Accordingly, the book also describes a set of training methods and tools. Further, ongoing education programmes and effective communication within organizations are considered, showing that they can become key drivers for successful cybersecurity awareness initiatives. When properly trained and actively involved, human beings can become the true first line of defence for every organization.

Der Einfluss des Betreuungsangebotes auf die Entscheidung zur Mutterschaft bei Akademikerinnen (BestMasters)

by Isabella Georgi

Der demografisch bedingte Fachkräftemangel gefährdet die Stabilität des Arbeitsmarktes und Sicherung der Sozialsysteme. Eine Steigerung des Geburtenverhaltens könnte die drohenden Konsequenzen langfristig abwenden. Mit dem Ausbau der Betreuungsinfrastruktur hat sich die hohe Kinderlosigkeit in Deutschland stabilisiert. Die Vereinbarkeit von Familie und Beruf wird jedoch weiterhin als unzureichend empfunden. Es stellt sich daher die Frage, ob ein besseres Betreuungsangebot die Kinderlosigkeit senken könnte. Für die Entscheidung zur Mutterschaft weist die Autorin eine signifikant stärkere wahrgenommene Verhaltenskontrolle und Intention durch das bedarfsgerechte Betreuungsangebot im Vergleich zum derzeitigen Betreuungsangebot nach. Für die Vereinbarung von Mutterschaft und Karriere konnte ebenfalls eine signifikant stärkere wahrgenommenen Verhaltenskontrolle und Intention durch das bedarfsgerechte Betreuungsangebot im Vergleich zum derzeitigen Betreuungsangebot ermittelt werden. Die Effekte waren als groß zu bewerten. Die Ergebnisse verdeutlichen, dass ein bedarfsgerechtes Betreuungsangebot die Entscheidung zur Mutterschaft sowie die Vereinbarung von Mutterschaft und Karriere positiv beeinflusst.

Presenting Your Data with SPSS Explained

by Perry R. Hinton Isabella McMurray

Data Presentation with SPSS Explained provides students with all the information they need to conduct small scale analysis of research projects using SPSS and present their results appropriately in their reports. Quantitative data can be collected in the form of a questionnaire, survey or experimental study. This book focuses on presenting this data clearly, in the form of tables and graphs, along with creating basic summary statistics. Data Presentation with SPSS Explained uses an example survey that is clearly explained step-by-step throughout the book. This allows readers to follow the procedures, and easily apply each step in the process to their own research and findings. No prior knowledge of statistics or SPSS is assumed, and everything in the book is carefully explained in a helpful and user-friendly way using worked examples. This book is the perfect companion for students from a range of disciplines including psychology, business, communication, education, health, humanities, marketing and nursing – many of whom are unaware that this extremely helpful program is available at their institution for their use.

The Language of Gaze: Eyes that Talk

by Isabella Poggi

Verbal and nonverbal communicative acts mark the links within our discourse, help us to exchange turns and give backchannel in conversation. This book analyses the communicative system of gaze in depth, investigating its structure and functions the same way that words and gestures are studied, and shows how to do so by establishing a phonology, a morphology and a semantics of eye communication, before finally outlining a lexicon of gaze.Poggi provides a detailed semantic analysis of lexical items, highlights the role of gaze in multimodal communication, and illustrates its uses in everyday life, politics, education and musical performance. The meanings we communicate by gaze are intertwined with the multimodality of our communication, thus integrating, complementing, sometimes contradicting, whether deliberately or inadvertently, what we say with words or gestures.Starting from a robust theoretical framework, this book also provides an overview of the methods that can be exploited to study gaze, ranging from ethno-semantics to observation and simulation, and provides examples of their use.A timely and original contribution that is essential reading for advanced students, scholars and researchers of multimodal communication, pragmatics, social psychology and related areas.

An Introduction to Cluttering: A Practical Guide for Speech-Language Pathology Students, Clinicians, and Researchers

by Yvonne van Zaalen Isabella Reichel

An Introduction to Cluttering explores the speech disorder of cluttering, offering concrete, evidence-based methods for its diagnosis and treatment.Cluttering is a globally recognized communication disorder, yet it is often poorly understood. This book presents a historical overview of the efforts of pioneers in the field to demystify the cluttering disorder, before introducing the aetiology and symptoms of cluttering from several perspectives: physiological, psycho-linguistic, neurological, social, affective, and cognitive. It also provides an in-depth discussion of the identification, differential diagnosis, and assessment of cluttering, using current and advanced diagnostic procedures before explaining the rationales and unique, innovative procedures for evidence-based treatments of cluttering. Engaging practical examples and theory boxes are featured throughout the book.Providing effective and user-friendly procedures for cluttering diagnosis and intervention, this book is an essential read for all current and future speech and language therapists.

Emotion and Reasoning: Emotion And Reasoning (Current Issues in Thinking and Reasoning)

by Isabelle Blanchette

The interaction between emotion and cognition is a fundamental issue which has only recently been reintroduced as a legitimate object of study in experimental psychology. This book examines the significant impact that affective processes have on reasoning, and demonstrates how emotional reasoning cannot simply be equated with faulty reasoning. Emotion and Reasoning presents contributions from leading researchers from a variety of disciplines, including experimental cognitive psychology, cognitive neuroscience, clinical neuropsychology, and experimental psychopathology. The opening chapters consider how emotions affect reasoning processes in individuals living with psychopathology. A second section focuses upon experimental investigations of emotion and basic reasoning processes, and a final section explores the physiological bases of emotion-reasoning interaction. Together, the chapters in this volume provide a multidisciplinary overview of key topics on emotion and reasoning, and a survey of recent research in this area. Emotion and Reasoning will be of great interest to advanced students, researchers, and practitioners in the fields of cognitive psychology, clinical psychology, and affective neuroscience.

How to Excel in Your Doctoral Viva

by Stacey Bedwell Isabelle Butcher

How to excel in your doctoral viva offers an accessible guide to approaching and preparing for a PhD viva examination. The book explains what the viva is, how the process works, and what the purpose of the viva is. It guides the reader through the course of preparing for their viva examination, with chapters focusing on organisation to dealing with viva concerns. Contributions from over 25 academics ranging from critical care to theology provide a unique insight into the experiences of PhD candidates and examiners, and make this book an invaluable resource for students completing PhDs across the sciences.

Love to Learn: The Transformative Power of Care and Connection in Early Education

by Isabelle C. Hau

The most important aspect of early childhood in general and education in particular is the quality and care of the relationships a child forms. Love to Learn shows how to build and develop these relationships -- and unlock every child's true potential. Early relationships are the key to healthy brain development, resilience, and lifelong flourishing. Children need to be loved, to be valued, to interact, and to be listened to. When children have the space and time to play and explore through nurturing positive relationships, then children learn. But loving relationships are precisely what so many children are missing, and modern factors are making it more difficult for children to build these necessary bonds. Kids are growing up in smaller families with fewer siblings, and in more single-parent households. They have fewer adult family friends and mentors. They have less contact with grand-parents and grand-adults. They spend 60% less time with friends than children did a decade ago. They play outside less—half the time spent by their parent&’s generation. They find themselves increasingly immersed in solitary realms of screens, a modern sanctuary where parents seek refuge as well. Many kids are so overscheduled they have less time to build friendships Love to Learn offers a vision for a future where learning is relational, and love is a literacy. It is a provocative paradigm shift, from child-centered education to relationship-centered learning. It weaves in stories of perseverance, empathy, creativity, and showcases innovations anchored in the latest neuroscience and technology advance – all driven by the desire to unlock the inherent human potential in any child. This hope-filled book seeks to change how we raise our children, how we run early learning environments, and how we construct care-full communities. It aims to inspire and engage readers, catalyze new solutions, and in doing so, change our understanding of childhood itself.

Mi hijo ha sido agredido

by Isabelle Gravillon Stéphane Bourcet

Recibir insultos, golpes, chantajes o incluso otras agresiones y abusos forma parte, cada vez con más frecuencia, de nuestra vida cotidiana. Son situaciones a las que algunos niños o adolescentes, o quizá nuestro hijo, tienen que enfrentarse un día. Sin embargo, a menudo a los padres les cuesta comprender cómo y por qué sufre su hijo esa situación, y desconocen cómo deben reaccionar. Este libro les ayudará a resolver las preguntas más habituales, como por ejemplo: * ¿Por qué corre ese peligro mi hijo? * ¿Por qué no sabe dominar esa situación? * ¿Cuál es la manera más adecuada de reaccionar ante una agresión? * ¿Debo denunciar ese acoso? * ¿Cómo y dónde hacerlo en primer lugar? Stéphane Bourcet es psiquiatra infantil. Isabelle Gravillon es periodista.

Hockey Confidence: Train Your Brain to Win in Hockey and in Life

by Isabelle Hamptonstone MSc.

Confidence affects how we deal with stress and how we fulfill our potential to achieve the results we desire. In sports and in life, confidence is the underlying factor determining mental and physical performance, leading to overall success. This book by experienced mental performance specialist Isabelle Hamptonstone contains a collection of powerful techniques and tips to help hockey players overcome lack of confidence.Clear instructions and illustrative case studies show how training the brain to develop and sustain hockey confidence can upgrade results and help players make smarter, quicker decisions under pressure. Hamptonstone shares step-by-step guidelines gleaned from her years of research working with the giants in the game of hockey. Some of the greatest hockey players in the world have used these very same steps to change their game and their lives. Added to this base of personal knowledge, the book references inspiring moments of mental performance by Wayne Gretzky, Doug Lidster, Scott Niedermayer, Shane Doan, Darryl Sydor, Jarome Iginla, and Mark Recchi. This pragmatic and positive book is a game-changing guide and valuable resource for anyone interested in high-performance hockey, as well as a valuable tool for self-development.

The Autism Spectrum, Sexuality and the Law: What every parent and professional needs to know

by Tony Attwood Nick Dubin Isabelle Henault

Based on Nick Dubin's own experience, and drawing on the extensive knowledge of Dr Tony Attwood and Dr Isabelle Hénault, this important book addresses the issues surrounding the autism spectrum, sexuality and the law. The complex world of sex and appropriate sexual behaviour can be extremely challenging for people with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and, without guidance, many find themselves in vulnerable situations. This book examines how the ASD profile typically affects sexuality and how sexual development differs between the general population and those with ASD. It explains the legalities of sexual behaviour, how laws differ from country to country, and the possibility for adjustment of existing laws as they are applied to the ASD population. With advice on how to help people with autism spectrum disorder gain a better understanding of sexuality and a comprehensive list of resources, the book highlights the need for a more informed societal approach to the psychosexual development of people with ASD. A ground-breaking and honest account, this book will be an invaluable addition to the shelves of parents of children with ASD, mental health and legal professionals, teachers, carers and other professionals working with individuals on the spectrum.

The Long Search (Claire Aldington St. Anselm's Mystery #5)

by Isabelle Holland

Attractive and ambitious, Janet Covington seemed the epitome of a successful and happy career woman on her way up. She had recently been promoted to a top editorial position at a leading New York publisher. Her job was important and satisfying, but so, too, was her personal life. For a number of years she had shared her life and her Greenwich Village apartment with the attractive Paul Davenport. To all who knew them, the couple seemed devoted and happy. Only Janet knew how fragile her present happiness was and how quickly it would crumble if the secrets of her past were revealed. She would do almost anything to keep that from happening. Then, on an otherwise perfectly ordinary day at the office, the first of a chain of events takes place that threatens to undo all of her careful planning. Confused, scared and panicked, she turns to Claire Aldington, minister at St. Anselm's Church and a highly successful amateur detective. Claire wants to help, and tries to, but as the days pass she becomes convinced that there is one final secret that Janet cannot reveal... even to herself. All of the books in the Claire Aldington St. Anselm's series are in Bookshare's library. Look for: #1 A Death At St. Anselm's, #2 Flight of the Archangel, #3 A Lover Scorned and #4 A Fatal Advent In addition Isabelle Holland has written over 45 novels for children and adults. For adults look for Grenelle, a suspense novel, For Children there is The Christmas Cat

Grandparents: Archetypal and clinical perspectives on grandparent-grandchild relationships

by Isabelle Meier

Isabelle Meier presents a unique examination of the relationship between grandparents and grandchildren, viewed through the lens of analytical psychology. This relationship can have a huge impact on psychological development, yet it has been largely neglected in studies of the family. Meier explores both clinical and theoretical material throughout the book. In the first part she dissects archetypal images in the intergenerational relationship, particularly as shown in fairy tales, myths and legends. From the ‘wise old woman/man’ to the ‘wicked witch’ or the ‘old wizard’, memories and experiences of these archetypes can be stored in the implicit memory and activated later in life. The second part looks at the processes and functions of implicit memory and examines the concept of the complex as it applies to grandparents, using Stern’s studies on the present moment and intersubjective phenomena. Finally, in part three, Meier presents case studies from her own practice. Grandparents will be essential reading for Jungian analysts and psychotherapists, analytical psychologists and those in training. It will also be of interest to academics and students of Jungian studies, myth and anthropology, and readers looking to explore intergenerational family relationships.

Emotion Regulation and Parenting (Studies in Emotion and Social Interaction)

by James J. Gross Isabelle Roskam Moïra Mikolajczak

Emotion Regulation and Parenting provides a state-of-the-art account of research conducted on emotion regulation in parenting. After describing the conceptual foundations of parenthood and emotion regulation, the book reviews the influence of parents' emotion regulation on parenting, how and to what extent emotion regulation influences child development, cross-cultural perspectives on emotion regulation, and highlights current and future directions. Drawing on contributions from renowned experts from all over the world, chapters cover the most important topics at the intersection of parenting and emotion regulation. Essentials are explored, as well as current, topical, and controversial issues, pointing both to what is known and what requires further research. This title is part of the Flip it Open Programme and may also be available Open Access. Check our website Cambridge Core for details.

Where Analysis Meets the Arts: The Integration of the Arts Therapies with Psychoanalytic Theory

by Yvonne Searle Isabelle Streng

This book provides the reader with a theoretical framework that considers how psychoanalysis can enrich the clinical application of the arts therapies. Five specialist arts therapies used in contemporary psychotherapy are examined: drama, psychodrama, art, dance movement and music. Although the contributors represent a variety of orientations and practices, it is the theme of integration which makes this book most stimulated and original, demonstrating how both psychoanalysis and the arts therapies may benefit from a meeting of minds. Contributors: Jeremy Holmes; Joy Schaverien; Mary Levens; Marina Jenkins; Paul Holmes; Kedzie Penfield; Helen Odell-Miller; Jocelyn James; Yvonne Searles; and Isabelle Streng.

Situation Models and Levels of Coherence: Toward a Definition of Comprehension

by Isabelle Tapiero

The mental representation of what one reads is called a "situation model" or a "mental model." The process of reading causes an interaction of the new knowledge with what is already known. Though a number of theories and models have been proposed to describe this interaction, Tapiero proposes a new model that assumes a variety of storage areas to p

Catching Time: Temporality, Interaction, and Cognition (Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory)

by Isabelle Wentworth

'Time travels in divers paces with divers people.' Shakespeare’s oft-quoted line contains a hidden ambiguity: not only do individual people experience time differently, but time travels in diverse paces when we are with diverse persons. The line articulates a contemporary understanding of subjective time: it is changed by interaction with our social environment. Interacting with other people—and even literary characters—can slow or quicken the experience of time. Interactive time, and the paradigm of enactive cognition in which it sits, calls for an expansion of traditional ideas of time in narrative. The first book-length study of interactive time in narrative, Catching Time explains how lived time and narrative time interpenetrate each other, so that the relational model of subjective time acts as a narrative function. Catching Time develops a novel, interdisciplinary framework, drawing on cognitive science, narratology, and linguistics, to understand the patterns of temporality that shape narrative.

Revival: Repressed Emotions (Routledge Revivals)

by Isador H. Coriat

Psychology in both its academic and practical aspects is now at the parting of the ways and the immediate future will determine whether it shall remain unproductive or become an instrument of practical importance in the guidance of human interests

Doing it

by Isadora Alman

We all have questions about sex that we still haven't found answers to. No matter how much girl-chat or guy-talk we engage in, there are some topics left untouched and questions left unanswered. Now, go behind the doors of bedrooms across the country and read the naked truth about sex and relationships that readers of nationally syndicated sex columnist Isadora Alman have shared over the years. Doing It draws from discussions on Alman's popular web site and from written responses to her column, offering thoughts, experiences, stories, and advice on all topics sexual. Organized by the natural progression of relationships and inclusive of all gender preferences, areas discussed include the singles scene, dating, intercourse, voyeurism, lubricants, libido, STDs, and creative sexual positions.

Radcliffe-Brown: Journeys Through Colonial Worlds, 1881-1955 (Methodology & History in Anthropology #50)

by Isak Niehaus

Alfred Radcliffe-Brown (1881-1955) is widely renowned as a founder of modern social anthropology. This biography challenges popular stereotypes of him as a misplaced positivist and colonial conservative. It shows Radcliffe-Brown to be a thoroughly cosmopolitan scholar, a committed fieldworker and a sharp critic of colonialism. Radcliffe-Brown engaged strategically with colonial authorities to further the interests of his discipline and invoked scientific credentials to critique central aspects of colonial rule. His struggle for intellectual autonomy and advocacy of a comparative sociological approach speaks to many contemporary concerns.

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