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Soziobiologie: Die Evolution von Kooperation und Konkurrenz
by Eckart VolandSoziobiologie ist den evolutionsbiologischen Ursprüngen und Gründen tierlichen und menschlichen Sozialverhaltens auf der Spur. In diesem Buch werden Strategien sozialer Konkurrenz, also Gewalt, Kampf und Dominanz behandelt, aber auch Kooperation, Altruismus und Solidarität. Die Interessen der beiden Geschlechtern sind Treibstoff der sexuellen Selektion. Kooperation ist also immer auch brüchiger Kompromiss im Kampf der Geschlechter zu verstehen. Außerdem geht es um die neuesten Erkenntnisse zur Evolution der Eltern/Kind-Verhältnisses und um ein Brutpflegeverhalten, das Kindesvernachlässigung und zugleich auch tief empfundene elterliche Zuneigung und Fürsorge möglich macht. Beschrieben wird, wie eine evolutionäre Perspektive auf das menschliche Verhalten zum modernen Menschenbild beiträgt. Das Buch richtet sich an Studierende und Lehrende der Biologie, Anthropologie, Psychologie und Sozialwissenschaften und an alle an der evolutionären Geschichte des menschlichen Sozialverhaltens Interessierte.
Soziodrama in der Organisationsentwicklung: Essentials für die Praxis
by Matthias Bongartz Uwe Reineck Christoph BuckelVeränderung zum Anfassen, Beteiligung zum Leben erwecken, Lösungen hautnah erlebenOrganisationsentwicklung bedeutet mehr als Strukturen zu verändern – sie ist Dialog, Reflexion und gemeinsames Lernen. Organisationen reflektieren, indem ihre Mitglieder miteinander kommunizieren. Soziodrama vertieft diese Gespräche, wenn Organisationen nachdenken, verstehen, Ideen sammeln oder Neues kreieren möchten. Dieser interaktive Ansatz macht Veränderungsprozesse anschaulich, fördert Perspektivwechsel, generiert kreative Lösungen und erzeugt durch unmittelbare Erfahrung neue Handlungsoptionen. Dieses Buch bietet einen klaren und praxisnahen Einstieg, um Soziodrama in der Organisationsentwicklung gezielt einzusetzen. Die Autoren teilen ihre umfangreichen Erfahrungen als Organisationsentwickler und präsentieren spannende Praxisbeispiele. Soziodramatische Methoden sind besonders wertvoll für systemische Beraterinnen und Berater, da sie neue Perspektiven und lebendige Ansätze für die systemische Beratung eröffnen. Ein kompakter Leitfaden für alle, die Veränderungsprozesse mit innovativen und effektiven Methoden professionell begleiten möchten.
Soziometrie: Messung, Darstellung, Analyse und Intervention in sozialen Beziehungen
by Christian StadlerSoziometrie ist eine sowohl qualitative wie quantitative Herangehensweise, um Beziehungen in Gruppen zu untersuchen. Sie untersucht das Wahlverhalten von Menschen anhand bestimmter Kriterien und dient gleichzeitig als Intervention für eine Verbesserung von Gruppenzusammenhalt und -leistung. Dieses Buch bietet eine kompakte Einführung in die Grundlagen der Soziometrie. Es werden unter anderem das sozionomischen System, verwandte Untersuchungsmethoden und Weiterentwicklungen (z.B. der populären Netzwerkananalyse) sowie zahlreiche Instrumente und psychodramatische Messverfahren dargestellt. Darüber hinaus werden in einem Praxisteil zahlreiche Fallbeispiele aus unterschiedlichen Anwendungsfeldern erörtert.
Soziopsychosomatische Gesundheit, robuste Demokratie, Suffizienzökonomie und das „glückliche“ Leben: Über ein wechselseitiges Verhältnis (Gesundheit und Gesellschaft)
by Peter-Ernst SchnabelNicht einmal zehn Prozent der knapp zweihundertdreißig Milliarden Euro, die sich die Deutschen ihre Krankenversorgung jährlich kosten lassen, fließen gegenwärtig in die Präventionspolitik und davon wiederum nicht mehr als zwanzig Prozent in die Förderung der Gesundheit. Die vorliegende Untersuchung setzt sich in kritisch-konstruktiver Manier mit den interventionsphilosophischen, systemischen und professionspolitischen Hindernissen auseinander, die der längst fälligen Beseitigung dieses Unterversorgungsdilemmas im Wege stehen. Sie bemüht sich, mit dem Irrglauben aufzuräumen, dass eine Gesundheitsförderungspolitik, die mehr sein will, als die bloße Verhinderung von Krankheit und Gebrechen, realisiert werden könne, ohne die bestehenden politischen, wirtschaftlichen und gesellschaftlichen Bedingungen grundlegend zu verändern. Und sie macht Vorschläge, in welche Richtung diese Veränderung gehen könnte.
Space Habitats and Habitability: Designing for Isolated and Confined Environments on Earth and in Space (Space and Society)
by Sandra Häuplik-Meusburger Sheryl BishopThis book explores creative solutions to the unique challenges inherent in crafting livable spaces in extra-terrestrial environments. The goal is to foster a constructive dialogue between the researchers and planners of future (space) habitats. The authors explore the diverse concepts of the term Habitability from the perspectives of the inhabitants as well as the planners and social sciences.The book provides an overview of the evolution and advancements of designed living spaces for manned space craft, as well as analogue research and simulation facilities in extreme environments on Earth. It highlights how various current and future concepts of Habitability have been translated into design and which ones are still missing. The main emphasis of this book is to identify the important factors that will provide for well-being in our future space environments and promote creative solutions to achieving living spaces where humans can thrive. Selected aspects are discussed from a socio-spatial professional background and possible applications are illustrated.Human factors and habitability design are important topics for all working and living spaces. For space exploration, they are vital. While human factors and certain habitability issues have been integrated into the design process of manned spacecraft, there is a crucial need to move from mere survivability to factors that support thriving. As of today, the risk of an incompatible vehicle or habitat design has already been identified by NASA as recognized key risk to human health and performance in space. Habitability and human factors will become even more important determinants for the design of future long-term and commercial space facilities as larger and more diverse groups occupy off-earth habitats. The book will not only benefit individuals and organizations responsible for manned space missions and mission simulators, but also provides relevant information to designers of terrestrial austere environments (e.g., remote operational and research facilities, hospitals, prisons, manufacturing). In addition it presents general insights on the socio-spatial relationship which is of interest to researchers of social sciences, engineers and architects.
Space and Sense (Essays in Cognitive Psychology)
by Susanna MillarHow do we perceive the space around us, locate objects within it, and make our way through it? What do the senses contribute? This book focuses on touch in order to examine which aspects of vision and touch overlap in spatial processing. It argues that spatial processing depends crucially on integrating diverse sensory inputs as reference cues for the location, distance or direction response that spatial tasks demand. Space and Sense shows how perception by touch, as by vision, can be helped by external reference cues, and that ‘visual’ illusions that are also found in touch depend on common factors and do not occur by chance. Susanna Millar presents new evidence on the role of spatial cues in touch and movement both with and without vision, and discusses the interaction of both touch and movement with vision in spatial tasks. The book shows how perception by touch, as by vision, can be helped by external reference cues, and that ‘visual’ illusions that are also found in touch depend on common factors and do not occur by chance. It challenges traditional views of explicit external reference cues, showing that they can improve spatial recall with inputs from touch and movement, contrary to the held belief. Space and Sense provides empirical evidence for an important distinction between spatial vision and vision that excludes spatial cues in relation to touch. This important new volume extends previous descriptions of bimodal effects in vision and space.
Space and Spatial Cognition: A Multidisciplinary Perspective
by Michel DenisAll living creatures inscribe their activity in space. Human beings acquire knowledge of this space by traversing it, listening to verbal descriptions, and looking at maps, atlases, and digital media. We memorize routes, compare distances mentally, and retrieve our starting place after a long journey. Space and Spatial Cognition provides an up-to-date introduction to the elements of human navigation and the mental representation of our environment. This book explores the mental capacities which enable us to create shortcuts, imagine new pathways, and thus demonstrate our adaptation to the environment. Using a multidisciplinary approach which draws on psychology, neuroscience, geography, architecture and the visual arts, the author presents answers to a number of questions. Which mental capacities do people mobilize when confronted with space? Which brain functions do they implement? How do digital technologies extend these capacities? By presenting space at the crossroads of a number of disciplines, this volume reveals how each of them enhances our understanding of human behaviour in space. Space and Spatial Cognition provides a unique insight into all facets of spatial cognition, including spatial behaviour, language, and future technologies. It will be the ideal companion for all students and researchers in the field.
Space and the Memories of Violence
by Estela Schindel Pamela ColomboAuthors from a variety of disciplines dealing with diverse historical cases engage with the spatial deployment of violence and the possibilities for memory and resistance in contexts of state sponsored violence, enforced disappearances and regimes of exception. Contributors include Aleida Assmann, Jay Winter and David Harvey.
Space in Psychoanalysis, Psychoanalysis in Space
by Adam Lipszyc Agata Bielin´skaSpace in Psychoanalysis, Psychoanalysis in Space explores the immense potential of psychoanalytic thought to questions of spatiality.The international contributors combine the symbolic, the corporeal, the libidinal and the affective aspects of human experience, using psychoanalysis to reveal numerous facets and aspects of spatiality which remain invisible or blurred from other points of view. The focus moves from readings of the very physical space of the analyst’s consulting room and spatiality of the analytic situation through philosophical analyses of spatiality of the body, subjectivity, love and materiality, to specific applications of psychoanalytic insights in a wide variety of fields from architecture to economics.Space in Psychoanalysis, Psychoanalysis in Space will be of interest to psychoanalysts in practice and in training as well as scholars of psychoanalytic theory, cultural theory, literary theory, psychology, urban studies, space studies and philosophy.
Space, Objects, Minds and Brains (Essays in Cognitive Psychology)
by Lynn C. RobertsonLynn Robertson has been studying how brain lesions affect spatial abilities for over 20 years, and her work has revealed some surprising facts about space and its role in visual perception. In this book she combines evidence collected in her laboratory with findings from others to explore the cognitive and neural basis of spatial representations and their contributions to spatial awareness, object formation, attention, and binding.
Space, Place and Dramatherapy: International Perspectives (Routledge Research in Creative Arts and Expressive Therapies)
by Eliza SweeneySpace, Place and Dramatherapy: International Perspectives provides radical, critical and practical insights into the relevance and significance of space and place in dramatherapy practice. Bringing together an international breadth of contributors, the chapters of this book reveal extensive reflections on the many spaces in which dramatherapists and their clients work and offers research implications for those wishing to critically examine their own symbolic or structural spaces in dramatherapy practice. Chapters consider space and place from many angles: ritual and symbolic spaces; transitional and play spaces; educational and interpersonal spaces; and scenographic and architectural space. The book examines the impact of space on human (and more-than-human) relationships, dramatherapy practice and processes, and mental health, offering new avenues of research and critical enquiry. This volume is the first of its kind to rigorously elucidate the importance of space within the field of dramatherapy, and is essential reading for academics, scholars and postgraduate students of dramatherapy as well as practicing dramatherapists and professionals within the wider domains of arts and health.
Space-Time Geometries for Motion and Perception in the Brain and the Arts (Lecture Notes in Morphogenesis)
by Alain Berthoz Tamar FlashThis book is based on a two-day symposium at the Paris Institute of Advanced Study titled "space-time geometries and movement in the brain and the arts". It includes over 20 chapters written by the leading scientists and artists who presented their related research studies at the symposium and includes six sections; the first three focus on space-time geometries in perception, action and memory while the last three focus on specific artistic domains: drawing and painting, dance, music, digital arts and robotics. The book is accompanied by a dedicated webpage including related images and videos. There is an ever-growing interest in the topics covered by this book. Space and time are of fundamental importance for our understanding of human perception, action, memory and cognition, and are entities which are equally important in physics, biology, neuroscience and psychology. Highly prominent scientists and mathematicians have expressed their belief that our bodies and minds shape the ways we perceive space and time and the physical laws we formulate. Understanding how the brain perceives motion and generates -bodily movements is of great significance. There is also growing interest in studying how space, time and movement subserve artistic creations in different artistic modalities (e.g., fine arts, digital and performing arts and music). This interest is inspired by the idea that artists make intuitive use of the principles and simplifying strategies used by the brain in movement generation and perception. Building upon new understanding of the spatio-temporal geometries subserving movement generation and perception by the brain we can start exploring how artists make use of such neuro --geometrical and neuro-dynamic representations in order to express artistic concepts and emotionally affect the human observers and listeners. Scientists have also started formulating new ideas of how aesthetic judgements emerge from the principles and brain mechanisms subserving motor control and motion perception.Covering novel and multidisciplinary topics, this advanced book will be of interest to neuroscientists, behavioral scientists, artificial intelligence and robotics experts, students and artists.
Spacecruiser Inquiry
by A. H. AlmaasOver the past twenty-five years A. H. Almaas--widely recognized as a leader in integrating spirituality and psychology--has been developing and teaching the Diamond Approach, a spiritual path that integrates the insights of Sufism, Buddhism, Gurdjieff, and other wisdom traditions with modern psychology. In this new work, Almaas uses the metaphor of a "spacecruiser" to describe a method of exploring the immediacy of personal experience--a way of investigating our moment-by-moment feelings, thoughts, reactions, and behaviors through a process of open-ended questioning. The method is called the practice of inquiry, and Spacecruiser Inquiry reveals what it means to engage with this practice as a spiritual path: its principles, challenges, and rewards. The author explores basic elements of inquiry, including the open-ended attitude, the focus on direct knowledge, the experience of not-knowing, and the process of questioning. He describes the experience of "Diamond Guidance"--the inner wisdom that emerges from our true nature--and how it can be realized and applied. In this process Almaas looks at many of the essential forms of Diamond Guidance, including knowing, clarity, truth, love, intelligence, compassion, curiosity, courage, and determination. Also included are exercises and questions and answers from the original talks by Almaas on which the book is based.
Spacefaring
by Albert A. HarrisonThe stars have always called us, but only for the past forty years or so have we been able to respond by traveling in space. This book explores the human side of spaceflight: why people are willing to brave danger and hardship to go into space; how human culture has shaped past and present missions; and the effects of space travel on health and well-being. A comprehensive and authoritative treatment of its subject, this book combines statistical studies, rich case histories, and gripping anecdotal detail as it investigates the phenomenon of humans in space--from the earliest spaceflights to the missions of tomorrow. Drawing from a strong research base in the behavioral sciences, Harrison covers such topics as habitability, crew selection and training, coping with stress, group dynamics, accidents, and more. In addition to taking a close look at spacefarers themselves, Spacefaring reviews the broad organizational and political contexts that shape human progress toward the heavens. With the ongoing construction of the International Space Station, the human journey to the stars continues, and this book will surely help guide the way.
Spaces of Teaching and Learning
by Peter Goodyear Robert A. EllisThis integrated collection of perspectives on the spaces of teaching and learning uses ‘learning space’ to place educational practice in context. It considers the complex relationships involved in the design, management and use of contemporary learning spaces. It sheds light on some of the problems of connecting the characteristics of spaces to the practices and outcomes of teaching and learning. The contributions show how research into learning spaces can inform broader educational practices and how the practices of teaching, learning and design can inform research. The selection of chapters demonstrates the value of gathering together multiple sources of evidence, viewed through different epistemological lenses in order to push the field forward in a timely fashion. The book provides both a broad review of current practices as well as a deep-dive into particular educational and epistemological challenges that the various approaches adopted entail. Contrasts and commonalities between the different approaches emphasise the importance of developing a broad, robust evidence-base for practice in context. This is the inaugural book in the series Understanding Teaching-Learning Practice.
Spaces on the Spectrum: How Autism Movements Resist Experts and Create Knowledge
by Catherine TanMovements that take issue with conventional understandings of autism spectrum disorder, a developmental disability, have become increasingly visible. Drawing on more than three years of ethnographic fieldwork and interviews with participants, Catherine Tan investigates two autism-focused movements, shedding new light on how members contest expert authority. Examining their separate struggles to gain legitimacy and represent autistic people, she develops a new account of the importance of social movements as spaces for constructing knowledge that aims to challenge dominant frameworks.Spaces on the Spectrum examines the autistic rights and alternative biomedical movements, which reimagine autism in different and conflicting ways: as a difference to be accepted or as a sickness to treat. Both, however, provide a window into how ideas that conflict with dominant beliefs develop, take hold, and persist. The autistic rights movement is composed primarily of autistic adults who contend that autism is a natural human variation, not a disorder, and advocate for social and cultural inclusion and policy changes. The alternative biomedical movement, in contrast, is dominated by parents and practitioners who believe in the disproven idea that vaccines trigger autism and seek to reverse it with scientifically unsupported treatments. Both movements position themselves in opposition to researchers, professionals, and parents outside their communities. Spaces on the Spectrum offers timely insights into the roles of shared identity and communal networks in movements that question scientific and medical authority.
Spanking the Donkey: Dispatches from the Dumb Season
by Matt Taibbi"Spanking the Donkey" indicts the surreal irrelevance of today's mainstream politics with barbed wit and caustic intelligence. Follow Taibbi as he covers the primary for the 2004 presidential election, joining him for a spot on John Kerry's campaign plane, face-to-face encounters with John Edwards's pancake makeup, and more.
Spannungsfeld Flüchtlinge: Ein psychologischer Blick auf Engagierte und die Dialogkultur
by Christel KumbruckDieses Buch analysiert wissenschaftlich fundiert und zugleich allgemeinverständlich das Engagement von Menschen, die sich für die Aufnahme von Geflüchteten oder gegen die deutsche Flüchtlingspolitik engagieren, sowie ihre Motive, Emotionen, Denk- und Argumentationsweisen. Dabei werden psychologische Mechanismen, die ursächlich für die viel diskutierte Polarisierung unserer modernen Gesellschaft sind, deutlich. Erstmalig werden die tieferen Ursachen für bestehende Dialogbarrieren aufgespürt und mit psychologischen Modellen erklärt. Dabei decken die Autor*innen neben polarisierenden Dialogprozessen auch Gemeinsamkeiten beider Seiten auf und erarbeiten daraus Ansatzpunkte für Dialogchancen und eine Depolarisierung der Kommunikation. Neben der psychologischen Betrachtung erfolgt außerdem eine Einordung der beschriebenen, empirisch ermittelten Erkenntnisse in übergeordnete soziokulturelle Prozesse und gesellschaftliche Rahmenbedingungen. Auch hieraus werden Lösungsansätze, diesmal auf der Ebene von Politik und Gesellschaft, erarbeitet. Ein Buch für alle, die mehr Einblicke in das Flüchtlingsengagement haben wollen, die sich in Politik, Beratung, Coaching, Erziehung u.ä. aktiv an der Bewahrung einer Dialogkultur beteiligen, oder zumindest die (psychologischen) Mechanismen verstehen möchten, welche eine Polarisierung der Gesellschaft fördern."Dieses klare und differenzierte Arbeitsbuch ist eine großartige Hilfe zum Selbstdenken." - Prof. Aleida Assmann"Flucht und Migration werden Deutschland weiterhin vor Herausforderungen stellen. Dieses Buch zeigt nachvollziehbar, wie Wahrnehmungs-, Denk- und Handlungsweisen zu einer destruktiven Polarisierung beitragen können, aber auch welche Möglichkeiten wir alle haben, um der Falle vergifteter Kommunikation zu entgehen: ein hilfreiches Buch, um demokratischen Zusammenhalt zu stärken." - Prof. Eva Senghaas-Knobloch
Spare the Child: The Religious Roots of Punishment and the Psychological Impact of Physical Abuse
by Philip GrevenHe that spareth his rod hateth his son: but he that loveth him chasteneth him betimes. These words provided generations of American Christians with the justification for physically disciplining their children, in ways that range from spankings to brutal beatings. This learned and deeply disturbing work of history examines both the religious roots of corporal punishment in America and its consequences -- in the minds of children, in adults, and in our national tendencies toward authoritarian and apocalyptic thinking. Drawing on sources as old as Cotton Mather and as current as today's headlines, Spare the Child is one of those rare works of scholarship that have the power to change our lives.
Spare the Kids: Why Whupping Children Won't Save Black America
by Stacey PattonA challenge to the cultural tradition of corporal punishment in Black homes and its connections to racial violence in AmericaWhy do so many African Americans have such a special attachment to whupping children? Studies show that nearly 80 percent of black parents see spanking, popping, pinching, and beating as reasonable, effective ways to teach respect and to protect black children from the streets, incarceration, encounters with racism, or worse. However, the consequences of this widely accepted approach to child-rearing are far-reaching and seldom discussed. Dr. Stacey Patton’s extensive research suggests that corporal punishment is a crucial factor in explaining why black folks are subject to disproportionately higher rates of school suspensions and expulsions, criminal prosecutions, improper mental health diagnoses, child abuse cases, and foster care placements, which too often funnel abused and traumatized children into the prison system.Weaving together race, religion, history, popular culture, science, policing, psychology, and personal testimonies, Dr. Patton connects what happens at home to what happens in the streets in a way that is thought-provoking, unforgettable, and deeply sobering. Spare the Kids is not just a book. It is part of a growing national movement to provide positive, nonviolent discipline practices to those rearing, teaching, and caring for children of color.
Spark
by Eric Hagerman John Ratey Dr John J. Ratey Dr John RateyExercise is not only good for the body: it can transform your mind too. We all know that exercise is good for the body. But did you know that it can transform your mind? This new scientific revolution will teach you how to boost brain cells, protect yourself against mental illness and dementia, and ensure success in exams and the workplace. Follow the SPARK! training regimen and build your brain to its peak performance. This book will change the way you think about exercise - and, for that matter, the way you think.
Spark
by Patricia LeavyProfessor Peyton Wilde has an enviable life teaching sociology at an idyllic liberal arts college--yet she is troubled by a sense of fading inspiration. One day an invitation arrives. Peyton has been selected to attend a luxurious all-expense-paid seminar in Iceland, where participants, billed as some of the greatest thinkers in the world, will be charged with answering one perplexing question. Meeting her diverse teammates--two neuroscientists, a philosopher, a dance teacher, a collage artist, and a farmer--Peyton wonders what she could ever have to contribute. The ensuing journey of discovery will transform the characters' work, their biases, and themselves. This suspenseful novel shows that the answers you seek can be found in the most unlikely places. It can be read for pleasure, is a great choice for book clubs, and can be used as unique and inspiring reading in qualitative research and other courses in education, sociology, social work, psychology, and communication.
Spark: How Creativity Works
by Julie Burstein“This is a book about joy, drive and art, work that we’re all capable of if we’ll only commit.” —Seth Godin, author of LinchpinPublic Radio International’s Julie Burstein, creator of the award-winning program Studio 360, along with its host Kurt Andersen, offers a rare, fascinating glimpse into some of the 21st century's greatest creative minds—from Yo-Yo Ma and Robert Plant to Mira Nair and Chuck Close, to David Milch and Joyce Carol Oates, to Rosanne Cash and beyond. Fans of Malcolm Gladwell’s Outliers, Daniel Pink’s A Whole New Mind, Rosamund Zander’s The Art of Possibility, and Lynda Barry’s What It Is will be enthralled and electrified by this unique look at the creative process of the world’s most talented and prolific artists.
Spark: How Genius Ignites, From Child Prodigies to Late Bloomers
by Claudia KalbYo-Yo Ma's ear for music emerged not long after he learned to walk. By the age of seven, he was performing for President Kennedy; by fifteen he debuted at Carnegie Hall. Maya Angelou, by contrast, didn't write her iconic memoir, I Know Why the Cage Bird Sings, until she was 40. What propels some individuals to reach extraordinary creative heights in the earliest years of life while others discover their passions decades later? Are prodigies imbued with innate talent? How often are midlife inspirations triggered by propitious events, like Julia Child's first French meal at the age of 36? Do late bloomers reveal their talents because their skills require life experience and contemplation? Through engaging storytelling and intriguing historical and cutting-edge scientific research, best-selling author and acclaimed journalist Claudia Kalb explores these questions to uncover what makes a prodigy and what drives a late bloomer. In this series of linked biographies, Kalb follows the journeys of thirteen remarkable individuals--from Shirley Temple to Alexander Fleming to Eleanor Roosevelt to Bill Gates--to discover the secrets behind their talents. Each possessed a unique arc of inspiration. Each--through science, art, music, theater, and politics--reached extraordinary success at different stages of life. And each offers us a chance to explore the genesis--and experience--of genius.
Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain
by John J. Ratey Eric HagermanA groundbreaking and fascinating investigation into the transformative effects of exercise on the brain, from the bestselling author and renowned psychiatrist John J. Ratey, MD. Did you know you can beat stress, lift your mood, fight memory loss, sharpen your intellect, and function better than ever simply by elevating your heart rate and breaking a sweat? The evidence is incontrovertible: Aerobic exercise physically remodels our brains for peak performance. In SPARK, John J. Ratey, M.D., embarks upon a fascinating and entertaining journey through the mind-body connection, presenting startling research to prove that exercise is truly our best defense against everything from depression to ADD to addiction to aggression to menopause to Alzheimer's. Filled with amazing case studies (such as the revolutionary fitness program in Naperville, Illinois, which has put this school district of 19,000 kids first in the world of science test scores), SPARK is the first book to explore comprehensively the connection between exercise and the brain. It will change forever the way you think about your morning run---or, for that matter, simply the way you think