Despite the growing interest in the role of psychological trauma in the genesis of psychiatric disorders, few volumes have addressed these issues from a multidisciplinary and international perspective. Given the complexity of reslience and posttraumatic disorder, and given ongoing trauma and violence in many parts of the world, it is crucial to apply such perspectives to review existing knowledge in the field and provide directions for future research. This book has a broad scope. A key focus is...
Is Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) an illness that arises after horrific and life-threatening events? Or is it a label that medicalizes human suffering, and brings with it more problems than it solves? Still a relatively new diagnosis, PTSD has changed our vocabulary and shaped our views on human coping and resilience. Yet almost every assumption upon which the diagnosis rests has come under question. In this volume, Gerald Rosen brings together leading international scholars in...
В книге с эволюционных позиций освещаются все разделы, связанные с поведением: этология, нейрофизиология, теории научения и мотивации. Показана методологическая роль генетики и теории эволюции в изучении поведения. Рассмотрены взаимосвязь поведения и когнитивных процессов, проблемы психики, сознания, памяти. Интеграция данных поведенческих наук – актуальная проблема современного образования. В пособии сделана попытка такой интеграции, что позволяет рассмотреть разделы, входящие в учебные планы...
В монографии предложена авторская методика, предусматривающая: последовательное проведение комплексного анализа развития сельских территорий по трем моделям: 1) отбор регионов с развитым сельским хозяйством и агропродовольственным комплексом; 2) отбор регионов с наиболее отсталыми сельскими районами; 3) отбор регионов по возможностям развития местной экономики, а также типологию регионов, формирование аграрной политики развития региона в зависимости от типа. В работе показано, что диверсификация...
This book introduces experimental design and data analysis / interpretation as well as field monitoring skills for both plants and animals. Clearly structured throughout and written in a student-friendly manner, the main emphasis of the book concentrates on the techniques required to design a field based ecological survey and shows how to execute an appropriate sampling regime. The book evaluates appropriate methods, including the problems associated with various techniques and their inherent...
The updated and expanded guide for handling industrial wastes and designing a wastewater treatment plant The revised and updated second edition of Practical Wastewater Treatment provides a hands-on guide to industrial wastewater treatment theory, practices, and issues. It offers information for the effective design of water and wastewater treatment facilities and contains material on how to handle the wide-variety of industrial wastes. The book is based on a course developed and taught by...
Offers a comprehensive, accessible introduction to experimental design, field monitoring skills for plants and animals, data analysis, interpretation and reporting This user-friendly book presents field monitoring skills for both plants and animals, within the context of a research project. This text provides a single resource to take the reader all the way through from the planning stage, into the field, guiding through sampling, organism identification, computer-based data analysis and...
Praise for the previous edition of Prairie : «Impelled with its sense of the miraculous in nature.» —Globe and Mail Candace Savage’s acclaimed and beautifully written guide to the ecology of the prairies, now revised and updated. This revised edition of Prairie features a new preface along with updated research on the effects of climate change on an increasingly vulnerable landscape. It also offers new information on: · conservation of threatened species, including the black-tailed...