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Most physiological and behavioral mechanisms that comprise the stress response come from laboratory experiments using domesticated animals. This book summarizes work to understand stress in natural contexts. It places modern stress research into an evolutionary context and provides predictions on how wild animals might cope with human-altered habitats.
If you are feeling the frustration of burnout, but have your reasons why you cannot quit your job, then this book is for you! You will gain an understanding of what causes burnout and the true impact burnout will have on you. You can eliminate the exhaustion you feel and the brain fog that accompanies it. With the nutritional information provided, you can improve your sleep and your overall health. Learn to bolster your resilience to the stress of your job demands through the strategies contained within. Regain a renewed sense of meaning in your daily work. This book can show you how to recover your mind, body and spirit even when quitting your current job is not an option.
Culture and PTSD examines the applicability of PTSD to cultural contexts beyond Europe and North America and details local responses to trauma and how they vary from PTSD as defined by the American Psychiatric Association.
In the latest installment of this award-winning series, readers learn why deep-diving mammals have larger blood cells and more of them. And how vampire bats prefer their bloody breakfast. Contains more than 250 animal blood facts along with more than 200 full-color photos.
The terrestrial organisms of the Galápagos Islands live under conditions unlike those anywhere else. At the edge of a uniquely rich mid-ocean upwelling, their world is also free of mammalian predators and competitors, allowing them to live unbothered, exuberant lives. With its giant tortoises, marine iguanas, flightless cormorants, and forests of giant daisies, there's no question that this is a magnificent place. Long before people traversed the Earth, evolution endowed native species with adaptations to these special conditions and to perturbations like El Niño events and periodic droughts. As the islands have grown ever-more connected with humanity, those same adaptations now make its s...
Entries examine a broad array of different species and behavior patterns, using techniques that range from molecular approaches to the study of behavior to analyses of individuals, populations, species, and ecosystems.
Vols. for 1963- include as pt. 2 of the Jan. issue: Medical subject headings.