Creating Balance?

Creating Balance?

Author: Stephan Kaiser

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2011-01-04

Total Pages: 331

ISBN-13: 3642161995

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A satisfactory and healthy integration of work with other life domains is one of the key challenges of modern society. Work-life balance and work-life integration have become focal points of today’s human resource management practice and theory. Professionals who have been described as “extreme workers” regarding their work hours and engagement are under particular pressure to balance work and ”the rest of life”. This collection maps the increasingly extensive discussion of work-life issues for professionals and discusses key aspects in depth. What is work-life integration? What are the specific challenges for professionals? How do they manage their blurred work-life boundaries? How can companies intervene? Internationally leading authors discuss antecedents and individual and organizational outcomes of work-life integration, gender-specific perspectives and challenges as well as the use and usefulness of corporate work-life balance initiatives. In five sections distinguished researchers from across the world present experiences and research findings to provide a compendium of academic and applied research on the work-life integration of professionals. Cutting-edge research and novel theoretical perspectives make this collection a source of knowledge and inspiration for academic and business audiences interested in work-life integration issues in general and in the case of professionals in particular.


Sleep Medicine Essentials

Sleep Medicine Essentials

Author: Teofilo L. Lee-Chiong

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2011-10-07

Total Pages: 492

ISBN-13: 1118210727

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Based on the highly acclaimed Sleep: A Comprehensive Handbook, this is a concise, convenient, practical, and affordable handbook on sleep medicine. It consists of forty topic-focused chapters written by a panel of international experts covering a range of topics including insomnia, sleep apnea, narcolepsy, parasomnias, circadian sleep disorders, sleep in the elderly, sleep in children, sleep among women, and sleep in the medical, psychiatric, and neurological disorders. It serves as an effective Sleep Medicine board examination review, and every chapter includes sample boards -style questions for test preparation and practice.


Health, Illness, and Optimal Aging

Health, Illness, and Optimal Aging

Author: Carolyn M. Aldwin

Publisher: SAGE

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 446

ISBN-13: 9780761922599

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In Health, Illness, and Optimal Aging: Biological and Psychosocial Perspectives, Carolyn M. Aldwin and Diane F. Gilmer undertake the challenging task of assembling an objective and holistic picture of human aging. The authors provide comprehensive, multidisciplinary coverage of the physical aspects of aging, including age-related changes and disease-related processes, the demography of the aging population, theories of aging, and the promotion of optimal aging. In addition, the book covers the psychosocial aspects of aging, including mental health, stress and coping, spirituality, and care giving in later years. Health, Illness and Optimal Aging is recommended for researchers seeking an overview of health psychology and aging, as well as undergraduate and graduate students taking classes in the social, behavioral, and health sciences. This text is also valuable for practitioners working with the elderly in fields such as nursing, social work, occupational and physical therapy, day-care and nursing home administration, psychology, and rehabilitation.


Infertility in the Modern World

Infertility in the Modern World

Author: Gillian R. Bentley

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2000-11-30

Total Pages: 284

ISBN-13: 9780521643870

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An interdisciplinary perspective on the ways in which human biology and culture can affect fertility.


Sex Differences in the Brain

Sex Differences in the Brain

Author: Jill B. Becker

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2007-12-04

Total Pages: 506

ISBN-13: 0198042558

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Within the basic and clinical biomedical research community, there is increasing recognition that differences between males and females across the lifespan affect an individual's health, his/her development of disease, signs and symptoms of pathophysiology, and response to therapy. This book is intended as a resource for scientists, clinicians, and students of the nervous system and behavior- a trove of practical information about how to study sex differences in the brain as well as a discussion of what is already known on the topic.


Grief, Mourning, and Death Ritual

Grief, Mourning, and Death Ritual

Author: Jennifer Lorna Hockey

Publisher:

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780335205028

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It does this by combining substantial reviews with shorter illustrative examples of grief, mourning and death ritual as they are manifest in specific settings and with defined groups. These illustrative examples include personal and institutional responses to death at different points in the life cycle, and responses to different sorts of death - the death of children and death in disasters for example.


Development and Plasticity in Sensory Thalamus and Cortex

Development and Plasticity in Sensory Thalamus and Cortex

Author: Reha Erzurumlu

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2006-08-01

Total Pages: 322

ISBN-13: 9780387317984

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This volume provides an update on the multitude of technical and experimental approaches in understanding the development and plasticity of the mammalian sensory thalamus and neocortex. The focus is on visual and somatosensory thalamus and neocortex in rodents and carnivores, and functional imaging studies in developing and aging human neocortex. It further provides a synthetic theoretical framework for future studies.


Adam & Andy

Adam & Andy

Author: James Asal

Publisher: Bookazine Company

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 60

ISBN-13: 9780974442006

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Trade paperback collection of comic strip "Adam & Andy" is now available in Signed Limited Edition. Contact: [email protected] or visit http://www.adamandandy.com. Regular publication in a number of weekly and bi-weekly newspapers around the US and Europe make this a title to watch.