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In this wholly revised second edition, Michael Edelstein draws on
his thirty years as a community activist to provide a much-expanded
theoretical foundation for understanding the psychosocial impacts
of toxic contamination. Informed by social psychological theory and
an extensive survey of documented cases of toxic exposure, and
enlivened by excerp
This volume ponders the cultures that generated the bulk of our
global contamination legacy. Insight is sought into its creation
and an understanding of differences in how it is being addressed.
Hopefully the illumination of the problem will contribute to a
better understanding of the constraining conditions and will help
guide us in meeting the twin challenges created by the legacy of
contamination: how to stop it and how to address what we already
have done.
Section one focuses on the psycho-social dynamics of chemical
contamination. Section two deals with nuclear events, both
accidents, but also the closed cities and closed society needed to
produce a nuclear context. Section 3 addresses mitigations,
dominated by 4 out of 5 chapters addressing Russia. And section
four provides perspectives, comparative pieces addressing secrecy
in nuclear programs, distorted risk communication in the aftermath
of the World Trade Center Disaster, environmental altruism and in
core social response to environmental challenges.
Research in Social Problems and Public Policy is now available
online at ScienceDirect full-text online of volumes 8 onwards.
*Examines the cultures most responsible for global
contamination
*Adopts a global and practical perspective, with case examples from
the United States and Russia.
*Seeks to stop contaminations from taking place in the future and
positively address those from the past.
In this wholly revised second edition, Michael Edelstein draws or
iis thiffy years as a community activist tc provide a much-expanded
theoretical foundation for understanding the psychosocial impacts
of toxic contaminagtion. Informed by social psychological theory
and an extensive survey of documented cases of toxic exposure, and
enlivened by excerpts drawn from more than one thousand Interviews
with victims, Contaminated Communities, Second Edition, presents, a
candid portrayal of the toxic victim's experience and the key
stages in the course of toxic disaster. The second edition
introduces dozens of new cases and provvides expanded
considerations of environmental justice, environmental racism,
environmental turbulence, and environmental stigma, as well as a
fully articulated theory of "lifescape." The new edition moves past
the well-charted role of reactive environmentalism to explore
issues for a proactivist approach that employs a "third path" of
social learning, sustainable innovation, consensus building, and
community empowerment.
Three Minute Therapy can help to change your life for the better.
You will find yourself looking at life in a different way. Your
emotional troubles will seem less mysterious and less powerful. If
you take the trouble to learn the techniques explained in Three
Minute Therapy, think about them, and apply them to your problems,
you will be able to tackle difficulties that may have seemed
impossible. Some of your worst fears and anxieties can diminish or
dissolve away, and you will become more effective at pursuing your
chosen life goals. The techniques used in Three Minute Therapy show
you, clearly and simply, how you needlessly upset yourself, and it
gives you many thinking, feeling, and action methods of reducing
your disturbances while still retaining your main goals, values,
and preferences. Three Minute Therapy can add years of healthier
and happier living to your life. This book will show you how to
change your thinking and change your life!
Never before has the problem of stage fright been so eloquently
examined; 40 interviews with some of the most highly-accomplished
public figures shed light on this affliction, offering tips from
their own experiences for overcoming it. Jason Alexander, Mose
Allison, Maya Angelou, David Brenner, Peter Coyote, Olympia
Dukakis, Richard Lewis, and many more sound off about their trials
with stage fright, candidly discussing their fears and insecurities
with life in the public eye and ultimately revealing the various
paths they followed to overcoming them. Stage fright sufferers from
all walks of life - whether a high school freshman nervous about an
oral presentation or a professional baseball player with the eyes
of the world on his bat - will find consolation by understanding
the commonality of their problem, as well as helpful information to
finally shed their inhibitions.
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