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Textile Technology and Design addresses the critical role of the
interior at the intersection of design and technology, with a range
of interdisciplinary arguments by a wide range of contributors:
from design practitioners to researchers and scholars to aerospace
engineers. Chapters examine the way in which textiles and
technology - while seemingly distinct - continually inform each
other through their persistent overlapping of interests, and
eventually coalesce in the practice of interior design. Covering
all kinds of interiors from domestic (prefabricated kitchens and 3D
wallpaper) to extreme (underwater habitats and space stations), it
features a variety of critical aspects including pattern and
ornament, domestic technologies, craft and the imperfect, gender
issues, sound and smart textiles. This book is essential reading
for students of textile technology, textile design and interior
design.
Not long ago, it was assumed that coronary heart disease mainly--or
only--affected men. Now that CHD is recognized as a leading killer
of women as well as men, numerous research studies have been made
of its diverse presentations in women, causal factors, and
possibilities for prevention and treatment. The expert
contributions to Psychosocial Stress and Cardiovascular Disease in
Women span the results of this cross-disciplinary awareness. This
progressive resource takes a three-dimensional approach to its
subject, focusing on epidemiology and risk factors for heart
disease in women, the psycho- and neurobiology of stress and
coronary disease, and promising clinical interventions. Chapters
identify and analyze multiple intersections of social, biological,
and psychological factors in affecting women's heart health, from
the social dimensions of depression to genetic/environmental
interactions to the demands of balancing work and family. These
wide-ranging findings will assist and motivate professionals in
choosing and creating interventions, developing appropriate
prevention strategies, and reducing gender-based disparities in
health care. Among the topics covered: Enhancing women's heart
health: a global perspective. Coronary heart disease in women:
evolution of our knowledge. Gender observations on basic
physiological stress mechanisms in men and women. Sleep as a means
of recovery and restitution in women. LifeSkills training:
benefiting both genders, for different reasons. Gender
considerations in psychosocial-behavioral interventions for
coronary heart disease. In particular this book will be helpful for
cardiologists and other clinicians who may ask themselves why
patients do not seem to make rational choices. "Why do patients not
follow the advice they are offered?" is a common complaint. The
role of psychosocial stress for patient compliance and adherence
can be traced throughout the volume. It is emphasized in the
chapters on psychosocial interventions along with other tangible
and conceptual suggestions and experiences with psychosocial stress
and life style change. Psychosocial Stress and Cardiovascular
Disease in Women offers a deep practical level of understanding of
this epidemic to help expand the work of health and clinical
psychologists, sociologists, cardiologists, primary care
physicians, and epidemiologists.
Set in a veteran's hospital in California,
In "Father, Doctor and the Great City," Schneiderman is influenced
by the Ancient Greek lyricists and other poets, from 16th Century
British to contemporary anthologies of poems about dogs and
baseball to Billy Collins. He follows his son's growth to manhood
with love and humor, laments lost friends, and celebrates the
African, Jewish-Polish, Italian (Calabrese and Napolitan) and Irish
individuals of his family. He ranges from Elizabeth, NJ, to the
South Bronx, to a bird refuge in Oregon, to a Desert Botanical
Garden in Phoenix. These poems celebrate birds, the good fight
against cancer, architecture, dogs, people, art, and, everywhere,
his wife.
Cardiovascular disease continues to be the number ioral medicine"
was developed and shaped into the one source of morbidity and
mortality in our coun- following definition: try. Despite a 35%
reduction since 1964, these Behavioral medicine is the
interdisciplinary field con- diseases, particularly coronary heart
disease cerned with the development and integration of behav-
(CHD), claim nearly 1,000,000 lives each year in ioral and
biomedical science knowledge and techniques the United States
(Havlik & Feinleib, 1979). relevant to the understanding of
health and illness and The Framingham study, among others, has
iden- the application of this knowledge and these techniques to
prevention, diagnosis, treatment and rehabilitation. tified three
major risk factors implicated in the de- (Schwartz & Weiss,
1978) velopment of CHD: smoking, elevated serum cho- lesterol, and
high blood pressure (Castelli et at., This concept of
"biobehavioral" collaboration 1986). Given that these factors
account for less challenged scientists and clinicians of many
disci- than 50% of the variance associated with CHD plines to
consider how they might more effectively (Jenkins, 1976), it has
become obvious that addi- develop diagnostic, treatment, and
prevention tional risk factors must be identified if further pro-
strategies by merging their perspectives to address gress is to be
made in disease prevention and simultaneously, among others,
behavioral, psy- control.
The fourth volume based on the annual University of Miami symposia
on stress and coping, this new addition to the series is the first
to focus on developmental and clinical stressors during infancy and
childhood. While developmental stressors such as early separation
and stranger anxiety, novelty stress, and fear-evoked personal
distress, arise during normal development, clinical stressors
result from certain conditions that are relatively common in
infancy and early childhood such as premature birth and respiratory
disease.
Various therapies are discussed -- for example, relaxation and
massage -- that can alleviate the stress associated with
psychiatric conditions in childhood and adolescence, including
depression and adjustment disorder. The result is an integration of
diverse research and theory on the psychophysiological,
developmental, and psychosocial aspects of stress and coping in
animals and humans by some of the leading researchers in the
field.
The third volume based on the annual University of Miami Symposia
on Stress and Coping, this book focuses on the role of biophysical
factors in four of the greatest health problems confronting us
today: cardiovascular disease, diabetes, cancer, and the AIDS
epidemic. In each of these disorders, stress is seen as a
contributing factor that interacts with other variables such as
genetic influences or constitutional factors. Accordingly, the
behavioral treatments discussed are often designed to change
lifestyles, reduce stress, or improve adherence to therapeutic
regimens. This volume provides a solid theoretical base which
should stimulate further research into biobehavioral mechanisms and
treatments for the disorders it examines.
This is the second volume based on the annual University of Miami
Symposia on Stress and Coping. The present volume is focused on
some representative stresses and coping mechanisms that occur
during different stages of development including infancy,
childhood, and adulthood. Accordingly, the volume is divided into
three sections for those three stages.
Soil contamination . . . public lands . . . surface and groundwater
pollution . . . coastal erosion . . . global warming. Have we
reached the limits of this planet's ability to provide for us? If
so, what can we do about it?These vital questions are addressed in
The Earth Around Us, a unique collection of thirty-one essays by a
diverse array of today's foremost scientist-writers. Sharing an
ability to communicate science in a clear and engaging fashion, the
contributors explore Earth's history and processes--especially in
relation to today's environmental issues--and show how we, as
members of a global community, can help maintain a livable planet.
The narratives in this collection are organized into seven parts
that describe: Earth's time and history and the place of people on
it Views of nature and the ethics behind our conduct on Earth
Resources for the twenty-first century, such as public lands,
healthy forests and soils, clean ground and surface waters, and
fluctuating coastlines Ill-informed local manipulations of
landscapes across the United States Innovative solutions to
environmental problems that arise from knowledge of the
interactions between living things and the Earth's air, water, and
soil Natural and human-induced global scale perturbations to the
earth system Our responsibility to people and all other organisms
that live on Earth. Never before has such a widely experienced
group of prominent earth scientists been brought together to help
readers understand how earth's environment works. Driven by the
belief that earth science is, and should be, an integral part of
everyday life, The Earth Around Us empowers all of us to play a
more educated and active part in the search for a sustainable
future for our planet and its inhabitants.
In his final work, Donald N. Levine, one of the great
late-twentieth-century sociological theorists, brings together
diverse social thinkers. Simmel, Weber, Durkheim, Parsons, and
Merton are set into a dialogue with philosophers such as Hobbes,
Smith, Montesquieu, Comte, Kant, and Hegel and pragmatists such as
Peirce, James, Dewey, and McKeon to describe and analyze dialogical
social theory. This volume is one of Levine's most important
contributions to social theory and a worthy summation of his life's
work. Levine demonstrates that approaching social theory with a
cooperative, peaceful dialogue is a superior tactic in theorizing
about society. He illustrates the advantages of the dialogical
model with case studies drawn from the French Philosophes, the
Russian Intelligentsia, Freudian psychology, Ushiba's aikido, and
Levine's own ethnographic work in Ethiopia. Incorporating themes
that run through his lifetime's work, such as conflict resolution,
ambiguity, and varying forms of social knowledge, Levine suggests
that while dialogue is an important basis for sociological
theorizing, it still vies with more combative forms of discourse
that lend themselves to controversy rather than cooperation, often
giving theory a sense of standing still as the world moves forward.
The book was nearly finished when Levine died in April 2015, but it
has been brought to thoughtful and thought-provoking completion by
his friend and colleague Howard G. Schneiderman. This volume will
be of great interest to students and teachers of social theory and
philosophy.
Part dialogue, part debate between Howard Schneiderman and a small
number of social theorists, Engagement and Disengagement represents
the culmination of a life's work in social theory. On the one hand,
it is about cohesive social, cultural, and intellectual forces,
such as authority, community, status, and the sacred, that tie us
together, and on the other hand, about forces such as alienation,
politics, and economic warfare that pull us apart. With a blend of
humanism and social science, Engagement and Disengagement highlight
this two-culture solution to understanding social and cultural
history.
Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the number one killer of men and
women in industrialized countries. In older age groups, CVD is also
the most important cause for hospitalization, and, in many
countries, it is the basis of early retirement from work. Thus, CVD
is associated with enormous costs for care and loss of
productivity, as well as for disabilities, pensions, etc. All this
has motivated clinicians and scientists to develop and implement
new methodologies and technologies to better care for patients who
are hospitalized for heart disease. Efforts to improve care in the
acute phases of coronary heart disease (CHD) have been successful.
During the last decade, the immediate mortality risk of a patient
admitted to coronary care for a suspected myocardial infarction or
other acute coronary syndrome has decreased to less than 10%.
Despite these achievements, CVD continues to represent a major
threat to the health of middle-aged and elderly men and women. This
volume addresses myriad aspects of CHD prevention, including
biobehavioral and psychosocial factors, behavioral epidemiology,
behavioral intervention models, and policy. The first section of
the text provides an introduction to CVD prevention and behavioral
medicine. The second section introduces two theoretically different
approaches to preventive action, high-risk and population-based
strategies. The third section describes and discusses the important
questions of how behavioral sciences can be conceptually integrated
into traditional, medically based, preventive efforts. The fourth
section presents both population and high-risk behavioral
intervention approaches. In summary, this volume examines the
social environment and its potentials for preventive actions,
reviews the psychosocial and biobehavioral mechanisms involved in
these effects, and describes concrete and practical implementations
of behavioral medicine knowledge as they have been applied to CHD
prevention.
Appropriated Interiors uncovers the ways interiors participate
explicitly and implicitly in embedded cultural and societal values
and explores timely emergent scholarship in the fields of interior
design history, theory, and practice. What is "appropriate" and
"inappropriate" now? These are terms with particular interest to
the study of the interior. Featuring thirteen original curated
essays, Appropriated Interiors explores the tensions between
normative interiors that express the dominant cultural values of a
society and interiors that express new, changing, and even
transgressive values. With case studies from the late eighteenth
century to the twenty-first century, these historians, theorists,
and design practitioners investigate the implications of interior
design as it relates to politics, gender, identity, spatial
abstraction, cultural expression, racial expression, technology,
and much more. An informative read for students and scholars of
design history and theory, this collection considers the standards,
assumptions, codes, and/or conventions that need to be dismantled
and how we can expand our understanding of the history, theory, and
practice of interior design to challenge the status quo.
Stress, Coping, and Depression is the latest volume based on the
Annual Stress and Coping Conference held at the University of
Miami. In this timely collection, leading researchers offer a
variety of new perspectives on depression. They review the social,
biological, and psychological processes that put adults and their
children at risk and discuss innovative treatments grounded in
empirical studies. Research findings are integrated across domains
to construct more effective models of etiology and intervention.
The contributors' thought-provoking ideas will provide inspiration
for the ongoing efforts addressing the problems associated with
this devastating disorder. Content highlights include: * novel
information processing approaches to depression; * an overview of
the neural pathways guiding moods; * empirical approaches for the
treatment of bipolar disorders; * integrated models of biological
and environmental influences on the transmission of depression to
children; and * new perspectives on the relationship between
personality and stress.
The latest volume in the series based on the Annual Stress and
Coping Symposia held at the University of Miami, Drs. McCabe,
Schneiderman, Field, and Wellens bring together an outstanding
group of researchers to examine the relationship between
bio-behavioral and social factors and heart disease. Highlights of
the book include an in-depth look at the latest research on: *
basic physiological processes in cardiovascular reactivity to
stress; * pathophysiological mechanisms in cardiovascular disease;
* ethnic differences in cardiovascular regulation; * psychosocial
influences on cardiovascular function/disease; and * Behavioral
interventions designed to treat cardiovascular disorders. The goal
of Stress, Coping, and Cardiovascular Disease is to provide a solid
empirical foundation on the relationship between stress and
cardiovascular disease so as to stimulate further research into the
pathophysiology and treatment of the leading cause of death in
industrialized countries.
Interior Provocations: History, Theory, and Practice of Autonomous
Interiors addresses the broad cultural, historical, and theoretical
implications of interiors beyond their conventionally defined
architectural boundaries. With provocative contributions from
leading and emerging historians, theorists, and design
practitioners, the book is rooted in new scholarship that expands
traditional relationships between architecture and interiors and
that reflects the latest theoretical developments in the fields of
interior design history and practice. This collection contains
diverse case studies from the late eighteenth century to the
twenty-first century including Alexander Pope’s Memorial Garden,
Design Indaba, and Robin Evans. It is an essential read for
researchers, practitioners, and students of interior design at all
levels.
Interior Provocations: History, Theory, and Practice of Autonomous
Interiors addresses the broad cultural, historical, and theoretical
implications of interiors beyond their conventionally defined
architectural boundaries. With provocative contributions from
leading and emerging historians, theorists, and design
practitioners, the book is rooted in new scholarship that expands
traditional relationships between architecture and interiors and
that reflects the latest theoretical developments in the fields of
interior design history and practice. This collection contains
diverse case studies from the late eighteenth century to the
twenty-first century including Alexander Pope's Memorial Garden,
Design Indaba, and Robin Evans. It is an essential read for
researchers, practitioners, and students of interior design at all
levels.
Soil contamination . . . public lands . . . surface and groundwater
pollution . . . coastal erosion . . . global warming. Have we
reached the limits of this planet's ability to provide for us? If
so, what can we do about it?These vital questions are addressed in
"The Earth Around Us," a unique collection of thirty-one essays by
a diverse array of today's foremost scientist-writers. Sharing an
ability to communicate science in a clear and engaging fashion, the
contributors explore Earth's history and processes--especially in
relation to today's environmental issues--and show how we, as
members of a global community, can help maintain a livable planet.
The narratives in this collection are organized into seven parts
that describe: Earth's time and history and the place of people on
it Views of nature and the ethics behind our conduct on Earth
Resources for the twenty-first century, such as public lands,
healthy forests and soils, clean ground and surface waters, and
fluctuating coastlines Ill-informed local manipulations of
landscapes across the United States Innovative solutions to
environmental problems that arise from knowledge of the
interactions between living things and the Earth's air, water, and
soil Natural and human-induced global scale perturbations to the
earth system Our responsibility to people and all other organisms
that live on Earth. Never before has such a widely experienced
group of prominent earth scientists been brought together to help
readers understand how earth's environment works. Driven by the
belief that earth science is, and should be, an integral part of
everyday life, "The Earth Around Us" empowers all of us to play a
more educated and active part in thesearch for a sustainable future
for our planet and its inhabitants.
The third volume based on the annual University of Miami Symposia
on Stress and Coping, this book focuses on the role of biophysical
factors in four of the greatest health problems confronting us
today: cardiovascular disease, diabetes, cancer, and the AIDS
epidemic. In each of these disorders, stress is seen as a
contributing factor that interacts with other variables such as
genetic influences or constitutional factors. Accordingly, the
behavioral treatments discussed are often designed to change
lifestyles, reduce stress, or improve adherence to therapeutic
regimens. This volume provides a solid theoretical base which
should stimulate further research into biobehavioral mechanisms and
treatments for the disorders it examines.
Part dialogue, part debate between Howard Schneiderman and a small
number of social theorists, Engagement and Disengagement represents
the culmination of a life's work in social theory. On the one hand,
it is about cohesive social, cultural, and intellectual forces,
such as authority, community, status, and the sacred, that tie us
together, and on the other hand, about forces such as alienation,
politics, and economic warfare that pull us apart. With a blend of
humanism and social science, Engagement and Disengagement highlight
this two-culture solution to understanding social and cultural
history.
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