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The Psychology of Happiness in the Modern World

A Social Psychological Approach

By: James E. Allen, PhD, MSPH, NHA, IP,James B. Allen, PhD

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The Psychology of Happiness in the Modern World

A Social Psychological Approach

By: James E. Allen, PhD, MSPH, NHA, IP,James B. Allen, PhD

Written in a conversational style yet empirically grounded, this book reviews what we know about the science of happiness. It is the first text to closely examine the social psychological processes as well as individualistic approaches that affect happiness. It explores how our social, cultural, and economic environment, the personal choices we make, and our evolutionary heritage shape our happiness. Topics that are inherently interesting to students such as how income and unemployment, marriage, children, and relationships, health, work, religion, economic growth, and personal safety affect happiness, are reviewed. Research from psychology, economics, and sociology is examined providing an interdisciplinary perspective of this fascinating field. Social issues such as income inequality and the effects of advertising, materialism, and competition are also explored. Highlights include: Covers both the socio-structural issues and individual differences that impact our happiness providing the most comprehensive coverage of any text available. Emphasizes a social psychological approach that considers factors such as income, economics, culture, work, materialism, relationships, religion, and more, often ignored in other texts. Relates the material to students’ lives by posing questions throughout the text to further spark interest in the subject matter. Highlights the latest research and the methodologies used to obtain it to help students better understand how to interpret results. Reviews the evidence that shows that happiness can change over time and how to increase it. Examines how positive emotions and how we interpret events impacts our well-being, along with empirically verified interventions and possible societal changes that can improve happiness. Features a chapter on evolutionary psychology that suggests that there are limits to happiness but how it can be enhanced by pursuing behaviors associated with the successes of our ancestors. Intersperses summary paragraphs throughout the chapters to facilitate learning. Provides discussion questions, activities, assignments, and suggested videos, websites, examples, and additional readings in the instructor’s resources to stimulate critical thinking and class discussion. Features web based instructor’s resources including PowerPoints, sample syllabi, lecture tips and suggestions, and more. Intended for as a text upper-division courses in the psychology of happiness or positive psychology or as a supplement in courses in social or health psychology or psychology of adjustment.

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Springer Publishing Company

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0826132839

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9780826132833

The World the Plague Made

The Black Death and the Rise of Europe

By: James Belich

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The World the Plague Made

The Black Death and the Rise of Europe

By: James Belich

A groundbreaking history of how the Black Death unleashed revolutionary change across the medieval world and ushered in the modern age In 1346, a catastrophic plague beset Europe and its neighbours. The Black Death was a human tragedy that abruptly halved entire populations and caused untold suffering, but it also brought about a cultural and economic renewal on a scale never before witnessed. The World the Plague Made is a panoramic history of how the bubonic plague revolutionized labour, trade, and technology and set the stage for Europe’s global expansion. James Belich takes readers across centuries and continents to shed new light on one of history’s greatest paradoxes. Why did Europe’s dramatic rise begin in the wake of the Black Death? Belich shows how plague doubled the per capita endowment of everything even as it decimated the population. Many more people had disposable incomes. Demand grew for silks, sugar, spices, furs, gold, and slaves. Europe expanded to satisfy that demand—and plague provided the means. Labour scarcity drove more use of waterpower, wind power, and gunpowder. Technologies like water-powered blast furnaces, heavily gunned galleons, and musketry were fast-tracked by plague. A new “crew culture” of “disposable males” emerged to man the guns and galleons. Setting the rise of Western Europe in global context, Belich demonstrates how the mighty empires of the Middle East and Russia also flourished after the plague, and how European expansion was deeply entangled with the Chinese and other peoples throughout the world.

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640

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Princeton University Press

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0691219168

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9780691219165

Introduction to Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania

By: Gilad James, PhD

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Introduction to Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania

By: Gilad James, PhD

Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania is the upcoming third installment in the Ant-Man film series and the twelfth film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU). Directed by Peyton Reed, the film is set to bring back Paul Rudd as the titular character, Scott Lang/Ant-Man, and Evangeline Lilly as his partner and love interest, Hope van Dyne/The Wasp. Joining them are Michael Douglas as Hank Pym and Michelle Pfeiffer as Janet van Dyne, who command the shrinking technology that forms the central aspect of the franchise. The plot of the movie is shrouded in secrecy, but it is assumed to explore the consequences of the characters’ exposure to the subatomic realm known as the Quantum Realm, which featured heavily in the previous films and was also integral to the plot of Avengers: Endgame. The film promises to take the Ant-Man franchise in new directions and potentially introduce new characters and concepts that will have ramifications for the MCU as a whole. Quantumania is currently in production and is expected to be released in 2023.

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Gilad James Mystery School

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9115670104

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9789115670100

Adaptive Survey Design

By: Barry Schouten,Andy Peytchev,James Wagner

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Adaptive Survey Design

By: Barry Schouten,Andy Peytchev,James Wagner

Adaptive survey designs (ASDs) provide a framework for data-driven tailoring of data collection procedures to different sample members, often for cost and bias reduction. People vary in how likely they are to respond and in how they respond. This variation leads to opportunities to selectively deploy design features in order to control both nonresponse and measurement errors. ASD aims at the optimal matching of design features and the characteristics of respondents given the survey budget. Such a goal is sensible, but ASD requires investment in more advanced technical systems and management infrastructure and asks for the collection of relevant auxiliary data. So what are current best practices in ASD? And is ASD worthwhile when the same auxiliary data are employed in the estimation afterwards? In this book, the authors provide answers to these questions, and much more.

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267

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CRC Press

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1498767885

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9781498767880

Agents of Empire

The First Oregon Cavalry and the Opening of the Interior Pacific Northwest During the Civil War

By: James Robbins Jewell

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Agents of Empire

The First Oregon Cavalry and the Opening of the Interior Pacific Northwest During the Civil War

By: James Robbins Jewell

Agents of Empire expands the historiographical scope of Civil War studies to include the war’s intersection with the history of the American West, demonstrating how the war was transcontinental in scope. Much more than a traditional Civil War regimental history, James Robbins Jewell’s work delves into the operational and social conditions under which the First Oregon Cavalry Regiment was formed. In response to ongoing tensions and violent interactions with Native peoples determined to protect their way of life and lands, Colonel George Wright, head of the military’s District of Oregon, asked the governor of Oregon to form a voluntary cavalry unit to protect white settlers and farmers. By using local volunteers, and later two additional regiments of infantry from the region, the federal government was able to draw from the majority of Regular Army troops stationed in the Pacific Northwest, who were eventually sent to fight Confederate forces east of the Mississippi River. Had the First Oregon Cavalry failed to fulfill its responsibilities, the federal government would have had to recall Union forces from other threatened areas and send them to Oregon and Washington Territory to quell secessionist unrest and Indigenous resistance to land theft, resource appropriation, and murder. The First Oregon Cavalry ensured settlers’ security in the Union’s farthest northwest corner, thereby contributing to the Union cause.

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U of Nebraska Press

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1496236416

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9781496236418

The City That Ate Itself

Butte, Montana and Its Expanding Berkeley Pit

By: Brian James Leech

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The City That Ate Itself

Butte, Montana and Its Expanding Berkeley Pit

By: Brian James Leech

Winner of the Mining History Association Clark Spence Award for the Best Book in Mining History, 2017-2018 Brian James Leech provides a social and environmental history of Butte, Montana’s Berkeley Pit, an open-pit mine which operated from 1955 to 1982. Using oral history interviews and archival finds, The City That Ate Itself explores the lived experience of open-pit copper mining at Butte’s infamous Berkeley Pit. Because an open-pit mine has to expand outward in order for workers to extract ore, its effects dramatically changed the lives of workers and residents. Although the Berkeley Pit gave consumers easier access to copper, its impact on workers and community members was more mixed, if not detrimental. The pit’s creeping boundaries became even more of a problem. As open-pit mining nibbled away at ethnic communities, neighbors faced new industrial hazards, widespread relocation, and disrupted social ties. Residents variously responded to the pit with celebration, protest, negotiation, and resignation. Even after its closure, the pit still looms over Butte. Now a large toxic lake at the center of a federal environmental cleanup, the Berkeley Pit continues to affect Butte’s search for a postindustrial future.

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University of Nevada Press

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0874175984

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The Psychology of Happiness in the Modern World

A Social Psychological Approach

By: James E. Allen, PhD, MSPH, NHA, IP,James B. Allen, PhD

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A Social Psychological Approach

By: James E. Allen, PhD, MSPH, NHA, IP,James B. Allen, PhD

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The Psychology of Happiness in the Modern World

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The World the Plague Made

Introduction to Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania

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Adaptive Survey Design

Adaptive Survey Design

Agents of Empire

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The City That Ate Itself

The City That Ate Itself

The Psychology of Happiness in the Modern World

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