Answering why so many people crave slimmer hips, curlier hair, and perfect teeth, a guide to identifying the causes of, and defeating, obsessive attitudes about appearance offers new solutions to this old problem. 50,000 first printing. Tour.

Body Traps: Breaking the Binds That Keep You from Feeling Good About Your Body

Self-Help

Rodin, Judith

Self-Esteem

William Morrow & Co.

Answering why so many people crave slimmer hips, curlier hair, and perfect teeth, a guide to identifying the causes of, and defeating, obsessive attitudes about appearance offers new solutions to this old problem

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Psychology & Counseling

Quill

Body Traps : How to Unlock the Cage of Body Obsessions

Diets & Weight Loss

Morrow/Avon

This edited volume provides a comprehensive and integrated work on eating, body weight and performance in athletes. The text deals with both theory and practice, and ranges from basic information on hunger and body composition to practical approaches to identify and help athletes with specific problems. It provides a detailed picture of how and why athletes are at risk for eating problems, and what can be done to prevent and remedy such problems.

Eating, Body Weight, and Performance in Athletes: Disorders of Modern Society

Brownell, Kelly D.

Mental Health

Lea, Febiger

In the last quarter of the twentieth century, urban colleges and universities found themselves enveloped by the poverty, crime, and physical decline that afflicted American cities. Some institutions turned inward, trying to insulate themselves rather than address the problems in their own backyards. Others attempted to develop better community relations, though changes were hard to sustain.
Spurred by an unprecedented crime wave in 1996, University of Pennsylvania President Judith Rodin knew that the time for urgent action had arrived, and she set a new course of proactive community engagement for her university. Her dedication to the revitalization of West Philadelphia was guided by her role not only as president but also as a woman and a mother with a deep affection for her hometown.
The goal was to build capacity back into a severely distressed inner-city neighborhood—educational capacity, retail capacity, quality-of-life capacity, and especially economic capacity—guided by the belief that "town and gown" could unite as one richly diverse community.
Cities rely on their academic institutions as stable places of employment, cultural centers, civic partners, and concentrated populations of consumers for local business and services. And a competitive university demands a vibrant neighborhood to meet the needs of its faculty, staff, and students. In keeping with their mission, urban universities are uniquely positioned to lead their communities in revitalization efforts, yet this effort requires resolute persistence.
During Rodin's administration (1994-2004), the Chronicle of Higher Education referred to Penn's progress as a "national model of constructive town-gown interaction and partnership." This book narrates the challenges, frustrations, and successes of Penn's campaign, and its prospects for long-term change.

The University and Urban Revival: Out of the Ivory Tower and Into the Streets (The City in the Twenty-First Century)

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

University of Pennsylvania Press

Discusses the causes and effects of overweight and recommends methods for reducing weight and maintaining a lower weight

Controlling Your Weight

Medical Books

Psychology

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Obese Humans and Rats (Psychology Revivals)

Originally published in 1974, this volume examines the behavioural similarities of obese humans and animals whose so-called feeding centre (the ventro-medial hypothalamic nuclei) has been lesioned. Both the obese human and the VMH-lesioned animal seem to share a hyposensitivity to the internal (physiological) cues to eating and hypersensitivity to external cues associated with food. Beginning with a review, these obese animals and the human obese are compared point by point on experimental results reported in the literature. Then, new findings are presented that specifically tested humans for relationships that are well-established for lesioned animals. Next, a theoretical framework integrates the human and animal data to postulate that the relationship of cue prominence and probability of response is stronger for the obese than for normal. The causes for this, and the extension of the basis for the obese’s eating behaviour to other areas, are discussed in light of further experiments that will make this invaluable reading for all concerned with the history of obesity and the issues of regulatory behaviour.

Schacter, Stanley

Routledge

Building resilience—the ability to bounce back more quickly and effectively—is an urgent social and economic issue. Our interconnected world is susceptible to sudden and dramatic shocks and stresses: a cyber-attack, a new strain of virus, a structural failure, a violent storm, a civil disturbance, an economic blow. Through an astonishing range of stories, Judith Rodin shows how people, organizations, businesses, communities, and cities have developed resilience in the face of otherwise catastrophic challenges: • Medellin, Colombia, was once the drug and murder capital of South America. Now it's host to international conferences and an emerging vacation destination. • Tulsa, Oklahoma, cracked the code of rapid urban development in a floodplain. • Airbnb, Toyota, Ikea, Coca-Cola, and other companies have realized the value of reducing vulnerabilities and potential threats to customers, employees, and their bottom line. • In the Mau Forest of Kenya, bottom-up solutions are critical for dealing with climate change, environmental degradation, and displacement of locals. • Following Superstorm Sandy, the Rockaway Surf Club in New York played a vital role in distributing emergency supplies. As we grow more adept at managing disruption and more skilled at resilience-building, Rodin reveals how we are able to create and take advantage of new economic and social opportunities that offer us the capacity to recover after catastrophes and grow strong in times of relative calm.

The Resilience Dividend: Being Strong in a World Where Things Go Wrong

Business & Money

Management & Leadership

PublicAffairs

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