Drawing from groundbreaking research, psychologist and award-winning teacher Kelly McGonigal, PhD, offers a surprising new view of stress—one that reveals the upside of stress, and shows us exactly how to capitalize on its benefits.

This multi-author book deals with ‘resource ecology’, which is the ecology of trophic interactions between consumers and their resources. Resource ecology is perhaps the most central part of ecology.

This book documents Radio Revolten, the international radio-art festival in Halle, Germany, which took place in October 2016 and featured an independent station, installations, live performances, conferences, workshops and public ...

Filmatized in 2013 and the official recipient of three Oscars, Solomon Northup's powerful slave narrative 'Twelve Years a Slave' depicts Nortup's life as he is sold into slavery after having spent 32 years of his life living as a free man ...

"This affectionate cultural guide celebrates 100 icons that make Belgium different from any other country.

Based on Stanford University psychologist Kelly McGonigal's wildly popular course "The Science of Willpower," The Willpower Instinct is the first book to explain the science of self-control and how it can be harnessed to improve our health, ...

A novel anaerobic bacterium which dechlorinates PCE to the non-toxic product ethene (ETH), "Dehalococcoides ethenogenes' strain 195, was isolated from this enrichment. This is the first pure culture capable of complete PCE dechlorination.

This book won the INDIEFAB 2015 Bronze Award for Science (Adult nonfiction).Genetically modified organisms (GMOs) including plants and the foods made from them, are a hot topic of debate today, but soon related technology could go much ...