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| lLearned Optimism: How to Change Your Mind and Your Life |
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 Learned Optimism: How to Change Your Mind and Your Life Martin Seligman, a renowned psychologist and clinical researcher, has been studying optimists and pessimists for 25 years. Pessimists believe that bad events are their fault, will last a long time, and undermine everything. They feel helpless and may sink into depression, which is epidemic today, especially among youths. Optimists, on the other hand, believe that defeat is a temporary setback or a challenge--it doesn't knock them down. "Pessimism is escapable," asserts Seligman, by learning a new set of cognitive skills that will enable you to take charge, resist depression, and make yourself feel better and accomplish more. About two-thirds of this book is a psychological discussion of pessimism, optimism, learned helplessness (giving up because you feel unable to change things), explanatory style (how you habitually explain to yourself why events happen), and depression, and how these affect success, health, and quality of life. Seligman supports his points with animal research and human cases. He includes tests for you and your child--whose achievement may be related more to his or her level of optimism/pessimism than ability. The final chapters teach the skills of changing from pessimism to optimism, with worksheet pages to guide you and your child. --Joan Price |
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| Environmental Science: In Context |
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Environmental Science: In Context Written by a global array of experts, yet aimed primarily at high school students and an interested general readership, the In Context series serves as an authoritative reference guide to essential concepts of science, the impacts of recent changes in scientific consensus, and the impacts of science on social, political, and legal issues. Cross-curricular in nature, In Context books align with and support national science standards and high school science curriculums across subjects in science and the humanities, and facilitates science understanding important to higher achievement in the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) science testing. Inclusion of original essays written by leading experts and primary source documents serve the requirements of an increasing number of high school and international baccalaureate programs, and are designed to provide additional insights on leading social issues, as well as spur critical thinking about the profound cultural connections of science. |
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