Controversial in nature, this book demonstrates that the UnitedStates did not need to use the atomic bomb against Japan.Alperovitz criticizes one of the most hotly debated precursoryevents to the Cold War, an event that was largely responsible forthe evolution of post-World War II American politics andculture.
Research clearly indicates that ethnic groups differsignificantly on levels of mental and physical health, antisocialbehavior, and educational attainment. This book explains thesevariations among ethnic groups with respect to their psychologicaland social functioning and tests competing hypotheses about themechanisms that might cause the functioning to be better, worse, ordifferent in pattern from other groups. Attention is paid toeducational attainments, antisocial behavior, schizophrenia andsuicide, and to the complex and changing patterns of ethnicidentity. The book also focuses on evidence on risk and protectivefactors that is used systematically to ask whether such factorsmight account for the differences in both migration histories andethnic mixture. It concludes with a discussion of the multiplemeanings of ethnicity, the major variations among ethnic groups,and the policy implications of the findings discussed in thebook.
One of the major neuropsychological models of personality,developed by world-renowned psychologist Professor Jeffrey Gray, isbased upon individual differences in reactions to punishing andrewarding stimuli. This biological theory of personality - nowwidely known as 'Reinforcement Sensitivity Theory' (RST) - has hada major influence on motivation, emotion and psychopathologyresearch. In 2000, RST was substantially revised by Jeffrey Gray,together with Neil McNaughton, and this revised theory proposedthree principal motivation/emotion systems: the'Fight-Flight-Freeze System' (FFFS), the 'Behavioural ApproachSystem' (BAS) and the 'Behavioural Inhibition System' (BIS). Thisis the first book to summarise the Reinforcement Sensitivity Theoryof personality and bring together leading researchers in the field.It summarizes all of the pre-2000 RST research findings, explainsand elaborates the implications of the 2000 theory for personalitypsychology and lays out the future research agenda for RST.
The solar system most of us grew up with included nineplanets, with Mercury closest to the sun and Pluto at the outeredge. Then, in 2005, astronomer Mike Brown made the discovery of alifetime: a tenth planet, Eris, slightly bigger than Pluto. Butinstead of its resulting in one more planet being added to oursolar system, Brown’s find ignited a firestorm of controversy thatriled the usually sedate world of astronomy and launched him intothe public eye. The debate culminated in the demotion of Pluto fromreal planet to the newly coined category of “dwarf” planet.Suddenly Brown was receiving hate mail from schoolchildren andbeing bombarded by TV reporters—all because of the discovery he hadspent years searching for and a lifetime dreaming about. Filled with both humor and drama, How I Killed Pluto and Why ItHad It Coming is Mike Brown’s engaging first-person account of themost tumultuous year in modern astronomy—which he inadvertentlycaused. As it guides readers through important scientifi
