Todo el mundo tiene que enfrentarse a distintas crisis, es algo común. Ahora bien, la forma de afrontarlas es muy distinta: mientras que algunas personas caen en un profundo agujero del que no logran escapar, otras reúnen fuerzas para reponerse y seguir adelante. Los psicólogos denominan resiliencia a esa misteriosa energía que nos impulsa a salir de una situación depresiva para volver a disfrutar de una vitalidad plena, a la fuerza que nos ayuda a resistir contra los condicionantes negativos del entorno y echar la vista hacia delante con optimismo. Christina Berndt es una periodista especializada en el ámbito científi co y ha dedicado esta obra a responder a una cuestión con la ayuda de las investigaciones más avanzadas: ¿de dónde proviene esa fortaleza mental y cómo podemos manejarnos mejor para superar las crisis y combatir el estrés? Porque lo cierto es que podemos contribuir a reforzar nuestra capacidad de resistencia psíquica a lo largo de toda la vida.

Occupational Safety and Hygiene presents selected papers from the International Symposium on Occupational Safety and Hygiene – SHO2013 (Guimarães, Portugal, 14-15 February 2013), which was organized by the Portuguese Society for Occupational Safety and Hygiene (SPOSHO). The contributions from 15 different countries focus on: - Occupational safety - Risk assessment - Safety management - Ergonomics - Management systems - Environmental ergonomics - Physical environments - Construction safety - Human factors The papers included in the book are mainly based on research carried out at universities and other research institutions, but they are also based on practical studies developed by Occupational Health & Safety (OHS) practitioners within their companies. As a result, this book will be useful to get acquainted with the state-of-the-art of the research within the aforementioned domains, as well as with some practical tools and approaches that are currently used by OHS professionals worldwide.

"Perspectives on Personality describes a range of viewpoints that are used by personality psychologists today, and helps students understand how these viewpoints can be applied to their own lives. Authors Charles Carver and Michael Scheier dedicate a chapter to each major perspective, presenting an overview on the perspective's orienting assumptions and core themes and concluding with a discussion of problems within that theoretical viewpoint and predictions about its future prospects. The Eighth edition incorporates several important recent developments in the field, including genetics and genomics and the biological underpinnings of impulsiveness"--Back cover

Elisa Victoria's first foray in the English language with a novel which uncovers nine-year-old Marina's internal struggles, during the long dry spell in 1993.

The understanding that some pesticides are more hazardous than others is well established. Recognition of this is reflected by the World Health Organization (WHO) Recommended Classification of Pesticides by Hazard, which was first published in 1975. The document classifies pesticides in one of five hazard classes according to their acute toxicity. In 2002, the Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals (GHS) was introduced, which in addition to acute toxicity also provides classification of chemicals according to their chronic health hazards and environmental hazards.