""Fight or Flight Response: Understanding and Mastering Our Primitive Stress Reaction"" explores the fundamental human stress response and its impact on our modern lives. This insightful book delves into the evolutionary origins of the fight or flight mechanism, explaining how a survival tool designed for immediate physical threats now affects us in everyday situations. Readers will discover how chronic activation of this response can lead to anxiety and health issues, but also learn that when properly managed, it can enhance performance and personal growth. The book progresses through three main sections: 1. The biological underpinnings of the response 2. Its manifestations in daily life 3. Evidence-based strategies for mitigation It uniquely frames stress as a potential ally rather than an enemy, offering a fresh perspective in stress management. Drawing from neurobiology, psychology, and holistic health practices, the author presents a comprehensive approach to understanding and harnessing this powerful biological mechanism. Balancing scientific rigor with practical advice, the book includes interactive elements like self-assessment tools and guided exercises. It equips readers with a toolkit of stress management techniques, from mindfulness practices to cognitive reframing strategies, empowering them to cultivate resilience and lead more balanced lives in our stress-filled world.

Fight, Flight or Flourish: How neuroscience can unlock human potential takes the latest research in neuroscience and translates it into actionable steps you can take today to help you and your team thrive at work! This practical book offers dozens of neuro-tips to help you: Cope better with stress; increase your focus at work; foster better relationships; quickly identify the intentions of others; make your goals more meaningful and achievable; cultivate a stillness of mind; increase performance; and more! 'Fight, Flight or Flourish, is a marvellous compilation and translational book. Essential reading for anyone who wants to stay abreast of the latest research in neuroscience and begin to understand what it means to be human.'A Richard Boyatzis - co-author of the international best seller Primal Leadership 'This book is a wise neuro-investment that will maximise your individual and social performance.' Dr John Demartini - International best-selling author of The Values Factor

Tim Thomas, former Special Forces Commando, knows about fear and the feelings of 'fight and flight' - but he also knows about harnessing some important insights to move beyond fear to a more connected life; one where you connect with others and re-connect with yourself and your potential. Tim Thomas served in Afghanistan and East Timor as a Commando. Since leaving the Army in 2010, Tim has worked in the veteran recovery space, helping other veterans on their journey of healing post-service.

FIight, Flight, Mimic is the first systematic study of deceptive mimicry in the context of wars. Deceptive mimicry -- the manipulation of individual or group identity -- includes passing off as a different individual, as a member of a group to which one does not belong, or, for a group, to 'sign' its action as another group. Mimicry exploits the reputation of the model it mimics to avoid capture (flight), to strike undetected at the enemy (fight), or to hide behind or besmirch the reputation of the model group ('false flag' operations). These tactics have previously been described anecdotally, mixed in with other ruses de guerre, but the authors show that mimicry is a distinct form of deception with its own logic and particularly consequential effects on those involved. The book offers a theory and game-theoretic model of mimicry, an overview of its use through history, and a deep empirical exploration of its modern manifestations through several case studies by leading social scientists. The chapters cover mimicry in the context of the Northern Ireland conflict, terrorism campaigns in 1970s Italy, the height of the Iraq insurgency, the Rwandan genocide, the Naxalite rebellion in India, and jihadi discussion forums on the Internet.

Rave is one of the first distinct and significant youth subcultures to emerge since the early days of punk rockers and skinheads. A middle-class culture renowned for drug use, computer-generated "techno" music, and all-night dance parties, rave has been described as everything from a drug cult to a neo-hippie community. Brian Wilson uses his ethnographic research on rave during the mid and late 1990s in Southern Ontario to discuss the ways in which young people participate in social and cultural life at the turn of the millennium.

The first comprehensive book to uniquely combine the three fields of systems engineering, operations/production systems, and multiple criteria decision making/optimization Systems engineering is the art and science of designing, engineering, and building complex systems—combining art, science, management, and engineering disciplines. Operations and Production Systems with Multiple Objectives covers all classical topics of operations and production systems as well as new topics not seen in any similiar textbooks before: small-scale design of cellular systems, large-scale design of complex systems, clustering, productivity and efficiency measurements, and energy systems. Filled with completely new perspectives, paradigms, and robust methods of solving classic and modern problems, the book includes numerous examples and sample spreadsheets for solving each problem, a solutions manual, and a book companion site complete with worked examples and supplemental articles. Operations and Production Systems with Multiple Objectives will teach readers: How operations and production systems are designed and planned How operations and production systems are engineered and optimized How to formulate and solve manufacturing systems problems How to model and solve interdisciplinary and systems engineering problems How to solve decision problems with multiple and conflicting objectives This book is ideal for senior undergraduate, MS, and PhD graduate students in all fields of engineering, business, and management as well as practitioners and researchers in systems engineering, operations, production, and manufacturing.

Widely regarded as the standard reference in the field, this handbook comprehensively examines all aspects of emotion and its role in human behavior. The editors and contributors are foremost authorities who describe major theories, findings, methods, and applications. The volume addresses the interface of emotional processes with biology, child development, social behavior, personality, cognition, and physical and mental health. Also presented are state-of-the-science perspectives on fear, anger, shame, disgust, positive emotions, sadness, and other distinct emotions. Illustrations include seven color plates.

Comprehensively examining the relationship between cognition and emotion, this authoritative handbook brings together leading investigators from multiple psychological subdisciplines. Biological underpinnings of the cognition-emotion interface are reviewed, including the role of neurotransmitters and hormones. Contributors explore how key cognitive processes -- such as attention, learning, and memory -- shape emotional phenomena, and vice versa. Individual differences in areas where cognition and emotion interact -- such as agreeableness and emotional intelligence -- are addressed. The volume also analyzes the roles of cognition and emotion in anxiety, depression, borderline personality disorder, and other psychological disorders.

The Anxiety Recovery Journal is designed to support you in managing your feelings of anxiety. Drawing on evidence-based techniques, such as CBT, and on the authors' professional and lived experience, it features helpful journaling prompts, creative activities, beautiful colouring pages and motivational quote pages to help you calm your anxious mind. This uplifting journal will help you better understand your experiences of anxiety and motivate you in your recovery journey. Created by CBT therapist Cara Lisette and mental health advocate Anneli Roberts, the activities in this journal will help you to take positive steps towards living a full life beyond your anxiety.

This fascinating interdisciplinary work explores U.S. politics since 2015 and offers psychodynamic insights into the unconscious undercurrents of contemporary culture and politics in the United States. Allcorn and Stein expertly lead readers up the steep learning curve of understanding the Trump era by exploring seven key elements of recent political dynamics. Using the complementary psychodynamic models of object relations, Group Relations and Karen Horney’s tripartite theory, this book makes sense of the Age of Trump and its chaotic world of alternate facts, conspiracy theories, reality TV politics, hoax pandemics, and the sweeping chaos of life in the United States. This sense-making relies on two triangulations. The first represents the complex systemic political scene. The second uses three psychoanalytic theories to understand social, political, and organizational dynamics. This book is a key resource for helping readers know and understand ourselves, our fellow citizens, colleagues, family, friends and what Trump and his followers call "them" such as liberals and foreign immigrants, as well as both the larger polarized social and political context in the United States today. The book also provides concrete examples of how these discoveries can be operationalized both in organizations and at the level of national government and leadership. This book is an essential reading for students in organizational behavior including leadership and how governments operate, as well as behavioral health professionals consulting or offering therapy to organizations.