This third edition of a popular text examines the influence of natural selection on behavior–an animal’s struggle to survive by exploiting resources, avoiding predators, and maximizing reproductive success. Many new examples and topics are offered including the theory and application of DNA identification. Written in a lucid style, this edition includes margin notes in a second color, indexes, references, and photos. Illustrated.

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5 Stars Essential of behavioral college students!
Essential of behavioral college students! The Brazilian Portuguese version has some problems with translation but nothing that prejudices the reading of this book. If you read Portuguese and English, choose the English one!

4 Stars A stimulating insight in animal (and human) behaviour
A well balanced, unique mix of ethology and sociobiology, with strong emphasis on the biologic and evolutionary sides of behaviour. It is concise but is easy reading. A must have, for those seriously interested in the field.

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This book provides students with readable, accessible, and easily-applied ideas and guidelines based on sound research evidence for enhancing personal wellness and the wellness of others through effective stress management. The writing style is reader-friendly, and includes many examples and personal application opportunities. It deals with central issues in the lives of today’s students. This book is comprehensive, covering a wide range of topics in the stress management and wellness fields.

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5 Stars Great book
This is a fantastic book. It was very easy to read. It seemed as though the author could read my mind. The strategies in this book have helped me to manage my fears and anxiety about social situations and other unrealistic fears. It has helped me manage my time better and thus eliminate negative stress. With this book and a strong desire to change, I am no longer depressed or suffering from sleep problems. The book defines the different kinds of stress. Then it talks about stress and helps you to understand what causes negative stress. Then it teaches you strategies to manage stress, anxiety, and fear.

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A vision of healing that deals with the choice and application of treatments, techniques for working with pain and grief, and the develoment of merciful awareness as a means of healing, Healing into Life and Death discusses Levine’s holistic approach to the healing of the mind, body, and soul.

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5 Stars A spiritual death
Often the most profound healing took place in those who did eventually die, but their deaths were transformed into experiences of beauty and grace. Levine concluded that real healing occurred when the heart was opened and there was a balanced integration of body, mind, heart, and soul.

3 Stars mind bogling
This is a very interesting book, however, very difficult to understand. If your looking for something easier to digest, look elsewhere. The Tibetan book of living and dying by S. Ripoche is probably a better choice.

5 Stars Mark D. Hyde, Author of “Coloring Outside the Lines: One Gay Man’s Journey to Self-Acceptance & Spiritual Awakening”
This book is one of the most thought-provoking and illuminating reads of our time on the subject of death. It was first published in 1987 but did not come across my radar screen until after the sudden loss of my own parents just a few years back. Stephen Levine has taken a taboo subject (the thought of our own demise) and reshaped it into something glorious and spectacular. I love the many beautiful life stories that anchor this book along the way, particularly the letter from Bill in Chapter 11 and his analogy, “soon my body will drop away from me like a cocoon and my spirit will fly like a butterfly- beautiful and perfect.” Other favorite and poignant passages (of which there are many) include, “truly we have been waiting our whole life to hear I love you in our own voice”, “making a cup of green tea, I stop the war”, and “we become who we have always been, that which preceded birth and survives death.” For anyone who is looking to find comfort in the midst of illness, loss, and grief, this book is simply exquisite and in a league all it’s own.

5 Stars books like this
Like all stephen’s books we should all be given them at school!The person who hated the book because they cried should maybe read it again….and again….

5 Stars Possibly the best book I’ve ever read
This book is fantastic. Stephen Levine is an amazingly gifted writer. Everything he writes has the flavor of poetry. His ability to express things which come very close, by their very nature, to being inexpressible is stunning. Like I said, his writing has the flavor of poetry. But GOOD poetry. Like Rumi. As one reviewer said, this is NOT a “new agey” book. I totally agree with that. This is a book about the Truth. Does it get “touchy-feely” at times? Yeah, but those moments are more than balanced by the overwhelming feeling that “this guy knows what he’s talking about!”. He’s been “in the trenches” and LIVED this stuff. It’s not theory to him…. it’s life.
You may resonate more powerfully with this book if you have even a passing familiarity with Zen/Buddhist philosophy. But it is certainly not a prerequisite. This is a book for everyone. “Sick” or “well”, “happy” or “depressed”, “contented” or “fed up”. It speaks to the HUMAN condition in all it’s manifestations. Almost anyone would classify this book as being a “spiritually” oriented book but it is so grounded in the “suchness” (as Stephen puts it) of everyday life that it comes closer to being a nitty gritty Ultimate Guide to Living A Human Life than it does any airy, ungrounded “spiritual” read.
I’m not a big fan of guided meditations either. And I’ve found that all “techniques” will fail you eventually if you see them as an end in themselves. But Stephen does an EXCELLENT job of not just suggesting some things to try but explaining WHY YOU ARE DOING THEM! You understand why he is telling you to “breathe with a soft belly”… he doesn’t just hit you over the head with…. “Enlightenment in 30 days through the use of the amazing Soft Belly technique” which is the take of so many books. After reading Healing into Life and Death, you will have such an expanded view of yourself and “illness” vs. “health” that you will easily be able to use whatever feels right to YOU… the things that will take you more and more deeply into yourself, where True healing lies. Yeah, he gives you some tools, but makes it clear that they are just that…. TOOLS…. like rafts you use to cross the river and then leave on the banks.
This book is filled with hope but NOT promises (just like life). It never gives the impression that if you will just do as it suggests, you will get well. But it does make it clear that to be with yourself… look deeply at your own experience… refuse to run away and actually LIVE your life are ALWAYS better than the alternatives. After all…. we’ve all tried the alternatives ad nauseum. If you want to see how far that has gotten us as a species….. take a look at this world.
This isn’t a book about “illness”, it’s a book about Life. This is the book we all should’ve been given when we were born. The world would be a much better place for it.

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This text introduces students to the fundamental concepts of crisis theory and practice, and provides models for single-session intervention and ongoing crisis counseling. Students learn to incorporate assessment into intervention, using the unique ABCDE model, Affective responses, Behavioral responses, Cognitive responses, Developmental assessment, Ecological assessment. Students learn to use this holistic framework for viewing individual responses to crisis events such as sexual assault, domestic violence, substance abuse, and death.

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Using a direct, personal voice Elizabeth Rider offers a well-researched, logical, and empirical book that presents current issues in the psychology of women in a balanced and fair manner. The author does not represent a particular agenda, but instead presents the best of what we know, even with its limitations. Throughout the book, applications relate the material to women’s lives in a compelling, personal way. Featured studies illuminate the process of research, describe the “why” and “how” of key experiments, and introduce students to the primary literature in the field.

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5 Stars Wonderful Collection of Information
This book is well written and offers a great compilation of several studies associated with the female mind and body. It is a wonderful resource for research papers as well as a great study tool for any psychology class. For those who’ve always wanted to look deeper into the female psyche and learn more about their anatomy, this is a must have.

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