Fear And Nature
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Fear And Nature
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Author : Associate Professor of English & Humanities Christy Tidwell
language : en
Publisher: AnthropoScene
Release Date : 2023-10-24
Fear And Nature written by Associate Professor of English & Humanities Christy Tidwell and has been published by AnthropoScene this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-10-24 with categories.
A collection of essays analyzing ecohorror motifs in literature, manga, film, and television, illuminating ambiguities that arise from human encounters with nonhuman nature and examining the scale and effect of ecohorror in, and of, the Anthropocene.
The Nature Of Fear
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Author : Daniel T. Blumstein
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2020-09-08
The Nature Of Fear written by Daniel T. Blumstein and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-09-08 with Science categories.
A leading expert in animal behavior takes us into the wild to better understand and manage our fears. Fear, honed by millions of years of natural selection, kept our ancestors alive. Whether by slithering away, curling up in a ball, or standing still in the presence of a predator, humans and other animals have evolved complex behaviors in order to survive the hazards the world presents. But, despite our evolutionary endurance, we still have much to learn about how to manage our response to danger. For more than thirty years, Daniel Blumstein has been studying animals’ fear responses. His observations lead to a firm conclusion: fear preserves security, but at great cost. A foraging flock of birds expends valuable energy by quickly taking flight when a raptor appears. And though the birds might successfully escape, they leave their food source behind. Giant clams protect their valuable tissue by retracting their mantles and closing their shells when a shadow passes overhead, but then they are unable to photosynthesize, losing the capacity to grow. Among humans, fear is often an understandable and justifiable response to sources of threat, but it can exact a high toll on health and productivity. Delving into the evolutionary origins and ecological contexts of fear across species, The Nature of Fear considers what we can learn from our fellow animals—from successes and failures. By observing how animals leverage alarm to their advantage, we can develop new strategies for facing risks without panic.
Ecophobia
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Author : Paul Evans
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2001
Ecophobia written by Paul Evans and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with categories.
Fear Its Nature And Diverse Uses
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Author : Norman Kemp Smith
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1957
Fear Its Nature And Diverse Uses written by Norman Kemp Smith and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1957 with Fear categories.
Ecophobia
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Author : Paul Evans
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2001
Ecophobia written by Paul Evans and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with categories.
Ruthie Fear A Novel
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Author : Maxim Loskutoff
language : en
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Release Date : 2020-09-01
Ruthie Fear A Novel written by Maxim Loskutoff and has been published by W. W. Norton & Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-09-01 with Fiction categories.
Winner of the 2021 High Plains Book Award in Fiction and the 2021 Montana Innovation Award In this haunting parable of the American West, a young woman faces the violent past of her remote Montana valley. As a child in Montana’s Bitterroot Valley, Ruthie Fear sees an apparition: a strange, headless creature near a canyon creek. Its presence haunts her throughout her youth. Raised in a trailer by her stubborn, bowhunting father, Ruthie develops a powerful connection with the natural world but struggles to find her place in a society shaped by men. Development, gun violence, and her father’s vendettas threaten her mountain home. As she comes of age, her small community begins to fracture in the face of class tension and encroaching natural disaster, and the creature she saw long ago reappears as a portent of the valley’s final reckoning. An entirely new kind of western and the first novel from one of this generation’s most wildly imaginative writers, Ruthie Fear captures the destruction and rebirth of the modern American West with warmth, urgency, and grandeur. The Technicolor bursts of action that test Ruthie’s commitment to the valley and its people invite us to look closer at our nation’s complicated legacy of manifest destiny, mass shootings, and environmental destruction. Anchored by its unforgettable heroine, Ruthie Fear presents the rural West as a place balanced on a knife-edge, at war with itself, but still unbearably beautiful and full of love.
All We Have To Fear
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Author : Allan V. Horwitz, PhD
language : en
Publisher: OUP USA
Release Date : 2012-06
All We Have To Fear written by Allan V. Horwitz, PhD and has been published by OUP USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-06 with Health & Fitness categories.
Thirty years ago, it was estimated that less than five percent of the population had an anxiety disorder. Today, some estimates are over fifty percent, a tenfold increase. Is this dramatic rise evidence of a real medical epidemic?In All We Have to Fear, Allan Horwitz and Jerome Wakefield argue that psychiatry itself has largely generated this "epidemic" by inflating many natural fears into psychiatric disorders, leading to the over-diagnosis of anxiety disorders and the over-prescription of anxiety-reducing drugs. American psychiatry currently identifies disordered anxiety as irrational anxiety disproportionate to a real threat. Horwitz and Wakefield argue, to the contrary, that it can be a perfectly normal part of our nature to fear things that are not at all dangerous--from heights to negative judgments by others to scenes that remind us of past threats (as in some forms of PTSD). Indeed, this book argues strongly against the tendency to call any distressing condition a "mental disorder." To counter this trend, the authors provide an innovative and nuanced way to distinguish between anxiety conditions that are psychiatric disorders and likely require medical treatment and those that are not--the latter including anxieties that seem irrational but are the natural products of evolution. The authors show that many commonly diagnosed "irrational" fears--such as a fear of snakes, strangers, or social evaluation--have evolved over time in response to situations that posed serious risks to humans in the past, but are no longer dangerous today.Drawing on a wide range of disciplines including psychiatry, evolutionary psychology, sociology, anthropology, and history, the book illuminates the nature of anxiety in America, making a major contribution to our understanding of mental health.
Fear Critical Geopolitics And Everyday Life
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Author : Susan J. Smith
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-04-22
Fear Critical Geopolitics And Everyday Life written by Susan J. Smith and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-04-22 with Social Science categories.
'Fear' in the twenty-first century has greater currency in western societies than ever before. Through scares ranging from cot death, juvenile crime, internet porn, asylum seekers, dirty bombs and avian flu, we are bombarded with messages about emerging risks. This book takes stock of a range of issues of 'fear' and presents new theoretical arguments and research findings that cover topics as diverse as the war on terror, the immigration crisis, stranger danger, global disease epidemics and sectarian violence. This book charts the association of fear discourses with particular spaces, times, social identities and sets of geopolitical relations. It examines the ways in which fear may be manufactured and manipulated for political purposes, sometimes becoming a tool of repression, and relates fear to political, economic and social marginalization at different scales. Furthermore, it highlights the importance and sometimes unpredictability of everyday lived experiences of fear - the many ways in which people recognize, make sense of and manage fear; the extent of resistance to fear; the relation of fear and hope in everyday life; and the role of emotions in galvanizing political and social action and change.
The Nightmare Nature Tour
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Author : John Wood
language : en
Publisher: Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP
Release Date : 2020-07-15
The Nightmare Nature Tour written by John Wood and has been published by Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-07-15 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.
Nature presents us with some awesome, powerful, earth-shaking events. Many people suffer with phobias related to Earth's wonders, such as astraphobia, which is the fear of thunder and lightning. While being scared of thunderous sounds is natural, phobias tip the scale because now your heart is pounding, your body is shaking, and you're so overwhelmed by your feelings that it is extreme or irrational. This book takes a voyage through the phobias we encounter in nature. Through vivid descriptions of what a person goes through when they fear waves, bright light, shadows, and other natural phenomena, inquisitive readers investigate how fear has evolved over time. Sidebars and vibrant photographs highlight each phobia.
Fear Of Writing
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Author : Tan Tarn How
language : en
Publisher: Epigram Books
Release Date :
Fear Of Writing written by Tan Tarn How and has been published by Epigram Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with Fiction categories.
The maestro of political plays is back and his latest offering in a decade, Fear of Writing, is a groundbreaking commentary with its finger on the political pulse of Singapore today. In Fear of Writing, a playwright struggles with writer’s block, a director and producer bemoan their failure to get a government license to stage their play, and a father writes to his daughter overseas. Seemingly disparate elements are woven together, while the line between art, performance and reality begin to blur dramatically as the play reaches its chilling conclusion. Fear of Writing is a play that will haunt you while compelling you to decide where you stand on the issues of control and censorship. Written by Tan Tarn How, Fear of Writing was first staged by Theatreworks in 2011 to critical acclaim.
