1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910777914703321

Titolo

Boom & bust [[electronic resource] ] : bird stories for a dry country / / Libby Robin, Robert Heinsohn, Leo Joseph (editors)

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Collingwood, Vic., : CSIRO Pub., c2009

ISBN

0-643-09867-4

1-283-15522-2

9786613155221

0-643-09709-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (311 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

RobinLibby <1956->

JosephLeo

HeinsohnRobert

Disciplina

598.0994

Soggetti

Birds - Behavior - Australia

Birds - Effect of drought on - Australia

Nature - Effect of human beings on

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction : boom and bust / Libby Robin and Mike Smith -- The boom and bust desert world : a bird's eye view / Libby Robin and Leo Joseph -- Barcoo bantam : 'It runs like hell!' / Graham Pizzey -- Rain and grass : lessons in how to be a zebra finch / Steve Morton -- Grey teal : survivors in a changing world / David Roshier -- Australian pelican : flexible responses to uncertainty / Julian Reid -- Night parrots : fugitives of the inland / Penny Olsen -- Genyornis : last of the dromornithids / Mike Smith -- Rainbirds : organising the country / Deborah Bird Rose -- Woodswallows : a longer term, evolutionary view of boom and bust / Leo Joseph -- White-winged choughs : the social consequences of boom and bust / Robert Heinsohn -- Emu : national symbols and ecological limits / Libby Robin.

Sommario/riassunto

Leading writers draw on ideas in both science and the humanities to tell the stories of birds and people in the world's driest inhabited continent.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910781684003321

Autore

Freud Anna <1895-1982.>

Titolo

The ego and the mechanisms of defence / / Anna Freud

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Routledge, , 2018

©1966

ISBN

0-429-92055-5

0-429-90632-3

0-429-48155-1

1-283-11828-9

9786613118288

1-84940-122-5

Edizione

[Revised edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (213 p.)

Disciplina

131.34124

154.2

154.2/2

Soggetti

Ego (Psychology)

Defense mechanisms (Psychology)

Psychoanalysis

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

This edition originally published in print: United States, 1966.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

pt. 1. Theory of the mechanisms of defense -- pt. 2. Examples of the avoidance of objective unpleasure and objective danger preliminary stages of defense -- pt. 3. Examples of two types of defense -- pt. 4. Defense motivated by fear of the strength of the instincts.

Sommario/riassunto

A classsic contribution to psychoanalytic psychology written by a pioneer of child analysis, it is illustrated by fascinating clinical pictures drawn from the analysis of children and adolescents. A founding text in ego psychology.