| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
1. |
Record Nr. |
UNINA9910782620303321 |
|
|
Autore |
Ensminger Peter A. <1957-> |
|
|
Titolo |
Life under the sun [[electronic resource] /] / Peter A. Ensminger |
|
|
|
|
|
Pubbl/distr/stampa |
|
|
New Haven, CT, : Yale University Press, c2001 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
ISBN |
|
1-281-72259-6 |
9786611722593 |
0-300-13352-9 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Descrizione fisica |
|
1 online resource (1 online resource (xii, 276 p.) ) : ill |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Disciplina |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Soggetti |
|
Photobiology |
Photoreceptors |
Light - Physiological effect |
Vision |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Lingua di pubblicazione |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
|
|
|
|
|
Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
|
|
|
|
|
Note generali |
|
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Nota di bibliografia |
|
Includes bibliographical references (p. [201]-258) and index. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Nota di contenuto |
|
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 .Vision at the Threshold -- 2. The Five Percent Solution to Vision -- 3. A More Delightful Vision -- 4 .A Burning Issue -- 5. A SAD Tale -- 6 .The Purple Disease -- 7 .A Novel Method of Weed Control -- 8 .Light and Beer -- 9. Phycomyces, the Fungus That Sees -- 10. Dictyostelium, the Amoeba and the Slug -- 11. High Hopes for Hypericin -- 12 .Turning on a Butterfly -- 13 .Blue Moons and Red Tides -- 14. Photosynthesis and the Great Salt Lake -- 15. Too Much of a Good Thing -- Appendix: A Menagerie of Molecules -- Notes -- Glossary -- Index |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Sommario/riassunto |
|
Which fungus is as sensitive to light as the human eye? What are the myths and facts about the ozone hole, tanning, skin cancer, and sunscreens? What is the effect of light on butterfly copulation? This entertaining collection of essays explores how various organisms-including archaebacteria, slime molds, fungi, plants, insects, and humans-sense and respond to sunlight.The essays in Peter A. Ensminger's book cover vision, photosynthesis, and phototropism, as well as such unusual topics as the reason why light causes beer to develop a "skunky" odor. He introduces us to the kinds of eyes that |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
have evolved in different animals, including those in a species of shrimp that is ostensibly eyeless; gives us a better appreciation of color vision; explains how plowing fields at night may be used to control weeds; and tells about variegate porphyria, a metabolic disease that makes people very sensitive to sunlight and may have afflicted King George III of England.These engaging essays present a complicated yet fascinating subject in an accessible way. The book will be treasured by anyone interested in the wonders of biology. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
2. |
Record Nr. |
UNINA9910964003903321 |
|
|
Autore |
Courtenay Will H |
|
|
Titolo |
Dying to be Men : Psychosocial, Environmental, and Biobehavioral Directions in Promoting the Health of Men and Boys |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Pubbl/distr/stampa |
|
|
Hoboken, : Taylor and Francis, 2011 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
ISBN |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
|
|
|
|
|
Descrizione fisica |
|
1 online resource (512 p.) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Collana |
|
The Routledge Series on Counseling and Psychotherapy with Boys and Men |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Disciplina |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Soggetti |
|
Men - Health and hygiene |
Health behavior |
Men's Health |
Masculinity |
Health Status |
Health Promotion - methods |
United States |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Lingua di pubblicazione |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
|
|
|
|
|
Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
|
|
|
|
|
Note generali |
|
Description based upon print version of record. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Nota di contenuto |
|
2. Behavioral Factors Associated With Disease, Injury, and Death Among Men: Evidence and Implications for PreventionSection II: Why Men and Boys do the Things that Make Them Sick and Kill Them: Introduction: Who Are the "Men" in "Men's Health"?; 3. Engendering Health: The Social Construction ofGendered Health Beliefs and Behaviors; 4. Constructions |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
of Masculinity and Their Influence onMen's Well-Being: A Theory of Gender and Health; Section III: Specific Populations Introduction: Ethnicity Matters; 5. Rural Men's Health: Situating Men's Risk in theNegotiation of Masculinity |
6. College Men's Health7. Preventive Health Strategies for Men in Prison: Will H. Courtenay and Don Sabo; Section IV: Emerging Research on Men, Masculinity, and Health: Introduction: Youth Violence? Let's Call It What It Is; 8. Gender and Ethnic Differences in Health Beliefs and Behaviors: Will H. Courtenay, Donald R. McCreary, and Joseph R. Merighi; 9. Masculinity and Gender Role Conflict: How They Influence the Likelihood That Men Will Engage in Multiple High-Risk Behaviors: Will H. Courtenay and Donald R. McCreary |
10. Measurement of Men's Help Seeking: Development and Evaluation of the Barriers to Help Seeking Scale: Abigail K. Mansfield, Michael E. Addis, and Will H. Courtenay11. The Drive for Muscularity and Masculinity: Testing the Associations Among Gender Role Traits, Behaviors, Attitudes, and Conflict: Donald R. McCreary, Deborah M. Saucier, and Will H. Courtenay; Section V: Reaching Men: Introduction: Making Health Manly: Social Marketing and Men's Health; 12. Counseling Men About Their Health: An Evidence-Based Practice Guideline |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Sommario/riassunto |
|
Masculinity has a powerful effect on the health of men and boys. Indeed, many of the behaviors they use to ""be men"" actually increase their risk of disease, injury, and death. In this book, Dr. Will Courtenay, an internationally recognized expert on men's health, provides a foundation for understanding this troubling reality. With a comprehensive review of data and literature, he identifies specific gender differences in the health-related attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors of men and boys and the health consequences of these differences. He then describes the powerful social, environmenta |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |