Reviews for Stress A Brief History

The average rating for Stress A Brief History based on 2 reviews is 3.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2019-05-22 00:00:00 frederic vigneron (I had a paper edition, not an eBook). Pick this up to read on vacation. I wanted to look at it again and a number of years. I first looked at it with the idea of using it in a course I was teaching. And the book was just as good now as then. The first parts of the book are clearly stronger. In the final two chapters it gets a bit fuzzier. But. maybe that's what happens as we approach the present day. There were also a number of sections that felt to be simply cut-and-paste inserted. No connection to the other themes going through the book. The sections I'm thinking about deal with work stress (no mention of burnout as a concept and the inclusion of stress research from Sweden) and the clinical side of stress (very little discussion here). Still an interesting book.

Review # 2 was written on 2019-07-29 00:00:00 Garrison Nutt I can't speak about the first edition, but the second edition of Kenneth Coates and William Morrison's Land of the Midnight Sun illustrates the history of Canada's Yukon Territory clearly and in detail. Before reading this book, I hadn't considered the extent to which the modern Yukon--and, for that matter, the whole of the Canadian North--has been overdetermined by the policies and priorities of the Canadian state, nearly always without reference to the people who lived there. The First Nations were, as usual, transformed from autonomous peoples who engaged with the fur trade on their own terms into paternalized dependents forced to rely on the guidance of the Canadian state; the gold rush lasted only so long and then the territory was left to languish by its colonial overlord in Ottawa, deprived of the investment that it needed to cop the territory was cut off from its connections to its natural metropole of Alaska via the Yukon River and associated with British Columbia; the Alaska Highway did revive the territory's economy, but it did so at the expense of the older and more established centres in the centre and north of the territory like Dawson City and Mayo, encouraging the concentration of the territory's population in the capital of Whitehorse. Coates and Morrison conclude their revised edition of their history of Yukon by hoping that after a century of tumultuous change and increasing marginalization in a Canada that no longer cares about its frontiers, Yukoners will be able to come to terms with themselves and their northern heritage, but even this hopeful conclusion is undermined by the evidence that they themselves have cited about the transitory nature of much of the territory's population and the patterning of Whitehorse on the model of the average (southern) Canadian city. Land of the Midnight Sun might perhaps best be thought of as at once a touching elegy to the Yukon of old and a meticulous reconstruction of how that Yukon evaporated.