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An Ocean Large Enough by J.L. Cooper is vast and copius indeed-containing life, nourishment, danger, and awesome beauty.

James Cooper, my father, passed away before he could write this foreword. He had been terminally ill for the entirety of his published writing career, but wrote and created tirelessly. It was his wish for his poems and stories to survive him, to leave us with great, enduring beauty in the wake of such pain.Though this book is not about him, strictly speaking, there is so much of him in it. The story draws inspiration from his experiences: as a...

A book of poetry by J.L. Cooper.About the AuthorJ.L. Cooper was an author and psychologist in Sacramento, California. His writing highlights the lyricism in everyday life, relational mysteries, and the elevation of subjective experience. He has received five literary awards in fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and essay, including the Tupelo Quarterly Prose Open Prize, TQ9, judged by Pulitzer winner Adam Johnson, and the Grand Prize in Poetry, Cros...

It's a unique challenge to write fictional accounts of psychotherapy when the author is also a practicing psychologist. Our everyday encounters take place in more contexts than we are aware of, calling for images and descriptions that never conform to a simple appreciation of me, you, ours, distilling and hiding explanations, illuminating wish and need.These are not disguised stories about actual persons in therapy, they are stories of imagine...

These memoirs and creative nonfiction stories tell mostly of my youth and early twenties, the psychologist in the boy, childhood in a suburban town during the Cold War followed by a willful outward push into the world, taking to the road. Memories are ephemeral, with shadows and streaks of light breaking through. I've found great richness in relationships, as well as in private thought. In the stillness of remembering, important people from my...

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What are the financial and psychological costs of risky behaviour in business to the individuals concerned and their organizations? This book provides a perspective on addictive behaviours such as gambling, drug taking and even addiction to work, criminal behaviours such as theft and corruption, and, behaviours such as aggression and violence.

Now in its third edition, this authoritative handbook offers a comprehensive and up-to-date survey of work and health psychology. * Updated edition of a highly successful handbook * Focuses on the applied aspects of work and health psychology * New chapters cover emerging themes in this rapidly growing field * Prestigious team of editors and contributors

This is a time ofexcitement and progress in the field ofxenotransplantation. The work described in this book traces the development of the science of cross-spe­ cies transplantation, summarizes the current state ofour knowledge, and focuses on approaches directed toward future clinical application. The important question is not whether xenotransplantation will succeed, but rather how and under what circumstances xenografts will provide predict...

Positive emotions lead to health, health leads to sustainability and full cognitive capability, and this leads to effective performance and adaptability, This latest collection of papers by the terrific trio of Cooper, Quick and Schabracq helps shine the light on the latest research from multiple fields in the context of an emerging literature that will soon become required reading for anyone wanting to be a manager, executive, leader, or prof...

This book is a new comprehensive and thought-provoking resource that examines stress in organizational contexts. It reviews the sources and outcomes of job-related stress, the methods used to assess levels and consequences of occupational stress, along with the strategies that might be used by individuals and organizations to confront stress and its associated problems. It focuses on the future of work, where it is going and the role industria...

This book is a new comprehensive and thought-provoking resource that examines stress in organizational contexts. It reviews the sources and outcomes of job-related stress, the methods used to assess levels and consequences of occupational stress, along with the strategies that might be used by individuals and organizations to confront stress and its associated problems. It focuses on the future of work, where it is going and the role industria...

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