The power of place : how our surroundings shape our thoughts, emotions, and actions / Winifred Gallagher.
"Are New Yorkers and Californians so different because they live in such different settings? Why do some of us prefer the city to the country? How do urban settings increase crime? Why do we feel better after an experience in nature? In this fascinating and enormously entertaining book, Winifre...
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New York :
HarperPerennial,
1994.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: the science of place
- Part I. Outside In :
- 1. A day and night world
- 2. The climate indoors
- 3. North versus south
- 4. Going to extremes
- 5. Subtle geophysical energies
- 6. Sacred places
- Part II. Inside out :
- 7. Person as place
- 8. The structure of emotion
- 9. Environmental addictions
- Part II. Synchrony :
- 10. Stimulation: less is more, more or less
- 11. Different people, different worlds
- 12. From the nest to the global village
- 13. The crime of the cities
- 14. Nature: what has is done for you lately?
- 15. Saving the world.