Winifred Gallagher Bücher

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, Winifred Gallagher explores the complex relationships between people and the places in which they live, love, and work. Drawing on the latest research on behavioral and environmental science, The Power of Place examines our reactions to light, temperature, the seasons, and other natural phenomena and explores the interactions between our external and internal worlds. Gallagher's broad and dynamic definition of place includes mountaintops and the womb, Alaska's hinterlands and Manhattan's subway, and she relates these settings to everything from creativity to PMS, jet lag to tales of UFOs. Full of complex information made totally accessible, The Power of Place offers the latest insights into the any ways we can change our lives by changing the places we live.

The behavioral scientist author of Just the Way You Are presents a provocative argument that the quality of one's life is directly related to the focus of one's attention, drawing on the latest findings in neuroscience and psychology to cover such topics as the human capacity for training concentration, the ways in which the creative mind thinks, and why people deliberate on the wrong factors when making big decisions.

This compelling history of the American West is uniquely told through the lens of pioneering women who seized the challenges of migration and settlement to advocate for their rights, ultimately transforming the nation. Between 1840 and 1910, countless men and women ventured into the largely undeveloped West, drawn by adventure and the notion of Manifest Destiny. As the U.S. expanded, a significant social shift occurred: survival in a nascent settler society required both partners to work hard, prompting women to adopt roles traditionally held by men. Despite having limited legal, economic, and political rights, these women proved essential to westward expansion and fought for equality, becoming among the first American women to vote long before the Nineteenth Amendment. During the mid-nineteenth century, the struggle for women's suffrage was radical, as the concept of womanhood evolved to include public service. Western women emerged as co-providers and community leaders, establishing schools, churches, and philanthropies. They claimed homesteads and attended new coeducational colleges, creating career paths beyond marriage. In 1869, Wyoming men granted women the right to vote, partly to attract more settlers, and this victory spurred relentless efforts for suffrage across the region. By 1914, most western women could vote, a right still denied to their eastern counterparts. Drawing on extensive research, Gallagher highlight