Product Description

Stress: Living and Working in a Changing World is a comprehensive resource that helps people manage their stress in today's fast-paced, changing world. It effectively combines classical research with current stress, health, and wellness issues and challenges the reader with real-life problems and solutions. The wholistic approach ensures the reader a complete picture of the role of stress in their lives.

It's a book you'll refer to again and again. The friendly writing style of the authors holds your attention and interest throughout the book. Using an interactive learning approach, each chapter blends:
* spirited questionnaires and self-assessments
* true-life examples
* meaningful stories and anecdotes from well-known authors
* authoritative data: charts, graphs, diagrams, and surveys

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #894365 in Books
• Published on: 1999-01-01
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 507 pages

Dick Richards, management consultant and author of Artful Work and Setting Your Genius Free
Manning, Curtis, and McMillen have given us a gift, a workshop in a book. They present the science of stress with a minimum of jargon, the dangers of stress with candor, and the delights of stress with warmth and humor. Along the way, we get to examine our own stress and what we might do about it.

William Monnig, MD, president, Kentucky Medical Association
What topic applies both on the job and in the home? Stress. With humor and profound insight, the authors address this important subject. Managing stress is a survival skill and Stress: Living and Working in a Changing World is the survival kit.

Rebeccca Adams Lewis, President/CEO, Jewish Hospital Lexington
Stress: Living and Working in a Changing World will appeal to everyone, young and old, male and female, entry-level to corporate CEO. It provides surprising insights for stressed mothers working at home as well as executives worrying about low morale in the workplace. If you have ever felt loss of control, burnout, or career stagnation, this book may be the best investment you ever make.

Customer Reviews

Campfire chat.
I found the best time to read this book was whilst on holiday (vacation) and as far away as my normal stress levels as possible. My wife, son and I took an RV to West Virginia and did a little white water rafting, walking and cooking on camp fires. We actually read the book together and I emphasise, not in any particular order. I would read the titles from the table of contents and someone would pick one. The most enjoyable part was taking the many tests together, as a family. Strangely enough, we did not necessarily complete all the tests or even analyse all the results, the biggest benefit was how it got us talking to each other. Often the test was forgotten until a long time later, when we would then go back and finish it. It almost seemed like it was easier to understand the results after following the diverse directions our conversation tooks us.

I spent one evening talking to my son (14) over a blazing and eventually dying campfire for several hours. I know the book inspired us to do this, or at least put us in the right frame of mind. After I had returned from this most relaxing of holidays, I realised that the best form of stress relief was what I had just experienced. Sharing, listening and talking to the family and getting to know them even better. Also reaffirming a long held belief that they are the most important things in life, not my job or house or the other trappings of our materialistic society. I am a great fan of George Manning's, I loved his book 'Building Community, the human side of work'. It defines so clearly the things I really hold to be true and essential for a GREAT working existence. This book(Stress.....) really helped me understand more about the topic and even more importantly, how to manage it. I still haven't read the whole book, but I am looking forward to our next trip together, so we can tackle some more of its' contents, and see where it takes us this time.

A coping book written for people in the real world.
"Stress: Living and Working in a Changing World" is not just another book on stress. It is the only stress book you will ever need. This book is written for everyone caught up in the stress of living and working in a rapidly changing world. It provides insight and wisdom, techniques and strategy, and common sense approaches for dealing with the stress of daily living. Written in down-to-earth language and using real-life examples, complex concepts are easily understood. It is a small price for such a wealth of help - and all at your finger tips - in one volumn.

An excellent resource for both theory and practice.
Manning, Curtis, and McMillen have created in STRESS: Living and Working in a Changing World, a resource that combines a unique blend of theory and practical application that deals with a subject that nearly everyone can relate to. The book contains numerous tools that can be utilized to further one's knowledge and ability to deal with this potentially hazardous phenomenon. With all the "self-help" resources available in the marketplace, it is unusual to find one that is so theoretically based and yet so practically presented. It is certainly going to be part of my office/home library.

James L. Besier, Assistant Director of Pharmacy/ Adjunct Assistant Professor