Power of Place: How Our Surroundings Shape Our Thoughts, Emotions, and Actions - Hardcover

Gallagher, Winifred

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 067172410X ISBN 13: 9780671724108

Publisher: Poseidon Pr, 1993

Synopsis

A look at how the physical world affects human lives draws on the latest research in the behavioral and environmental sciences to examine human reactions to light, heat, the seasons, and other natural phenomena

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Review:

There are reasons why most humans love the mountains and why the great outdoors can do so much to soothe the urban jitters. Winifred Gallagher explains the inner workings of environmental psychology in The Power of Place. Traveling from northernmost Alaska, where the need to stay indoors for so much of the year takes a heavy mental and physical toll on the locals, to the artificial canyons of Manhattan, Gallagher strips off one civilizing layer after another to reveal the human animal within us, the creature that requires open spaces and clear air to function as it should. If you ever wondered why mountaineers take the risks they do or why Michael Jackson spent all that money on a hyperbaric chamber, Gallagher has the answer.

About the Author:

Winifred Gallagher is the author of House Thinking, Just the Way You Are (a New York Times Notable Book), Working on God, and Spiritual Genius. She has written for numerous publications, including Atlantic Monthly, Rolling Stone, and the New York Times. She lives in Manhattan and Dubois, Wyoming.

About this edition

• Publisher: Poseidon Pr
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 067172410X
• ISBN 13: 9780671724108
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 240