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Argues that schadenfreude is a normal human emotion, looking at its roots in feelings of justice, positive sense of self, and concern with inferiority.

A collection of the articles written by the author throughout his extensive career, this book achieves three goals. First, it reprints selected research and theory papers on stress and coping from the 1950s to the present produced by Lazarus under five rubrics: his dissertation; perennial epistemological issues including the revolt of the 1940s and 1950s; his transition from laboratory to field research; the clinical applications of stress and coping; and expanding stress to the emotions. Second, it provides a running commentary on the origination of the issues discussed, what was occurring in psychology when the work was done, and where the work led in the present. Third, it integrates various themes about which psychologists debate vociferously, often without recognizing the intellectual bases of these differences.

A popular overview of Yiddish-American culture. Documents the rich and vibrant traditions of Yiddish-speaking immigrants and their children in ¿the golden land,¿ from the first arrivals to WW2. Meet hotelier Jenny Grossinger and mobster Jake ¿Greasy Thumb¿ Guzik, and Moses Solomon, the would-be ¿Jewish Babe Ruth¿; anarchist Emma Goldman and entertainer Eddie Cantor. Share the struggles and the triumphs of the labor unions, of Yiddish playwrights and poets. Enter the sweatshops of N.Y.¿s Lower East Side and the first Jewish settlements in LA and Chicago. Taste pastrami from Canter¿s Deli in LA, knishes from Yonah Shimmel¿s in NY City, and ¿smookmit¿ from Montreal. Lavishly illus. with photos, cartoons, and song sheets.

Presents a how-to-manual on understanding and analyzing dreams and their symbols, concentrating on childhood, adolescense, and the end of life.

Studies J. Robert Oppenheimer’s choice to accept leadership of the Manhattan Project.