This book outlines the "Five Stressful Driver Beliefs, " and offers simple, easy-to-follow strategies to help reduce driver anger and frustration by focusing more on the enjoyment of the drive.

This authoritative book presents conclusions of recent studies on road rage, summarizes legislative and police initiatives, and redefines driver education for all drivers.

You think you're a decent and courteous driver but then sometimes when you get so tired you give in to your own frustration and find yourself shouting to another driver who took a little bit too long to react to the green light. Is it just aggressive driving or an act of road rage? Are you aware if you're prone to road rage?Road rage involves rude, explosive and confrontational behavior which often leads to an act of criminal violence. Aggressive driving, on the other hand, is merely a traffic offense due to careless and inconsiderate driving such as running red lights, tailgating and unsafe lane changes. Road rage and aggressive driving is not too far removed from each other. While there are major differences between the two, aggressive driving can easily lead to road rage if the driver succumbs to his frustrations. This book will help you understand the signs of road rage, what triggers it and how to avoid it happening. In detail, the book will explain some of the following:* What is road rage * Real stories of road rage* Road rager profile* Road rage or aggressive driving* Avoiding road rage * Driving with emotional intelligence Using this guide, you will learn more information to help you recognize whether or not you have the tendency for road rage. Subsequently, you will also learn ways to deal with driver frustration so you can get a grip on your emotions and get your rage off the road!

Best's anthology examines for the first time how diverse social issues--road rage, the metric system, gun control, and abortion are among those included--migrate across national boundaries, modifying themselves from place to place as a result of different claims, claimsmakers, and policy responses. This unique collection, assembled from new research by an international group of social problems scholars, will fill a gap in undergraduate and graduate level studies in the constructionist analyses of social problems, as well as in political science, public policy, and criminology. Claims concerning one social problem often influence those about another: claimsmakers borrow rhetoric and tactics from one another. In some cases, experienced claimsmakers join efforts to call attention to other social problems: compelling images (e.g., the threatened child or random violence) link claims about different problems and reactions to one set of claims. These case studies describe very different processes, ranging from deliberate attempts to disseminate social problem claims to developments that were more inadvertent, from successes in which social problem constructions spread to new countries to failures in which claims were sown, but failed to take root. They are intended to suggest that the diffusion of social problems is neither simple nor automatic. Joel Best is professor and chair, Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice, University of Delaware. He has served as an editorial advisor for Aldine that has produced fifty titles.

Do you think you really know yourself? You might be consciously aware of whom you think you are. But hidden forces recorded in your subconscious mind when you were a fetus or a young child can unconsciously and unintentionally shape your behavior and interpersonal relationships. In Meet Yourself Again for the First Time, author William Pillow shows how these forces can have a profound impact on your life. Meet Yourself Again for the First Time provides a wealth of thought-provoking information about the intricacies of memory, brain plasticity, and early human experiences. It helps you understand: The complexity of humans The lifelong impact of events in your early years The influence of a complicated, unpredictable society The individual uniqueness of human beings The special nature and incomparable capabilities of each human being Based on years of research on various forms of memory, Meet Yourself Again for the First Time helps you learn why you behave as you do with the ultimate goal of discovering a personal path to a better life for you and your children.

"A journalist travels the world and investigates current socioeconomic theories of happiness to discover why most modern cities are designed to make us miserable, what we can do to change this, and why we have more to learn from poor cities than from prosperous ones"--

This practical and comprehensive guide will help us rethink how we treat our bodies, our spirits, and our environment. It shows how even our smallest actions can lead to a simpler, better life.