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This conversational, accessible book focuses on helping readers identify and understand the sources of stress in their life from a practical perspective. The text explores how stress is generated in the brain and body, and provides realistic suggestions for learning to manage these responses. Topics include: Technology and Stress, The Media and Stress, Time as a Source of Stress, Diet, Exercise, and Stress, Stress, Health, and Aging, Social Support and Stress, The Four Corners of Stress. Understanding how the brain and body respond to stressors and how stress, coping, and control interact is only the beginning of learning how to manage stress. Although the physiological mechanisms of stress have not changed greatly over time, the world we live in has. The result is that our expectations, perceptions, and experiences of stress have changed significantly.