Swearing Is Good For You The Amazing Science Of Bad Language
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Swearing Is Good For You
Swearing, it turns out, is an incredibly useful part of our linguistic repertoire. Not only has some form of swearing existed since the earliest humans began to communicate, but it has been shown to reduce physical pain, help stroke victims recover their language, and encourage people to work together as a team. Swearing Is Good For You is a spirited and hilarious defence of our most cherished dirty words, backed by historical case studies and cutting-edge research. From chimpanzees creating their own curse words to a man who lost half his brain in a mining accident experiencing a new-found compulsion to swear, Dr Emma Byrne outlines the fascinating science behind swearing: how it affects us both physically and emotionally, and how it is more natural and beneficial than we are led to believe.
Renegades
Renegades: Digital Dance Cultures from Dubsmash to TikTok explores how hip hop culture -- principally music and dance -- is used to construct and perform identity and maintain a growing urban youth subculture. This community finds its home on Dubsmash, a social media app that lets users record short dance challenge videos before cross-sharing them on different social media apps such as Instagram and Snapchat. Author Trevor Boffone interrogates the roles that Dubsmash, social media, and hip hop music and dance play in youth identity formation in the United States. These so-called Dubsmashers privilege their cultural and individual identities through the use of performance strategies that reinforce notions of community and social media interconnectedness in the digital age. These young people create a sense of identity and community that informs and is informed by hip hop culture. As such, the book argues that Dubsmash serves as a fundamental space to fashion contemporary youth identity. To do this, the book re-appropriates the term Renegade to explain the nuanced ways that Dubsmashers take up visual and sonic space on social media apps to self-fashion identity, form supportive digital communities, and exert agency to take up space that is often denied to them in other facets of their lives.
Exercise [Your Way] to Better Mental Health
Author, speaker, and clinical counsellor Kathi Cameron takes a deep dive into the science and psychology of exercise and how it can—for better or for worse—impact every aspect of your life. In Exercise [Your Way] to Better Mental Health: Exploring the Relationship Between Fitness Culture, Neuroscience, Exercise, and Mood, she brings to bear her academic credentials, her decades of work in the exercise and mental health profession, and her lived experience. She examines the role fitness culture, neuroscience, and exercise play in mental health while offering specific exercise prescriptions that will support those with anxiety, depression, and everything in between. Exercise [Your Way] to Better Mental Health will appeal to a general readership interested in learning more about the science and psychology of exercise to improve and maintain [mental] health and how to create and stick to an exercise plan for life. It will also serve as an invaluable resource for clinical counsellors, psychologists, coaches, physiotherapist, kinesiologists, and personal trainers.