The memoir Academia, Chernobyl, Expeditions and The Greeks: A Research Psychologist on the Move recounts memorable experiences over the course of the author's career as an academic psychologist engaged in research on stress and coping in extreme environments. The focus of the book is on the author's personal experiences - the events, people, and the environment with its natural beauty or devastation encountered while conducting this research.
The memoir Academia, Chernobyl, Expeditions and The Greeks: A Research Psychologist on the Move recounts memorable experiences over the course of the author's career as an academic psychologist engaged in research on stress and coping in extreme environments. The focus of the book is on the author's personal experiences - the events, people, and the environment with its natural beauty or devastation encountered while conducting this research.
Gloria Rakita Leon is professor emeritus of psychology at the University of Minnesota. She is internationally known for her research on stress and coping in extreme environments.
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List of Illustrations Foreword by Carol Amaratunga Preface Academia 1. University of Maryland Overseas Extension Division, Orléans, France 2. University of Maryland, College Park 3. Rutgers University, New Brunswick/Newark, New Jersey 4. University of Minnesota The Russian Drama 5. The Beginning 6. Moscow Trip 7. Minnesota Bering Bridge Conference 8. Moscow, Archangelsk, Magadan Trip 9. Interlude 10. Moscow, Kiev, Chernobyl, St. Petersburg, Ryazan Trip 11. Interlude 12. Moscow and Minsk Trip 13. Epilogue Expedition Adventures 14. Steger International Polar Expedition 15. Expedition Network 16. Soviet-American Bering Bridge Expedition 17. All-Women Expedition (Awe), South Pole 18. Sverdrup Centennial Expedition, Canada 19. Two-Woman Antarctic Traverse 20. Greenland Studies 21. Expedition Ice Maidens 22. Epilogue Greece Connections 23. Athens, Peloponnese Peninsula 24. Athens, Delphi, Greek Islands 25. Athens, Corinth, Istanbul, Cappadocia 26. Interlude 27. Athens, Kephalonia 28. Athens, Temple of Poseidon, Marathon 29. Epilogue Afterword Selected References Index.
