Over the last decades, the term resilience has been used by scholars and practitioners to describe how (and why) some individuals or groups surpass adverse conditions while others succumb to it or victimize. Even adding comprehension to that phenomenon, the progresses achieved in that field have not clarified the concept involved and, thus, a gap still remains to be overcome. This book provides a literature review about the subject, discussing some correlate issues, such as positive adaptation, adverse conditions, pointing to human subjectivity as a permanent source for changing external...