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Author: J. Allan Hobson
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2005-04-21
Total Pages: 169
ISBN-13: 0192802151
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this fascinating book, Harvard researcher Hobson offers an intriguing look at the nightly odyssey through the illusory world of dreams. Hobson describes how the theory of dreaming has advanced dramatically over the past 50 years, sparked by the use of EEGs in the 1950s and by recent innovations in brain imaging. 20 illustrations.
Author: J. Allan Hobson
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 188
ISBN-13: 9780192804822
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFocusing on dreaming to explain the mechanisms of sleep and sleep laboratory science, this book explores how the new science of dreaming is affecting theories in psychoanalysis, and how it is helping our understanding of the causes of mental illness.
Author: Steven W. Lockley
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2012-03-22
Total Pages: 169
ISBN-13: 019958785X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExplores sleep disorders, describes breakthroughs in the study of sleep, and considers the impact of modern society on it.
Author: Matthew Bevis
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 169
ISBN-13: 0199601712
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWith a broad scope across the millennia, from high literature to popular culture, between page and stage and screen, this Very Short Introduction considers comedy not only as a literary genre, but also as a broader impulse at work in many other historical and contemporary forms of satire, parody, and play.
Author: Jennifer Nagel
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2014
Total Pages: 153
ISBN-13: 019966126X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhat is knowledge? Is it the same as opinion or truth? Do you need to be able to justify a claim in order to count as knowing it? How can we know that the outer world is real and not a dream? Questions like these have existed since ancient times, and the branch of philosophy dedicated to answering them - epistemology - has been active for thousands of years. In this thought-provoking Very Short Introduction, Jennifer Nagel considers the central problems and paradoxes in the theory of knowledge and draws attention to the ways in which philosophers and theorists have responded to them. By exploring the relationship between knowledge and truth, and considering the problem of scepticism, Nagel introduces a series of influential historical and contemporary theories of knowledge, incorporating methods from logic, linguistics, and psychology, using a number of everyday examples to demonstrate the key issues and debates. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.
Author: Stase Michaels
Publisher: Union Square + ORM
Published: 2015-01-20
Total Pages: 108
ISBN-13: 1454915404
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe dream expert guides you through her Five-Step Dream Technique, a fast-track tool for exploring your psyche’s nighttime feedback. Stase Michaels draws on a lifetime of experience as a dream analyst and three degrees in psychology to lead you through the magical forest of dream interpretation. In this eclectic, in-depth look at dreaming, she explores how dreams happen and why they are a reliable source of self-knowledge. Michaels also delves deeper, explaining the five simple steps that help beginners understand dream technique; she also provides information on nightmares, dreams about friends and family, and mystical experiences that occur in the guise of dreams.
Author: Patricia Cox Miller
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 1998-01-11
Total Pages: 292
ISBN-13: 9780691058351
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCenturies.... By studying together pagan and Christian dreams, Cox Miller hopes to reach a better understanding of some fundamental patterns of late antique culture. DLGuy G. Stroumsa, The Journal of Religion A fluent and discursive text.... This is an adventurous exploration of a range of material which deserves to be more widely known.DLGillian Clark, The Classical Review.
Author: Michael Inwood
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Published: 2000-10-12
Total Pages: 169
ISBN-13: 019160657X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMartin Heidegger (1889-1976) is probably the most divisive philosopher of the twentieth century. Considered by some to be the greatest charlatan ever to claim the title of 'philosopher', by some as an apologist for Nazism, he was also an acknowledged leader and central figure to many philosophers. Michael Inwood's lucid introduction to Heidegger's thought focuses on his most important work, 'Being and Time', and its major themes of existence in the world, inauthenticity, guilt, destiny, truth, and the nature of time. These themes are then reassessed in the light of Heidegger's later work, together with the extent of his philosophical importance and influence. This is an invaluable guide to the complex and voluminous thought of a major twentieth-century existentialist philosopher. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.
Author: Daniel Pick
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2015
Total Pages: 161
ISBN-13: 0199226814
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPsychoanalysis has been hailed as an indispensible starting point for understanding neuroses and psychoses. In this Very Short Introduction, Daniel Pick offers an account of the present-day practice of analysis, highlighting the benefits, whilst also shedding light on the problems, risks and failings in the long history of the movement.
Author: Madeline Yuan-yin Hsu
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2017
Total Pages: 185
ISBN-13: 0190219769
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis title provides a narrative interpretation of key themes that emerge in the history of Asian migrations to North America, highlighting how Asian immigration has shaped the evolution of ideological and legal interpretations of America as a 'nation of immigrants'.
