What is dreaming & what causes it? Why are dreams so strange & why are they so hard to remember? Replacing dream mystique with modern dream science J Allan Hobson provides a new & increasingly complete picture of how dreaming is created by the brain Focusing on dreaming to explain the mechanisms of sleep this book explores how the new science of dreaming is affecting theories in psychoanalysis & how it is helping our understanding of the causes of mental illness J Allan Hobson investigates his own dreams to illustrate & explain some of the fascinating discoveries of modern sleep science while challenging some of the traditionally accepted theories about the meaning of dreams He reveals how dreaming maintains & develops the mind why we go crazy in our dreams in order to avoid doing so when we are awake & why sleep is not just good for health but essential for life 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 & enthusiasm to make interesting & challenging topics highly readable ...

Dreams is a game of perception & intuition with 72 large cards illustrated by eight different artists In each round four pictures are revealed The players are Gods who transfer one of these images onto the night sky as a new constellation of stars Which one is transferred is determined in such a way that all players but one know the picture in question The one who doesn't know which picture was chosen tries to remain undetected during the round Star by star players transfer the picture onto the night sky until all stars are placed There is a good chance that different players will emphasize different aspects of the picture in question The right balance between keeping the imposter in the dark & not giving the regular players cause for suspicion has to be struck ...

An international bestseller which has sold over a million copies in the UK Dreams From My Father is a refreshing revealing portrait of a young man asking big questions about identity & belonging The son of a black African father & a white American mother President Obama recounts an emotional odyssey retracing the migration of his mother's family from Kansas to Hawaii then to his childhood home in Indonesia Finally he travels to Kenya where he confronts the bitter truth of his father's life & at last reconciles his divided inheritance ...

Ursula K Le Guin has won or been nominated for over 200 awards for her fiction including the Hugo Nebula World Fantasy & SFWA Grand Master Awards She is the acclaimed author of the Earthsea sequence & The Left Hand of Darkness
- which alone would qualify her for literary immortality
- as well as a remarkable body of short fiction including the powerful Hugo-winning ' The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas' & the masterpiece of anthropological & environmental SF ' The Word for World is Forest'
- winner of the Hugo Award for best novella But Ursula Le Guin's talents do not stop at fiction Over the course of her extraordinary career she has penned numerous essays around themes important to her anthropology environmentalism feminism social justice & literary criticism to name a few She has responded in detail to criticism of her own work & even reassessed that work in the context of such critiques This selection of the best of Le Guin's non-fiction shows an agile mind an unparalleled imagination & a ferocious passion to argue against injustice In 2014 Ursula Le Guin was awarded the National Book Foundation's Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters & her widely praised acceptance speech is one of the highlights of this volume which shows that one of modern literature's most original voices is also one of its purest consciences


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Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Nobody noticed when Joyce Vincent died in her bedsit above a shopping mall in North London in 2003 Her body wasn t discovered for three years surrounded by Christmas presents she had been wrapping & with the TV still on Newspaper reports offered few details of her life
- not even a photograph Who was she? & how could this happen to someone in our day & age- the so-called age of communication? Interweaving interviews with imagined scenes from Joyce s life Dreams of a Life is an imaginative powerful multilayered quest & is not only a portrait of Joyce but a portrait of London in the eighties
- the City music & race It is a film about urban lives contemporary life & how like Joyce we are all different things to different people It is about how little we may ever know each other but nevertheless how much we can love

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Ariel Chylde is the girl cursed to become any of the creatures from her many Nightmares But have the shadows circled all her life? Now go deeper into her past into her dreamswhere fears roam & truth is never a friend! Collects Dreams of Darkchylde 1-6 ...

I have walked that long road to freedom I have tried not to falter I have taken a moment to rest but I can only rest for a moment for with freedom come responsibilities Nelson Mandela If you are tired keep going If you are scared keep going If you are hungry keep going If you want to taste freedom keep going Harriet Tubman This inspirational book following We Are All Born Free contains 17"ations about many different aspects of freedom from the freedom to have an education to that not to be hurt or tortured the freedom to have a home & the freedom to be yourself All the chosen"ations are in simple words that can be understood by young children Authors of the"ations include Nelson Mandela Martin Luther King Harriet Tubman Anne Frank the Dalai Lama Aung San Suu Kyi & Malala Yousafzai The book is illustrated by internationally acclaimed & award-winning illustrators including Alexis Deacon Chris Riddell Ros Asquith Jackie Morris & Shirin Adl from the UK Barroux from France Roger Mello from Brazil Birgitta Sif from Iceland aboriginal artist Sally Morgan from Australia & Mordicai Gerstein from the USA The cover is illustrated by best-selling authorillustrator Oliver Jeffers ...

An Amazon Best Book of the Year The final book in the gripping Sunday Times bestselling series By way of a staggering deception Karou has taken control of the chimaera rebellion & is intent on steering its course away from dead-end vengeance The future rests on her if there can even be a future for the chimaera in war-ravaged Eretz Common enemy common cause When Jael's brutal seraph army trespasses into the human world the unthinkable becomes essential & Karou & Akiva must ally their enemy armies against the threat It is a twisted version of their long-ago dream & they begin to hope that it might forge a way forward for their people And perhaps for themselves Toward a new way of living & maybe even love But there are bigger threats than Jael in the offing A vicious queen is hunting Akiva & in the skies of Eretz something is happening Massive stains are spreading like bruises from horizon to horizon; the great winged stormhunters are gathering as if summoned ceaselessly circling & a deep sense of wrong pervades the world What power can bruise the sky From the streets of Rome to the caves of the Kirin & beyond humans chimaera & seraphim will fight strive love & die in an epic theater that transcends good & evil right & wrong friend & enemy At the very barriers of space & time what do gods & monsters dream of ? & does anything else matter ...

Dreams of Tomorrow is a set collection shifting rondel game about building dreams Players are dream engineers trying to save their present by sending dreams to past Longer dream sequences that are better connected have a higher chance of getting through to the dreamer but there's also certain dreams that are more impactful than others Dreams can also allow the dream engineer certain abilities so all these aspects must be weighed when choosing what kind of dream sequence to create The last round is triggered when any one dream engineer has added five dreams to their dream sequence Players 1-6 Playingtime 45 mins Ages 8 ...

Learn how to design your own games animate make music & more with easy-to-follow tutorial videos & then share your ideas in an online social network of creativity The only limit is your imagination Get inspired with a host of mini-games Collaborate with others online to create your own content From the makers of Tearaway & Little Big Planet ...