In today's climate of accountability in education, there is increasing pressure to demonstrate the effectiveness of inclusion, yet there is much confusion about what inclusion actually does for individuals and their families. This book is for researchers studying inclusion, teacher educators and tea[...]
What is dreaming and what causes it? Why are dreams so strange and often hard to remember? Modern science has given us a new and increasingly clear picture of how dreaming is created by the brain. This book introduces sleep laboratory science, the cellular and molecular mechanisms of sleep, and expl[...]
What is dreaming, and what causes it? Why are dreams so strange and why are they so hard to remember? Replacing dream mystique with modern dream science, J. Allan Hobson provides a new and increasingly complete picture of how dreaming is created by the brain. Focusing on dreaming to explain the mech[...]
J. Allan Hobson's scientific experimentation began in childhood, with a soot-filled investigation into the capacity of a chimney to admit Santa Claus. (He discovered that even with the damper open the chimney was far too narrow.) Hobson's life as an experimentalist has continued through a pioneering[...]
In this book, J. Allan Hobson offers a new understanding of altered states of consciousness based on knowledge of how our brain chemistry is balanced when we are awake and how that balance shifts when we fall asleep and dream. He draws on recent research that enables us to explain how psychedelic dr[...]
A Harvard Medical School psychiatrist and neuroscientist shows how dream science draws on psychology and neurobiology to provide new insight into the nature of the human mind.[...]
This collection of specially-commissioned essays by experts in the field explores key dimensions of Edgar Allan Poeâs work and life. Contributions provide a series of new perspectives on one of the most enigmatic and controversial American writers. The essays, specially tailored to the needs of[...]
We are not alone and Stan Romanek can prove it. From his first sighting of a UFO to chilling alien abductions, Romanek relives his personal journey as a conduit of extraterrestrial contact. But what's most shocking are the strange messages these unearthly visitors communicate to Romanek - authentic [...]
What is the purpose of reincarnation? How does it work? What is the role of the soul, free will, karma, soul mates, and God in this wondrous and mysterious process driving spiritual evolution? Steeped in J. Allan Danelek's signature, scrupulous logic, "The Case for Reincarnation" presents verifiable[...]
J. Allan Dunn -- one of the most popular writers for the pulp magazines of the early 20th Century -- wrote voluminously on every subject imaginable. Here are three of his swashbuckling tales of pirates, full of colorful action and daring escapades! "The Golden Dolphin," a complete novel, tells the s[...]
As a psychiatric trainee at Harvard in the early 1960s, Dr Allan Hobson was taught commitment to psychoanalytic theory that was already suspect and is now almost entirely obsolete. Via a series of clinical case reports, the author first apologizes for the arrogant ignorance that he adopted from his [...]
An introduction for postgraduate and undergraduate students to the chemical and physical principles of flame and combustion phenomena. This book should be of interest to undergraduate/postgraduate chemists; chemical engineers; undergraduate/postgraduate mechanical engineers and environmental scienti[...]
Emphasizing the central role of evolution in generating diversity, this best-selling text describes animal life and the fascinating adaptations that enable animals to inhabit so many ecological niches. Featuring high quality illustrations and photographs set within an engaging narrative, Integrated [...]
Offers a step by step introduction to ENSO and helps you learn the ENSO basics. This book assumes that the reader has a knowledge of the equations of fluid mechanics on a rotating earth and emphasizes the observations and physical explanations of them. It is intended as a reference and an introducti[...]
* The most comprehensive textbook on the principles and applications of all classes of biomaterials * Edited by four of the leaders in the biomaterials field today and fully endorsed and supported by the Society for Biomaterials * Revised and expanded, key new topics include: tissue engineering, dru[...]
Brings together the content from contributors in the biomedical engineering field. This title contains material that covers a broad range of topics including: Biomechanics and Biomaterials; Tissue Engineering; and, Biosignal Processing. It also includes fundamentals, key techniques and engineering p[...]