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Excerpt from Capitalism, Democracy, and the Supreme CourtIt is a pleasure to acknowledge the generous permission of the copyright holders to quote from the following books: Harcourt, Brace and Company, Inc., Main Currents in American Thought by V. L. Parrington, Alfred A. Knopf, Incorporated, The American Experience by H. B. Parkes, and the Ronald Press Company, The Course of American Democratic Thought by R. H. Gabriel.About the PublisherForg...

An accessible and illustrated reference guide to the science behind sleep.

From Ivy: We are sleeping less and less: statistics show that insomnia has reached pandemic proportions, and costs healthcare providers billions. Most of us spend a third of our lives asleep--our bodies insist on sleep, without it, we die. But why we sleep still remains relatively mysterious. The Science of Sleep explains the elements of the sleep state and explores the various sleep disorders and how their available treatments work. By offeri...

Hypnos (the Greek god of sleep) and Thanatos (death) were the twin sons of Nyx, the goddess of night (Fox, 1964). Hypnos lived in a dusky valley in the land of the Cimerians, watered by Lethe, the river of forgetfulness. He brought sleep to both men and gods, and sometimes sent his sons Morpheus, Icelus, and Phantasus to appear in dreams. At the door of his abode grew poppies and other herbs which induce sleep (Hamilton, 1961). This book deals...

In this book we trace the development of several major themes in sleep research, from the first formal description of REM sleep in the early 1950s through the present. Chapter 1 provides those less familiar with this area with a perspective on the many possible ways to examine sleep. Chapter 2 describes in detail a major viewpoint of this book: that observations of pharmacological interventions affecting the neurotrans­ mitters may aid in the ...

Sleep plays an important role in the history of the neurosciences. On Easter Monday in 1920, Otto Loewi was awakened in the night by a dream in which he conceived of neurotransmitters communicating across the synapse. He quickly made notes, but in the morning he could not understand his scribbles. The following night, the dream came again. He wrote down his thoughts more carefully and, the next day, conducted the crucial experiment that launch...

Excerpt from Capitalism, Democracy, and the Supreme Court It is a pleasure to acknowledge the generous permission of the copyright holders to quote from the following books: Harcourt, Brace and Company, Inc., Main Currents in American Thought by V. L. Parrington, Alfred A. Knopf, Incorporated, The American Experience by H. B. Parkes, and the Ronald Press Company, The Course of American Democratic Thought by R. H. Gabriel. About the Publisher...