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"Sleep is quite a popular activity, indeed most humans spend around a third of their lives asleep. However, cultural, political, or aesthetic thought tends to remain concerned with the interpretation and actions of those who are awake. How to Sleep argues instead that sleep is a complex vital phenomena with a dynamic aesthetic and biological consistency. Arguing through examples drawn from contemporary, modern and renaissance art; from literature; film and computational media, and bringing these into relation with the history and findings of sleep science, this book argues for a new interplay between biology and culture. Meditations on sex, exhaustion, drugs, hormones and scientific instruments all play their part in this wide-ranging exposition of sleep as an ecology of interacting processes. How to Sleep builds on the interlocking of theory, experience and experiment so that the text itself is a lively articulation of bodies, organs and the aesthetic systems that interact with them. This book won't enhance your sleeping skills, but will give you something surprising to think about whilst being ostensibly awake."--Bloomsbury Publishing.

Sleep. --- Sleeping customs. --- Subconsciousness.

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Encephalitis lethargica (‘sleeping sickness’) was a mysterious disorder that swept the world in the decade following the First World War, before disappearing without its cause having been identified. Around 85% of its victims, predominantly children, adolescents and younger adults, survived the acute disorder, but most developed severe neurological syndromes, particularly severe post-encephalitic parkinsonism and other severe motor abnormalities, that incapacitated them for the remainder of their lives. Despite its brief history, encephalitis lethargica played a major role in a variety medical discussions between the two World Wars, as this epitome of neuropsychiatric disease – attacking both motor and mental functions – appeared just as the separation of neurology and psychiatry had reached a critical point. Encephalitis lethargica sufferers presented an unprecedented combination of neurologic and psychiatric symptoms – including previously puzzling phenomena primarily associated with schizophrenia and hysteria, as well as behavioral changes and attention deficit disorders in children – that not only underscored the unity of mind and movement in the CNS, but also illuminated the critical role played by subcortical structures in consciousness and other higher mental functions that had formerly been associated with the soul and more recently presumed to be localized to the human cerebral cortex. Encephalitis lethargica exerted a greater influence on clinical and theoretic neuroscientific thought between the two World Wars than any other single disorder, and had an enduring impact upon neurology and psychiatry. This book will be of interest to an educated audience active or interested in clinical (neurology, psychiatry, psychology) or laboratory neuroscience, particularly those interested in neuropsychiatry, as well as to those interested in the history of the biomedical sciences.

Epidemic encephalitis --- History. --- Medicine. --- Human physiology. --- Virology. --- Biomedicine. --- Biomedicine general. --- Human Physiology. --- Arbovirus encephalitis --- Encephalitis, Epidemic --- Encephalitis epidemica --- Encephalitis lethargica --- Sleeping-sickness --- Sleeping sickness, Viral --- Arbovirus infections --- Encephalitis --- Medical virology. --- Human biology --- Medical sciences --- Physiology --- Human body --- Clinical sciences --- Medical profession --- Life sciences --- Pathology --- Physicians --- Medical microbiology --- Virology --- Virus diseases --- Biomedicine, general. --- Health Workforce --- Microbiology

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In The Silence of Heaven, the world renowned Israeli novelist Amos Oz introduces us to an extraordinary masterpiece of Hebrew literature that is just now appearing in English, S. Y. Agnon's Only Yesterday. For Oz, Agnon is a treasure trove of a world no longer available to today's writers, yet deeply meaningful for his wonderment about God, the submerged eroticism of his writing, and his juggling of multiple texts from the historical Hebrew religious library. This collection of Oz's reflections on Agnon, which includes an essay on the essence of his ideology and poetics, is a rich interpretive work that shows how one great writer views another. Oz admires Agnon especially for his ability to invoke and visualize the religious world of the simple folk in Eastern European Jewry, looking back from the territorial context of the Zionist revival in Palestine. The tragedy of Agnon's visions, Oz maintains, lies in his perspicacity. Long before the Holocaust, Agnon saw the degeneration, ruin, and end of Jewish culture in Eastern Europe. He knew, too, that the Zionist project was far from being a secure conquest and its champions far from being happy idealists. Oz explores these viewpoints in a series of thick readings that consider the tensions between faith and the shock of doubt, yearnings and revulsion, love and hate, and intimacy and disgust. Although Oz himself is interested in particular ideological questions, he has the subtle sensibility of a master of fiction and can detect every technical device in Agnon's arsenal. With the verve of an excited reader, Oz dissects Agnon's texts and subtexts in a passionate argument about the major themes of Hebrew literature. This book also tells much about Oz. It represents the other side of Oz's book of reportage, In the Land of Israel, this time exploring the ideologies of Jewish identity not on the land but in texts of the modern classical heritage. The Silence of Heaven hence takes us on a remarkable journey into the minds of two major literary figures.

Agnon, Shmuel Yosef, --- A Simple Story (novel). --- Abraham Goldfaden. --- Absurdity. --- Anecdote. --- Antithesis. --- Apotheosis. --- Asher. --- Bildungsroman. --- Binary opposition. --- Candide. --- Castration. --- Consummation. --- Dinah. --- Disgust. --- Divine providence. --- Elijah. --- Elkanah. --- Equanimity. --- Excommunication. --- Faithfulness. --- Fiction. --- Futility (poem). --- Gloom. --- Gluttony. --- Hanukkah. --- Haredi Judaism. --- Hasid (term). --- Haskalah. --- Heresy. --- Humiliation. --- Humility. --- Idiot. --- Idyll. --- In Secret. --- In This World. --- Inferior good. --- Irony. --- Jael. --- Jethro (Bible). --- Jews. --- Kashrut. --- Lament. --- Land of Israel. --- Low Dog. --- Maskil. --- Matzo. --- Minor Characters. --- Misery (novel). --- Modesty. --- Moses. --- Mr. --- My Beloved. --- Nathan Alterman. --- Neve Shalom. --- Noble savage. --- Obscenity. --- One Piece. --- Optimism. --- Orthodox Judaism. --- Ostracism. --- Parable. --- Parchment. --- Parody. --- Peter Weiss. --- Pity. --- Poetry. --- Politeness. --- Potboiler. --- Puah. --- Pure Heart. --- Rebbe. --- Religion. --- Renunciation. --- Return to Zion. --- Romanticism. --- Sancho Panza. --- Sarcasm. --- Satire. --- Secret Places. --- Secularism. --- Shammai. --- Shlomo. --- Skepticism. --- Sotah (Talmud). --- Stream of unconsciousness (narrative mode). --- Ta'anit. --- Tefillin. --- The Bridal Canopy. --- The Holy Sinner. --- The Other Hand. --- The Sleeping Prince (fairy tale). --- Theodicy. --- Thou shalt not covet. --- To Sleep. --- To This Day. --- Vale of tears. --- Vegetarianism. --- Virginity. --- Yohanan. --- Zionism.