Author: Peter Hill File Type: mobi When Peter Hill, a student at Dundee College of Art, answered an advert in The Scotsman seeking lighthouse keepers, little did he imagine that within a month he would be living with three men he didnt know in a lighthouse on Pladda, a small remote island off the west coast of Scotland. Hill was nineteen, it was 1973 and, with his head fed by Vietnam, Zappa, Kerouac, Vonnegut, Watergate and Coronation Street, he spent six months on various lighthouses, keeping with all manner of unusual and fascinating people. Within thirty years this way of life was to have disappeared entirely. The resulting book is a charming and beautifully written memoir that is not only a heartfelt lament for Hills own youth and innocence but also for a simpler and more honest age.

Author: Sue Wilson File Type: pdf Sleep dysfunction is one of the primary symptoms reported by patients with psychiatric disorders, and specifically those suffering from anxiety and depressive disorders. Conversely, primary insomnia and other sleep disorders produce symptoms of mood disturbance that are quite similar to those reported by patients with psychiatric disorders. Because of this overlap in the symptoms and treatments for insomnias and psychiatric disorders, it is important for clinicians to be able toaccurately identify the root cause of sleep dysfunction in individual patients in order to optimize treatment. Part of the Oxford Psychiatry Library series, Sleep Disorders provides clinicians with an overview of current understanding of sleep physiology, the pathophysiology of sleep disturbance, and the diagnosis and treatment of sleep disorders. This second edition includes new sections covering sleep problems in children, sleep in the elderly, and sleep in pregnancy and menopause, as well as new algorithms from the British Association of Psychopharmacologys (BAPs) new Consensus Guidelines on themanagement of sleep disorders.** Sleep dysfunction is one of the primary symptoms reported by patients with psychiatric disorders, and specifically those suffering from anxiety and depressive disorders. Conversely, primary insomnia and other sleep disorders produce symptoms of mood disturbance that are quite similar to those reported by patients with psychiatric disorders. Because of this overlap in the symptoms and treatments for insomnias and psychiatric disorders, it is important for clinicians to be able to accurately identify the root cause of sleep dysfunction in individual patients in order to optimize treatment. Part of the Oxford Psychiatry Library series, Sleep Disorders provides clinicians with an overview of current understanding of sleep physiology, the pathophysiology of sleep disturbance, and the diagnosis and treatment of sleep disorders. This second edition includes new sections covering sleep problems in children, sleep in the elderly, and sleep in pregnancy and menopause, as well as new algorithms from the British Association of Psychopharmacologys (BAPs) new Consensus Guidelines on the management of sleep disorders.

Author: Alon Tal File Type: pdf During the past sixty-eight years, Israels population has increased from one to eight million people. Such exponential growth has produced acute environmental and social crises in this tiny country. Alon Tal, one of Israels foremost environmentalists, considers the ramifications of the extraordinary demographic shift, from burgeoning pollution and dwindling natural resources to overburdened infrastructure and overcrowding. Based on extensive fieldwork and interviews, the book examines the origins of Israels population policies and how they must change to support a sustainable future. **Review In this brilliant book a leading environmental scientist, Alon Tal, focuses attention on a key element in his nations ecological predicamentits vast overpopulation.Paul R. Ehrlich and Anne Ehrlich, authors of The Annihilation of Nature (Paul R. Ehrlich and Anne Ehrlich) The Land Is Full is the first comprehensive attempt to raise the issue of population growth in Israel and its social, economic, and environmental implications. Tal crosses a dizzying range of controversial subjects with passion, persistence, and sensitivity. Daniel E. Orenstein, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology (Daniel E. Orenstein) For twenty-five years Alon Tal has been on the front lines of Israels struggle for sustainability. His book asks hard questions, offers practical solutions, and demonstrates how a country can turn over a new leaf to truly become a promised land.Tzipi Livni, Member of Knesset and former Foreign Minister and Minister of Justice of Israel (Tzipi Livni) As Israels leading environmental activist and scholar, Tal is well-positioned to examine the dire consequences of Israels overpopulation crisis. He exposes the complex ways that mass immigration, pronatalist policies, and unlimited economic growth have been at once central to Israels identity, and the source of devastating social and ecological outcomes. This book is courageous.Michele Rivkin-Fish, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (Michele Rivkin-Fish) Offering compelling, insightful chapters mixing history, sociology, demography, environmental science, and Zionist thoughtThe Land is Full is a tour de force.Gil Troy, McGill University and columnist, The Jerusalem Post (Gil Troy) Like the best social critics, Tal is at once a visionary, a moralist, and a provocateur. Starting from irreproachable environmentalist assumptions, he reaches political conclusions that are impossible to ignore.Noah Efron, Bar Ilan University and host of The Promised Podcast (Noah Efron) About the Author Professor Alon Tal founded the Israel Union for Environmental Defense in 1990 and the Arava Institute for Environmental Studies in 1997. He has held academic appointments at Tel Aviv, Ben Gurion, Stanford, Otago, and Harvard Universities. He is presently a professor of environmental policy at the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev and lives in Maccabim, Israel.

Author: John Dewey File Type: pdf This book furthers the research begun in John Shooks Deweys Empirical Theory of Knowledge and Reality (2000) and James Goods A Search for Unity in Diversity The Permanent Hegelian Deposit in the Philosophy of John Dewey (2006). Both authors have countered the traditional narrative of Deweys intellectual development by arguing that he never made a clean break from Hegel. This volume explores Deweys philosophy of religion in general and his inheritance of a philosophy of spirit from Hegel in particular. Shook and Good agree that Dewey did have a philosophy of spirit, that it was heavily indebted to Hegelian themes, and that Deweys mature philosophy of religion is a key component of his social and political theory. In addition to Deweys 1897 lecture on Hegels Philosophy of Spirit, the book contains an essay by Shook that examines the role of religion throughout Deweys oeuvre, and an essay by Good that closely analyzes Deweys lecture. The primary thrust of the volume is to demonstrate that Deweys understanding of the functions of religion, religious experience, and democratic politics are profoundly indebted to Hegel. Of special significance for Deweys maturing thought is his historicist and progressive view of Hegels treatment of freedom, religion, morality, and politics. For Dewey, Hegels philosophy of spirit leads directly towards the democratic fellowship of common humanity, which becomes the cornerstone of Deweys own politics