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Dream States
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Author : John Lorinc
language : en
Publisher: Coach House Books
Release Date : 2022-08-23
Dream States written by John Lorinc and has been published by Coach House Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-08-23 with Social Science categories.
WINNER OF THE 2022 WRITERS' TRUST BALSILLIE PRIZE FOR PUBLIC POLICY WINNER OF FOR THE PATTIS FAMILY FOUNDATION GLOBAL CITIES BOOK AWARD Is the ‘smart city’ the utopia we’ve been waiting for? The promise of the so-called smart city has been at the forefront of urban planning and development since the early 2010s, and the tech industry that supplies smart city software and hardware is now worth hundreds of billions a year. But the ideas and approaches underpinning smart city tech raise tough and important questions about the future of urban communities, surveillance, automation, and public participation. The smart city era, moreover, belongs firmly in a longer historical narrative about cities — one defined by utopian ideologies, architectural visions, and technological fantasies. Smart streetlights, water and air quality tracking, autonomous vehicles: with examples from all over the world, including New York, Los Angeles, Boston, Portland, and Chicago, Dream States unpacks the world of smart city tech, but also situates this important shift in city-building into a broader story about why we still dream about perfect places. "John Lorinc’s incisive analysis in Dream States reminds us that the search for urban utopia is not new. Throughout the book, Lorinc underscores the fact that a gamut of urban innovations – from smart city megaprojects to e-government to pandemic preparedness tools – only provide promise when scrutinized together with the political, economic, social, and physical complexities of urban life." – Shauna Brail, University of Toronto "Dream States: Smart Cities, Technology, and the Pursuit of Urban Utopias takes us on a fascinating journey across world cities to show how technology has shaped them in the past and how smart city technology will reshape them in the future. This book is essential reading for policy makers, researchers, and practitioners interested in understanding the opportunities and challenges of smart city technology and what it means for city building." – Enid Slack, University of Toronto School of Cities "“Utopia may be the oldest grift in the city-building business, but Dream States shows that technology is a timeless tool for turning the most ordinary of urban dreams – clean air and water, safe streets, and decent homes – into reality. As digital dilettantes try to sell us on a software overhaul, John Lorinc provides us an indispensable and flawless guide to the must-haves and never-agains of the smart city.” – Anthony Townsend, Urbanist in Residence, Cornell Tech, author of Smart Cities
Dream State
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Author : Diane Roberts
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2007-11-01
Dream State written by Diane Roberts and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-11-01 with History categories.
Part family memoir, part political commentary, part apologia, Dream State is all Floridian, telling the grand and sometimes crazy story of the twenty-seventh state through the eyes of one of its native daughters. Acclaimed journalist and NPR commentator Diane Roberts has many family secrets and she's ready to tell them. Like the time her cousin state Senator Luther Tucker wrapped his Caddy around a tree, allegedly with a jug of moonshine on the seat next to him. Or how cousin Susan Branford was given an African girl for her eighth birthday. Or the time when cousin Enid Broward was made the May Queen of 1907, even though her daddy the governor shocked the state by trying to drain the entire Everglades. Roberts' ancestors helped settle Florida, kill off its pesky Indians, enslave some of its inhabitants, clear its forests, lay its train tracks, and pave its roads, all the time weaving themselves into the very fabric of this dangling chad of a state. With a storyteller's talent for setting great scenes, Roberts lays out the sweeping history of eight geberations of Browards and Bradfords, Tuckers anf Robertses, even as she Forest Gumps them into situations with more historically familiar names. Whether it's the American court of Catherine de Médicis, the Tallahassee court of Katherine Harris, Henry Flagler's boardroom -- not to mention his bedroom -- or Jeb Bush's statehouse, you're likely to find a branch or a root of the Roberts family growing entangled nearby. Starting in the recent past with the botched presidential election of 2000, Roberts introduces the many sides of the debate, coincidentally peopled with cousins both kissing and close. She then goes back to Florida's first inhabitants, showing how this alluring peninsula many called a paradise played a role in the destiny of those who settled there. Following their colorful progress up to the present, she renders them all with a deep, familial affection. Florida has forced itself into the collective American unconscious with its messed-up elections, anthrax scares, shark attacks,boat lifts, snowbirds, and the Bush dynasty. While exposing the real people whom Carl Hiaasen and Elmore Leonard have been fictionalizing for years, Dream State ultimately reveals the cogs and wheels that make the state tick.
The Dream Drugstore
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Author : J. Allan Hobson
language : en
Publisher: MIT Press
Release Date : 2002-08-23
The Dream Drugstore written by J. Allan Hobson and has been published by MIT Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-08-23 with Medical categories.
An investigation into the brain's chemistry and the mechanisms of chemically altered states of consciousness. 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 drugs work to disturb that balance and how similar imbalances may cause depression and schizophrenia. He also draws on work that expands our understanding of how certain drugs can correct imbalances and restore the brain's natural equilibrium. Hobson explains the chemical balance concept in terms of what we know about the regulation of normal states of consciousness over the course of the day by brain chemicals called neuromodulators. He presents striking confirmation of the principle that every drug that has transformative effects on consciousness interacts with the brain's own consciousness-altering chemicals. In the section called "The Medical Drugstore," Hobson describes drugs used to counteract anxiety and insomnia, to raise and lower mood, and to eliminate or diminish the hallucinations and delusions of schizophrenia. He discusses the risks involved in their administration, including the possibility of new disorders caused by indiscriminate long-term use. In "The Recreational Drugstore," Hobson discusses psychedelic drugs, narcotic analgesia, and natural drugs. He also considers the distinctions between legitimate and illegitimate drug use. In the concluding "Psychological Drugstore," he discusses the mind as an agent, not just the mediator, of change, and corrects many erroneous assumptions and practices that hinder the progress of psychoanalysis.
Dream State
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language : en
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
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Dream State written by and has been published by Univ. Press of Mississippi this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with Fiction categories.
"In prose which somehow manages to be both precise and hallucinatory at the same time, Moira Crone gives us a luminous Louisiana of her own. Each of these (eight) wonderful tales is as complex as any novel, as vivid and fast and surprising as your life".--Lee Smith, author of "Oral History".
Liminal Dreaming
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Author : Jennifer Dumpert
language : en
Publisher: North Atlantic Books
Release Date : 2019-05-28
Liminal Dreaming written by Jennifer Dumpert and has been published by North Atlantic Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-05-28 with Body, Mind & Spirit categories.
A consciousness and dream hacker explains how to use liminal dreaming—the dreams that come between sleep and waking—for self-actualization and consciousness expansion. At the edges of consciousness, between waking and sleeping, there’s a swirling, free associative state of mind that is the domain of liminal dreams. Working with liminal dreams can improve sleep, mitigate anxiety and depression, help to heal trauma, and aid creativity and problem-solving. As we sink into slumber, we pass through hypnagogia, the first of the two liminal dream states. In this transitional zone, memories, perceptions, and imaginings arise in a fast moving, hallucinatory, semi-conscious remix. On the other end of the night, as we wake, we experience hypnopompia—the hazy, pleasant, drift that is the other liminal dream state. Readers of Liminal Dreaming will learn step-by-step how to create a dream practice outside of REM-sleep states that they can incorporate into their lives in personally meaningful ways. Liminal dreaming practice is also far easier to learn than lucid dreaming practice, making it possible for the reader to begin working with these dreams this very night.
The Rhetoric Of Dreams
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Author : Bert O. States
language : en
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Release Date : 2019-05-15
The Rhetoric Of Dreams written by Bert O. States and has been published by Cornell University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-05-15 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
In this lively and provocative book, Bert O. States offers a new theory of the nature and function of dreaming, in the process challenging the Freudian theory of repression. The Rhetoric of Dreams asserts that the dream operates quite differently from the mechanism of repression as it is envisioned by most psychoanalysts. Far from censoring unacceptable thought, States says, the dream is one of the most direct of psychic functions, processing experience in patterns of association that contribute to our survival in waking reality. He thus regards the dream as a means by which the mind "thinks" images out of feelings and attitudes and then converts those images into other images along the path of the dream narrative.
Dream States The Collected Dreaming Covers
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Author : Dave McKean
language : en
Publisher: Vertigo
Release Date : 2014-11-18
Dream States The Collected Dreaming Covers written by Dave McKean and has been published by Vertigo this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-11-18 with Comics & Graphic Novels categories.
An amazing collection of dark and arresting imagery, DREAM STATE: THE COLLECTED DREAMING COVES presents the haunting artwork of this critically acclaimed and award-winning epic. Through these dynamic pieces, Dave McKean reflected the mesmerizing mythology, adult nature, and imaginative storytelling that made the story of Morpheus, the King of Dreams, such a groundbreaking series. This collection also includes insightful and revealing cover commentaries by THE SANDMAN author Neil Gaiman.
The Dream States
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Author : Jonathan DeLeon
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2022-05-12
The Dream States written by Jonathan DeLeon and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-05-12 with categories.
The Dream States
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Author : Jon DeLeon
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2020-08-03
The Dream States written by Jon DeLeon and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-08-03 with categories.
YOU WILL FIND YOURSELF TURNING PAGE AFTER PAGE TO DISCOVER HOW THIS THRILLING STORY ENDS. In the future, vacation is a visit to The Dream States, where you can live entire lifetimes in your sleep. With that freedom comes a price, one that a man must overcome if he's to save the woman he loves. When Kevin Altair went to sleep in Dream State 8, he knew he would be living his next life, but what he didn't know is that he would be waking up to a dream ending revelation. Dragged from his room, he is taken by a resistance group known as "The Awake" and shown the secret dark side of the dream network. Soon his connection with the program dwindles and is replaced with love for Sarah, the daughter of the group leader. This love grows into a burning passion that his head and heart can't deny. As Kevin is exposed to the truth, he begins to unravel the dark beginnings of The Dream States. He must master the skills to affect the dream network, overcome and cast-off past lives and be willing to sacrifice to save the one he loves, or he will become her doom. From the visionary science fiction author, Jon DeLeon, comes this new dystopian technothriller inspired from his own experiences. This suspenseful story blends themes of emotion versus logic and love versus perceived connection, with a touch of The Matrix blended with Total Recall. When was the last time you found yourself completely engulfed in a story?
States Of Consciousness
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Author : Dean Cvetkovic
language : en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 2011-06-22
States Of Consciousness written by Dean Cvetkovic and has been published by Springer Science & Business Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-06-22 with Medical categories.
In this accessible overview of current knowledge, an expert team of editors and authors describe experimental approaches to consciousness. These approaches are shedding light on some of the hitherto unknown aspects of the distinct states of human consciousness, including the waking state, different states of sleep and dreaming, meditation and more. The book presents the latest research studies by the contributing authors, whose specialities span neuroscience, neurology, biomedical engineering, clinical psychology and psychophysiology, psychosocial medicine and anthropology. Overall this anthology provides the reader with a clear picture of how different states of consciousness can be defined, experimentally measured and analysed. A future byproduct of this knowledge may be anticipated in the development of systematic corrective treatments for many disorders and pathological problems of consciousness.