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Sleep Reimagined: The Fast Track to a Revitalized Life
Ditch insomnia in as little as 4 weeks with this 6-step therapeutic program for better sleep. Insomnia looks different for everyone. Whether it’s caused by stress, a traumatic life event, or even a snoring partner, poor sleep can affect the quality of your waking life. But Dr. Pedram Navab wants readers to know that it’s not a lost cause—falling asleep can be just as easy as waking up. With his cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT-I) program, paired with relatable case studies of different sleep disorders, readers are guided to new and improved sleep in as little as 4 weeks. In Sleep Reimagined, the 6-step CBT-I program teaches readers how to understand sleep, rewire their arousal system through therapeutic relaxation, practice sleep restriction and stimulus control, restructure attitudes towards sleep, use mindfulness intervention to continue cognitive components, and prevent insomnia relapse through planning. Both comprehensive and entertaining, this book is the perfect bedside companion to discover better sleep and better life.
This Will Destroy You
"This Will Destroy You is a provocatively haunting novel that situates the reader in a complex and intriguing web of interpersonal relations. Among these: 1) Marc Bernard, a plastic surgeon from Paris, France, who doubles as a mercy killer and vigilante. He's involved in an automobile accident that completely disfigures him, and he grapples with this lack of facial identity and how to restore it for the remainder of the novel, 2) Bernadette Soubirous, a "hysteric" at the Pitie-Salpetriere Hospital, who drowns herself in the Seine River and whose fate is intertwined with Marc's a century later, and 3) Christopher Laurent, a patient who is being psychoanalyzed by Anna Freud with regard to his psychotic tendencies. Juxtaposed against these three principal characters are a series of murders that take place in 1970s Paris and a bizarre case of mass suicide that takes place in 1885, which involves sleepwalkers"--
Heart Failed in the Back of a Taxi
Pedram Navabs Heart Failed in the Back of a Taxi explores the modern notion of loneliness and mourning through the lens of people and objects that have been cast aside as waste and forgotten. Whether the subject is a telephonic landline to the graves of two philosophers, a steam room in a fitness club that recalls the Holocaust, or trash in a Tokyo landfill that takes on a disfigured human form, the idea of abjectness begins to signify a new horror. Although, on the surface, this sense of forlornness signifies hopelessness, what emerges instead is a radical realization that this desolation can bear an uncanny strength. The detritus documented in these poems reveals a glimpse of a heartbreaking potentiality that is ultimately transforming.
Clean
This collection of poems and stories examines the existential angst of individuals who are confronted with the impure, the contingent, the Other. It incorporates elements of myth, mass culture, and race to interrogate notions of purity inherent in the formation of self. By turns dark, philosophical, and poignant, Clean reveals its complicity with the dirt with which it is forced to reckon.
Pretty
Film culture often rejects visually rich images, treating simplicity, austerity, or even ugliness as the more provocative, political, and truly cinematic choice. Cinema may challenge traditional ideas of art, but its opposition to the decorative represents a long-standing Western aesthetic bias against feminine cosmetics, Oriental effeminacy, and primitive ornament. Inheriting this patriarchal, colonial perspective--which treats decorative style as foreign or sexually perverse--filmmakers, critics, and theorists have often denigrated colorful, picturesque, and richly patterned visions in cinema. Condemning the exclusion of the "pretty" from masculine film culture, Rosalind Galt reevaluates r...
The Child
The Child: An Encyclopedic Companion offers both parents and professionals access to the best scholarship from all areas of child studies in a remarkable one-volume reference. Bringing together contemporary research on children and childhood from pediatrics, child psychology, childhood studies, education, sociology, history, law, anthropology, and other related areas, The Child contains more than 500 articles—all written by experts in their fields and overseen by a panel of distinguished editors led by anthropologist Richard A. Shweder. Each entry provides a concise and accessible synopsis of the topic at hand. For example, the entry “Adoption” begins with a general definition, followe...
A Face Drawn in Sand
Leadership, innovation, diversity, inclusiveness, sharing, accountability—such is the resounding administrative refrain we keep hearing in the contemporary Western university. What kinds of benefits does this refrain generate? For whom? What discursive incitements undergird such benefits? Although there are innumerable discussions of Michel Foucault in the English-speaking academy, seldom is his work used systematically to unravel the dead ends and potentialities of humanistic inquiry as embedded in these simple but dynamic questions. Rey Chow takes up this challenge by articulating the plight of the humanities in the age of global finance and neoliberal mores through a resharpened focus o...
Seconds and Inches
A child of alcoholics and grandchild of Holocaust survivors, Carly Israel describes her journey to sobriety and the challenges she faces as the mother of a child with complex medical issues. A memoir of recovery and transformation, and a thoughtful reflection on generational trauma, self-acceptance, and gratitude. Foreword by Jennifer Pastiloff.
Without Anesthesia
"Vivid, grotesque and whip-smart." - Rosalind Galt "Dear Tess, we cut you up today."So ends and begins the disturbing and provocative story of Tess, a third-year medical student whose compulsivedesireto feel her patients' pain leads her to destruct her own body bymethodsboth horrificand creative. In this highly original medical thriller, Tess'snarrative intersects with similarly obsessive characters, andthe distinctions between fiction and reality, between art and medicine, are called into question."Without Anesthesia"spanstime periods and settings - from 1920's Hollywood to late 1990's New York- and culminatesin an ending that Alfred Hitchcock himself would approve. ""Without Anesthesia" is...
Efficient Processing of Deep Neural Networks
This book provides a structured treatment of the key principles and techniques for enabling efficient processing of deep neural networks (DNNs). DNNs are currently widely used for many artificial intelligence (AI) applications, including computer vision, speech recognition, and robotics. While DNNs deliver state-of-the-art accuracy on many AI tasks, it comes at the cost of high computational complexity. Therefore, techniques that enable efficient processing of deep neural networks to improve key metrics—such as energy-efficiency, throughput, and latency—without sacrificing accuracy or increasing hardware costs are critical to enabling the wide deployment of DNNs in AI systems. The book i...
