Bücher von Patrick McNamara

This book provides complete coverage of the neuroscience of both sleep and dreams for upper-level undergraduates and graduate students. Unlike other introductory texts, it emphasizes the social nature of sleep and dreams, and links new discoveries to established evolutionary theory.

Challenging existing claims concerning the functions of Rapid Eye Movement sleep and the purported meaninglessness of dreams, this text offers a complete and up-to-date survey on the anatomy, physiology, ontogeny, and phylogeny of REM sleep as well as the cognitive neuroscience of dream phenomonolgy and dream content.

Money Matters presents the findings of the largest and most incisive study of factors influencing church giving in America. The authors conducted an exhaustive study of church giving in five representative denominations: Assemblies of God, Southern Baptist, Roman Catholic, ELCA, and Presbyterian. With detailed information from 625 churches...