0
Your cart

Your cart is empty

Browse All Departments
  • All Departments
Price
  • R250 - R500 (3)
  • -
Status
Brand

Showing 1 - 3 of 3 matches in All Departments

Why We Dream - The Transformative Power of Our Nightly Journey (Paperback): Alice Robb Why We Dream - The Transformative Power of Our Nightly Journey (Paperback)
Alice Robb 1
R397 R372 Discovery Miles 3 720 Save R25 (6%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Why We Dream - The Science, Creativity and Transformative Power of Dreams (Paperback): Alice Robb Why We Dream - The Science, Creativity and Transformative Power of Dreams (Paperback)
Alice Robb 1
R285 R257 Discovery Miles 2 570 Save R28 (10%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

We all dream, and 98 per cent of us can recall our dreams the next morning. Even in today’s modern age, it is human nature to wonder what they mean. With incredible new discoveries and stunning science, Why We Dream will give you dramatic insight into yourself and your body. You’ll never think of dreams in the same way again . . .

Groundbreaking science is putting dreams at the forefront of new research into sleep, memory, the concept of self and human socialization. Once a subject of the New Age and spiritualism, the science of dreams is revealed to have a crucial role in the biology and neuroscience of our waking lives.

In Why We Dream, Alice Robb, a leading American science journalist, will take readers on a journey to uncover why we dream, why dreaming matters, and how we can improve our dream life – and why we should. Through her encounters with scientists at the cutting edge of dream research, she reveals how:

- Dreams can be powerful tools to help us process the pain of a relationship break-up, the grief of losing a loved one and the trauma after a dramatic event
- Nightmares may be our body’s warning system for physical and mental illness (including cancer, depression and Alzheimer’s)
- Athletes can improve their performance by dreaming about competing
- Drug addicts who dream about drug-taking can dramatically speed up their recovery from addiction.

Robb also uncovers the fascinating science behind lucid dreaming – when we enter a dream state with control over our actions, creating a limitless playground for our fantasies. And as one of only ten per cent of people with the ability to lucid-dream, she is uniquely placed to teach us how to do it ourselves.

Don't Think, Dear - On Loving and Leaving Ballet (Hardcover): Alice Robb Don't Think, Dear - On Loving and Leaving Ballet (Hardcover)
Alice Robb
R529 R483 Discovery Miles 4 830 Save R46 (9%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

'Don't think, dear' said Balanchine. 'Just do.' For centuries, being a ballerina has been synonymous with being beautiful, thin, obedient and feminine. It is the crucible of womanhood, together with the harassment, physical abuse and eating disorders endemic at top schools. Can we abide this in a post #MeToo world? Weaving together her own time at America's most elite ballet school with the lives of renowned ballerinas throughout history, Alice Robb interrogates what it means to perform ballet today. She confronts the all-consuming nature of the form: the obsessive and dangerous practices to perfect the body, the embrace of submission and the idealisation of suffering. Yet ballet also gifts its dancers 'brains in their toes', a way to fully inhabit their bodies and a sanctuary of control away from the pressures of the outside world. Perhaps it is time to reimagine its liberating potential.

Free Delivery
Pinterest Twitter Facebook Google+
You may like...
Moto Guzzi 750, 850 & 1000 V-Twins (74…
Haynes Publishing Paperback R816 Discovery Miles 8 160
Paranasal Sinuses Anatomy and Conditions
Balwant Singh Gendeh Hardcover R3,337 Discovery Miles 33 370
LOVE YOUR AINU KEN AND PLAY SUDOKU AINU…
Loving Puzzles Paperback R502 Discovery Miles 5 020
International Brigade Against Apartheid…
Ronnie Kasrils, Muff Andersson, … Paperback R320 R288 Discovery Miles 2 880
Automatic Learning Techniques in Power…
Louis A. Wehenkel Hardcover R4,528 Discovery Miles 45 280
Educating the Urban Race - The Evolution…
Ericka J. Fisher Hardcover R2,467 Discovery Miles 24 670
Energy Management Systems & Direct…
Richard Panke Hardcover R3,576 Discovery Miles 35 760
LOVE YOUR BULGARIAN SHEPHERD AND PLAY…
Loving Puzzles Paperback R502 Discovery Miles 5 020
New Times
Rehana Rossouw Paperback  (1)
R280 R252 Discovery Miles 2 520
Confronting Inequality - The South…
Michael Nassen Smith Paperback R280 R252 Discovery Miles 2 520

 

Partners