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Index
Cover
Other Books by This Author
Title Page
Copyright
Epigraph
Contents
Are You Lying Down?
The Grammar of Horizontal Orientation
Drawn to the Center of the Earth
Chesterton and the Secret of Michelangelo
Shaking Up the Act of Lying Down
Common and Uncommon Ways to Lie Down
Lying Down in the Great Outdoors
Sun Worshippers
The Proper Way to Lie Down
Position as the Key to Personality
So Easy a Child Can Do It
Lying Down Together
Lying Down, Sleeping, Waking Up
Awake, Napping, Asleep
Eating and Lying Down: Better Together?
Horizontal—but Hard at Work
The History of the Mattress
The Archaeology of Lying Down
The Oriental Roots of the Art of Lying Down
Field Studies of Bedrooms and Reclining Habits
The Typical Bed
Lying Down on the Road
Strange Bedfellows
Mechanized Reclining
Horizontal Healing
Floating, Rocking, Swinging
The Puzzle of the Recliner
The Best Place for the Bed
Lying Down as the Stuff of Dreams—and Nightmares
The Museum of Reclining
Are You Still Lying Down?
For Further Reading
Illustration and Photo Credits
Acknowledgments
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