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Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Hello Sleep is a practical and compassionate guide to having a better relationship with sleep and overcoming insomnia from Jade Wu, an experienced expert in behavioral sleep medicine. For many people who have trouble sleeping, each night is an anxious odyssey where getting a good night's sleep feels like a battle to win rather than a basic biologic process. Hello Sleep is a guide for people with insomnia to help them shift their relationship with...
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
The author of the Mr. Lemoncello books brings his wit and humor to a pint-sized audience in this picture book debut that turns the universal dilemma of getting kids to sleep on its head. It's time for a nap but, just like stubborn toddlers everywhere, Annalise Devin McFleece won't have anything to do with bedtime. Dad tries to encourage sleepiness by pushing her around the park in her stroller. Along the way, they pass a man sitting on a bench, dog...
Author
Language
English
Description
Roughly thirty percent of the population is estimated to be living with insomnia, while many more unknowingly suffer from other sleep disorders. Macedo learned the hard way how valuable sleep is, and how it affects everything from our heart to our brain to our immune system. She had tried sleep tip after sleep tip, but nothing worked. Attacking the problem as a journalist, she got to the bottom of what really keeps us from sleeping-- and the various...
Author
Language
English
Description
After Huffington, cofounder and editor in chief of The Huffington Post, collapsed from exhaustion, hitting her face on her desk, breaking her cheekbone, and regaining consciousness in a pool of blood, she became a self-described ?sleep evangelist.? Noting that it?s ?our collective delusion that overwork and burnout are the price we must pay in order to succeed, ? she asserts that it?s not worth it. Sleep deprivation, she says, is linked with increased...
6) Hissy Fitz
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Hissy, a sleep-deprived British shorthair in the extremely noisy Fitz household, recounts his frustrating day trying to find a place to sleep where people--particularly an annoying three-year-old human--will not bother him.
Author
Publisher
New American Library
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
viii, 262 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Draws on cutting-edge sleep science and time-tested techniques in a guide to understanding what contributes to sleep problems and how to minimize medication dependency, sharing coverage of subjects ranging from insomnia and sleep apnea to restless leg syndrome and circadian sleep disorders.
Author
Language
English
Description
In a future so real and near it might be now, something happens when women go to sleep: they become shrouded in a cocoon-like gauze. If they are awakened, if the gauze wrapping their bodies is disturbed or violated, the women become feral and spectacularly violent. And while they sleep they go to another place, a better place, where harmony prevails and conflict is rare. One woman, the mysterious "Eve Black," is immune to the blessing or curse of...
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Sigma
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
304 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
Sleep is vital to the way we learn, remember and forget, to how we feel about family and partners, our wellbeing, and our mental and physical health. It is essential for life itself. In Nodding Off, renowned sleep researcher Alice Gregory explores every aspect of sleep, from the different stages of sleep and how our sleeping patterns change throughout our lives, to what happens when things go wrong and getting some shut-eye becomes more of a trial...
Author
Language
English
Description
"A comprehensive exploration of what dreams are, where they come from, what they mean, and why we have them. Questions on the origins and meaning of dreams are as old as humankind, and persist to this day to excite and confound us. When Brains Dream addresses the core questions about dreams while illuminating the most up-to-date science in the field. Written by two world-renowned sleep and dream researchers, it debunks many myths about dreams while...
Author
Publisher
Rodale Books
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
xxvi, 262 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Is high-quality sleep the missing component to help you shed fat for good, stave off diseases, and keep you productive? In Sleep Smarter, Shawn Stevenson, host of the popular podcast, The Model Health Show, answers these and many other sleep-related questions. As a teenager, Stevenson was diagnosed with a degenerative bone disease. He gave up on his health and his body, until he decided to fight back.Through years of research and consulting health...
Author
Publisher
Greenwood, an imprint of ABC-CLIO, LLC
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
xviii, 178 pages : 1 illustration ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"This book provides readers with the information they need to know about sleep disorders: the process and purpose of sleep, the importance of good sleep hygiene, and the impact of modern life on our quality of sleep"--
18) Sleep to save your life: the complete guide to living longer and healthier through restorative sleep
Author
Publisher
Collins
Pub. Date
[2005]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
x, 308 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
20) Just go to bed
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
2003.
Edition
First Random House Edition.
Physical Desc
23 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
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