The secret life of sleep
Record details
- ISBN: 9781582704685 (cloth)
- ISBN: 1582704686 (cloth)
- ISBN: 9781582704692 (pbk.)
- ISBN: 1582704694 (pbk.)
- ISBN: 9781476753287 (ebook)
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Physical Description:
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xvii, 238 pages ; 24 cm - Edition: First Atria Books/Beyond Words hardcover edition.
- Publisher: New York : Atria Books ; Hillsboro, Oregon : Beyond Words, 2014.
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-236). |
Formatted Contents Note: | When the sandman comes: falling asleep -- Opening the inn for phantoms: surrendering to sleep -- Cribs, cradles, and slings: sleeping babies across cultures -- Sleep stages: Western science and Eastern philosophy -- Between sleeps: the midnight watch -- When sleep never comes: insomnia's toll -- Downers, benzos, and z-drugs: the commercialization of sleep -- The social divide: separating sleep from consciousness -- When sleeping birds fly: half awake and half asleep -- The invisible labors of sleep: memory and invention -- Knitting up the "raveled sleave of care": emotional restoration -- Sleep has no master: subversive dreaming -- Ordinary dreams: when one hand washes the other -- Big dreams: encounters with the other side -- Waking up is hard to do: internal and social time -- Enamored with wakefulness: phasing out sleep -- Waking up again: doubt, certainty, and the future of sleep. |
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Subject: | Sleep Physiological aspects Altered states of consciousness Sleep physiology Sleep Disorders |
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- 1 of 1 copy available at Kirtland Community College.
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Kirtland Community College Library | QP 425 .D84 2014 | 30775305487119 | General Collection | Available | - |