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The secret life of sleep

Duff, Kat 1952- (Author).

Summary: Citing a high percentage of Americans who routinely experience sleep problems or shortages, the award-winning author of The Alchemy of Illness draws on a wide range of disciplines to reveal the healing benefits of sleep and argue for its prioritizing.--Publisher information.

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  • ISBN: 9781582704685 (cloth)
  • ISBN: 1582704686 (cloth)
  • ISBN: 9781582704692 (pbk.)
  • ISBN: 1582704694 (pbk.)
  • ISBN: 9781476753287 (ebook)
  • Physical Description: print
    xvii, 238 pages ; 24 cm
  • Edition: First Atria Books/Beyond Words hardcover edition.
  • Publisher: New York : Atria Books ; Hillsboro, Oregon : Beyond Words, 2014.

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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
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  • 1 of 1 copy available at Kirtland Community College.

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The Secret Life of Sleep
The Secret Life of Sleep
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The Secret Life of Sleep


Unlock the astonishing facts, myths, and benefits of one of the most endangered human resources--sleep. It has become increasingly clear that our sleep shapes who we are as much as, if not more than, we shape it. While most sleep research hasn't ven­tured far beyond research labs and treatment clinics, The Secret Life of Sleep taps into the enormous reservoir of human experiences to illuminate the complexities of a world where sleep has become a dwindling resource. With a sense of infectious curiosity, award winning author Kat Duff mixes cutting-edge research with insightful narratives, surpris­ing insights, and timely questions to help us better understand what we're losing before it's too late. The Secret Life of Sleep tackles the full breadth of what sleep means to people the world over. Embark on an exploration of what lies behind and beyond our eyelids when we surrender to the secret life of sleep.
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