The secret life of sleep / Kat Duff.
By: Duff, Kat.
Material type: TextEdition: New York : Atria Books.Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-238).Description: xvii, 238 p. ; 24 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781582704685 (hbk.); 1582704686 (hbk.); 9781582704692 (pbk.); 1582704694 (pbk.).Subject(s): Sleep -- Physiological aspects | Sleep | Altered states of consciousnessDDC classification: 612.8/21Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Two Weeks | Davenport Library Circulating Collection | Print-Circulating | 612.821 D873 2014 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 34284003491487 |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-238).
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.
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. --Publishers description.
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