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vi, 182 pages ; 24 cm
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English
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Sleep is essential to our health but it can be hard to get enough. Here, a seasoned neurologist reveals best practices, realistic approaches, and practical tips to help us all get a better night's rest. He reviews the latest studies, considers technologies and products that can help us, and offers advice for those who suffer from various disorders.
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xi, 171 pages ; 21 cm
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English
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"Rediscover the pleasure of sleep. Through friendly guidance and dozens of easy exercises and doable practices, mindfulness teacher and dream therapist Tzivia Gover shows how lifestyle changes and dreaming can enhance a good night's sleep. This holistic program - including meditation, relaxation, yoga, journaling, and dreamwork - not only helps you improve your sleep habits but extends into the walking hours, too, with tips for morning routines to...
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353 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
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English
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"For Dr. Guy Leschziner's patients, there is no rest for the weary -- either in mind or in body. Insomnia, narcolepsy, night terrors, apnea, and sleepwalking are just a sampling of conditions afflicting sufferers who cannot sleep -- and their experiences in trying are the stuff of nightmares. Demoniac hallucinations frighten people into paralysis. Restless legs rock both the sleepless and their sleeping partners with unpredictable and uncontrollable...
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304 pages ; 23 cm
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English
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"Sleep consumes a third of our lives, yet we tend to only think about it when it's proving a struggle--when a baby is born, if we develop insomnia, or when ageing brings new challenges. The latest research tells us that sleep is essential for learning and memory, for mental health and well-being, and for optimal physical health. It plays a crucial role throughout our waking lives, and our relationship with sleep evolves through our different life...
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x, 214 pages ; 21 cm
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English
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A practical guide to combatting sleep problems from one of the world's leading authorities, offering solutions for sleeping more soundly and healthily.
Presents a guide to sleep, discussing such topics as the physiological basis of sleep, dreaming, the use of pills and potions, and the impact that changes in attitude, nightime rituals, and environment can have on the quality of sleep.
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x, 342 pages ; 25 cm
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English
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"Whether it's a bout of bad jet lag or a stress-induced all-nighter, we've all suffered from nights that left us feeling less than well-rested. But for some people, getting a bad night's sleep isn't just an inconvenience: it's a nightmare. In Sleepyhead, science writer Henry Nicholls uses his own experience with chronic narcolepsy as a gateway to better understanding the cryptic, curious, and relatively uncharted world of sleep disorders. We meet...
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"Anna Ogilvy was a budding twenty-five-year-old writer with a bright future. Then, one night, she stabbed two people to death with no apparent motive -- and hasn't woken up since. Dubbed "Sleeping Beauty" by the tabloids, Anna's condition is a rare psychosomatic disorder known to neurologists as "resignation syndrome." Dr. Benedict Prince is a forensic psychologist and an expert in the field of sleep-related homicides. His methods are the last hope...
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viii, 374 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
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English
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"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...
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xxvi, 262 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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English
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"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...
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xxvii, 195 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm
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English
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"From renowned sleep scientist Dr. Aric Prather, a book that offers a simple yet powerful plan to improve your sleep in seven days We need to sleep to survive. If we stopped sleeping, we would die. Sure, it would take a while, but sleep is as essential as food, water, and oxygen. Eventually, without it, our bodies begin to shut down. So why on earth can something that should be so natural, instinctual, and automatic be so hard? Dr. Aric Prather studies...
14) Killer dreams
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339 pages ; 24 cm
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English
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If you close your eyes, he'll get you. Sophie Dunston knows all too well how dreams can kill. As one of the nation's top sleep therapists, she specializes in the life-threatening night terrors that her ten-year-old son, Michael, suffers from. But she is also an expert in another kind of terror--the kind that can turn a dream life into a living nightmare in the blink of an eye.
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viii, 371 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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English
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A renowned ABC News anchor/correspondent and former insomniac presents cutting-edge research, expert advice, intimate stories, and easy-to-implement solutions to help readers get the sleep they need.
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...
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There are two schools of thought for encouraging babies to sleep through the night, the hotly debated Ferber technique of letting the baby "cry it out," or the grin-and-bear-it solution of getting up from dusk to dawn as often as necessary. If you don't believe in letting your baby cry it out, but desperately want to sleep, there is now a third option, presented in Elizabeth Pantley's sanity-saving book The No-Cry Sleep Solution. Pantley's successful...
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1 videodisc (92 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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A whole island affected by an unexplainable sleep phenomenon is closed off and a photographer heads there to document the events, whereupon he falls for one of the inhabitants, not realizing the personal danger it brings.
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213 pages ; 22 cm
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Español
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"Si las noches de tu familia se han convertido en un momento de pesadilla, si hace tiempo que olvidaste lo que significa descansar, si sientes que estás realizando un esfuerzo enorme por conseguir mejorar el sueño de tu hijo y, aun así, los despertares y desvelos se han convertido en vuestro día a día, sigue leyendo. Este libro es una guía completa que te ayudará, paso a paso, a resolver vuestros problemas de sueño, a identificar las situaciones...
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192 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
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English
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"Details a six-step program to help you sleep better as well as thirteen specific techniques to help you fall asleep and stay asleep. Offers an integrative approach combining evidence-based sleep science with holistic and spiritual techniques. Provides online support in the form of short videos, audio meditations, and exercises from the author's successful sleep clinic"--
"A fast and easy six-step approach for addressing insomnia and other sleep...
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160 pages : illustration ; 24 cm
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English
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"Sleep difficulties affect millions of people-and the problem is getting worse. The deluge of sleep advice out there, referred to collectively as "sleep hygiene" rules, consists mostly of isolated recommendations for things not to do, such as: Don't drink coffee close to bedtime. Don't watch TV in bed. Despite the popularity of these old rules, Dr. Rafael Pelayo tells us, sleep hygiene alone is rarely effective in helping people with serious sleep...
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