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138 pages ; 23 cm
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English
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"Laura is a nurse in a pediatric unit. On long, quiet shifts, she and her colleagues, clad in their different shades of blue, care for sick babies, handling their exquisitely fragile bodies, and carefully calibrating the mysterious machines that keep them alive. Laura may be burnt out. Her hands have been raw from washing as long as she can remember. When she sleeps, she dreams of water; when she wakes, she finds herself lying next to a man who doesn't...
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viii, 262 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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English
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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.
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viii, 360 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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English
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"The first sleep book by a leading scientific expert -- Professor Matthew Walker, Director of UC Berkeley's Sleep and Neuroimaging Lab -- reveals his groundbreaking exploration of sleep, explaining how we can harness its transformative power to change our lives for the better. Sleep is one of the most important but least understood aspects of our life, wellness, and longevity. Until very recently, science had no answer to the question of why we sleep,...
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"Millions of teens struggle with sleep and feel exhausted as a result. Goodnight Mind for Teens will help teens cope with the anxious and over-stimulating thoughts that can lead to insomnia, identify and work with their own circadian rhythm, and set up a new sleep schedule so they can improve their alertness, feel more energetic, and be in a better mood throughout the day"--
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Brigade des cauchemars volume 1
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106 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 23 cm.
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English
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"Welcome to your nightmares. 14 year-olds Esteban and Tristan have a special after-school job. They enter Tristan's father's Sleep Clinic where they have one goal: help people get rid of their worst nightmares. With unique equipment the Nightmare Brigade can literally infiltrate their patients' nightmare to seek its root and destroy the cause. Things are shaken up a bit, however, when they meet the young sleep study patient Sarah. Esteban thinks he...
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xxiv, 657 pages ; 21 cm
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English
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"The perennial favorite for parents who want to get their kids to sleep with ease--now completely revised and expanded! In this fully updated fourth edition, Dr. Marc Weissbluth, one of the country's leading pediatricians, overhauls his groundbreaking approach to solving and preventing your children's sleep problems, from infancy through adolescence. In Healthy Sleep Habits, Happy Child, he explains with authority and reassurance his step-by-step...
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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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xviii, 414 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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English
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Journalist Kenneth Miller weaves science with history to tell the story of four outsider academics who carried the study of sleep from fringe discipline to mainstream obsession. In the 1920s Nathaniel Kleitman founded the world's first dedicated sleep lab, with breakthrough experiments in 1938. Kleitman mentored Eugene Aserinsky who discovered REM sleep, and William Dement, who became known as the father of sleep medicine. Dement, in turn, mentored...
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201 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm
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English
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"Ben has a gift. He can jump into other people's dreams. So when his classmates start falling victim to an evil dream monster he knows he has to do something. But can he get to them in time? With help from a mysterious companion, Ben just might be able to defeat the monster and save his friends . . . if he can harness the power within." -- Page 4 of cover.
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Dream Jumper volume 2
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216 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 23 cm.
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English
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Ben and Jake are back for more. With the Dream Jumper business making them some serious money, all seems to be going great. But Ben is put to the test in a way he never saw coming when a new and formidable foe invades his nightmares. With Jake backing him up and a mysterious newcomer in the Dream World, Ben may have a chance to overcome this new evil. He just has to keep his friends safe long enough to figure out how!
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