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Very short introductions volume 127
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English
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In this fascinating book, Harvard researcher Hobson offers an intriguing look at the nightly odyssey through the illusory world of dreams. Hobson describes how the theory of dreaming has advanced dramatically over the past 50 years, sparked by the use of EEGs in the 1950s and by recent innovations in brain imaging. 20 illustrations.
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English
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America's favorite pediatrician, Dr. Harvey Karp, now focuses his unparalleled knowledge, experience, and insight on solving the #1 concern of parents everywhere: sleep. With The Happiest Baby Guide to Great Sleep, Dr. Karp—arguably the world's foremost parenting expert and bestselling author of The Happiest Baby on the Block and The Happiest Toddler on the Block—offers invaluable tips on how to help your newborn, infant, or toddler get...
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English
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"A comprehensive exploration of what dreams are, where they come from, what they mean, and why we have them. Questions on the origins and meaning of dreams are as old as humankind, and persist to this day to excite and confound us. When Brains Dream addresses the core questions about dreams while illuminating the most up-to-date science in the field. Written by two world-renowned sleep and dream researchers, it debunks many myths about dreams while...
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Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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For Dr. Guy Leschziner's patients, there is no rest for the weary in mind and 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 kicking. Out-of-sync...
5) The natural baby sleep solution: use your child's internal sleep rhythms for better nights and naps
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Workman Publishing
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
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Rodale Books
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
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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English
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"Nearly all babies fight sleep. Some people argue that parents should let their baby "cry it out" until the child falls asleep; others say parents should tough it out from dusk until dawn. Neither tactic fosters happiness in the family. The No-Cry Sleep Solution gives parents a third option: a proven method to pin-point the root of sleep problems and solve them in a way that is gentle to babies, effective for parents, and provides peace in the home....
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PBS
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
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Whether it's electric lights, addiction to digital devices, or just the fast pace of modern life, one thing is clear: it seems to be getting harder to get a good night's sleep. Almost 50 percent of Americans say they can't get the zzz's they need. To understand why many are sleep deprived, take a deep dive into the body's control center, the brain, and follow the work of researchers who are unraveling the secrets of sleep.
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Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"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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Penguin Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
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...
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Publisher
Hatchett Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Kim West, LCSW-C, known to her clients as The Sleep Lady®, has developed an alternative and effective approach to helping children learn to gently put themselves to sleep without letting them "cry it out" -- an option that is not comfortable for many parents. Essential reading for any tired parent, or any expectant parent who wants to avoid the pitfalls of sleeplessness, Good Night, Sleep Tight offers a practical, easy-to-follow remedy that will...
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Editorial Sirio
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
Español
Description
Si te cuesta dormir bien y te preguntas cuál será el secreto de una buena noche de sueño reparador, este libro puede ser la respuesta que estás buscando. El arte de dormir nos guía en un viaje que comienza con la búsqueda de nuestro patrón de sueño y la identificación de los problemas que contribuyen a nuestra falta de descanso. Mediante la experiencia personal del autor, el estudio de las últimas investigaciones científicas y el asesoramiento...
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Holt Paperbacks/Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"Cry it out or co-sleep? Bassinet or swing? White noise machine or Bach? How many hours anyway? For something so important, there's too much conflicting information about how best to get your baby to sleep through the night and nap successfully during the day. This book is a straightforward, no-nonsense answer to one of the biggest challenges new parents face when they welcome a brand new baby home. This book is written for exhausted parents, giving...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Pub. Date
©2013.
Language
English
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Neuroscientist Penny Lewis explores the latest research into the nighttime brain to understand the real benefits of sleep, showing how, while our body rests, the brain practices tasks it learned during the day, replays traumatic events to mollify them, and forges connections between distant concepts.
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Publisher
Vergara
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
Español
Description
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...
19) Por fin duermo: duerme, descansa y vive : el método que cambiará tu sueñ̃o tu descanso y tu vida
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Publisher
Vergara
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Español
Description
Si existe una conducta que todos realizamos es dormir. Todos dormimos, mejor o peor, m̀s o menos horas, porque el suęo es necesario para la vida. No obstante, parece que dormir bien ya no es lo natural para las personas. Datos de la Organizaci̤n Mundial de la Salud estiman que la mitad la poblaci̤n mundial duerme mal y se prev̌ que esta cifra vaya en aumento si no se modifican los h̀bitos y el estilo de vida que llevamos actualmente en las sociedades...
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Publisher
W.W. Norton
Pub. Date
1996.
Language
English
Description
This volume is an exploration of night and the deep resonances it has for the human race. The author provides readers an understanding of the fragile borderline between day and night, an understanding of the language of dreams, and an explanation of how dreams affect our waking selves. This work examines night in all its aspects. How do we light it? How do we inhabit it and make it safe? In what "languages" do we dream? The search moves from the neon-lit...
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