| Edition |
First Atria Books/Beyond Words hardcover edition. |
| Description |
xvii, 238 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-238). |
| 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. --Publishers description. |
| Contents |
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. |
| Local Note |
BRPLADFIC, AVONNFIC, PORTNONFIC |
| Subject |
Sleep -- Physiological aspects.
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Sleep.
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Altered states of consciousness.
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| ISBN |
9781582704685 (hbk.) |
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1582704686 (hbk.) |
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9781582704692 (pbk.) |
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1582704694 (pbk.) |
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