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Author
Language
English
Description
"In her new book, Arianna Huffington, the co-founder and editor-in-chief of The Huffington Post, and the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Thrive delves into the sleep revolution that is happening all across the world - a revolution that can transform our lives. Sleep, she writes, is one of humanity's great unifiers, binding us to each other, to our ancestors, to our past, and to the future. Yet we find ourselves in the middle of a crisis...
Author
Publisher
Rocaeditorial
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Español
Description
Un libro que nos aportara informacion fidedigna y completa para ayudarnos a hacer del sueno tu aliado del dia, y para mejorar la calidad de tu vida y de tu salud. Pasamos un tercio de nuestra vida durmiendo. Puede parecer una perdida de tiempo, pero dormir es esencial para nuestra existencia. Los estudios cientificos en animales de experimentacion demuestran que la privacion del sueno durante mas de siete dias seguidos induce la muerte. Esta necesidad...
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
It's daytime and night animals are all sleeping soundly. Well, all except for Possum. Skunk tries to be helpful, pointing out a cave, then a tree, then a den. But the more places Possum tries to sleep, the more night animals he wakes up. Will Bear, Wolf, Skunk, and Possum ever find a good day's rest?
Series
Publisher
Omnigraphics
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"Provides basic consumer health information about the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of sleep disorders in children and adults, along with facts about how and why people sleep, diseases that affect sleep and the health consequences of sleep deprivation. Includes index, glossary of related terms, and other resources"--
Author
Publisher
Diversion Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
For readers enticed by Arianna Huffingtons The Sleep Revolution but looking for the medical research to support the claims, two doctors have penned a guide using the latest research in an effort to get people to the state of being sleepy, the ultimate goal for insomniacs.
Publisher
Sesame Street Workshop
Pub. Date
[2013].
Language
English
Description
Sleepytime Songs and Stories: The live cast of Sesame Street sings songs and act out stories to show that everyone has a different way of going to sleep. Quiet Time: Big Bird and your favorite Sesame Street friends learn that the fun never stops, even during quiet time.
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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Description
"Attention, reader: This book is going to make you tired! It will calm you down! Yes, this book will put you to sleep! How? Easy. There are monster trucks dashing across the pages. There are sheep being chased by dragons. There are electric guitars wailing throughout. Plus so much more! Yep. All the typical stuff that makes you sleepy. So . . . are you asleep yet? No? Well, maybe another method would work better . . . So read on, and it's guaranteed...
Author
Series
Elephant and Piggie books volume 23
Publisher
Hyperion Books for Children
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Gerald is tired and cranky and wants to take a nap, but Piggie is not helping.
12) Sleep, sheep!
Author
Publisher
Kids Can Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"The only thing Duncan does not like to do at bedtime is go to sleep, and he knows all the tricks for avoiding it. Until one day, his mom has had enough, and leaves Duncan in his room to figure it out on his own. Left with no other choice but to take his mother's advice, Duncan tries counting sheep to get to sleep. It all goes well for a while, but then Sheep #68 is a bit apprehensive about taking his turn ... And suddenly, the tables have turned--Sheep...
Author
Series
Publisher
DC Vertigo
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"One of four books expanding Neil Gaiman's acclaimed Sandman Universe. There is a place where gods are born and stories are spun. Today its walls lie slashed and bleeding. Twenty-three years after he was anointed as its master, the lord of dreams has inexplicably abandoned his domain. Lord Daniel's absence triggers a series of crimes and calamities that consume the lives of those already tangled in his fate. Until he is found, his realm's residents...
Author
Series
Publisher
Faber and Faber Limted
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
A beautifully presented book with two front covers, the text can be read from front to back and vice versa. The mirror form poem meets in the middle in a stunning centerpiece image as the two children in the story (twins, one in an air balloon, the other a sailing boat) meet in the clouds!
Author
Series
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
The Slumbering Masses addresses the phenomenon of sleep and sleeplessness in the U.S., tracing the influence of medicine and industrial capitalism on Americans sleeping habits since the nineteenth century. Drawing on untapped archival sources and ethnographic research with people who experience and treat sleep abnormalities, Matthew J. Wolf-Meyer analyzes and critiques how sleep and its supposed disorders are understood and treated.
Author
Publisher
Levine Querido
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"If people count sheep to fall asleep, then, what do sheep count? Flowers...roses, geraniums, jasmine. And there's lots of OTHER things you probably don't know about sheep. Sheep have neither pajamas nor pillows nor slippers. They tell bedtime stories about rhinoceroses and airplanes. They ONLY fly when they're sleeping, like butterflies circling the sun"--
20) The dreamway
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
New York Times bestselling author Lisa Papademetriou delivers her most fantastical, emotional story yet in this tale of a young girls journey into her dreams to save her brother from the darkness that surrounds him. Perfect for fans of A Wrinkle in Time, The Phantom Tollbooth, and Echo. Every night, your sleeping body stays in your bed, while the you of you travels deep beneath the earth to ride the complex rails of the Dreamway.... Stella Clay thought...
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