Leschziner, Guy
Summary: 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 circadian rhythms...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.8 LESLewis, Lisa L.
Summary: "In The Sleep-Deprived Teen, parenting journalist Lisa L. Lewis provides parents with the roadmap for more (and better) sleep for their teens--and perhaps even for themselves. Pick up this actionable guide for parents of exhausted teens. Teenagers are tired, strapped for time, and often asked to wake up far earlier than they should due to school start times. In The Sleep-Deprived Teen, Lisa L....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mango Publishing Group 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 616.8 LEWHuffington, Arianna Stassinopoulos
Summary: "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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harmony 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 613 HUFCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 613 HUFArtist Not Provided
Summary: Examines why it is that animals and humans require sleep in order to survive, and the role in which it plays in memory, trauma, and emotion regulation.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Public Broadcasting Service 2020
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV MYSWiley, T. S.
Summary: End notes: p. 207-304.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pocket Books 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.071 WILMurphy, Nora
Summary: "Nothing is simple about being a new mom alone in a new house, especially when your baby is collicky. Natalie Fanning loves her son unconditionally, but being a mother was not all she wanted to be. Enter Paul, the neighbor. Paul provides the lifeline she needs in what feels like the most desperate of times. When Paul is helping with Oliver, calmed by his reassuring, steady presence, Nat feels...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MURFriel, Dan
Contents: Lullaby (for Wolf) -- Cirrus -- Rattler -- Lungs -- Sleep deprivation -- Life. Pt. 1 -- Jamie (luvver) -- Bender -- Theme -- Life. Pt. 2.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK FRIMcCarthy, Jenny
Summary: Presents the lighter side of parenthood's first year, from postpartum embarrassment and baby diapers to sleep deprivation and grandparent eccentricity.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.874 MCCSimian Mobile Disco
Contents: Your love ain't fair/Run theme -- A species out of control -- Unfixed -- Supermoon -- Cerulean -- It's the beat -- Skin cracker -- Hustler (jam) -- Aspic -- Wooden -- Serapim -- Cruel intentions -- Interference -- Put your hands together -- Sleep deprivation.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Delicacies 2013
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD ELECTRONIC SIMSummary: "Provides basic consumer health information about the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of sleep disorders in children and adults, along with facts about diseases that affect sleep and the health consequences of sleep deprivation. Includes index, glossary of related terms, and other resources"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Omnigraphics 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.8 SLESummary: Some people wander, get dressed, even eat in their sleep. Others lash out in violent ways. Is it possible that people can commit complex crimes-even murder-while walking in their sleep? With only a dead victim and a seemingly disoriented suspect at the scene of the crime, it's hard to know for sure. This program explores the question, following extensive sleep tests performed on accused...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Walker, Matthew P.
Summary: "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,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc. 2017
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 612.82 WALCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: 612.82 WALMiller, Kenneth
Summary: 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Books 2023