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"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...
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RosettaBooks
Pub. Date
2012.
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1 online resource.
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English
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Did you have trouble falling asleep, or staying asleep, last night? Or, did you sleep all night and wake up feeling exhausted? You are not alone, more than 60% of women don't sleep well in midlife, and even many college-age women sleep poorly. If you don't wake up rested and refreshed, read -- Successful Sleep Strategies for Women. --Provided by publisher.
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2002
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English
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A breakthrough approach for a good night's sleep—with no tears
There are two schools of thought for encouraging babies to sleep through the night: the hotly debated Ferber technique of letting the baby "cry it out," or the grin-and-bear-it solution of getting up from dusk to dawn as often as necessary. If you don't believe in letting your baby cry it out, but desperately want to sleep, there is now a third option, presented
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New Harbinger Publications
Pub. Date
2009
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1 online resource (224 p.)
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English
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"Forget expensive mattresses, fancy foam pillows, and white noise machines. There's no better treatment for insomnia than cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT). Research has shown that CBT works even better than powerful sleep medications, and with this workbook, it's easier than ever to put these strategies to work to help you ward off insomnia and finally get to sleep. The Insomnia Workbook is designed to simulate the experience of seeing a professional...
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Christopher Teller
Pub. Date
2015.
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1 online resource.
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English
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What Is In This Insomnia Book In this book a Natural Nutritionist helps you discover the best ways to get quality sleep. There is no need to feeling groogy, tired, and wanting more sleep, when you wake up in the morning. This book covers all aspects of insomnia and gives you the specific information you need to get your sleep under control. By following the 12 insomnia principles and applying them at your own pace, you can gain the sleep that you...
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Souvenir Press
Pub. Date
2010.
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1 online resource (192 pages)
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English
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"Exploring the underlying causes of common sleep problems, this guide offers solutions for how they can be easily overcome, revealing the potential for reclaiming a healthy balance in life. Acknowledging the breakneck speed of daily existence and how most people retire for the evening so exhausted they are unable to fall asleep, this handbook discusses the author's "Sleep Toolkit," a set of tried-and-true methods that has been developed with thousands...
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Michelle Newbold
Pub. Date
2012.
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1 online resource
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English
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"Many people may suffer from insomnia at some point in their lives, as it is a fairly common problem, especially as you age. Long-term insomnia can have drastic effects on your health if the problem is not properly addressed. If you suffer from long term insomnia chances are it will eventually begin to influence performance at work, as well as dull your thinking abilities considerably. When you are constantly tired and fatigued, simple tasks that...
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IL: LG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
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Included in the napping house menagerie is a dozing dog, a snoozing cat, a slumbering mouse, and a wakeful flea who ends up toppling the whole sleep heap with one chomp! Don Wood's delightfully detailed comical illustrations are bathed in moonlight blues until the sun comes up, then all is color and rainbows and a very awake household.
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Kenneth Kee
Pub. Date
2014.
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1 online resource.
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English
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Narcolepsy causes periods of extreme daytime sleepiness. The disorder also may cause muscle weakness. Most people who have narcolepsy have low levels of hypocretin. This is a chemical in the brain that helps promote waking Narcolepsy is believed to be due to the auto-immune disease The immune system mistakenly attacks the body's tissues. Low levels of histamine promote sleepiness. Often the brain show evidence of mental cloudiness The four main symptoms...
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JD-Biz Corp Publishing
Pub. Date
2014.
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1 online resource.
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English
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Ask anybody who has had a sleepless night for a couple of days this question - How does he feel? He's going to answer you into a completely irritated manner that he's totally exhausted and he really does not have any time to pay any attention to your fool statements or answer your futile questions. That sort of short tempered and moody unpredictability is one of the most easily recognizable side effects of somebody who has not managed to get his full...
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With almost every family struggling to get their babies to sleep through the night, there is a clear need for a book that specifically focuses on achieving just that. The Gift of Sleep is purely about getting your baby to sleep all night, every night. The background: Four years ago journalist Mia Freedman hired Elizabeth Sloane to come to her house and teach her baby to sleep. Three days later Mia had a baby that was sleeping through the night. She...
13) Sleep disorders
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Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
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1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 37 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
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English
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Sleep disorders can adversely affect many areas of life, overall health, ability to work efficiently, and even safety. One of the most common sleep disorders is sleep apnea. Sleep apnea is a condition characterised by pauses in normal breathing patterns whilst asleep. These pauses can last anywhere from a few seconds to minutes and can occur with varying frequency. Treatment options are available for people suffering from sleep apnea, and a good night's...
14) Sleep: the myth of 8 hours, the power of naps... and the new plan to recharge your body and mind
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English
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Proven solutions for a better night's sleep, from the "sleep guru" to elite athletes--rest for success in work, sports, and life
One-third of our lives -- that's 3,000 hours a year--is spent trying to sleep. The time we spend in bed shapes our moods, motivation, alertness, decision-making skills, reaction time, creativity . . . in short, our ability to perform, whether at work, at home, or at play. But most of us have disturbed, restless nights,...
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Scaredy Squirrel volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Scaredy comes up with a Bad Dream Action Plan to avoid sleep but between counting stars, playing cymbals and making scrapbooks, disaster still strikes and exhaustion takes its toll. Will Scaredy survive this ordeal? Will he find sweet dreams?
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Roughly thirty percent of the population is estimated to be living with insomnia, while many more unknowingly suffer from other sleep disorders. Macedo learned the hard way how valuable sleep is, and how it affects everything from our heart to our brain to our immune system. She had tried sleep tip after sleep tip, but nothing worked. Attacking the problem as a journalist, she got to the bottom of what really keeps us from sleeping-- and the various...
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"Do you find yourself lying awake at night, ruminating about the events of the day? Do you toss and turn, worrying about what you have to do in the morning or what you did earlier in the day? If so, you are not alone. In fact, insomnia is the most common sleep disorder faced by the general population today. The most common complaint in those who have trouble sleeping is having a "noisy mind." Sometimes, no matter how hard you try, it seems like you...
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Kristina Woodall
Pub. Date
2012.
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1 online resource
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English
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"Learn how to harness your inner healing power through self-hypnosis; tailor this "well within" to conquer the insomnia that's holding you back from living the life you want to experience. Specifically, this is a practical, step-by-step guide that you can actually use (Book 7 of 10 in the series, "The Well Within"). It teaches you how to enter, deepen, and exit self-hypnosis. It also provides you with two self-hypnosis "scripts" that help you work...
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Kenneth Kee
Pub. Date
2012.
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1 online resource
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English
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"Sleep is something which every one of us need. It helps to rest the mind and allows the body to rest and rejuvenate itself. Sleep is described as a state of consciousness or dynamic activity which gives the body time to rest and build up strength while the brains continue to work.Sleep has four phases.During the first stage N1, sleep is light and a person can be easily awakened.At this stage, the muscle activity and eyes move very slowly.Alpha waves...
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Artour Rakhimov
Pub. Date
2013.
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1 online resource
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English
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"You can solve your problems with sleep and get rid of insomnia using the same health therapy that was applied for the best ever known clinical trial on cancer and 6 most effective trials ever conducted on asthma. The legendary Buteyko breathing method has the goal to achieve better results for the morning body oxygen test..Hundreds of modern books promote a myth that the human body recovers during sleep. Yet dozens of clinical studies show that chances...
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