Restless Slumber

Restless Slumber
Title Restless Slumber PDF eBook
Author K.J. Sutton
Publisher Random House
Pages 398
Release 2023-07-06
Genre Fiction
ISBN 1804944920

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'I told you the crown came at a cost.' Fortuna's world has been transformed. The faerie court is whispering in her head, her brother has lost touch with reality and an obstinate werewolf won't leave her side. And then there's Collith: her enigmatic, beautiful, infuriating mate. She hates him, so why is he causing her such turmoil? But as the new Queen of the Unseelie Court she is determined to uproot the corruption around her. The question is not if she has the strength - it's whether she can survive long enough.

Wild Nights

Wild Nights
Title Wild Nights PDF eBook
Author Benjamin Reiss
Publisher Basic Books
Pages 305
Release 2017-03-07
Genre History
ISBN 0465094856

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Why the modern world forgot how to sleep Why is sleep frustrating for so many people? Why do we spend so much time and money managing and medicating it, and training ourselves and our children to do it correctly? In Wild Nights, Benjamin Reiss finds answers in sleep's hidden history -- one that leads to our present, sleep-obsessed society, its tacitly accepted rules, and their troubling consequences. Today we define a good night's sleep very narrowly: eight hours in one shot, sealed off in private bedrooms, children apart from parents. But for most of human history, practically no one slept this way. Tracing sleep's transformation since the dawn of the industrial age, Reiss weaves together insights from literature, social and medical history, and cutting-edge science to show how and why we have tried and failed to tame sleep. In lyrical prose, he leads readers from bedrooms and laboratories to factories and battlefields to Henry David Thoreau's famous cabin at Walden Pond, telling the stories of troubled sleepers, hibernating peasants, sleepwalking preachers, cave-dwelling sleep researchers, slaves who led nighttime uprisings, rebellious workers, spectacularly frazzled parents, and utopian dreamers. We are hardly the first people, Reiss makes clear, to chafe against our modern rules for sleeping. A stirring testament to sleep's diversity, Wild Nights offers a profound reminder that in the vulnerability of slumber we can find our shared humanity. By peeling back the covers of history, Reiss recaptures sleep's mystery and grandeur and offers hope to weary readers: as sleep was transformed once before, so too can it change today.

Restless in Sleep Country

Restless in Sleep Country
Title Restless in Sleep Country PDF eBook
Author Paul Huebener
Publisher McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Pages 159
Release 2024-05-14
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 0228020417

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Sleep, and the lack of it, is a public obsession and an enormous everyday quandary. Troubled sleep tends to be seen as an individual problem and personal responsibility, to be fixed by better habits and tracking gadgets, but the reality is more complicated. Sleep is a site of politics, culture, and power. In Restless in Sleep Country Paul Huebener pulls back the covers on cultural representations of sleep to show how they are entangled with issues of colonialism, homelessness, consumer culture, technology and privacy, the exploitation of labour, and the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic. Even though it almost entirely evades direct experience, sleep is the subject of a variety of potent narratives, each of which can serve to clarify and shape its role in our lives. In Canada, cultural visions of slumber circulate through such diverse forms as mattress commercials, billboards, comic books, memoirs, experimental poetry, and bedtime story phone apps. By guiding us through this imaginative landscape, Huebener shows us how to develop a critical literacy of sleep. Lying down and closing our eyes is an act that carries surprisingly high stakes, going beyond individual sleep troubles. Restless in Sleep Country illuminates the idea of sleep as a crucial site of inequity, struggle, and gratification.

Materia Medica Pura

Materia Medica Pura
Title Materia Medica Pura PDF eBook
Author Samuel Hahnemann
Publisher Рипол Классик
Pages 284
Release 1846
Genre History
ISBN

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Bulletin

Bulletin
Title Bulletin PDF eBook
Author
Publisher
Pages 1222
Release 1923
Genre Vocational education
ISBN

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Materia medica

Materia medica
Title Materia medica PDF eBook
Author Constantine Hering
Publisher
Pages 752
Release 1873
Genre
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Publications

Publications
Title Publications PDF eBook
Author United States. Division of Vocational Education
Publisher
Pages 1466
Release 1924
Genre Vocational education
ISBN

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