Restless In Sleep Country

Author : Paul Huebener
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2024-05-14
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9780228020400

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Restless in Sleep Country by Paul Huebener Pdf

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.

Author : Institute of Medicine,Board on Health Sciences Policy,Committee on Sleep Medicine and Research
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 425 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2006-10-13
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780309101110

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Sleep Disorders and Sleep Deprivation by Institute of Medicine,Board on Health Sciences Policy,Committee on Sleep Medicine and Research Pdf

Clinical practice related to sleep problems and sleep disorders has been expanding rapidly in the last few years, but scientific research is not keeping pace. Sleep apnea, insomnia, and restless legs syndrome are three examples of very common disorders for which we have little biological information. This new book cuts across a variety of medical disciplines such as neurology, pulmonology, pediatrics, internal medicine, psychiatry, psychology, otolaryngology, and nursing, as well as other medical practices with an interest in the management of sleep pathology. This area of research is not limited to very young and old patientsâ€"sleep disorders reach across all ages and ethnicities. Sleep Disorders and Sleep Deprivation presents a structured analysis that explores the following: Improving awareness among the general public and health care professionals. Increasing investment in interdisciplinary somnology and sleep medicine research training and mentoring activities. Validating and developing new and existing technologies for diagnosis and treatment. This book will be of interest to those looking to learn more about the enormous public health burden of sleep disorders and sleep deprivation and the strikingly limited capacity of the health care enterprise to identify and treat the majority of individuals suffering from sleep problems.

Author : World Health Organization
Publisher : World Health Organization
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9789241547697

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Pharmacological Treatment of Mental Disorders in Primary Health Care by World Health Organization Pdf

This manual attempts to provide simple, adequate and evidence-based information to health care professionals in primary health care especially in low- and middle-income countries to be able to provide pharmacological treatment to persons with mental disorders. The manual contains basic principles of prescribing followed by chapters on medicines used in psychotic disorders; depressive disorders; bipolar disorders; generalized anxiety and sleep disorders; obsessive compulsive disorders and panic attacks; and alcohol and opioid dependence. The annexes provide information on evidence retrieval, assessment and synthesis and the peer view process.

Author : Lawrence G. Heatley
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780595202690

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Breathes There a Soldier by Lawrence G. Heatley Pdf

World War II, the most desperate stuggle ever endured by mankind, changed the world forever and those who fought in its battles. Sergeant Robert Heatley, a U.S. Army infantryman, put pen to paper recording history as it was made. Breathes There A Soldier, the compilation of his journals, brings to life the experiences, both humorous and horrific, of an American soldier in the Pacific Theater. From the grind of combat training, to the agony of the battlefield, Sergeant Heatley's first person account of the 81st Infantry Division in World War II is a welcome addition to the genre of the U.S. Army's contribution to American history.

Author : J. Leigh Hirst
Publisher : FriesenPress
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2016-08-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781460286623

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The Night Tony Shot the Lights Out and Other Stories by J. Leigh Hirst Pdf

These eight stories are about the relationships and interactions of ordinary, but interesting, people who find themselves in unusual situations within a recent actual historical context. In some a character confronts, interprets, or comes to terms with, the present by reflecting on the past. Most of the settings are on Vancouver Island -- Nanaimo, the Cowichan Valley, the West Coast -- and feature characters in action, in engagement with their environment. "The Night Tony Shot the Lights Out" three WWII veterans find coming home to be a difficult adjustment. "My Former Yugoslavia" in 1963 a young man travels on foot to a remote village in Bosnia to try to find the estranged sister of a friend in Duncan. "Annie Crook" a woman, age 90, contemplates her life of solitude, with reflections of her childhood and living in hardship in a coal camp 75 years earlier. "Rhymes With Love"; a 60-something white man and a 40-something Chinese woman find themselves living together temporarily in the same house. The inevitable relationship ensues, which is complicated by the fact that she is the daughter of his former lover. "That Good Cahors Wine"; a man walks into the wilderness alone on an overnight pilgrimage to see Canada's highest waterfall. "The Shed" a story of dying man's reconciliation with his former best friend whom he has blamed for a betrayal as the result of a love triangle. "Short Haul"; in a chance encounter, a man finds he is sitting in a barber shop with his childhood hockey hero. "The Interlude"; A businessman befriends an alcoholic street person and finds that they have something in common -- not enough, however, to prevent a sad ending.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1674 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1895
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015095178276

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Michigan Christian Advocate by Anonim Pdf

Author : Joseph Murphy
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2001-06-15
Category : History
ISBN : 1462823025

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Duty, Honor, Country by Joseph Murphy Pdf

A group of friends from the Irish section of the Bronx are graduating from college during a period of great political unrest. Communism was gaining support throughout the world, threatening the sovereignty of the United States. The lines of battle were being drawn, the Cold War was heating up, as the Soviet Union was stepping up its pressure on the United States in Wars of National Liberation; especially in Cuba and Vietnam. These native New Yorkers must make life-altering decisions; should they concentrate on starting their careers and finding love, or must they postpone personal aspirations in order to serve a greater purpose. These young men were part of an all but forgotten American culture that were willing to put themselves in harms way by answering the call to Duty, Honor, Country.

Author : Angelina Stanojoska,Darko Dimovski,Elena Maksimova
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2023-06-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783031276286

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The Handbook on Female Criminality in the Former Yugoslav Countries by Angelina Stanojoska,Darko Dimovski,Elena Maksimova Pdf

This edited volume is the first volume that researches female criminality in the Balkan region and provides insights about patriarchal relations, gender roles, and female criminal behavior. The chapters provide research and data about crimes committed by females in Serbia, North Macedonia, Montenegro, Bosnia and Hercegovina, Croatia, and Slovenia. The chapters investigate topics such as: Long violence Social abuse and discrimination Life trajectories towards criminal behavior Women facing financial stress and dependence and how it relates to crime Women in the criminal justice system Examining the relationship between crime, gender, and the “modernization” of Balkan (ex-Yugoslavian) social structure, this volume is ideal for interdisciplinary criminology scholars specializing in the Balkans. Chapter 3 is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com

Author : Matthew Walker
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2017-10-03
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9781501144318

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Why We Sleep by Matthew Walker Pdf

"Sleep is one of the most important but least understood aspects of our life, wellness, and longevity ... An explosion of scientific discoveries in the last twenty years has shed new light on this fundamental aspect of our lives. Now ... neuroscientist and sleep expert Matthew Walker gives us a new understanding of the vital importance of sleep and dreaming"--Amazon.com.

Author : Karen Russell
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2020-09-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780525566090

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Sleep Donation by Karen Russell Pdf

Newly illustrated and available for the first time in years, a haunting novella from the uncannily imaginative author of the national bestsellers Swamplandia! and Orange World: the story of a deadly insomnia epidemic and the lengths one woman will go to to fight it. Trish Edgewater is the Slumber Corps' top recruiter. On the phone, at a specially organized Sleep Drive, even in a supermarket parking lot: Trish can get even the most reluctant healthy dreamer to donate sleep to an insomniac in crisis--one of hundreds of thousands of people who have totally lost the ability to sleep. Trish cries, she shakes, she shows potential donors a picture of her deceased sister, Dori: one of the first victims of the lethal insomnia plague that has swept the globe. Run by the wealthy and enigmatic Storch brothers, the Slumber Corps is at the forefront of the fight against this deadly new disease. But when Trish is confronted by "Baby A," the first universal sleep donor, and the mysterious "Donor Y," whose horrific infectious nightmares are threatening to sweep through the precious sleep supply, her faith in the organization and in her own motives begins to falter. Fully illustrated with dreamy evocations of Russell's singular imagination and featuring a brand-new "Nightmare Appendix," Sleep Donation will keep readers up long into the night and long after haunt their dreams.

Author : Benjamin Reiss
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2017-03-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9780465094851

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Wild Nights by Benjamin Reiss Pdf

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.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 558 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Bloomington (Ind.)
ISBN : IND:30000125070593

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Bloom by Anonim Pdf

Author : Teofilo Lee-Chiong,Ana C. Krieger
Publisher : Elsevier Health Sciences
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2022-06-07
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780323961646

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Commemorative Issue: 15 years of the Sleep Medicine Clinics Part 1: Sleep and Sleep Disorders, An Issue of Sleep Medicine Clinics, E-Book by Teofilo Lee-Chiong,Ana C. Krieger Pdf

In this issue, guest editors bring their considerable expertise to this important topic. Provides in-depth reviews on the latest updates in the field, providing actionable insights for clinical practice. Presents the latest information on this timely, focused topic under the leadership of experienced editors in the field. Authors synthesize and distill the latest research and practice guidelines to create these timely topic-based reviews.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1875
Category : Electronic
ISBN : CHI:098415663

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The National Live-stock Journal by Anonim Pdf

Author : J. M. Sampson
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2002-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780595244805

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Emerald Sword by J. M. Sampson Pdf

In 57 B.C. a young woman hides from raiders as her village is being pillaged. She flees with her infant son, Mallock. Battle horns sound, announcing the pursuing brutal warriors fast on her trail. Passing through a strange mist, Trevara finds herself in another world where she encounters reptilian carnivores and hostile unicorns. She finds much more when she discovers haven within a mysterious fortress. She meets a young warrior, Garth, who is from her own world, Terra. Together they struggle to survive the perils of their new world. Along the way they meet a sorcerer who claims to have the power to return them to Terra. Trevara and Garth discover a different kind of struggle as they fall in love. A sorcerer of the black arts, and a battle with hideous Trolls separates the two. Returned to Terra, Garth races to find Trevara and her son. A struggle between armies complicates his quest when Trevara is felled by enemy arrows and Mallock is captured. In a race against time and evil, a mysterious sword of power and a fallen star begin an adventure that will produce the first Emerald Knight.