Dangerously Sleepy

2014 Business & Economics

Author : Alan Derickson
Release : 2014
Genre : Business & Economics
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Book Rating : 539/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Dangerously Sleepy written by Alan Derickson. This book was released on 2014. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dangerously Sleepy explores the fraught relations between overwork, sleep deprivation, and public health. Health and labor historian Alan Derickson charts the cultural and political forces behind the overvaluation—and masculinization—of wakefulness in the United States.

The Molotov Box

2011-07-23 Fiction

Author : Daniel Johnson
Release : 2011-07-23
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 910/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book The Molotov Box written by Daniel Johnson. This book was released on 2011-07-23. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: FROM RUSSIA, WITH... ? When Agent Gaby Bernard finally gets a chance to leave FBI headquarters for the field she is almost as excited by her intriguing partner as by the high profile assignment she has wrangled or the exotic murder mystery they are sent to solve. But the apparent killer is an assassin also sought by the Russian Mafia and the killing seems to be part of a decades-old international conspiracy of plunder and assassination dating back to the fall of the Soviet Union. The situation soon spirals out of control, leaving Gaby in big trouble with Washington and in far more serious trouble with the mob.

Sleep Fictions

2023-11-21 Literary Criticism

Author : Hannah L. Huber
Release : 2023-11-21
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Rating : 004/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Sleep Fictions written by Hannah L. Huber. This book was released on 2023-11-21. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The literary response to the dawning cult of wakefulness A turn-of-the-century influx of new technologies and the enormous impact of the electric light transformed not only individual sleeping habits but the ways American culture conceived and valued sleep. Hannah L. Huber analyzes the works of Henry James, Edith Wharton, Charles Chesnutt, and Charlotte Perkins Gilman to examine the literary response to the period’s obsession with wakefulness. As these writers blurred the separation of public and private space, their characters faced exhaustion in a modern world that permeated every moment of their lives with artificial light, traffic noise, and the social pressure to remain active at all hours. The implacable cultural clock and constant stress over physical limitations had an even greater impact on marginalized figures. Huber pays particular attention to how these writers rebutted Americans’ confidence in the body’s ability to conquer sleep with vivid portraits of the devastating consequences of sleep disruption and deprivation. The author also provides a website and text visualization tool that offers readers an interdisciplinary, deconstructed analysis of the book’s primary texts. The website can be found at: https://sleepfictions.org/sleep/scalar/index

Instrumental Intimacy

2018-03-01 Medical

Author : Melissa M. Littlefield
Release : 2018-03-01
Genre : Medical
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Book Rating : 665/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Instrumental Intimacy written by Melissa M. Littlefield. This book was released on 2018-03-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By contextualizing and analyzing EEG wearables, Instrumental Intimacy provides a crucial intervention in an emergent consumer market and in the scholarly fields of STS, critical neuroscience, and the history of technology.

Foundations of Sleep Health

2021-11-11 Psychology

Author : F. Javier Nieto
Release : 2021-11-11
Genre : Psychology
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Book Rating : 027/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Foundations of Sleep Health written by F. Javier Nieto. This book was released on 2021-11-11. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Foundations of Sleep Health presents sleep health as a critical element of overall individual and population health. Sleep disorders are an increasing problem plaguing more than 40 million Americans. Sleep impacts numerous biological functions and plays a critical role in brain development, including learning and memory consolidation, cognitive functioning, and emotion regulation. This book provides an historic and current overview of the state of sleep health with an emphasis on the interplay between several levels of determinants and factors that influence sleep health. The text provides students in the health professions with in-depth discussion on the theory, research, and practice of sleep health, while also detailing mechanisms, hypotheses, and determinants of sleep and ways to improve sleep health. Discusses the current state of knowledge of sleep health, research into the factors that contribute to and are impacted by sleep health Uses a socioecological model to examine the whole range of determinants of sleep health, from biological to upstream environmental factors and possible modes of intervention Contains a detailed glossary of sleep health terms to aid in the understanding of key concepts Includes learning outcomes for each chapter, objective assessments of knowledge, with explanations, and open-ended questions designed to facilitate discussion

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