The Fall Of Sleep

Author : Jean-Luc Nancy
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
ISBN 13 : 0823231194
Total Pages : 53 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Fall of Sleep written by Jean-Luc Nancy and published by Fordham Univ Press. This book was released on 2009-10-01 with total page 53 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Philosophers have largely ignored sleep, treating it as a useless negativity, mere repose for the body or at best a source for the production of unconscious signs out of the night of the soul. In an extraordinary theoretical investigation written with lyric intensity, The Fall of Sleep puts an end to this neglect by providing a deft yet rigorous philosophy of sleep. What does it mean to "fall" asleep? Might there exist something like a "reason" of sleep, a reason at work in its own form or modality, a modality of being in oneself, of return to oneself, without the waking "self" that distinguishes "I" from "you" and from the world? What reason might exist in that absence of ego, appearance, and intention, in an abandon thanks to which one is emptied out into a non-place shared by everyone? Sleep attests to something like an equality of all that exists in the rhythm of the world. With sleep, victory is constantly renewed over the fear of night, an a confidence that we will wake with the return of day, in a return to self, to us--though to a self, an us, that is each day different, unforeseen, without any warning given in advance. To seek anew the meaning stirring in the supposed loss of meaning, of consciousness, and of control that occurs in sleep is not to reclaim some meaning already familiar in philosophy, religion, progressivism, or any other -ism. It is instead to open anew a source that is not the source of a meaning but that makes up the nature proper to meaning, its truth: opening, gushing forth, infinity. This beautiful, profound meditation on sleep is a unique work in the history of phenomenology--a lyrical phenomenology of what can have no phenomenology, since sleep shows itself to the waking observer, the subject of phenomenology, only as disappearance and concealment.

Author : Matthew Walker
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1501144316
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Why We Sleep written by Matthew Walker and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-10-03 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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 : Kim Jones
Publisher : The Experiment, LLC
ISBN 13 : 1615196609
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Trick Yourself to Sleep: 222 Ways to Fall and Stay Asleep from the Science of Slumber written by Kim Jones and published by The Experiment, LLC. This book was released on 2020-05-12 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 222 Ways to a Better Night and Brighter Morning Poor sleep can wreak havoc on your waking life, leaving you grumpy and unwell. But when you’re staring at the ceiling, counting sheep, worried that sleep may never come . . . what can you do? Well, Trick Yourself to Sleep—with 222 simple strategies and creative tips, all scientifically backed: Cover up clocks (stop stressing over every restless minute) Eat two kiwis (their folates and antioxidants aid sleep) Stick out your tongue (this releases tension in the jaw) Try a weighted blanket (it’s like giving your nervous system a hug) Make a list (and then set those to-dos aside until tomorrow)! This must-have guide for even the occasional insomniac will help you fall asleep, stay asleep, and wake up your best self.

Author : Haytham El Wardany
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780857429537
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Book of Sleep written by Haytham El Wardany and published by . This book was released on 2021-08-15 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now in paperback, The Book of Sleep is a landmark in contemporary Arabic literature. What is sleep? How can this most unproductive of human states--metaphorically called death's shadow or considered the very pinnacle of indolence--be envisioned as action and agency? And what do we become in sleep? What happens to the waking selves we understand ourselves to be? Written in the spring of 2013, as the Egyptian government of President Mohammed Morsi was unraveling in the face of widespread protests, The Book of Sleep is a landmark in contemporary Arabic literature. Drawing on the devices and forms of poetry, philosophical reflection, political analysis, and storytelling, this genre-defying work presents us with an assemblage of fragments that combine and recombine, circling around their central theme but refusing to fall into its gravity. "My concern was not to create a literary product in the conventional sense, but to try and use literature as a methodology for thinking," El Wardany explains. In this volume, sleep shapes sentences and distorts conventions. Its protean instability throws out memoir and memory, dreams and hallucinatory reverie, Sufi fables and capitalist parables, in the quest to shape a question. The Book of Sleep is a generous and generative attempt to reimagine possibility and hope in a world of stifling dualities and constrictions.

Author : K. McCoy
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1473555787
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book This Book Will Send You to Sleep written by K. McCoy and published by Random House. This book was released on 2018-05-10 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sleep smarter ‘The indispensable bedside classic’ Leland Carlson, Assistant Vice President of the Dull Men’s Club This Book Will Send You to Sleep makes no claims to be fun or interesting. It is a book you can read in full confidence that you will find absolutely nothing to stimulate your brain. A book, like any other, that will afford you much sleep and copious amounts of pointless knowledge. Where else will you read about the political crisis in Belgium 2007–2011 or the recent developments in the taxonomy of molluscs? And where else can you find, in one place: a summary of the administrative bureaucracy of the Byzantine Empire? A world almanac of pickled cucumbers? The measurement of the linear density of fibre? 'Prepare to fall fast asleep with the most boring book ever published' Tim Jones, sleep specialist

Author : Professor K. McCoy
Publisher : Chronicle Books
ISBN 13 : 9781452173610
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book This Book Will Put You to Sleep written by Professor K. McCoy and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2018-10-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is sadly true that it is not always easy to fall asleep. This gently amusing, highly effective anthology of soporific dullness has been carefully curated to put readers to sleep as quickly as possible. With a pillowy case wrap, stultifying illustrations, and pages of sheep to count, this giftable godsend for the under-rested features dozens of snoozy short texts, including "The Motion of Sand Dunes," "The Administrative Bureaucracy of the Byzantine Empire," "White Noise: A Technical Explanation," and many dozens more— though good luck reading very far on any one evening. Insomniacs will also appreciate "A Staring Contest with Fifty Cats," "Some Interesting Mathematical Theorems," "The Dullest Entries from Interesting Diaries," and other zzzzzzzz.

Author : Forssen Ehrlin
Publisher : Ehrlin Publishing AB
ISBN 13 : 9789188375728
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Tractor Who Wants To Fall Asleep: A New Way of Getting Children to Sleep written by Forssen Ehrlin and published by Ehrlin Publishing AB. This book was released on 2019-06-10 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do you struggle to get your child to sleep? Join millions of parents all over the world and embrace a bedtime routine that will help your child to relax and fall fast asleep. Let your child be lulled to sleep with Alex the Tractor in a sleep-inducing ride around the farm. Along the way they meet Yawning Carrot, Half-Asleep Leon, Sleeping Apples and other friends, who tell them what they do to fall asleep at night. Your child will have a soothing and relaxing experience and can fall asleep quickly - at naptime and bedtime. The Tractor Who Wants to Fall Asleep is the third book in the bestselling, sleep-inducing series that makes children fall asleep around the world - parents say it ́s almost like magic! The author Carl-Johan Forssén Ehrlin uses innovative techniques that have been approved by parents and psychologists. A sequel to the groundbreaking bestseller The Rabbit Who Wants to Fall Asleep, with over 2.3 million copies sold worldwide.

Author : Beth Wyatt
Publisher : Rock Point
ISBN 13 : 0760367426
Total Pages : 131 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Calm and Cozy Book of Sleep written by Beth Wyatt and published by Rock Point. This book was released on 2020-08-04 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Calm and Cozy Book of Sleep is a down-to-earth guide with expert tips to get you to sleep and stay asleep.

Author : Adrian Barnes
Publisher : Titan Books (US, CA)
ISBN 13 : 1783298235
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nod written by Adrian Barnes and published by Titan Books (US, CA). This book was released on 2015-09-01 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dawn breaks over Vancouver and no one in the world has slept the night before, or almost no one. A few people, perhaps one in ten thousand, can still sleep, and they’ve all shared the same golden dream. After six days of absolute sleep deprivation, psychosis will set in. After four weeks, the body will die. In the interim, panic ensues and a bizarre new world arises in which those previously on the fringes of society take the lead. Paul, a writer, continues to sleep while his partner Tanya disintegrates before his eyes, and the new world swallows the old one whole.

Author : Carl-Johan Forssén Ehrlin
Publisher : Crown Books for Young Readers
ISBN 13 : 0399554130
Total Pages : 33 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Rabbit Who Wants to Fall Asleep written by Carl-Johan Forssén Ehrlin and published by Crown Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2015-10-02 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The magical book that will have your kids asleep in minutes." —The New York Post This groundbreaking #1 international bestseller is sure to put an end to nightly bedtime battles. Children and parents everywhere can't stop raving about this book! Do you struggle with getting your child to fall asleep? Join parents all over the world who have embraced The Rabbit Who Wants to Fall Asleep as their new nightly routine. When Roger can’t fall asleep, Mommy Rabbit takes him to see Uncle Yawn, who knows just what to do. Children will join Roger on his journey and be lulled to sleep alongside their new friend. Carl-Johan Forssén Ehrlin’s simple story uses a unique and distinct language pattern that will help your child relax and fall asleep—at bedtime or naptime. Reclaim bedtime today! New York Times Bestseller USA Today Bestseller Publishers Weekly Bestseller Translated into 43 Languages “On the cover of [The Rabbit Who Wants to Fall Asleep] there’s a sign that reads, ‘I can make anyone fall asleep’—and that’s a promise sleep-deprived parents can’t resist.” —NPR “For many parents, getting kids to fall asleep can be a nightmare. But [The Rabbit Who Wants to Fall Asleep] . . . promises to make the process easier and help kids to drift off to sleep faster.” —CBS News “A book whose powerfully soporific effects my son is helpless to resist.” —The New York Times