Worlds of sleep /
Long description: A rikshaw as a bed? A mobile phone as a teddybear? Nightly struggles with bedbugs? Worlds of Sleep investigates the sleep patterns of babies and businessmen, of mothers and daughters, of the industrious and the idle. Read how mighty knights and zealous preachers value sleep, what m...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Otros Autores: | , |
Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berlin :
Frank & Timme,
2008.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Dangerous Doze: Sleep and Vulnerability in Medieval German Literature; The Suburbs of Eternity: On Visionaries and Miraculous Sleepers; Beds Visible and Invisible: Hygiene, Morals and Status in Dutch Bedrooms; A Bed for Two? Gender Differences in the Reactions to Pair-sleep; Conflicting Sleep Demands: Parents and Young People in UK Households; Women's Sleep in Italy: The Influence of Caregiving Roles; Sote hue log: In and Out of Sleep in India; 'It's Bedtime' in the World's Urban Middle Classes: Children, Families and Sleep1.