Sleep

Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9781501144318. Neuroscientist and sleep expert Matthew Walker provides a revolutionary exploration of sleep, examining how it affects every aspect of our physical and mental well-being. Charting the most cutting-edge scientific breakthroughs, and marshalling his decades of research and clinical practice, Walker explains how we can harness sleep to improve learning, mood and energy levels, regulate hormones, prevent cancer, Alzheimer's and diabetes, slow the effects of aging, and increase longevity. He also provides actionable steps towards getting a better night's sleep every night.

Go the Fuck to Sleep is a bedtime book for parents who live in the real world, where a few snoozing kitties and cutesy rhymes don't always send a toddler sailing blissfully off to dreamland. Profane, affectionate, and radically honest, California Book Award-winning author Adam Mansbach's verses perfectly capture the familiar—and unspoken—tribulations of putting your little angel down for the night. In the process, he opens up a conversation about parenting, granting us permission to admit our frustrations and laugh at their absurdities.With illustrations by Ricardo Cortes, Go the Fuck to Sleep is beautiful, subversive and pants-wettingly funny, a book for parents new, old and expectant. You probably should not read it to your children.

A fresh, personal, and entertaining exploration of a topic that concerns all of how to be more productive at work and in every facet of our lives. Chris Bailey turned down lucrative job offers to pursue a lifelong dream—to spend a year performing a deep dive experiment into the pursuit of productivity, a subject he had been enamored with since he was a teenager. After obtaining his business degree, he created a blog to chronicle a year-long series of productivity experiments he conducted on himself, where he also continued his research and interviews with some of the world’s foremost experts, from Charles Duhigg to David Allen. Among the experiments that he Bailey went several weeks with getting by on little to no sleep; he cut out caffeine and sugar; he lived in total isolation for 10 days; he used his smartphone for just an hour a day for three months; he gained ten pounds of muscle mass; he stretched his work week to 90 hours; a late riser, he got up at 5:30 every morning for three months—all the while monitoring the impact of his experiments on the quality and quantity of his work. The Productivity Project—and the lessons Chris learned—are the result of that year-long journey. Among the counterintuitive insights Chris Bailey will teach · slowing down to work more deliberately; · shrinking or eliminating the unimportant; · the rule of three; · striving for imperfection; · scheduling less time for important tasks; · the 20 second rule to distract yourself from the inevitable distractions; · and the concept of productive procrastination. In an eye-opening and thoroughly engaging read, Bailey offers a treasure trove of insights and over 25 best practices that will help you accomplish more.

Unen lahjoja on uudenlainen kirja unettomuudesta: se on unettoman lempeä ystävä, joka tuo lohtua yön ahdistaviin hetkiin. Unettomuus saattaa olla viesti, joka kertoo, mitä meidän kannattaa muuttaa elämässämme, jotta voimme voida hyvin. Kenties olosuhteita, kenties ajatuksiamme niistä, kenties sitä, miten puhumme itsellemme ja mitä vaadimme itseltämme. Unettomuus vaivaa usein tunnollisia ihmisiä. Se aiheuttaa huolta, joka johtaa noidankehään: stressi unettomuudesta alkaa pahentaa sitä. On tärkeää oppia myötätuntoa itseään kohtaan, kohdata vaikeatkin tunteet rauhassa ja elää omannäköistä elämää vaativassa maailmassa. Taina Laane kertoo kirjassa myös omista kokemuksistaan: mitä unettomuus on hänelle opettanut ja miten hän on päätynyt nukkumaan syvästi. Kirjassa on mukana hyödyllisiä ja konkreettisia mindfulness-harjoituksia.