Does the early bird really catch the worm, or end up healthy, wealthy, and wise? Can some people really exist on just a few hours' sleep a night? Does everybody dream? Do fish dream? How did people cope before alarm clocks and caffeine? And is anybody getting enough sleep? Even though we will devote a third of our lives to sleep, we still know remarkably little about its origins and purpose. Paul Martin's Counting Sheep answers these questions and more in this illuminating work of popular science. Even the wonders of yawning, the perils of sleepwalking, and the strange ubiquity of nocturnal erections are explained in full. To sleep, to dream: Counting Sheep reflects the centrality of these activities to our lives and can help readers respect, understand, and extract more pleasure from that delicious time when they're lost to the world.

Counting Dreams tells the story of Nomura Bōtō, a Buddhist nun, writer, poet, and activist who joined the movement to oppose the Tokugawa Shogunate and restore imperial rule. Banished for her political activities, Bōtō was imprisoned on a remote island until her comrades rescued her in a dramatic jailbreak, spiriting her away under gunfire. Roger K. Thomas examines Bōtō's life, writing, and legacy, and provides annotated translations of two of her literary diaries, shedding light on life and society in Japan's tumultuous bakumatsu period and challenging preconceptions about women's roles in the era. Thomas interweaves analysis of Bōtō's poetry and diaries with the history of her life and activism, examining their interrelationship and revealing how she brought two worlds—the poetic and the political—together. Counting Dreams illustrates Bōtō's significant role in the loyalist movement, depicting the adventurous life of a complex woman in Japan on the cusp of the Meiji Restoration.

This is a story about a little girl who is too excited to sleep. So her dad gives her some advice his father gave him once or twice. "Why don't you start counting sheep?" He says. And so it begins...This story was originally written in 2000 but truly came to life once my daughter Elizabeth was born in 2003. Her whimsical spirit and boundless imagination inspired me to illustrate and complete the book in 2010. This is a full-color children's book. Written in rhyme. Great for kids between the ages of 4 and 10. I've also included a small drawing with numbers lesson. I hope you and your child have as much fun reading it as I did making it. Enjoy, and have sweet dreams.

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Numbers have important, deeper, and sacred meaning in our waking lives and dreams. This book will help you explore the hidden language of numbers and learn simple and effective tools for tuning into their purpose in your dreams. We have an intimate connection with numbers; we just have to tap into it.

"These simple, colorful stories could be used in story time... or as beginning readers" - School Library Journal "Lily and Milo books are "perfect for babies and toddlers"" - Kiwi magazine Fall is here! Lily and Milo go exploring in the woods. They see a hedgehog, nuts, apples, mushrooms, and lots of colored leaves. The woods are so pretty in fall! Milo wants to take everything home. A simple and interactive story about the woods in the fall. For toddlers ages 24 months and up, with a focus on the child's world.

This collection of studies on Dreams, Memory and Imagination in Byzantium reveals the distinctive and important roles of memory, imagination and dreams in the Byzantine court, the proto-Orthodox church and broader society from Constantinople to Syria and beyond