Author: Publisher:
ISBN: 9780907812432
Category : Children's literature
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
Sleeping Beauty & Other Stories
Author: Rochelle LarkinPublisher: ABDO
ISBN: 9781596792517
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
An illustrated collection of fourteen classic stories.
Sleeping Beauty
Author: Publisher:
ISBN: 9780907812432
Category : Children's literature
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
The Sleeping Beauties
Author: Suzanne O'SullivanPublisher: Pan Macmillan
ISBN: 1529010543
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
Shortlisted for the Royal Society Science Book Prize 2021 'To compare any book to a Sacks is unfair, but this one lives up to it . . . I finished it feeling thrillingly unsettled, and wishing there was more.' James McConnachie, Sunday Times 'A study of diseases that we sometimes say are 'all in the mind', and an explanation of how unfair that characterisation is.' Tom Whipple, The Times Books of the Year In Sweden, refugee children fall asleep for months and years at a time. In upstate New York, high school students develop contagious seizures. In the US Embassy in Cuba, employees complain of headaches and memory loss after hearing strange noises in the night. These disparate cases are some of the most remarkable diagnostic mysteries of the twenty-first century, as both doctors and scientists have struggled to explain them within the boundaries of medical science and – more crucially – to treat them. What unites them is that they are all examples of a particular type of psychosomatic illness: medical disorders that are influenced as much by the idiosyncratic aspects of individual cultures as they are by human biology. Inspired by a poignant encounter with the sleeping refugee children of Sweden, Wellcome Prize-winning neurologist Suzanne O’Sullivan travels the world to visit other communities who have also been subject to outbreaks of so-called ‘mystery’ illnesses. From a derelict post-Soviet mining town in Kazakhstan, to the Mosquito Coast of Nicaragua via an oil town in Texas, to the heart of the Maria Mountains in Colombia, O’Sullivan hears remarkable stories from a fascinating array of people, and attempts to unravel their complex meaning while asking the question: who gets to define what is and what isn’t an illness? Reminiscent of the work of Oliver Sacks, Stephen Grosz and Henry Marsh, The Sleeping Beauties is a moving and unforgettable scientific investigation with a very human face. 'To compare any book to a Sacks is unfair, but this one lives up to it.' Sunday Times
Sleeping Beauty & Other Stories
Author: The Sleeping Beauty and Other Stories
Author: Sleeping Beauty and Other Stories
Author: Belinda GallagherPublisher: Miles Kelly Publishing
ISBN: 9781848105041
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Simply retold and wonderfully illustrated, this series brings together charming tales that children will enjoy. Each story takes approximately 10 minutes to read.
Sleeping Beauty
Author: The sleeping beauty, and other stories from Grimm
Author: Jacob Ludwig C. GrimmPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fairy tales
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description
About the Sleeping Beauty
Author: Pamela Lyndon TraversPublisher: McGraw-Hill Companies
ISBN:
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
Five versions of the sleeping beauty tale are accompanied by the author's own version and an essay on the meaning of fairy tales, "The Sleeping Beauty" in particular.
Author: Jacob Grimm