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Daniel Everett, then a Christian missionary, arrived among the Pirahã in 1977 - with his wife and three young children - intending to convert them. What he found was a language that defies all existing linguistic theories and reflects a way of life that evades contemporary understanding. The Pirahã have no counting system and no fixed terms for color. They have no concept of war or of personal property.

Ellen Boehm, a single mom from St. Louis, Missouri, appeared devoted to her children. But in reality, she was unequipped for motherhood, financially strapped, and desperate. Within a year of each other, her sons, ages two and four, died mysteriously, and Boehm's eight-year-old daughter then suffered a near-fatal mishap when a hair dryer fell into the girl's bath. While neighbors wondered how Boehm remained so calm through it all, Det. Sgt. Joseph Burgoon of St. Louis Homicide had darker suspicions.

The routine traffic stop that ends in tragedy. The spy who spends years undetected at the highest levels of the Pentagon. The false conviction of Amanda Knox. Why do we so often get other people wrong? Why is it so hard to detect a lie, read a face or judge a stranger's motives? Through a series of encounters and misunderstandings - from history, psychology and infamous legal cases - Malcolm Gladwell takes us on an intellectual adventure into the darker side of human nature, where strangers are never simple and misreading them can have disastrous consequences.

When Ada Calhoun found herself in the throes of a midlife crisis, she thought that she had no right to complain. She was married with children and a good career. So why did she feel miserable? And why did it seem that other Generation X women were miserable, too? Calhoun decided to find some answers. She looked into housing costs, HR trends, credit card debt averages, and divorce data. At every turn, she saw a pattern: sandwiched between the Boomers and Millennials, Gen X women were facing new problems as they entered middle age, problems that were being largely overlooked.

In her new book, Arianna reveals all the ways that our inability to get enough sleep impacts our lives; undermines our decision making; compromises our health, our athletic performance, our work lives, our relationships and even our sex lives; and causes us to lose control over how we interact with others and engage with the world. She discusses the latest science on sleep, explores the importance of dreaming, tackles how technology changes our sleep cycles and explores ways to get better and more restorative sleep.

The future may still be unpredictable, but nowadays, disasters are not. We live in a time of constant, consistent catastrophe, where things more often go wrong than they go right. So why do we still fumble when disaster hits? Why are we always one step behind? In The Devil Never Sleeps, Juliette Kayyem lays the groundwork for a new approach to dealing with disasters.

Nikkei Asian Review is an Asia-focused English-language business journal from Nikkei - Asia’s largest independent business media group and Japan’s leading publisher of business and financial news. Nikkei Asian Review offers insights on business, finance, economic and political news, with in-depth analysis and commentary on influential companies around Asia. Designed for leaders around the world who are shaping the future of Asia, and anyone with an interest in knowing the real Asia, Nikkei Asian Review has been created to change the way Asia is reported in the global marketplace.

One in four adults sleeps badly. Sleeping pill prescriptions have increased dramatically over the last three decades, and our bookshelves and browser histories are littered with experts promising to 'fix' our insomnia. But is this so-called sleep crisis anything new? Our relationship to sleep has always been irregular and changeable, shaped by social conventions, commercial imperatives and personal psychologies. Look beneath the headlines and it seems that there is no such thing as a perfect night's sleep. Here Darian Leader reveals the history and pathology of sleeplessness.

Los apremios de la vida cotidiana te roban energía e intención. Dormir se ha convertido en un acto automático y rutinario: al final del día caes agotada en el lecho, sin darle relevancia. Nuestra cultura nos ha convencido de que compartir la cama es normal y deseable, como muestra de amor y cuidado hacia la pareja, los hijos y otras personas. Romper estos paradigmas y reclamar una noche para ti misma es una acción sublime para recuperar tu energía y tu poder, reencontrarte y volver a habitar tu cuerpo en consciencia absoluta, sin la invasión de vibraciones ajenas.

Asociada con la pereza y la ociosidad, la siesta contraviene uno de los principios fundamentales del mundo moderno: la pulsión productiva. En los últimos años, sin embargo, este hábito se ha transformado en una herramienta central de la productividad, una rutina saludable, un imperativo del bienestar, e incluso una práctica cool, vendible y consumible. Frente a esa capitalización del sueño, este audiolibro, a medio camino entre el ensayo y la memoria, defiende la siesta como un arte de la interrupción.

An estimated 20 million people miss between one and three days of work each week because of severe, chronic, debilitating insomnia. And, as many as 40 percent of Americans over the age of 60, suffer from some type of sleep apnea.

In this study, Dr. Fritz investigates these alarming statistics and attempts to help readers fully understand this serious problem.

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The Japan News is an English-language daily newspaper published by The Yomiuri Shimbun, a leading Japanese newspaper with the largest circulation in the nation.

If you're like me and have a hard time falling asleep, come listen to my podcast where my friends and I talk about any and everything. From movies to entertainment...to just reading stories. Let our opinions guide you to the sleeping place.

The Economist is a UK-based weekly newspaper offering authoritative insight and opinion on international news, politics, business, finance, science, and technology.