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The Gift of Sleep

50 tips for a good night's rest
By Alice Gregory
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The Gift of Sleep offers 50 practical, science-backed tips to enhance your sleep, structured around a 24-hour day. Authored by Professor Alice Gregory, this guide helps you understand how factors like caffeine, alcohol, screen time, and exercise affect your rest. The set includes a booklet and beautifully illustrated cards by Maria Medem, making the advice engaging and easy to follow.
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This gift set is ideal for new parents, stressed students, or anyone seeking to improve their sleep quality with clear, expert guidance and charming illustrations.

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Give the gift of a good night's sleep. A boxed set of fifty cards with accompanying booklet featuring practical tips to benefit your sleep health authored by a leading sleep expert.

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Set yourself up for better sleep with 50 tips you can put into practice around the clock.

Practical, science-backed advice from Professor Alice Gregory, author of Nodding Off.

Dreamy illustrations by celebrated artist Maria Medem bring each tip to life.

The perfect gift for new parents, stressed students, or anyone who would benefit from better sleep.

Laurence King Publishing has been capturing imaginations and inspiring creativity in new and unexpected ways for over 30 years, with playful and eye-catching games, gifts, and books.

Discover the secrets of a good night's sleep. This boxed set of fifty cards and accompanying booklet provides accurate and up-to-date scientific advice to help improve the sleep experience. Following a 24-hour structure, it features practical tips to benefit your sleep health from the moment of waking through to bedtime, and even things you can do if you're up in the middle of the night. Discover how alcohol, caffeine, your life stage, screen time, exercise, light, and many other factors can impact your sleep, and what you can do about it. Complete with beautiful illustrations by Maria Medem.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780857829399

Publisher: Orion Publishing Co

Format: Cards

Date Published: 20 April 2023

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Laurence King Publishing

Contributors:

  • Illustrated by María Medem

Audience: General / adult, Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 52.0mm

Width: 122.0mm

Height: 162.0mm

Weight: 380g

Collections

Alice Gregory Education & Reference Health & Wellness Laurence King Publishing Non-Fiction Science & Nature Self-Help & Personal Development

About the Author

Professor Alice Gregory is a highly respected sleep expert and has contributed over a hundred publications to the research on sleep and related topics. Her work is often discussed in the media, including the BBC, Wall Street Journal, Guardian and The Times. She is currently a Professor at Goldsmiths, University of London.

Maria Medem started self-publishing comics after studying Fine Arts. In 2018, she published Cenit and won Best New Author at the 37th Comic Barcelona Fair and the ACDComic Critics' Best Breakthrough Author award. She has created illustrations for publications such as The New Yorker and New York Times.

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