The Sleeping and the Dead

Author: Ann Cleeves
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
ISBN: 0330540521
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 326

Book Description
The Sleeping and The Dead is a tense psychological thriller from Ann Cleeves, author and creator of three astounding TV series: Shetland, Vera and The Long Call. Detective Peter Porteous is called to Cranwell Lake where the body of a teenager has been discovered. After trawling through the missing persons files, he comes to the conclusion that the corpse is Michael Grey, an enigmatic and secretive young man who was reported missing by his foster parents in 1972. The news report that a body has been found leaves prison officer Hannah Morton in shock. Michael had been her boyfriend, and she had been with him the night he disappeared. And now the discovery is bringing back dreaded and long buried memories from her past . . .

Hellboy: The Sleeping and the Dead #1

Author: Mike Mignola
Publisher: Dark Horse Comics (Single Issues)
ISBN:
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 28

Book Description
While chasing a giant bat through the forest, Hellboy meets an old man with insider knowledge of the coming vampire apocalypse in the eerie miniseries _Hellboy: The Sleeping and the Dead_. For the first time, Mike Mignola teams up with artist Scott Hampton (_Batman_, _The Books of Magic_) for this gothic tale! First collaboration between Mike Mignola and Scott Hampton. Classic vampire horror!

Why We Sleep

Author: Matthew Walker
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1501144316
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 368

Book Description
"Sleep is one of the most important but least understood aspects of our life, wellness, and longevity ... An explosion of scientific discoveries in the last twenty years has shed new light on this fundamental aspect of our lives. Now ... neuroscientist and sleep expert Matthew Walker gives us a new understanding of the vital importance of sleep and dreaming"--Amazon.com.

The Sleeping Man

Author: Stephen Carignan
Publisher: Inkshares
ISBN: 1947848755
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 388

Book Description
The last of the Dreamwalkers sets off on a journey to gain the knowledge that will help him topple an empire.

Metaphors Dead and Alive, Sleeping and Waking

Author: Cornelia Müller
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226548260
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 293

Book Description
Traditional thinking on metaphors has divided them into two camps: dead and alive. Conventional expressions from everyday language are classified as dead, while much rarer novel or poetic metaphors are alive. In the 1980s, new theories on the cognitive processes involved with the use of metaphor challenged these assumptions, but with little empirical support. Drawing on the latest research in linguistics, semiotics, philosophy, and psychology, Cornelia Müller here unveils a new approach that refutes the rigid dead/alive dichotomy, offering in its place a more dynamic model: sleeping and waking. To build this model, Müller presents an overview of notions of metaphor from the classical period to the present; studies in detail how metaphors function in speech, text, gesture, and images; and examines the way mixed metaphors sometimes make sense and sometimes do not. This analysis leads her to conclude that metaphors may oscillate between various degrees of sleeping and waking as their status changes depending on context and intention. Bridging the gap between conceptual metaphor theory and more traditional linguistic theories, this book is a major advance for the field and will be vital to novices and initiates alike.

The Sleeping World

Author: Gabrielle Lucille Fuentes
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1501131699
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 320

Book Description
In this “astonishing and haunting debut” (Publishers Weekly), a young woman searching for her lost brother is willing to risk everything amidst the riots, protests, and uprisings of post-Franco Spain. Spain, 1977. Military rule is over. Bootleg punk music oozes out of illegal basement bars, uprisings spread across towns, fascists fight anarchists for political control, and students perform protest art in the city center, rioting against the old government, the undecided new order, against the universities, against themselves… Mosca is an intelligent, disillusioned university student, whose younger brother is among the “disappeared,” taken by the police two years ago, now presumed dead. Spurred by the turmoil around them, Mosca and her friends commit an act that carries their rebellion too far and sends them spiraling out of their provincial hometown. But the further they go, the more Mosca believes her brother is alive and the more she is willing to do to find him. The Sleeping World is a “searing, beautifully written” (Cristina Garcia, author of Dreaming in Cuban) and daring novel about youth, freedom, and our most visceral need: to keep our loved ones safe.

Not Dead But Sleeping

Author: Anna Della Subin
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780984734696
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 192

Book Description
"This book-length essay on the cultural politics of sleep... takes as its starting point Tawfiq al-Hakim's 1933 play, "The People of the Cave." -- page 4 of cover.

The Sleeping and the Dead

Author: Jeff Crook
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 1250000289
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 334

Book Description
Introduces Memphis crime scene photographer Jackie Lyons, whose post-divorce efforts to rebuild her life are complicated by her ability to see ghosts who offer insight into a local serial killer case.

The Sleeping Nymph

Author: Ilaria Tuti
Publisher: Soho Crime
ISBN: 1641291214
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 458

Book Description
"First published in Italian under the title Ninfa Dormiente. First published in English in the United Kingdom under the title Painted in Blood by The Orion Publishing Group, Ltd, 2020"--Title page verso.

By the Lake of Sleeping Children

Author: Luis Urrea
Publisher: Anchor
ISBN: 0307773809
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 208

Book Description
By the Lake of Sleeping Children explores the post-NAFTA and Proposition 187 border purgatory of garbage pickers and dump dwellers, gawking tourists,and relief workers, fearsome coyotes and their desperate clientele. In sixteen indelible portraits, Urrea illuminates the horrors and the simple joys of people trapped between the two worlds of Mexico and the United States - and ignored by both. The result is a startling and memorable work of first-person reportage.