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The Meaning of Night is the debut novel by author Michael Cox.Cox's book is a 600-page crime thriller novel set in Victorian England.It was one of four books picked for the shortlist for the Costa Book Awards prize for the debut novel of 2006, [1] losing out to Stef Penney's The Tenderness of Wolves, which went on to win the overall award for best novel of 2006.
The book is written in the style of a reporter on the news who is reporting on the number of sleepers in the world. The book starts with a "very small bug" named Van Vleck yawning. The narrator then tells the reader that this is very important news and goes on to explain that a yawn is contagious and will cause sleep across the countryside.
Like Robbins' other books, the plot involves an eclectic mix of characters and complicated scenarios, and mixes the mundane with the mysterious, in the form of the Sirius mysteries and the mythology surrounding the Dogon Tribe. [1]
Why do I yawn when I’m bored? Karen D. Sullivan, Ph.D., board-certified neuropsychologist and creator of I Care For Your Brain calls boredom-induced yawning the “biggest myth” associated ...
Days With Frog and Toad was written and illustrated by Arnold Lobel and published on January 1, 1979 by Harper & Row. [4] It is the fourth book in the Frog and Toad series. It is available in paperback, hardcover, audio, and eBook formats. [5] It is also included as a part of Frog and Toad: A Complete Reading Collection. [6]
Frogs as dream symbols often signify financial wealth and so by avoiding the frog you may be avoiding receiving money in your life. Sometimes, this comes to down to not feeling worthy enough of ...
Charles Darwin's book, The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals, mentions that baboons yawn to threaten their enemies, possibly by displaying large canine teeth. [63] Similarly, Siamese fighting fish yawn only when they see a conspecific (same species) or their own mirror-image, and their yawn often accompanies aggressive attack. [64]
Breviceps fuscus is a burrowing frog, and can be found in tunnels up to 150 mm deep or among vegetation up to about 30 cm above the ground, and it generally prefers to avoid water. [3] The frog generally spends most of its time underground as it does not require open water and is primarily nocturnal . [ 9 ]