Our retail stores have always been places where a reader can rush in looking for a title needed for a term paper that is due the next day, or where bibliophiles can get lost \"in the stacks\" for as long as they wish. A merging of the old and new is where we started, and it is where we are today. ALL kinds of books from 95 cent children\'s paperbacks to five figure rare and collectibles. Since 1980 it has always been about the books.
We fill those orders on a first come first serve basis, but will refund promptly any items that are out of stock. We have a very active online inventory and as such, we can receive multiple orders for the same item. We have over 1 Million books for sale on our website and another 1 Million books for sale in our 3 locations. Wonder Book and Video has been in business since 1980 and online since 1997. Then again, “I’m partial to any research that recommends taking a Dagwood nap in response to life’s dilemmas.With 3 stores less than 1 hour outside the DC/Metropolitan area (1 in Gaithersburg, 1 in Frederick and 1 in Hagerstown, MD), we have the largest selection of books in the tri-state area. I prefer to embrace the evidence indicating that dreams help us solve problems from our waking lives. Leftover Freudians still see them as messages from the unconscious while some pragmatists dismiss them as the waste product of REM sleep. Its passage on the possible links between exposure to artificial light and the higher rates of diseases among night-shift workers proves “as stimulating as a double shot of espresso.” Also fascinating is his tour through the debate over dreams. Still, Dreamland offers an eye-opening fact on nearly every page. Randall’s style “sometimes veers toward the glib,” said Maureen Corrigan in NPR.org. “We don’t know as much about it as we should, or could.” Always, Randall reminds us that science hasn’t unraveled many of sleep’s mysteries.
Turning to sleepwalking, he details how it could be possible that a Toronto man killed his mother-in-law while somnambulating. Writing about circadian rhythms, he notes that the NFL has found that East Coast teams lose a disproportionate share of night games to West Coast teams, most likely because the bodies of the first group are winding down while their counterparts’ are experiencing a second wind. Contemplating sleep deprivation, he cites Army studies showing that soldiers in Iraq were five times more likely to clash with civilians when they got less than four hours of shut-eye. The “inventive angles” he dreams up greatly enliven the journey, said Laura Miller in.
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