Sleep is surely an excellent thing, although we know remarkably little about its origins and purpose. All that we do know however is laid out for us here in this illuminating and entertaining study by Paul Martin. This is a particularly fine copy, and the cover too is in similar condition and still looks crisp and new. The binding is still perfect and all pages are clean and unmarked from beginning to end.

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Titre

Counting Sheep: The science and pleasures of sleep and dreams

�diteur

HARPERCOLLINS

Date de parution

2002

Langue

anglais

ISBN � 10 chiffres

0002570661

ISBN � 13 chiffres

9780002570664

Reliure

Couverture rigide

�dition

Edition originale

�tat de l'article

Tr�s bon

Dimensions

Poids

571�grammes

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An overview of that most vital, most underrated and most elusive of human activities, sleep. Paul Martin looks at the purposes of sleep, drawing on neuroscience and classic literature to do so. We spend one third of our lives asleep, but know hardly anything about it, and can remember so little of it as we come out of it. Why? Does sleeping keep us sane? Are dreams the place we go to resolve our problems, emasculate our fears and rehearse our hopes? Why are we paralysed when we dream? Why did sleep evolve? And is anybody getting enough sleep?

� propos de l?auteur

Paul Martin studied Biology at Cambridge, acquiring a First in Natural Sciences and a PhD in Behavioural Biology. He went to Stanford as a Harkness Fellow and then to the School of Medicine as Postdoctoral Fellow, before lecturing and researching at Cambridge University. He is the co-author with Pat Bateson of Measuring Behaviour and Design for a Life. His first solo book was The Sickening Mind, which was shortlisted for the NCR Prize in 1997.

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