Counting Sheep by Paul R Martin

Counting Sheep by Paul R Martin

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?

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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ISBN 13	9780002570664
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Titel	Counting Sheep
Autor	Paul R Martin
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Bindungsart	Hardback
Verlag	HarperCollins Publishers
Erscheinungsjahr	2002-07-01
Seitenanzahl	416
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