Counting Sheep: The Science and Pleasures of Sleep and Dreams

Does the early bird really catch the worm, or end up healthy, wealthy, and wise? Can some people really exist on just a few hours' sleep a night? Does everybody dream? Do fish dream? How did people cope before alarm clocks and caffeine? And is anybody getting enough sleep? Even though we will devote a third of our lives to sleep, we still know remarkably little about its origins and purpose. Paul Martin's Counting Sheep answers these questions and more in this illuminating work of popular science. Even the wonders of yawning, the perils of sleepwalking, and the strange ubiquity of nocturnal erections are explained in full. To sleep, to dream: Counting Sheep reflects the centrality of these activities to our lives and can help readers respect, understand, and extract more pleasure from that delicious time when they're lost to the world.

Counting Sheep: The science and pleasures of sleep and dreams

Science & Math

Paul, Martin

Biological Sciences

Harpercollins

A brilliant overview of that most vital, most underrated and most elusive of human activities, sleep.Using the approach and skills he deployed to such successful effect on the relationship between mind and body in the prize-winning The Sickening Mind, likeable British popular science author Paul Martin here tackles the science of that most mysterious, elusive and alluring of human activities, sleeping, and draws on both cutting-edge 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. WhyAre 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 evolveAnd is anybody getting enough sleep

Counting Sheep : The Science and Pleasures of Sleep and Dreams

Flamingo

From the author of the highly successful "Counting Sheep" comes a new book on the study of happiness. "Making Happy People" is quite simply a study of happiness. It looks at the origins of happiness within the individual during the lifelong process of development from birth to death. It also explores the relationship between happiness and success, and the ways in which early experience, parents and eduction influence each individual's capacity for happiness, the most sought-after and most elusive human property. Breaking new ground in the literature of happiness, this book offers a scientific perspective on a subject that has hitherto been the preseve of philosophers, artists, psychoanalysts and self-help gurus. All parents want their children to be happy, but few take things further than this vague wish - until things start to go wrong and unhappiness has arrived to stay. Only then do they realise that what might seem obvious at first glance is in fact far from obvious. Accessible to parents and teachers alike, "Making People Happy" uses the perspective of psychology and biology to reveal the way to be happy and to help children become happy people for life.

Making Happy People : The Nature of Happiness and Its Origins in Childhood

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Psychology & Counseling

Fourth Estate

A book about the lengths people will go to nuzzle out some pleasure - and the scientific reasons that lie behind those impulses. The author looks at changing attitudes to pleasure over the centuries, including religious and philosophical lawgiving on the subject, before moving on to the science of all this human frenzy.

Sex, Drugs and Chocolate

The Rules of Security: Staying Safe in a Risky World

Purnell's Picture Atlas

Children's Books

Purnell

No & Yes: An Active Toddler's Guide on How to Behave!

Ivana Svabic

Scholastic. Inc.

1975 Good Morning, Lord. A teens morning devotionals with bible verses.

Good Morning, Lord : Devotions for Teens

Baker Books

Devotions for Todays Family

Baker Book House

Describes the workings of the sense organs and explains how the brain and nerves receive and process their messages.

Messengers to the Brain: Our Fantastic Five Senses

Medical Books

Medicine

National Geographic

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