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

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.

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Counting Sheep: The science and pleasures of sleep and dreams

Counting Sheep : The Science and Pleasures of Sleep and Dreams

Sex, Drugs and Chocolate

The Rules of Security: Staying Safe in a Risky World

Purnell's Picture Atlas

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

Good Morning, Lord : Devotions for Teens

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Messengers to the Brain: Our Fantastic Five Senses

Messengers to the Brain: Our Fantastic Five Senses