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Adventures in the Strange Science of Sleep
W. W. Norton & Company
August 2012
On Sale: August 13, 2012
304 pages
ISBN: 039308020X
EAN: 9780393080209
Kindle: B008LYZTMQ
Hardcover / e-Book
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Non-Fiction | Self-Help Health
An engrossing examination of the science behind the
little-known world of sleep. Like many of us, journalist David K. Randall never gave
sleep much thought. That is, until he began sleepwalking.
One midnight crash into a hallway wall sent him on an
investigation into the strange science of sleep. In Dreamland, Randall explores the research that is
investigating those dark hours that make up nearly a third
of our lives. Taking readers from military battlefields to
children’s bedrooms, Dreamland shows that sleep isn't as
simple as it seems. Why did the results of one sleep study
change the bookmakers’ odds for certain Monday Night
Football games? Do women sleep differently than men? And if
you happen to kill someone while you are sleepwalking, does
that count as murder? This book is a tour of the often odd, sometimes disturbing,
and always fascinating things that go on in the peculiar
world of sleep. You’ll never look at your pillow the same
way again.
10 illustrations
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