Counting Sheep
The Science and Pleasures of Sleep and Dreams
Published on 1. July 2002
Book
Hardback
416 pages
978-0-00-257066-4 (ISBN)
Description
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?
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
HarperCollins Publishers
Illustrations
With index
Dimensions
Height: 222 mm
Width: 141 mm
Weight
567 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-00-257066-4 (9780002570664)
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Person
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.