Dreamland

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SCIENCE
FOR SCIENTISTS AND SLUMBERERS ALIKE, sleep is surprisingly mysterious. We spend nearly a third of our lives asleep, but most of us don't have the faintest idea of how it affects us. Researchers still don't know why, exactly, we need to sleep in the first place, and yet the quality of sleep is one of the most important influences in our waking lives: sleep disorders have been linked to diabetes, hypertension, strokes, and dementia. The bed is a site of controversy, as well: Should parents sleep with their infant child? Is a marriage doomed to fail if partners sleep in separate beds?
Randall uncovers the research exploring those dark hours. Taking readers from military battlefields to children's bedrooms. Dreamland shows that sleep isn't nearly as simple as it seems.
"Kudos to David K. Randall for writing what must be the most diverting and consistently fascinating book on the topic ever."
— laura miller, salon
"Marvelous."—wall street journal
"The one thing... Tovább

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SCIENCE
FOR SCIENTISTS AND SLUMBERERS ALIKE, sleep is surprisingly mysterious. We spend nearly a third of our lives asleep, but most of us don't have the faintest idea of how it affects us. Researchers still don't know why, exactly, we need to sleep in the first place, and yet the quality of sleep is one of the most important influences in our waking lives: sleep disorders have been linked to diabetes, hypertension, strokes, and dementia. The bed is a site of controversy, as well: Should parents sleep with their infant child? Is a marriage doomed to fail if partners sleep in separate beds?
Randall uncovers the research exploring those dark hours. Taking readers from military battlefields to children's bedrooms. Dreamland shows that sleep isn't nearly as simple as it seems.
"Kudos to David K. Randall for writing what must be the most diverting and consistently fascinating book on the topic ever."
— laura miller, salon
"Marvelous."—wall street journal
"The one thing Dreamiand will not do—sorry, insomniacs—is put you to sleep."—nel/vsday
"Alively overview of recent research into sleep, the activity that occupies nearly a third of our lives, yet whose secrets continue to mystify. . . . As stimulating as a double shot of espresso."—n pr
DAVID K. RANDALL is a senior reporter at Reuters and has also written for the New York Times, Forbes, and New York. He lives in Brooklyn, New York. Vissza