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368. ISBN. 978-0-241-26906-0 (Hardcover) Why We Sleep: The New Science of Sleep and Dreams (or simply known as Why We Sleep) is a 2017 popular science book about sleep written by Matthew Walker, an English scientist and the director of the Center for Human Sleep Science at the University of California, Berkeley, who specializes in neuroscience ...
Matthew Walker is a British author, scientist and professor of neuroscience and psychology at the University of California, Berkeley. [1][3][4][5] As an academic, Walker has focused on the impact of sleep on human health. He has contributed to many scientific research studies. [1] Why We Sleep (2017) is his first work of popular science.
Call It Sleep is a 1934 novel by Henry Roth. The book is about a young boy growing up in the Jewish immigrant ghetto of New York's Lower East Side in the early 20th century. Although it earned acclaim, the book sold poorly and was out of print for close to 30 years. It received a second life when it was reviewed by literary critic Irving Howe ...
Why We Nap: Evolution, Chronobiology, and Functions of Polyphasic and Ultrashort Sleep is a 1992 book edited by Claudio Stampi, sole proprietor of the Chronobiology Research Institute. It is frequently mentioned by "polyphasic sleepers", as it is one of the few published books about the subject of systematic short napping in extreme situations ...
Budget. $3 million. Box office. $13.4 million (North America) [1] They Live is a 1988 American science fiction action horror film [b] written and directed by John Carpenter, based on the 1963 short story "Eight O'Clock in the Morning" by Ray Nelson. Starring Roddy Piper, Keith David, and Meg Foster, the film follows a drifter [c] who discovers ...
Dr. Seuss's Sleep Book, also known as The Sleep Book, [1] is an American children's book written by Dr. Seuss in 1962. The story centers on the activity of sleep as readers follow the journey of many different characters preparing to slip into a deep slumber. [2] This book documents the different sleeping activities that some of the creatures ...
368. ISBN. 0-85752-017-2. Followed by. Second Life. Before I Go to Sleep is the first novel by S. J. Watson, published in the spring of 2011. It became both a Sunday Times and The New York Times bestseller [1] and has been translated into over 40 languages, [2] and has become a bestseller in France, Canada, Bulgaria and the Netherlands. [3]
Brave New World is a dystopian novel by English author Aldous Huxley, written in 1931 and published in 1932. [3] Largely set in a futuristic World State, whose citizens are environmentally engineered into an intelligence-based social hierarchy, the novel anticipates huge scientific advancements in reproductive technology, sleep-learning, psychological manipulation and classical conditioning ...