About this title: Why do we sleep? How much sleep do we really need? What causes sleep apnea, nacrolepsy and insomnia - and what can be done about these sleep disorders? Why do older people have more trouble sleeping than young people? This work provides an introduction to the subject of sleep that answers many of our questions. Peretz Lavie surveys the entire field of sleep research and sleep medicine - from the structure of sleep stages and the brain centres involved in sleep regulation to the reasons for and significance of dreams, the importance of sleep in maintaining good health, and the function of ...
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Yale University Press
Date Published: 1996
ISBN-13:9780300066029ISBN:0300066023
Description: Acceptable in Acceptable jacket. Ex-library. Used hardcover with dust jacket. Both are in good condition with some signs of wear to the dust jacket. read more
Edition: First edition.
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Yale University Press
Date Published: 1996
ISBN-13:9780300066029ISBN:0300066023
Description: Fine in very good dust jacket. Small fold on flap, a few dents on dj, else fine. Sewn binding. Paper over boards. 284 p. Audience: General/trade. read more
Edition: Text is Free of Markings
Binding: Cloth
Publisher: Yale University Press, New Haven, CT
Date Published: 1996
ISBN-13:9780300066029ISBN:0300066023
Description: Near Fine in Near Fine jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. 270 pp. Tightly bound. Corners not bumped. read more
Edition: Second Printing
Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: Yale University Press, New Haven
Date Published: 1996
ISBN-13:9780300066029ISBN:0300066023
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Yale University Press, Connecticut
Date Published: 1996
ISBN-13:9780300066029ISBN:0300066023
Description: As New. 6 x 9. 270 pgs. illustrated. Translated by Anthony Berris. Author presents a thorough understanding of the sleep process and disorders. read more
Description: Fine in Fine dust jacket; Yale University Press; 1996; Hardcover. 0300066023. "...surveys the entire field of sleep research and sleep medicine..."; 8vo; 270 pp. read more
Binding: Pb
Publisher: Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1996
ISBN-13:9780300074369ISBN:0300074360
Description: Good+ Sticker on spine; crease on cover; a few small stains and minor wear. From The New York Times Book Review, Dava Sobel: "Dr. Lavie makes such an engaging raconteur...that we willingly follow him to the land of alpha, theta, and delta waves, where the spindles and K-complexes roam. " read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Yale University Press, New Haven
Date Published: 1996
ISBN-13:9780300066029ISBN:0300066023
Description: Fine in Fine dust jacket. 0300066023. Translated from the Hebrew by Anthony Berris. First printing thus. Fine in a fine dust jacket. read more
Description: New in no jacket. pp. 270. Draws upon a vast store of professional knowledge & innovative concepts of the physiology of sleep & dreams to tell us the story of what is contained in a single nightís sleep. Some chapters include: sleep & death; brain waves; the rhythm of sleep; the 25-hour day; from sun clocks to biological clocks; dreams: creatures of the brain; dreaming as a separate reality; the need for sleep; the eccentricity of REM sleep; sleep centers; sleep medicine: the first steps; ... read more
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