About this title: This book is an introduction to a basic property of life, one mostly unknown to science and the public until the latter half of the last century: Humans, plants, and animals have within their bodies a kind of clock that synchronizes much of what they do throughout their lives to the time of day and the seasons, and in the case of the sea-dwelling organisms, the tides. This timepiece performs its service autonomously - it rules silently within us without us giving a thought to it. Three chapters are devoted to the human clock: its disruptive action in transmeridional travel and shift work, its ...
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Edition: First edition-First printing.
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Oxford University Press, New York
Date Published: 2001
Description: Fine uncorrected proof in stiff, green wrappers with front cover of finished book pasted on book. The Orchestrator of Biological Rhythms. 154 pages with notes and list of suggested readings. read more
Description: Near Fine in Near Fine jacket. 8vo-7¾"-9¾" tall, New, uncirculated library book. Sticker on DJ spine under BrodArt cover. Small stamp to free endpapers. Price-intact dust jacket. Never opened/read. 155 pages with figures and drawings. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Date Published: 2002
ISBN-13:9780195143409ISBN:019514340X
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Binding: Hardback
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Date Published: 2002
ISBN-13:9780195143409ISBN:019514340X
Description: BRAND NEW HARDBACK. 209x138 mm. This book is printed on demand. (allow 1-2 weeks for printing) (176) palmer deftly explains biological timekeepers in humans and animals, explaining jet lage and how to avoid it, and the wide range of effects of our biological clocks on our behaviour and health. (Hardback) read more
Binding: Hardback
Publisher: OXFORD UNIV PR
Date Published: 2002
ISBN-13:9780195143409ISBN:019514340X
Description: New. From one-celled paramecium to giant blue whales, we all have internal clocks that regulate the rhythms we live by. In The Living Clock, John Palmer, one of the world's leading authorities on these rhythms, takes us on a tour of this broad and multifa... read more
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Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: New York: Oxford U. Press, 2002, New York
Date Published: 2002
ISBN-13:9780195143409ISBN:019514340X
Description: Dust Jacket Included. First Edition. 8vo. xiii, 162pp. B&w figures. Index. Black cloth on green paper covered boards. Sight bump to top corners o/w Fine in Vg+ dj. read more
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