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Wild nights : how taming sleep created our restless world

text Wild nights : how taming sleep created our restless world

Summary
"Humans have slept since the dawn of our species. And yet the way humans sleep across history has changed dramatically, most disastrously in our own modern era. For the last two centuries sleep, the industrialized West has reduced sleep to one nar... Read more
Contents
Introduction. The gates of sleep -- Part I: The invention of normal sleep -- Before sleep was normal -- A different drummer -- Part II: Taming sleep -- Lady Macbeth's doctor, or, Sleepwalkers and lunatics -- Sleeping slaves, waking masters -- Part... Read more
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Description
305 pages ; 25 cm
Publisher
Basic Books 2017

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Woodmere (Main Branch) 616.8 REI in Adult Non-fiction Available

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