Wild nights : how taming sleep created our restless world / Benjamin Reiss.
Wild nights : how taming sleep created our restless world / Benjamin Reiss.
Wild nights : how taming sleep created our restless world / Benjamin Reiss.
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New York : Basic Books, [2017]
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G 2017/5549
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English
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Physical content
305 pages ; 25 cm
Content type
text
Media type
unmediated
Carrier type
volume
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 III: Rocking the cradle -- Wild things -- Utopian sl...
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Publisher
New York : Basic Books, [2017]
Place of Publication
New York (State)
Date Published
[2017]
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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 narrow definition: hours of unbroken slumber, in a private chamber, alone or with at most one additional p...
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Wild nights : how taming sleep created our restless world / Benjamin Reiss.
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How taming sleep created our restless world
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-291) and index.
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G 2017/5549
Record Identifier
74VKVgy5BqaZ
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKVgy5BqaZ
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ISBN
0465061958 hardcover
9780465061952 hardcover
DDC
616.84982
MMS ID
991024148791102626
