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Carregando... Sleep Thieves: An Eye-opening Exploration into the Science & Mysteries of Sleepde Stanley Coren
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Registre-se no LibraryThing tpara descobrir se gostará deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. Simply put: a very valuable book on our nocturnal routine and its importance. Probes questions like “why do we sleep?” and “why are we the way we are without sleep?” Investigates sleep states, sleep studies, ect with fascinating, useful information everyone should know. I now make sure to get a full night’s rest after reading this. ( ) As my friends will tell you, I'm still repeating anecdotes from this book several years after I read it. It's one of the most useful and interesting books--on any subject--I've ever read. The author makes a compelling case that sleep deprivation has serious consequences, ranging from poor work performance to fatal car accidents to large-scale catastrophes such as the Chernobyl disaster. Coren outlines how certain employment practices, such as "swing shifts" (switching between first, second, and third shift) and paying truck drivers by the mile (encouraging them to work longer without sleep), can cause consequences far worse than tiredness. He puts himself through sleep experiments, shortening his nightly allotment of sleep, and observes the effects on his work (not good). He thoroughly debunks the myth that we can "get by" on less sleep than we need and suffer no ill effects. There are a lot of fascinating bits of information in this book, but the one that's stuck with me the most is the study on daylight saving time. The author wondered if the hour of sleep lost in the spring had any ill effects, and he found that there are more fatal car accidents the Monday after DST begins than at other times of year, and conversely, there are fewer accidents the Monday after the autumn switch to standard time. It's such a simple study, and the results are striking: sleep deprivation is deadly. sem resenhas | adicionar uma resenha
In this engrossing, expansive look at the facts and folklore of sleep, best-selling author Stanley Coren provides astounding new evidence that we are becoming an increasingly sleep-deprived society, and that this condition is seriously affecting our work, posing a danger to ourselves and others. He shows, for example, that the Exxon Valdez oil spill, the disaster involving the space shuttle Challenger, and the nuclear accidents at both Chernobyl and Three Mile Island were all associated with people suffering from sleep deprivation. Drawing on dramatic interviews with a range of professionals including doctors, airline pilots, stockbrokers, and truck drivers, Coren shows the risks that everyone now faces as more and more people in the workforce operate with insufficient sleep. He also looks at some of the more subtle and insidious effects of sleep loss on our physical and mental health and explains how to tell whether you are getting enough sleep. In addition Coren asks intriguing questions like: Do fish sleep? Are there really "morning" people and "night" people? Why is it virtually impossible to fall asleep during midmorning hours no matter how tired you are? And how is it that you can sleep for hours on a plane and never feel rested? Some provocative stories about sleep oddities are presented along with a description of some strange sleep disorders that affect a surprisingly large number of people. Finally, the book describes specific techniques to help children sleep through the night and to improve the quality and efficiency of your own sleep. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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