The Promise of Sleep: A Pioneer in Sleep Medicine Explores the Vital Connection Between Health, Happiness, and a Good Night's Sleep

by William C. Dement

Paperback, 2000

Call number

613.6 D

Collection

Publication

Dell (2000), Edition: 1, 512 pages

Description

Discusses the essential benefits of sleep by revealing what occurs during sleep, presents seven principles of healthy and productive sleep, and offers advice on sleep disorders.

User reviews

LibraryThing member wester
This book is a passionate and well-argumented plea to pay more attention to the undervalued part of our lives that is sleep. It explains a lot about what sleep is, what can disturb it and what the consequences can be. It also has a section on how to improve your own sleep, but it definitely is not
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a self-help book.

With a stricter editor I might have given this the full five stars. There are some parts where he goes off on things that are not strictly his expertise, such as the biomedics of stimulants, and his humor can be slightly stale.

All the same, I strongly recommend this book. It will teach you a thing or two, and it might actually change your life.
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LibraryThing member gophergolfer
A thorough review of current thinking on sleep problems
LibraryThing member sashame
the quality and quantity of information contained here is incredible, and well-communicated too. but its organization is clumsy and makes it difficult to use/reference/navigate, and it can often be too long-winded

Pages

512

ISBN

0440509017 / 9780440509011
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