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Sleep Thieves

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Simon and Schuster, Jun 18, 2008 - Psychology - 320 pages
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Contents

Sleep and Consciousness
13
Evolutions Mistake?
36
Cutting Down on Sleep
60
The Clocks Within Us
80
Riding the Daily Seesaw of Sleepiness
95
Sleepy Teenagers
119
Ondines Curse
141
Sleepless Nights
154
Asleep at the Operating Table
189
Asleep on the Night Shift
206
Asleep in the Sky
225
Are We Chronically Sleep Deprived?
247
What Is Your Personal Sleep Debt?
260
A WakeUp Call
278
General Bibliography
293
Copyright

Sleep and Health
168

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Page ix - Financial support from the National Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada and from the Quebec FCAR foundation is gratefully acknowledged. References 1 Allison, IM, and Hearn, EJ, 1980, "A New Look at the Bending Strength of Gear Teeth,

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About the author (2008)

Stanley Coren an international authority on sidedness, is professor of psychology at the University of British Columbia. He is the author of Born to Bark: My Adventures with an Irrepressible and Unforgettable Dog (2010), among other books.

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