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Matthew Walker
WHY WE SLEEP
The New Science of Sleep and Dreams

Contents
– Part 1
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This Thing Called Sleep
Chapter 1 To Sleep …
Chapter 2 Caffeine, Jet Lag, and Melatonin: Losing and Gaining Control of Your Sleep Rhythm
Chapter 3 Defining and Generating Sleep: Time Dilation and What We Learned from a Baby in 1952
Chapter 4 Ape Beds, Dinosaurs, and Napping with Half a Brain: Who Sleeps, How Do We Sleep, and How Much?
Chapter 5 Changes in Sleep Across the Life Span
– Part 2
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Why Should You Sleep?
Chapter 6 Your Mother and Shakespeare Knew: The Benefits of Sleep for the Brain
Chapter 7 Too Extreme for the Guinness Book of World Records
: Sleep Deprivation and the Brain
Chapter 8 Cancer, Heart Attacks, and a Shorter Life: Sleep Deprivation and the Body
– Part 3
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How and Why We Dream
Chapter 9 Routinely Psychotic: REM-Sleep Dreaming
Chapter 10 Dreaming as Overnight Therapy
Chapter 11 Dream Creativity and Dream Control
– Part 4
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From Sleeping Pills to Society Transformed
Chapter 12 Things That Go Bump in the Night: Sleep Disorders and Death Caused by No Sleep
Chapter 13 iPads, Factory Whistles, and Nightcaps: What’s Stopping You from Sleeping?
Chapter 14 Hurting and Helping Your Sleep: Pills vs. Therapy
Chapter 15 Sleep and Society: What Medicine and Education Are Doing Wrong; What Google and NASA Are Doing Right
Chapter 16 A New Vision for Sleep in the Twenty-First Century
Conclusion: To Sleep or Not to Sleep
Appendix: Twelve Tips for Healthy Sleep
Illustration Permissions
Acknowledgments
Follow Penguin
Matthew Walker’s fascination with sleep has taken him from Nottingham to Harvard and on to the University of California, Berkeley, where he is currently Professor of Neuroscience and Psychology and Director of the Sleep and Neuroimaging Laboratory. He has published over 100 scientific research studies during the course of his twenty-year career. Why We Sleep
is his first book.
PENGUIN BOOKS
WHY WE SLEEP
‘This is brilliant popular science writing: accessible, compelling and enlightening.’ David Lodge, The Times Literary Supplement
, Books of the Year
‘One of my favourite books this year, and definitely the most useful. Now I go to sleep much earlier and feel much better for it.’ William Leith, Evening Standard
, Books of the Year
‘A stimulating and important book which you should read … indisputable … richly packed with science … Walker describes superbly what is going on in the brain during sleep and dreaming’ Clive Cookson, Financial ............

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