Internal time : chronotypes, social jet lag, and why you're so tired /
Internal Time combines storytelling with accessible science tutorials to explain how our internal clocks work--for example, why morning classes are so unpopular and why "lazy" adolescents are wise to avoid them. We learn why the constant twilight of our largely indoor lives makes us depend...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés Alemán |
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Cambridge, Mass. :
Harvard University Press,
2012.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Worlds apart Of early birds and long sleepers Counting sheep
- A curious astronomer
- The lost days
- The periodic shift worker
- The fast hamster
- Dawn at the gym
- The elusive transcript
- Temporal ecology
- Wait until dark
- The end of adolescence
- What a waste of time!
- Days on other planets
- When will my organs arrive?
- The scissors of sleep
- Early socialists-late capitalists
- Constant twilight
- From Frankfurt to Morocco and back
- Light at night
- Partnership timing
- A clock for all seasons
- Professional selection
- The nocturnal bottleneck.