- ISBN13: 9780440509011
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Product Description
Sleep better, live longer with the groundbreaking information and step-by-step program in this revolutionary book.
Healthful sleep has been empirically proven to be the single most important factor in predicting longevity, more influential than diet, exercise, or heredity. And yet we are a sleep-sick society, ignorant of the facts of sleep–and the price of sleep deprivation. In this groundbreaking book, based on decades of study on the frontiers of sleep sci… More >>
William Yenke says:
If you read this self agradnizing, self promoting, tedious, endless, uninformative piece of trash, you are dumber than I am!! You wade through the “why I am a hero” garbage hoping to get to ANY useful info., but you will not find it. FORGET IT!!!
Rating: 1 / 5
5th March 2010 at 8:12 pm
Tifa Kimbol says:
I bought this book simply by other readers’ good reviews, and I felt disgusted, cheated, and angry after I read 3/4 of the book, and then I threw this book out. This book is so packed with dumb, useless information that there is nothing you can learn. Before you get anything, you will fall asleep. I am not sure whether I should ask for a refund, since it really kept the promise of sleep. THIS BOOK MADE ME SLEEP ! (even though I was eager to learn something about “sleep”, and I was not sleepy at all). I don’t know other reviewers, what kind of people are they ? How come they can give this book five stars ?
Rating: 1 / 5
5th March 2010 at 8:50 pm
Anonymous says:
I felt really stupid when I was hanging around with this book without giving it up. From the beginning the author provided all the useless information about all kinds of societies for sleep, including “Walla Walla Project” – strange name. In chapter 1, he defines sleep as the one that has two distinct characteristic: (1) sleep erects the wall from the conscious mind and the outside wall (2) Sleep is reversible. That is, if there is enough disturbance, you come back from the sleep. I mean, what kind of stupid definition is this ? Should I waste my money and time to read this kind of definition ? Then the book explains about REM sleep and etc, which most readers should already know or they can get the same information better in other better written books. Then I encountered with Multiple Sleep Latency Test (MSLT), which made me curious. With all technical explanations (and their various experiments), after pages and pages, the conclusion was: “the less sleep subjects got, the more rapidly they fell asleep – in direct proportion to the amount of sleep lost. We realized with great excitement that …” I mean, should I get really excited with this kind of discovery ? Doesn’t anyone know this ? Even my kid ? If you feel exited with above definition of sleep and the conclusion from MSLT, I strongly recommend you to buy this book. If you feel stupid like I did, please avoid this book. Be careful about “More promise of sleep” which the author may come up in the future. He might use Maxwell’s equation, Partial differential equation, and Schoedinger’s equation to prove the same things.
Rating: 1 / 5
5th March 2010 at 9:36 pm
Anonymous says:
I saw Dr. Dement in People Magazine and bought the book. I really enjoyed all the stories and tips! Funny and entertaining, as well as educational. READ THIS BOOK!
Rating: 5 / 5
5th March 2010 at 10:18 pm
Anonymous says:
Well written, funny, and informative. I truly enjoyed this book
Rating: 5 / 5
5th March 2010 at 10:26 pm