Inner time : the science of body clocks and what makes us tick / by Carol Orlock.
Just three decades old, the science of chronobiology is currently revolutionizing our understanding of the inner clocks and rhythmic cycles that govern our mind and body. This new science is discovering how our bodies are a symphony of thousands of overlapping cycles and schedules that affect everyt...
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Secaucus, N.J. :
Carol Publ. Group,
©1993.
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Newly Watched Clocks
- 2. The Impermanent Present
- 3. In a Time Before Clocks
- 4. The Arrival of Indoor Sunlight
- 5. New Clues to Nature's Clockwork
- 6. Beat the Clock
- 7. A Tour Inside the Clockworks
- 8. What's Inside a Day?
- 9. As the World Turns
- 10. As Weeks and Months Go By
- 11. The Years Add Up
- 12. Is Anyone in Charge Here?
- 13. Inner Time Is Money
- 14. Other Places, Other Times
- 15. A Time to Embrace
- 16. We Are When We Eat
- 17. When It's Time to See the Doctor
- 18. When Inner Clocks Fall Out of Time
- 19. Shadows in the Mind and the Promise of Light
- 20. Leaving the Laboratory Behind.