Why can't teenagers get out of bed in the morning? How do bees tell the time? Why do some plants open and close their flowers at the same time each day? Why do so many people suffer the misery of jet lag? In this fascinating book, Russell Foster and Leon Kreitzman explain the significance of the biological clock, showing how it has played an essential role in evolution and why ...(展开全部)

Popular science at its most exciting: the breaking new world of chronobiology - understanding the rhythm of life in humans and all plants and animals. The entire natural world is full of rhythms. The early bird catches the worm -and migrates to an internal calendar. Dormice hibernate away the winter. Plants open and close their flowers at the same hour each day. Bees search out...(展开全部)

Russell G. Foster is Professor of Circadian Neuroscience at the University of Oxford and a leading expert on the neuroscience of biological time. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society. Leon Kreitzman is a writer and broadcaster, a widely respected futurologist, and author of The 24 Hour Society. In Rhythms of Life, also published by Profile, Russell Foster and Leon Kreitzman intr...(展开全部)

Russell G. Foster is Professor of Circadian Neuroscience at the University of Oxford and a leading expert on the neuroscience of biological time. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society. Leon Kreitzman is a writer and broadcaster, a widely respected futurologist, and author of The 24 Hour Society. In Rhythms of Life, also published by Profile, Russell Foster and Leon Kreitzman intr...(展开全部)

James Herriot's final work and last in his beloved series of animal stories This fifth and final of James Herriot's heartwarming story collections brings back familiar friends (including old favorites such as Tricki Woo) and introduces new ones, including Herriot's children Rosie and Jimmy and the marvelously eccentric vet Calum Buchanan. As James grows older, he finds th...(展开全部)

罗素·G·福斯特（Russell G. Foster），英国皇家学会会员，神经科学教授，纳菲尔德眼科实验室负责人，牛津大学布拉斯诺斯学院资深柯蒂研究员，专长生物节律研究。 利昂·克赖茨曼（Leon Kreitzman)，科普作家、播音员，广受尊敬的未来学家，《 24 小时社会》（The 24 Hour Society）的作者。 两人曾合作撰写了《生命的节奏》（Rhythms of Life）一书，该书精彩讲述了生物的昼夜节律，已被译为 5 种语言出版。

罗素·G·福斯特（Russell G. Foster），英国皇家学会会员，神经科学教授，纳菲尔德眼科实验室负责人，牛津大学布拉斯诺斯学院资深柯蒂研究员，专长生物节律研究。 利昂·克赖茨曼（Leon Kreitzman)，科普作家、播音员，广受尊敬的未来学家，《 24 小时社会》（The 24 Hour Society）的作者。 两人曾合作撰写了《生命的节奏》（Rhythms of Life）一书，该书精彩讲述了生物的昼夜节律，已被译为 5 种语言出版。

Further veterinary tales from the Yorkshire Dales in James Herriot's Every Living Thing.

Studies of mechanisms in the brain that allow complicated things to happen in a coordinated fashion have produced some of the most spectacular discoveries in neuroscience. This book provides eloquent support for the idea that spontaneous neuron activity, far from being mere noise, is actually the source of our cognitive abilities. It takes a fresh look at the co-evolution of st...(展开全部)

Studies of mechanisms in the brain that allow complicated things to happen in a coordinated fashion have produced some of the most spectacular discoveries in neuroscience. This book provides eloquent support for the idea that spontaneous neuron activity, far from being mere noise, is actually the source of our cognitive abilities. It takes a fresh look at the coevolution of str...(展开全部)