David K Randall
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Summary
"From the dust of the Gilded Age Bone Wars, two vastly different men emerge to fill the empty halls of New York's struggling American Museum of Natural History: socialite Henry Fairfield Osborn and intrepid fossil hunter Barnum Brown. When Brown unearths the first Tyrannosaurus rex fossils, Osborn sees a path to save his museum from irrelevancy. As the public turns out in droves to cower before this bone-chilling giant of the past and wonder at the...
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Pub. Date
c2012
Summary
Journalist David K. Randall never gave sleep much thought - until he began sleepwalking. Now Randall explores the research that is investigating those dark hours that make up nearly a third of our lives. This book is a tour of the often odd, sometimes disturbing, and always fascinating things that go on in the peculiar world of sleep. Taking readers from military battlefields to children's bedrooms, Dreamland shows that sleep isn't as simple as it...