Bally Schade (6 results)
Published by Elsevier Publishing Company Verlag;, 1965 1965
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Gebonden met (wat beschadigd) stofomslag. 257 pp. Mooi heraldisch exlibris op schutblad. Please see description or ask for photos.
Published by Elsevier 1964
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Hardback. Condition: Good. Progress in Brain Research ? Volume 18: Sleep Mechanisms (1964) by K. Akert, C. Bally and J. P. Schade is the sort of Elsevier hard-science artefact that sits on a shelf looking mildly intimidating and then quietly reminds you that even something as universal as sleep can be turned into diagrams, elect…rodes, terminology, and the determined optimism of people who believe the brain can be understood if we just measure it hard enough. This is not bedtime reading unless your idea of ?winding down? involves EEG traces and the thrill of mid-century neuroscience trying to pin down what, exactly, your head is doing when you?re not conscious enough to argue back. It comes from that wonderful era when sleep research was becoming properly modern?when laboratories were full of wires, paper charts, and the growing realisation that sleep isn?t ?nothing happening,? it?s a complicated, structured state with mechanisms, stages, and rhythms that can be studied like any other biological system. What you get here is the feeling of science in motion: researchers assembling evidence, proposing models, disagreeing politely, and trying to translate squiggly lines into understanding. There?s a charming seriousness to it all?sleep as a problem to be solved, a set of mechanisms to be mapped, a frontier where physiology, behaviour, and the nervous system meet. It?s the opposite of dreamy. It?s sleep with its sleeves rolled up. And because it?s 1964 , you get the extra pleasure of perspective. Some ideas will feel foundational, others will read like the brave scaffolding of a field still building its toolkit. Either way, it?s fascinating: a snapshot of how scientists thought about sleep when the discipline still had that ?we?re just starting to see the shape of it? energy. If you like the history of science, this is a proper primary source vibe?less polished popular science, more ?here are the proceedings, good luck, bring coffee.? This copy is Condition: Good , sold by Crappy Old Books , which is exactly the right condition for a technical volume about sleep. A bit of wear makes it feel earned?like it has sat on a real desk, been consulted during real experiments, and possibly survived being propped open next to a microscope while someone muttered, ?Why won?t the data behave?? ?Good? here means it?s intact and readable, which is all the brain asked for in the first place. ISBN: none , because 1964 academic publishing hadn?t yet fully embraced the idea that everything, including your unconscious hours, must be catalogued for eternity. Recommended for neuroscientists, sleep nerds, history-of-research collectors, and anyone who enjoys the delicious irony of studying sleep via a book that is highly capable of putting you to sleep?purely as a side effect of rigorous scholarship. Dust jacket is a little relcalcitrant.
Language: English
Published by Amsterdam: Elsevier 1965
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Lex.-8°. 257 S., Leinen (Einband leicht angebräunt; SU lädiert; sonst gut erhalten) (=Progress in Brain Research; Vol. 18).
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Elsevier Publishing Company, Amsterdam 1965. 257 pp. Publisher's cloth. (Progress in Brain Research. Volume 18).
Language: English
Published by Amsterdam: Elsevier 1965
- Hardcover
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Lex.-8°. 257 S., Leinen (Besitzervermerk auf Vorsatz; Einband leicht angebräunt; sonst gut erhalten) (=Progress in Brain Research; Vol. 18).
Published by Elsevier, Amsterdam 1965
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Reihe: Progress in Brain Research Vol.18 Untergebiet: Medizin Abbildungen: 107 Illsutrationen Zustand: Guter Zustand Seiten: IX/257 S. Format: Gr.-8°. Einband: Ln. Gebiet: Varia.
