Bookshelf

Resources and further reading

This page offers a list of resources about the role and value of sleep and the body clock to your everyday life. The list includes books, websites, videos and articles on a wide range of topics related to sleep and the body clock.

Sleep Sense

Using my academic knowledge and experience as a sleep practitioner, I decided to write a book taking the reader through the science of sleep and why it is important for every single one of us, irrespective whether you are a short or long sleeper. My aim is to empower you, the reader, to take steps that are right for you to sleep well.

Sleep: A Very Short Introduction

Steven W. Lockley, Russell G. Foster

The book addresses the biological and psychological aspects of sleep, providing a basic understanding of what sleep is and looking at sleep through the human lifespan.

Why We Sleep

Matthew Walker

The book explores twenty years of cutting-edge research to solve the mystery of why sleep matters.

Internal Time: Chronotypes, Social Jet Lag, and Why You’re So Tired

Till Roenneberg

Living at odds with our internal timepieces can make us chronically sleep deprived and more likely to smoke, gain weight and feel depressed, and fail geometry.

Circadian Rhythms: A Very Short Introduction

Russell Foster, Leon Kreitzman

The book explains how organisms can “know” the time and reveals what we now understand of the nature and operation of chronobiological processes.

The Compassionate Mind

Paul Gilbert

The book explains how new research shows how we can all learn to develop compassion for ourselves and others and derive the benefits of this age-old wisdom.

The Happiness Trap

Dr Russ Harris

Millions of people are unwittingly caught in the ‘The Happiness Trap’, where the more they strive for happiness the more they suffer in the long term.

24/7: Late Capitalism and the End of Sleep

Jonathan Crary

The book explores some of the ruinous consequences of the expanding non-stop processes of twenty-first-century capitalism.

The Circadian Code: Lose weight, supercharge your energy and sleep well every night

Satchin Panda

Change your daily routine, transform your health. Circadian rhythms are biological processes or clocks that exist in each one of our cells.

21 Lessons for the 21st Century

Yuval Noah Harari

The present day can be joyous and illuminating, but it can also be frightful and confusing; issues around biotechnology […] can make the ‘now’ feel very precarious.

Thinking, Fast and Slow

Daniel Kahneman

The book offers a whole new look at the way our minds work, and how we make decisions.

Mindfulness for Beginners: Reclaiming the Present Moment–and Your Life

Jon Kabat Zinn

We may long for wholeness, but the truth is that it is already here and already ours.

Online Resources

There is wealth of information available online but here are a few websites that I’d recommend for anyone looking to learn more about sleep, sleep disorders and chronobiology/ circadian rhythms. Click on the links below to learn more.