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

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• “Roenneberg is a knowledgeable guide, with a talent for making difficult concepts clear and convincing…This is a fascinating introduction to an important topic, which will appeal to anyone who wishes to delve deep into the world of chronobiology, or simply wonders why they struggle to get a good night’s sleep.”

  — New Scientist

• “Till Roenneberg’s book is an engaging and informative layman’s introduction to circadian science and its implications for contemporary humans…By integrating quality scientific exposition with well-rounded human vignettes, Roenneberg’s book shows how sophisticated human behaviors arise partly from our embodied earthly nature.”

  — Times Higher Education

• “Internal Time made me think deeply about what it means to be a time-bound organism: about the ways we live in time and the ways time lives in us. It is, in an unusually literal sense, a book about what makes us tick.”

  — New York

• “A brilliant book.”

  — Telegraph

• “Roenneberg has built his book on decades of research in everything from fungi and single-celled organisms to humans. In brilliantly minimalist terms, he explains the temporal mismatches behind teen exhaustion, early birds and night owls, and sleep phobia.”

  — Nature

• “This is a wonderful book from a gifted scientist, thinker, and writer that provides the reader with the rare opportunity to discover something new about themselves and the world in which they live.”

  — Russell G. Foster, University of Oxford

• “Internal Time is an accessible, up-to-date overview of a subject that is important to all of us. With its remarkable depth and breadth of coverage, this book should be of interest to a wide and diverse audience.”

  — Martin Zatz, editor, Journal of Biological Rhythms

• “Not many recent titles cover this topic, and this is a welcome addition.”

  — Library Journal

• “Fascinating…Other books have dealt with our biological clocks, but Roenneberg focuses on the ways in which societal pressures seem to be leading us to disregard our clocks, at considerable cost.”

  — Wilson Quarterly