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Till Roenneberg is Professor at the Institute of Medical Psychology at the Ludwig-Maximilians University, Munich.

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1953-05-04
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Germany

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I really enjoyed this book, but was hoping it would help me better understand my own internal clock. Bummer.
 
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pmichaud | 4 other reviews | Dec 21, 2020 |
I wish this had been more interesting. It wavered between a pop science book and a real science book but never quite came down on either side and I didn't learn as much as I hoped. I think I got pretty much everything I fund useful within te first 10-20 pages. The stories that started each chapter began to grate on me.
 
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amyem58 | 4 other reviews | Jun 30, 2019 |
I enjoyed what he had to say overall, but found well over half of the charts very difficult to understand. Just FYI.
 
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ranaverde | 4 other reviews | Dec 24, 2018 |
Internal Time was an interesting read and I learned quite a bit about the internal "clocks" that regulate our lives. Like everyone, I was familiar with the concepts of early birds and night owls, but our internal clocks regulate much more, including how organs such as our livers work.

Each chapter starts with a "short story" of a few paragraphs or a page which is used to illustrate the biological/scientific theories or facts that follow. Sometimes the stories were a bit too simplistic or far-fetched; sometimes the explanations were too complex for me to follow completely. But, overall worth reading.… (more)
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