Includes bibliographical references (pages 315-375) and index.

Sleep is one of humanity's great unifiers, yet we find ourselves in the middle of a crisis of sleep deprivation, with devastating effects on our health, our happiness, our job performance, and our relationships. Huffington identifies the many ways our cultural dismissal of sleep as time wasted undermines our health and our decision-making, and ravages our relationships, our work lives, and even our sex lives. She explores the manipulative and dangerous sleeping pill industry, and all the ways our addiction to technology disrupts our sleep, along with expert tips on how we can all achieve better and more restorative sleep.