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Author | : Adam Gollner |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 416 |
Release | : 2014-09-30 |
Genre | : Health & Fitness |
ISBN | : 1439109435 |
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An exploration of one of the most universal human obsessions charts the rise of longevity science from its alchemical beginnings to modern-day genetic interventions and enters the world of those whose lives are shaped by a belief in immortality.
Author | : Milan Kundera |
Publisher | : Harper Collins |
Total Pages | : 370 |
Release | : 1999-10-20 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0060932384 |
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Milan Kundera's sixth novel springs from a casual gesture of a woman to her swimming instructor, a gesture that creates a character in the mind of a writer named Kundera. Like Flaubert's Emma or Tolstoy's Anna, Kundera's Agnes becomes an object of fascination, of indefinable longing. From that character springs a novel, a gesture of the imagination that both embodies and articulates Milan Kundera's supreme mastery of the novel and its purpose; to explore thoroughly the great, themes of existence.
Author | : Stephen Cave |
Publisher | : Crown |
Total Pages | : 338 |
Release | : 2012-04-03 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0307884937 |
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If you could live forever, would you want to? Both a fascinating look at the history of our strive for immortality and an investigation into whether living forever is really all it’s cracked up to be. A fascinating work of popular philosophy and history that both enlightens and entertains, Stephen Cave investigates whether it just might be possible to live forever and whether we should want to. He also makes a powerful argument that it’s our very preoccupation with defying mortality that drives civilization. Central to this book is the metaphor of a mountaintop where one can find the Immortals. Since the dawn of humanity, everyone – whether they know it or not—has been trying to climb that mountain. But there are only four paths up its treacherous slope, and there have only ever been four paths. Throughout history, people have wagered everything on their choice of the correct path, and fought wars against those who’ve chosen differently. In drawing back the curtain on what compels humans to “keep on keeping on,” Cave engages the reader in a number of mind-bending thought experiments. He teases out the implications of each immortality gambit, asking, for example, how long a person would live if they did manage to acquire a perfectly disease-free body. Or what would happen if a super-being tried to round up the atomic constituents of all who’ve died in order to resurrect them. Or what our loved ones would really be doing in heaven if it does exist. We’re confronted with a series of brain-rattling questions: What would happen if tomorrow humanity discovered that there is no life but this one? Would people continue to please their boss, vie for the title of Year’s Best Salesman? Would three-hundred-year projects still get started? If the four paths up the Mount of the Immortals lead nowhere—if there is no getting up to the summit—is there still reason to live? And can civilization survive? Immortality is a deeply satisfying book, as optimistic about the human condition as it is insightful about the true arc of history.
Author | : Ray D. Madoff |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 208 |
Release | : 2010-05-11 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 0300163274 |
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This book takes a riveting look at how the law responds to that distinctly American dream of immortality. While American law provides virtually no protections for the interests we hold most dear—our bodies and our reputations—when it comes to property interests, the American dead have greater control than anywhere else in the world. Moreover, these rights are growing daily. From grave robbery to Elvis impersonators, Madoff shows how the law of the dead has a direct impact on how we live. Madoff examines how the rising power of the American dead enables the deceased to exert control over their wealth forever through grandiose schemes like "dynasty trusts" and perpetual private charitable foundations and to control their creative works and identities well into the unforeseeable future. Madoff explores how the law of the dead can, in essence, extend the reach of life by granting virtual immortality to individuals. All of this comes, Madoff contends, at real costs imposed on the living.
Author | : Herman Charles Hoskier |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 1925 |
Genre | : Immortality |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : George Gallup |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 213 |
Release | : 1984-01 |
Genre | : Death, Apparent |
ISBN | : 9780552123952 |
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Author | : Michael Cholbi |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 258 |
Release | : 2015-12-02 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1783483857 |
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A collection of seminal articles investigating whether death is bad for us – and if so, whether immortality would be good for us.
Author | : Hiram Mattison |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 510 |
Release | : 1866 |
Genre | : Future life |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : R. K. Gaye |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 271 |
Release | : 2014-03-06 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1107688310 |
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Originally published in 1904, this book examines the connection between Plato's Theory of Ideas and the Theory of the Immortality of the Soul.
Author | : Bei Hai |
Publisher | : Funstory |
Total Pages | : 993 |
Release | : 2019-12-13 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1647811554 |
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Inside the second-hand phone Chen Hao bought, there was actually a Heavenly Court's welfare group, various great gods crazily sent red packets, and a Heavenly Court store that had all sorts of martial skills, pills, pets, weapons, and magical equipment! Thus, the ordinary university student, Chen Hao, embarked on the bizarre path of cultivation.