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Aging, biotechnology, and the future
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Green, Robert C.,Michael A. Smyer |
From the Publisher: This wide-ranging, multidisciplinary collection examines how advances in medicine and technology are affecting the aging process and the lives of elderly persons. In analyzing the… |
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Healthy at 100
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John Robbins |
Why do some people age in failing health and sadness, while others grow old with vitality and joy?In this revolutionary book, bestselling author John Robbins presents us with a bold new paradigm of a… |
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Jeanne Calment
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Michel Allard |
Jeanne Calment died in August 1997 aged 122 years. Her life remains the longest ever documented and has defied the theories of some scientists who postulated that humans could not live that long. Thi… |
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Perdita
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Hilary Scharper |
"The Georgian Bay lighthouse's single eye keeps watch over storm and calm, and Marged grew up in its shadow, learning the language of the wind and the trees. There's blustery beauty there, where sea … |
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Sailor and fiddler
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Herman Wouk |
Many years ago, the British philosopher Sir Isaiah Berlin urged Herman Wouk to write his autobiography. Wouk responded, "Why me? I'm nobody." Berlin answered, "No, no. You've traveled. You've known m… |
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Life is so good
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Dawson, George |
What makes a happy person, a happy life? In this remarkable book, George Dawson, a 101-year-old man who learned to read when he was 98, reflects on the philosophy he learned from his father--a belief… |
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If I Live to Be 100
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Neenah Ellis |
Neenah Ellis's New York Times bestselling If I Live to Be 100 takes us inside the world of the very old and invites us to learn from them the art of living well for an exceptionally long period of ti… |
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