The Book Of Immortality

Author : Adam Gollner
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1439109435
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Book of Immortality written by Adam Gollner and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-09-30 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Stephen Cave
Publisher : Biteback Publishing
ISBN 13 : 184954347X
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Immortality written by Stephen Cave and published by Biteback Publishing. This book was released on 2012-04-17 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is a cloud-capped peak where gods and immortals while away their infinite days, and 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. Throughout history, people have wagered everything on their choice and fought wars against those who've decided differently. Each of these four paths - simply staying alive indefinitely, through magic or medicine; being resurrected; persisting as a soul; or living on through one's legacy - is revealed to us by a historical figure who serves as our guide. It is through these diverse individuals - such as the Egyptian queen Nefertiti; vitamin-obsessed Nobel Laureate Linus Pauling; author Mary Shelley; and Alexander the Great - that we come to understand how many of civilisation's greatest achievements have been born of our need to see our essence endure. As optimistic about the human condition as it is insightful, Immortality takes the reader on an eye-opening journey from the beginnings of civilisation to the present day. Bringing together history and philosophy, this fascinating book both enlightens and entertains, investigating whether it just might be possible to live forever, and whether that's something we should actually aspire to. But its most powerful and arresting argument is this - that it is our very preoccupation with defying mortality that has made our civilisation what it is.

Author : Milan Kundera
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0063290650
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Immortality written by Milan Kundera and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2023-04-25 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York Times Bestseller "Inspired. . . . Kundera's most brilliantly imagined novel. . . . A book that entrances, beguiles and charms us from first page to last." — Cleveland Plain Dealer 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 Agnès 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 : Adam Leith Gollner
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 0385667310
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Book of Immortality written by Adam Leith Gollner and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2014-09-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Gollner goes to the ends of the earth to talk to people who want to beat the clock--forever. So far, there's no proof of success, but their efforts prove entertaining, and, through Gollner's lens, touching as well." The Globe and Mail The author of the widely acclaimed The Fruit Hunters weaves together religion, science and magic in this Mark Kurlansky-style exploration of the most universal of human obsessions, immortality. With his singular curiosity, Gollner delves into a strange array of contemporary and historical characters and cults, religions and myths, and businesses all devoted to some form of immortality. His journey begins at a costume party thrown by a group of immortalists in California and ends on David Copperfield's archipelago in the Bahamas, where Copperfield claims to have found the fountain of youth. Along the way he visits St. Augustine, Florida and its purported fountain of youth; Harvard University, where he attends an anti-aging symposium; and Esalen, where he meets a whole host of quirky characters who embody our fascination with escaping death.

Author : John Howard Hinton (the Elder.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 548 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Athanasia: Or, Four Books on Immortality written by John Howard Hinton (the Elder.) and published by . This book was released on 1849 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Thomas Curtis Clark
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781258042943
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Golden Book of Immortality written by Thomas Curtis Clark and published by . This book was released on 2011-06-01 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : John Howard HINTON (the Elder.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 550 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Athanasia: or, Four Books on Immortality. To which is appended “Who will live for ever?” an examination of Luke XX. 36; with Rejoinders to the Rev. E. White and the Rev. W. Morris written by John Howard HINTON (the Elder.) and published by . This book was released on 1849 with total page 550 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Peter Hulsroj
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319190938
Total Pages : 183 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book What If We Don't Die? written by Peter Hulsroj and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-09-09 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book deals with the very real possibility of earthly immortality and the human and societal implications of such immortality, including whether it is desirable. It looks at what makes immortality appear so attractive and at the possibility that we would be better served with longer lives and the freedom to terminate our lives at the time when life has given us all the joy, inspiration and personal development it possibly could. What If We Don’t Die? - Presents major moral dilemmas associated with human immortality, something which seems imminent due to rapidly progressing biomedical research. - Touches on big questions: is it acceptable that the immortal generation will be the last? How much life do you want? What is the purpose of life if life never ends? - Will trigger your imagination by putting a new spin on free will, current concepts of time and eternity, the possibility of multiple universes and multiple yous. What If We Don’t Die? draws extensively on philosophical and religious thought on the purpose of life and introduces novel perspectives on existence, personality and immortality based, for instance, on quantum mechanics and multiverse theory.

Author : Harry Emerson Fosdick
Publisher : Kessinger Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781425338398
Total Pages : 56 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Assurance of Immortality written by Harry Emerson Fosdick and published by Kessinger Publishing. This book was released on 2005-12 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

Author : Stewart Dingwall Fordyce Salmond
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 732 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Christian Doctrine of Immortality written by Stewart Dingwall Fordyce Salmond and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 732 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: