The Thing About Life is That One Day You'll Be Dead: A MemoirKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 5 de febr. 2008 - 256 pàgines NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Weaving together personal anecdote, biological fact, philosophical doubt, cultural criticism, and the wisdom of an eclectic range of writers and thinkers, a book that expertly renders both a hilarious family portrait and a truly resonant meditation on mortality. |
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... adult's body has 206 bones . Approximately 70 percent of your body weight is water which is about the same percentage of the earth's sur- face that is water . A newborn baby , whose average heart rate is 120 beats per minute , makes the ...
A Memoir David Shields. times stronger than the average adult breath . I was a breech birth , the danger of which is that the head ( in this case , my head ) comes out last , which dramatically increases the possibil- ity that the ...
... adult size . Infants have accurate hearing up to 40,000 cycles per sec- ond and may wince at a dog whistle that adults , who can't reg- ister sounds above 20,000 cycles per second , don't even notice . Your ears contain sensory hair ...
... adult ( beginning at age 25 ) , 16 times . Over the course of your life , you're likely to take about 850 million breaths . As a mammal , you get " milk teeth " by the end of your first year , then a second set that emerges as you leave ...
... adults don't care for . " Of course adults ( with the exception of my father , who wanted to join in until Natalie frantically waved him off ) don't care for it ; you wind up having to put your whole body in . What- Natalie and her ...
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19 | |
Motherhood | 27 |
Hoop Dream ii | 34 |
Rattlesnake Lake | 43 |
3 | 48 |
Boys vs Girls ii | 49 |
Superheroes | 59 |
27 | 112 |
Notes on the Local Swimming Hole | 121 |
Hoop Dream viii | 135 |
Decline and Fall iii | 139 |
The Thing About Life Is That One | 151 |
Boys vs Girls iv | 160 |
29 | 163 |
Death Is the Mother of Beauty | 173 |
Hoop Dreams iv and | 66 |
Ye Olde MindBody Problem | 78 |
Decline and Fall ii | 87 |
14 | 91 |
Bloodline to Star Power ii | 98 |
19 | 103 |
Sex Changes Everything | 104 |
The Trouble with Being Food | 111 |
How to Live Forever i | 181 |
114 | 184 |
How to Live Forever ii | 189 |
Bloodline to Star Power iii | 200 |
The Story Told One Last Time | 211 |
Notes for Eulogy for My Father | 218 |
PERMISSIONS ACKNOWLEDGMENTS | 227 |
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