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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... grow , the bones fuse together : an 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 ...
... grown man like me can pronounce . From now on , I'm going to call you Shieldsy . ' A few weeks later , Sergeant Hill shortened it to Shields . And Shields it was for the 36 months I was assigned to the 164th Quartermaster Company . I ...
... grow one millimeter a week . Toenails grow one - quarter as fast as fingernails - one millimeter a month . Pianists ' and typists ' fingernails grow faster than others ' . Fingernail growth is fastest in November , slowest in July , and ...
... grow more slowly ; in severe cold weather , fingernails grow more slowly . From age 30 until 80 , fingernail growth slows by 50 percent . Contrary to myth , Dad , your nails and hair don't keep growing after you die . Boys vs. Girls ( i ) ...
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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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The Thing About Life Is That One Day You'll Be Dead David Shields Previsualització no disponible - 2009 |
The Thing about Life Is That One Day You'll Be Dead David Shields Previsualització no disponible - 2010 |