The Thing About Life is That One Day You'll Be Dead: A MemoirKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 5. 2. 2008 - 256 strán (strany) 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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... average heart rate is 120 beats per minute , makes the transition from a comfortable , fluid - filled environment to a cold , air - filled one by creating a suction 50 times stronger than the average adult breath . I was 3 Our Birth Is ...
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 ...
... average baby weighs 74 pounds and is 21 inches long . Newborns lose 5 to 8 percent of their birth weight in the first few days of life - owing , mainly , to water loss . They can hear little during the first 24 hours until air enters ...
... " As we get older , " the British poet Henry Reed helpfully observed , " we do not get any younger . " On average , infants sleep 20 hours a day , 1 - year - olds sleep 13 hours a day , teenagers sleep 9 hours , 9 Decline and Fall.
... average , 21 times a night owing to disordered breathing . An infant breathes 40 to 60 times a minute ; a 5 - year - old , 24 to 26 times ; an adolescent , 20 to 22 times ; an adult ( beginning at age 25 ) , 16 times . Over the course ...
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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 |