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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Výsledky 1 - 5 z 40.
... Mother of Beauty 173 Life Is That Which Gives Meaning to Life 176 How to Live Forever ( i ) 181 How to Live Forever ( ii ) 189 Last Words 194 Bloodline to Star Power ( iii ) 200 Sex and Death ( iv ) 205 The Story Told One Last Time ...
... mother's womb and wait to be fed . Its placenta aggressively sprouts blood vessels that invade its mother's tissues to extract nutrients . A mother and her unborn child engage in an unconscious struggle over the nutri- ents she will ...
... mother for not entering a playground when the gate was locked and my father being disgusted that I hadn't climbed the fence . As a wide receiver , I would run intricate patterns , then stand all alone in the middle of the field , waving ...
... mother's hormones . For the same reason , the baby's breasts may be somewhat enlarged and secrete a watery discharge called " witch's milk . " The irises are pale blue ; true eye color develops later . The head is very large in ...
... mother's pelvis ; the channel through which the baby is born can't get any bigger . The baby's brain quickly makes up for that initial constraint : by age 1 , the brain is 75 percent of adult size . Infants have accurate hearing up to ...
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9 | |
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 |