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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... 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 transition from a comfortable , fluid ...
... 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 the eustachian tubes . They miss the womb and resent any stimulus . They will ...
... percent of adult size , because the mechanics of walking upright impose a constraint on the size of the 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 ...
... percent of the night consists of lying awake . As I constantly have to remind my now light- sleeping father , people ages 73 to 92 awake , on average , 21 times a night owing to disordered breathing . An infant breathes 40 to 60 times a ...
... 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 ) The XX and XY Decline and Fall ( i ) II.
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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 |