The Thing About Life is That One Day You'll Be Dead: A MemoirKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 5.02.2008 г. - 256 страници 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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... develops later . The head is very large in proportion to the body , and the neck can't support it , while the buttocks are tiny . The average baby weighs 74 pounds and is 21 inches long . Newborns lose 5 to 8 percent of their birth ...
... developed for the good of each species ; an entropy - producing agent disrupts cells ; smaller mammals tend to have high metabolic rates and die at an earlier age than larger mammals do ; specific endocrine or immune systems are ...
... possibly consist of ? Girls develop breast buds between 8 and 10 years old , and full breasts between ages 12 and 18. Girls get their first pubic hair and armpit hair between ages 9 and 12 , and 20 The Thing About Life.
... develop adult patterns of this hair between ages 13 and 14. I once heard . statutory rape defended by the phrase " If there's grass on the field , play ball . " In 1830 , girls typically got their first period when they were 17. Thanks ...
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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 |