What Is Death? A Scientist Looks at the Cycle of Life

Name: What Is Death? A Scientist Looks at the Cycle of Life
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ISBN: 9780471375449

ISBN-10: 0471375446

ISBN-13: 9780471375449

Edition: 2002

Authors: Tyler Volk

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A leading developer of Gaia theory introduces a cosmology of death: a comprehensive explanation of the crucial role that death plays in the processes of life in its many forms - biological, sociological, and psychological.

Book details

List price: $32.95
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated
Publication date: 3/19/2002
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 255
Size: 6.34" wide x 9.58" long x 0.92" tall
Weight: 1.078
Language: English



Introduction: Death, Thus Life


Brain


The Three-Pound Miracle


We Live in Two Different Worlds


The Grateful Self


Culture


Nobody Just Dies


Managing Terror


Death with Interconnected Dignity


Biosphere


Sex and Catastrophic Senescence


Lifestyle and Life Span


Little Deaths, Big Lives


Life and Death at the Smallest Scale


Conclusion: Eternity's Sunrise


Notes


Bibliography


Acknowledgments


Index