Jonathan Weiner

Long for This World (eBook, ePUB)

The Strange Science of Immortality

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

[A] searching and surprisingly witty look at the scientific odds against tomorrow.
Timothy Ferris

Jonathan Weinerwinner of the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and one of the most distinguished popular science writers in Americaexamines the strange science of immortality in Long for This World. A fast-paced, sure-to-astonish scientific adventure from one of our finest science journalists (Jonah Lehrer), Weiner's Long for This World addresses the ageless question, Is there a secret to eternal youth? And has it, at long last, been found?

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: HarperCollins
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Juni 2010
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780062000217
• Artikelnr.: 38003906

Autorenporträt

Jonathan Weiner is one of the most distinguished popular-science writers in the country: his books have won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. His writing has appeared in The New Yorker, Slate, Time, The New York Times Magazine, The Washington Post, The New Republic, Scientific American, Smithsonian, and many other newspapers and magazines, and he is a former editor at The Sciences. His books include The Beak of the Finch; Time, Love, Memory; and His Brother's Keeper. He lives in New York, where he teaches science writing at Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism.