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Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
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Acclaimed Hollywood screenwriter and director Nora Ephron turns her sharp powers of observation on her own life as she examines the indignities of ageing for the Baby Boom generation. Filled with witty and biting essays like "I Hate my Handbag", "Blind as a Bat" and "What I Wish I'd Known", this book offers the consolation that no matter how much your neck sags, your boobs drop, your skin wrinkles and your children don't appreciate you, someone has...
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Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
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In Being Mortal, bestselling author Atul Gawande tackles the hardest challenge of his profession: how medicine can not only improve life but also the process of its ending. Medicine has triumphed in modern times, transforming birth, injury, and infectious disease from harrowing to manageable. But in the inevitable condition of aging and death, the goals of medicine seem too frequently to run counter to the interest of the human spirit. Nursing homes,...
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