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""[A] searching and surprisingly witty look at the scientific odds against tomorrow."" --Timothy Ferris Jonathan Weiner--winner 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 America--examines ""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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A great trip.... Weiner writes engagingly [and] explores the fractured, fuzzy science and pseudoscience of immortality. --Abraham Verghese, NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW Bizarre, fascinating, and fun. --Rebecca Skloot, author of THE IMMORTAL LIFE OF HENRIETTA LACKS In LONG FOR THIS WORLD, Jonathan Weiner brings his immense talents--his masterful prose, his deep reporting, and his ability to see connections across the human experience--to one of science's most intriguing frontiers: the science of aging. --Carl Zimmer, author of THE TANGLED BANK: An Introduction to Evolution and PARASITE REX LONG FOR THIS WORLD is a rich and fascinating study of the longing for immortality and our lingering doubts about the possibility of surpassing our mortal limits. --Simon Critchley, author of THE BOOK OF DEAD PHILOSOPHERS I admire all of Jonathan Weiner's books, but this one especially because of its intellectual depth and clarity, its sense of personal involvement, and its tone and wit. The chapter on the evolution of aging is particularly brilliant! I couldn't put the book down. --Oliver Sacks I love this book. It is a mesmerizing blend of vivid (sometimes hilarious) reporting, wide-ranging scholarship, and the thoughtful probing of a great mystery. Like everything Jonathan Weiner does, it is far more than the sum of its parts. --James Gleick Jonathan Weiner has done it again. In LONG FOR THIS WORLD, one of our finest science journalists explores the shadowy sword hanging over us all, weaving together the latest research with time-tested cultural wisdom. Will we ever live forever? And would we even want to? --Jonah Lehrer, author of HOW WE DECIDE Taxes may be inevitable, but death? Maybe not so much, suggests Jonathan Weiner, one of our finest science writers, in this searching and surprisingly witty look at the scientific odds against tomorrow. --Timothy Ferris A brilliant and improbably funny look inside the mind-bending science of immortality. --Village Voice I admire all of Jonathan Weiner s books, but this one especially because of its intellectual depth and clarity, its sense of personal involvement, and its tone and wit. The chapter on the evolution of aging is particularly brilliant! I couldn t put the book down. --Oliver Sacks Bizarre, fascinating, and fun. --Rebecca Skloot, author of THE IMMORTAL LIFE OF HENRIETTA LACKS I love this book. It is a mesmerizing blend of vivid (sometimes hilarious) reporting, wide-ranging scholarship, and the thoughtful probing of a great mystery. Like everything Jonathan Weiner does, it is far more than the sum of its parts. --James Gleick Jonathan Weiner has done it again. In LONG FOR THIS WORLD, one of our finest science journalists explores the shadowy sword hanging over us all, weaving together the latest research with time-tested cultural wisdom. Will we ever live forever? And would we even want to? --Jonah Lehrer, author of HOW WE DECIDE LONG FOR THIS WORLD is a rich and fascinating study of the longing for immortality and our lingering doubts about the possibility of surpassing our mortal limits. --Simon Critchley, author of THE BOOK OF DEAD PHILOSOPHERS A great trip.... Weiner writes engagingly [and] explores the fractured, fuzzy science and pseudoscience of immortality. --Abraham Verghese, NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW A brilliant and improbably funny look inside the mind-bending science of immortality. --Village Voice Taxes may be inevitable, but death? Maybe not so much, suggests Jonathan Weiner, one of our finest science writers, in this searching and surprisingly witty look at the scientific odds against tomorrow. --Timothy Ferris In LONG FOR THIS WORLD, Jonathan Weiner brings his immense talents--his masterful prose, his deep reporting, and his ability to see connections across the human experience--to one of science s most intriguing frontiers: the science of aging. --Carl Zimmer, author of THE TANGLED BANK: An Introduction to Evolution and PARASITE REX The promise of eternal youth is both tantalizingly close and far-fetched in this fascinating primer on longevity research . . . . An engrossing tour of cutting-edge research . . . . Weiner s erudite, elegant exposition of the underlying science is stimulating yet sobering. --Publishers Weekly (starred review) The promise of eternal youth is both tantalizingly close and far-fetched in this fascinating primer on longevity research . . . . An engrossing tour of cutting-edge research . . . . Weiner's erudite, elegant exposition of the underlying science is stimulating yet sobering. --Publishers Weekly (starred review)

A brilliant and improbably funny look inside the mind-bending science of immortality. --Village Voice

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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.

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