
Extra Life |
Subtitle:
A Short History of Living Longer
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Book Category:
Science > History
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Author:
JOHNSON, STEVEN
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Editor::
Young, Courtney
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Illustrator::
A FEW BLACK-AND-WHITE CHARTS T/O
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Binding:
Hardcover
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ISBN 13:
9780525538851
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Price:
US 28
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Publisher Info
Penguin Random House. InquiryBook Description
As a species we have doubled our life expectancy in just one hundred years. All the advances of modern life--the medical breakthroughs, the public health institutions, the rising standards of living--have given us each about twenty thousand extra days on average. There are few measures of human progress more astonishing than our increased longevity.