The Book of Immortality

The Book of Immortality
Author: Adam Gollner
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 416
Release: 2014-09-30
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 1439109435

An exploration of one of the most universal human obsessions charts the rise of longevity science from its alchemical beginnings to modern-day genetic interventions and enters the world of those whose lives are shaped by a belief in immortality.

Your Immortal Body of Light

Your Immortal Body of Light
Author: Mitchell E. Gibson
Publisher: 株式会社インプレスジャパン
Total Pages: 140
Release: 2006
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN: 9780977790456

Dr. Gibson was chief resident in psychiatry at a large inner-city medical center when he began expanding his consciousness through meditation. The work is a sensitive and compelling portrait of one man's spiritual and emotional journey into the unknown.

Immortality

Immortality
Author: Burnett Hillman Streeter
Publisher:
Total Pages: 412
Release: 1917
Genre: Future life
ISBN:

Those Who Write for Immortality

Those Who Write for Immortality
Author: H. J. Jackson
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 309
Release: 2015-03-01
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0300213301

Great writers of the past whose works we still read and love will be read forever. They will survive the test of time. We remember authors of true genius because their writings are simply the best. Or . . . might there be other reasons that account for an author’s literary fate? This original book takes a fresh look at our beliefs about literary fame by examining how it actually comes about. H. J. Jackson wrestles with entrenched notions about recognizing genius and the test of time by comparing the reputations of a dozen writers of the Romantic period—some famous, some forgotten. Why are we still reading Jane Austen but not Mary Brunton, when readers in their own day sometimes couldn’t tell their works apart? Why Keats and not Barry Cornwall, who came from the same circle of writers and had the same mentor? Why not that mentor, Leigh Hunt, himself? Jackson offers new and unorthodox accounts of the coming-to-fame of some of Britain’s most revered authors and compares their reputations and afterlives with those of their contemporary rivals. What she discovers about trends, champions, institutional power, and writers’ conscious efforts to position themselves for posterity casts fresh light on the actual processes that lead to literary fame.