My book tells how I have struggled to live from day to day since my being diagnosed at six months of age. So you know I have lived a long time with this disease. It hadn't been easy.
John Lennon, Living on Borrowed Time: A Personal Memoir
This comprehensive microhistory of opium in Canton from the late Qing to Republican period examines the infamous drug from the perspective of material, political, economic, and social history.
Living on Borrowed Time
In On Borrowed Time, Harald Weinrich examines an extraordinary range of materials—from Hippocrates to Run Lola Run—to put forth a new conception of time and its limits that, unlike older models, is firmly grounded in human experience.
Building on Borrowed Time is a timely and powerful ethnography of how people in Semarang, Indonesia, on the north coast of Java, are dealing with this global warming–driven existential challenge.
In his debut literary rendering, Dr. Milton C. Mallard, Jr., will inspire you to make the most out of each precious moment you live. There are 1440 minutes in a...
When Michael Klass, Tom Johnson and their colleagues began looking in the 1980s for genes that might be involved in ageing, they were right out on a limb scientifically. 'At the time,' writes Cynthia Kenyon in a personal review of the ...
T. Rex started out as a folk rock band in the Donovan/Middle Earth mode. Then, like David Bowie, T. Rex made the switch to androgynous glam rock, one of the first major movements of the post-Beatles era. Named Born to Boogie, ...
Jeff, his name was, and he'd been chosen to be in the AZT double-blind study being funded by NIH. ... The press had uncovered the fact that Cohn was being treated at NIH in Washington, and the rumor was that it was AIDS, despite Cohn's ...
As a medic in Europe during World War II, William Horton had some pretty crazy experiences. Luckily for us he had an incredible memory and one his daughters wrote down those stories.