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<description><![CDATA[<a class="highslide" href="https://picture.graycity.net/img/stephen-cave/immortality.jpg"><img src="https://picture.graycity.net/img/stephen-cave/immortality_preview.jpg" class="fr-fic fr-dib" title ="Immortality" alt ="Immortality"/></a><br//>A fascinating work of popular philosophy and history that both enlightens and entertains, Stephen Cave's Immortality investigates whether it just might be possible to live forever and whether we should want to.  But it also makes a powerful argument, which is that it's our very preoccupation with defying mortality that drives civilization.<br><br>Central to this book is the metaphor of a mountaintop where one can find the Immortals.  Since the dawn of humanity, everyone -- whether they know it or not -- has been trying to climb that mountain.  But there are only four paths up its treacherous slope, and there have only ever been four paths.  Throughout history, people have wagered everything on their choice of the correct path, and fought wars against those who've chosen differently.<br><br>While Immortality takes the reader on an eye-opening journey from the beginnings of civilization to the present day, the structure is not chronological.  Rather it...]]></description>
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