Coming of Age
Publisher: Warner Books Inc (Mm)
Published: March 1978
Language: eng
Number of pages: 864
ISBN-13: 9780446836807
First sentence: As we have just seen, the notion of decline has, on the biological plane, a straightfoward meaning; the organism declines when its chances of continuing to live are reduced.
Description: A comprehensive examination of the biological, ethnological and historical aspects of old age and society's role in determining the unhappy fate of human beings.