Life's Edge
Subtitle: The Search for What It Means to Be Alive
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Published: 2021
Place of publication: New York, USA
Language: eng
Format: hardcover
Number of pages: 348
ISBN-13: 9780593182710
Copyright date: 2021
First sentence: In the fall of 1904, the Cavendish Laboratory was full of curious experiments.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: The Borderland
pagenum: ix; label: Part One
title: The Quickening
pagenum: 1; title: The Way the Spirit Comes to the Bones
pagenum: 3; title: Death Is Resisted
pagenum: 35; label: Part Two
title: The Hallmarks
pagenum: 63; title: Dinner
pagenum: 65; title: Decisive Matter
pagenum: 78; title: Preserving Constant the Conditions of Life
pagenum: 90; title: Copy/Paste
pagenum: 102; title: Darwin's Lung
pagenum: 111; label: Part Three
title: A Series of Dark Questions
pagenum: 125; title: This Astonishing Multiplication
pagenum: 127; title: Irritations
pagenum: 136; title: The Sect
pagenum: 144; title: This Mud Was Actually Alive
pagenum: 152; title: A Play of Water
pagenum: 168; title: Scripts
pagenum: 182; label: Part Four
title: Return to the Borderland
pagenum: 201; title: Half Life
pagenum: 203; title: Data Needed for a Blueprint
pagenum: 216; title: No Obvious Bushes
pagenum: 250; title: Four Blue Droplets
pagenum: 267; title: Notes
pagenum: 293; title: Bibliography
pagenum: 307; title: Acknowledgments
pagenum: 335; title: Index
pagenum: 337