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"How Long Will I Live?" And 434 other Questions Your Doctor Doesn't Have Time to Answer and You Can't Afford to Ask
by lawrence Galton
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0025423908
- ISBN 13
- 9780025423909
- Seller
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WINFIELD, Kansas, United States
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About This Item
New York, NY: Macmillan Publishing Company, 1976 Macmillan Publishing Company, New York. 1976. Hardcover. Stated First Printing. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Very Good+; light suntanning to top edges of boards; light shelfwear. DJ: Very Good+; NOT Price Clipped ($9.95); light suntanning to spine; light edge bumps. Blue boards with bright yellow cloth overlay on the spine with dark blue lettering on the spine. 308 pp 8vo. In clear, straightforward style, a medical writer answers those puzzling, sometimes worrisome questions we all have about life expectancy and continued good health.This book also provides engaging and fascinating reading on the entire subject of life expectancy, from current research to increase the average life span from 15-25 years by reducing body temperature to recent breakthroughs in the fight against cancer. A clean very presentable copy in a Brodart mylar jacket.
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- Bookseller
- Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 007217
- Title
- "How Long Will I Live?" And 434 other Questions Your Doctor Doesn't Have Time to Answer and You Can't Afford to Ask
- Author
- lawrence Galton
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0025423908
- ISBN 13
- 9780025423909
- Publisher
- Macmillan Publishing Company
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY
- Date Published
- 1976
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
- Keywords
- health, longevity, life span, cancer, body temperature, heredity, life expectancy, obesity, hypertension, stroke, kidney disease, physicians, medicine, medical doctors, gerontologists,
Terms of Sale
Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or in the unfortunate event, damaged. All books are packed and wrapped with care to avoid shifting during shipment and edge/tip strikes during the mailing process.
About the Seller
Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
Biblio member since 2018
WINFIELD, Kansas
About Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
Walnut Valley Books is a small independent home-based business with the bulk of my holdings being of an American military nature covering everything from the Revolutionary War to the current wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. I also have holdings of books on the Middle East, the southwestern United States (New Mexico especially, Kansas related titles, Oklahoma related titles, and other regionally specialized books. All of my holdings are hand-selected to be good quality books of interest to the reader, historian, or the collector. In addition to the above, you will also find a wide range of other topics such as Medical, US History, autobiographical, biographical, sports, women's studies, and many other eclectic topics.
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- Brodart
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- Cloth
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- Tight
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- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Shelfwear
- Minor wear resulting from a book being place on, and taken from a bookshelf, especially along the bottom edge.
- Bumps
- Indicates that the affected part of the book has been impacted in such a way so as to cause a flattening, indention, or light...
- Jacket
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- Price Clipped
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