Volk, Tyler,

Death / Death & sex Death and sex Sex & death Tyler Volk. Sex / Dorion Sagan. - 105, xv, 117 pages ; 21 cm.

"A sciencewriters book." No collective t.p. ; titles transcribed from individual title pages ; works issued back-to-back and inverted.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 94-98, 109-110) and indexes.

Death: Impermanence -- Epicurean dance of friends -- Evolving life, evolving death -- Origin of life as origin of death -- Recycling of the dead -- Suicidal bacteria -- Little deaths in big bodies -- Built from death -- Extreme senescence -- Tuning longevity -- The awareness of mortality -- Death's cultural blooming -- Death-denying defenses -- Death and self-esteem -- Ripples upon flowing water. Sex: Forbidden fruit -- The naked truth -- Monkey traits -- Affair of the hair -- Secret races -- Blue light my baby -- The last pornographer -- Cosmic love machine -- Seduced by Sade -- Laugh of the Hyena -- DNA dance -- Silence of the Amebas -- Bliss.

9781603581431 (hbk.) 160358143X (hbk.)

2009030141


Death.
Aging.
Sex.

QP87 / .V647 2009

612.6/7