Immortality: Testing Civilisation's Greatest Promise

By Stephen Cave and Stephen Cave

Book Overview

"A fascinating history of man's greatest obsession and poses a stunning theory of society."--The Daily Beast "A must-read exploration of what spurs human ingenuity.... Has changed my view of the... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 184954493X
• ISBN13: 9781849544931
• Release Date: February 2013
• Publisher: Biteback Publishing
• Length: 340 Pages
• Weight: 0.76 lbs.
• Dimensions: 7.9" x 1.0" x 5.2"

Customer Reviews

The footnotes cannot come fast enough.

Stephen Cave does not take enough time to establish the background necessary to support the sweeping assumptions he makes. This may have been helped if there had been Footnotes all along, saying here somebody else too says this, or some other thing that shows this. He flippantly assumes that all societies and people are built on the thought of four types of immortality. That would be okay in itself, except it seems to be a snot when it comes to who is immortality can trump whose immortality as if it were all a game.