Maximum Life Span
by Roy L. Walford, MD
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0393016498
- ISBN 13
- 9780393016499
- Seller
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WINFIELD, Kansas, United States
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About This Item
New York, NY: W.W. Norton & Company, 1983 W.W. Norton & Company, New York. 1983. Hardcover. Stated First Edition/First Printing by Line Number. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Fine; small factory defect tear on overlay at front. DJ: Fine: NOT Price Clipped ($15.50); light bumping at head. Cream boards with blue overlay on spine with bright gilt lettering on spine. 256pp 8vo. Science is on the brink of life-extension breakthroughs that will soon enable humans to live to 120 years and more. The author explains what the breakthroughs will be and how they will come about through an understanding of the fundamental biological processes of aging. His program also includes a controlled dietary restriction called undernutrition without malnutrition. A clean very presentable copy.
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- Bookseller
- Walnut Valley Books/Books by White (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 006203
- Title
- Maximum Life Span
- Author
- Roy L. Walford, MD
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0393016498
- ISBN 13
- 9780393016499
- Publisher
- W.W. Norton & Company
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY
- Date Published
- 1983
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
- Keywords
- life extension, health, dieting, foods, undernutrition, nutrition, fats, carbohydrates, biological aging,
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Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
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Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
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WINFIELD, Kansas
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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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