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The Future of Immortality : Remaking Life and Death in Contemporary Russia /

As long as we have known death, we have dreamed of life without end. In The Future of Immortality, Anya Bernstein explores the contemporary Russian communities of visionaries and utopians who are pressing at the very limits of the human. The Future of Immortality profiles a diverse cast of character...

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Autor principal: Bernstein, Anya (Autor, Auteur.)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford : Princeton University Press.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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