You can live 6 times 20 years Follow the rule of Flourens Some peculiar facts Things are really turning for the better But there is another good reason to rejoice! The means we propose KEY N° 1 - LEARN TO KNOW AND LISTEN TO YOUR BODY CHAPTER 1- Recognize the signs of your vitality - Longevity test - Iridology - General examination CHAPTER 2 - Recognize the signs of aging to better prevent it - Your connective tissue - Your blood - Your heart and arteries - Your liver, kidneys and endocrine glands - Your lungs - Your basal metabolic rate - Your bones and muscles CHAPTER 3 - A very visible sign: the state of your skin - How to fight wrinkles - Other external signs KEY N° 2 - APPROACH THE SECRETS OF SUPER NUTRITION CHAPTER 4 - Trace Elements: A Small But Powerful Amount CHAPTER 5 - Take 200 mg of vitamins daily - A Brief History of Vitamins - How do they work? - Does a deficiency threaten you? CHAPTER 6 - A Little Guide to Superfoods - Discover the magic of biodynamic foods - Wheat Germ and Wheat Sprout: At the Heart of the Ear of Wheat - Brewer's yeast: an exceptional resource - Parsley: modest but unique - Yogurt: the food par excellence of centenarians - Pollen KEY N° 3 - CHOOSE YOUR FOODS ACCORDING TO THEIR COMPOSITION AND PROPERTIES CHAPTER 7 - Meat: find the right dose CHAPTER 8 - The Fish Alternative - How to consume it - Its nutritional virtues - Who should avoid fish? CHAPTER 9 - Crustaceans, molluscs and echinoderms - Foods not without risks - The exception to the rule: the oyster - Attention to oysters and wild molluscs - Freshness is a must CHAPTER 10 - The Many Virtues of Eggs - What it contains - A Medicine-Food? - Contraindications and risks - How to recognize a fresh egg - Eggs to avoid CHAPTER 11 - Milk: there is no reason to avoid it CHAPTER 12 - Cheeses: First Rate Foods CHAPTER 13 - Wheat and the Bread Problem - Things are not what they used to be - How a grain of wheat is formed - The misdeeds of modern agriculture - And that's not all! - The milling industry: an art in decay - It is not enough to have a good flour to make good bread CHAPTER 16 - Legumes CHAPTER 17 - Sulfur Vegetables CHAPTER 18 - Green and White Vegetables CHAPTER 19 - Fruits-Vegetables and Mushrooms CHAPTER 24 - Sugar and Sweet Foods - Why is sugar an anti-physiological food? - One of the major causes of diabetes - Its effect on teeth - A little, a lot, not at all? - The problem with chocolate - Honey, this "blond gold of the bees" CHAPTER 25 - Fat bodies

The Long Life invites the reader to range widely from the writings of Plato through to recent philosophical work by Derek Parfit, Bernard Williams, and others, and from Shakespeare's King Lear through works by Thomas Mann, Balzac, Dickens, Beckett, Stevie Smith, Philip Larkin, to more recent writing by Saul Bellow, Philip Roth, and J. M. Coetzee. Helen Small argues that if we want to understand old age, we have to think more fundamentally about what it means to be a person, to have a life, to have (or lead) a good life, to be part of a just society. What did Plato mean when he suggested that old age was the best place from which to practice philosophy - or Thomas Mann when he defined old age as the best time to be a writer - and were they right? If we think, as Aristotle did, that a good life requires the active pursuit of virtue, how will our view of later life be affected? If we think that lives and persons are unified, much as stories are said to be unified, how will our thinking about old age differ from that of someone who thinks that lives and/or persons can be strongly discontinuous? In a just society, what constitutes a fair distribution of limited resources between the young and the old? How, if at all, should recent developments in the theory of evolutionary senescence alter our thinking about what it means to grow old? This is a groundbreaking book, deep as well as broad, and likely to alter the way in which we talk about one of the great social concerns of our time - the growing numbers of those living to be old, and the growing proportion of the old to the young.

Soft thorny flowers in the village of my poetry A clear outpouring of emotions in the rain of words In the village of my poetry. Flowery dryness of pain in the dry season A pleasant gentle breeze at time In the village of my poetry. A plant of contentment raised in the pink winter Leaps again in dim white light The sound of my vibrations will be found In the village of my poetry. Drenched in the rain of words My reflection will be found In the village of my poetry.

A “fascinating” meditation on the joys of a not-so-dead language (Los Angeles Review of Books). From acclaimed novelist and Oxford professor Nicola Gardini, this is a personal and passionate look at the Latin language: its history, its authors, its essential role in education, and its enduring impact on modern life—whether we call it “dead” or not. What use is Latin? It’s a question we’re often asked by those who see the language of Cicero as no more than a cumbersome heap of ruins, something to remove from the curriculum. In this sustained meditation, Gardini gives us his sincere and brilliant reply: Latin is, quite simply, the means of expression that made us—and continues to make us—who we are. In Latin, the rigorous and inventive thinker Lucretius examined the nature of our world; the poet Propertius told of love and emotion in a dizzying variety of registers; Caesar affirmed man’s capacity to shape reality through reason; Virgil composed the Aeneid, without which we’d see all of Western history in a different light. In Long Live Latin, Gardini shares his deep love for the language—enriched by his tireless intellectual curiosity—and warmly encourages us to engage with a civilization that has never ceased to exist, because it’s here with us now, whether we know it or not. Thanks to his careful guidance, even without a single lick of Latin grammar, readers can discover how this language is still capable of restoring our sense of identity, with a power that only useless things can miraculously express. “Gardini gives another reason for studying classical languages: ‘The story of our lives is just a fraction of all history . . . life began long before we were born.’ This is the very opposite of a practical argument—it is a meditative, even self-effacing one. To learn a language because it was spoken by some brilliant people 2,000 years ago is to celebrate the world; not a way to optimize yourself, but to get over yourself.” —The Economist “Nicola Gardini’s paean to Latin belongs on the shelf alongside Nabokov’s Lectures on Literature. With a similar blend of erudition, reverence, and impeccable close reading, he connects the dots between etymology and poetry, between syntax and society. And he proves, in the process, that a mysterious and magnificent language, born in ancient Rome, is still relevant to each and every one of us.” —Jhumpa Lahiri, Pulitzer Prize winner and New York Times–bestselling author of Roman Stories