The Resource The mansion of happiness : a history of life and death, Jill Lepore
The mansion of happiness : a history of life and death, Jill Lepore
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- Summary
- "A history of American ideas about life and death includes coverage of topics ranging from the 17th-century Englishman who investigated a belief about life starting with eggs and the heated debates over Darwin's evolutionary findings to the role of the Space Age in changing views on planetary life to the 1970s trends in cryogenics." --Publishers description
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- xxxiii, 282 pages
- Note
-
- "This is a Borzoi book"--Title page verso
- "Parts of this book originally appeared in The New Yorker"--Title page verso
- Contents
-
- Introduction: The mansion of happiness
- Hatched
- Baby good
- The children's room
- All about erections
- Mr. Marriage
- Happiness minutes
- Confessions of an amateur mother
- Happy old age
- The gate of heaven
- Resurrection
- Last words
- A chronology
- Isbn
- 9780307592996
- Label
- The mansion of happiness : a history of life and death
- Title
- The mansion of happiness
- Title remainder
- a history of life and death
- Statement of responsibility
- Jill Lepore
- Subject
-
- trueDeath -- Social aspects
- trueDeath -- Social aspects -- United States -- History
- trueHappiness -- Social aspects
- Happiness -- Social aspects -- United States -- History
- trueIntellectual life -- United States
- trueLife
- Life (Biology) -- Social aspects -- United States -- History
- Life -- Social aspects -- United States -- History
- Life cycle, Human -- Social aspects -- United States -- History
- trueUnited States -- Intellectual life
- trueUnited States -- Social conditions
- trueUnited States -- Social life and customs
- truePolitics and culture -- United States -- History
- truePopular culture
- truePopular culture -- United States -- History
- trueUnited States -- History
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "A history of American ideas about life and death includes coverage of topics ranging from the 17th-century Englishman who investigated a belief about life starting with eggs and the heated debates over Darwin's evolutionary findings to the role of the Space Age in changing views on planetary life to the 1970s trends in cryogenics." --Publishers description
- Award
- Booklist Editors' Choice, 2012.
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/bookUI
- 10109621
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://bibfra.me/vocab/lite/collectionName
- New Yorker (New York, N.Y. : 1925)
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1966-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Lepore, Jill
- Dewey number
- 973
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- E169.1
- LC item number
- .L5295 2012
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/resourcePreferred
- True
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- United States
- United States
- United States
- Politics and culture
- Popular culture
- Life
- Life (Biology)
- Life cycle, Human
- Death
- Happiness
- Target audience
- adult
- http://bibfra.me/vocab/lite/titleRemainder
- a history of life and death
- Label
- The mansion of happiness : a history of life and death, Jill Lepore
- Note
-
- "This is a Borzoi book"--Title page verso
- "Parts of this book originally appeared in The New Yorker"--Title page verso
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Introduction: The mansion of happiness -- Hatched -- Baby good -- The children's room -- All about erections -- Mr. Marriage -- Happiness minutes -- Confessions of an amateur mother -- Happy old age -- The gate of heaven -- Resurrection -- Last words -- A chronology
- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- xxxiii, 282 pages
- Isbn
- 9780307592996
- Lccn
- 2011050566
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
-
- 753624757
- (OCoLC)753624757
- Label
- The mansion of happiness : a history of life and death, Jill Lepore
- Note
-
- "This is a Borzoi book"--Title page verso
- "Parts of this book originally appeared in The New Yorker"--Title page verso
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Introduction: The mansion of happiness -- Hatched -- Baby good -- The children's room -- All about erections -- Mr. Marriage -- Happiness minutes -- Confessions of an amateur mother -- Happy old age -- The gate of heaven -- Resurrection -- Last words -- A chronology
- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- xxxiii, 282 pages
- Isbn
- 9780307592996
- Lccn
- 2011050566
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
-
- 753624757
- (OCoLC)753624757
Subject
- trueDeath -- Social aspects
- trueDeath -- Social aspects -- United States -- History
- trueHappiness -- Social aspects
- Happiness -- Social aspects -- United States -- History
- trueIntellectual life -- United States
- trueLife
- Life (Biology) -- Social aspects -- United States -- History
- Life -- Social aspects -- United States -- History
- Life cycle, Human -- Social aspects -- United States -- History
- trueUnited States -- Intellectual life
- trueUnited States -- Social conditions
- trueUnited States -- Social life and customs
- truePolitics and culture -- United States -- History
- truePopular culture
- truePopular culture -- United States -- History
- trueUnited States -- History
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