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  • Lepore, Jill, 1966-
     
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    The mansion of happiness : a history of life and death / Jill Lepore.
    by Lepore, Jill, 1966-
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    New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2012.
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  • Politics and culture -- United States -- History.
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  • Popular culture -- United States -- History.
  •  
  • Life -- Social aspects -- United States -- History.
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  • Life (Biology) -- Social aspects -- United States -- History.
  •  
  • Life cycle, Human -- Social aspects -- United States -- History.
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  • Death -- Social aspects -- United States -- History.
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  • Happiness -- Social aspects -- United States -- History.
  •  
  • United States -- Social life and customs.
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  • United States -- Social conditions.
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  • United States -- Intellectual life.
  • Electronic Resourcehttp://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1205/2011050566-b.html
    Electronic Resourcehttp://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1205/2011050566-d.html
    ISBN: 
    9780307592996
    0307592995
    Description: 
    xxxiii, 282 p. ; 25 cm.
    Edition: 
    1st ed.
    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.
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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
    A history of American ideas about life and death from before the cradle to beyond the grave.
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    Hawaii State LibraryLanguage, Literature & History973 LeChecked InAdd Copy to MyList
    Lihue Public LibraryAdult Nonfiction973 LeporeChecked InAdd Copy to MyList
    Mililani Public LibraryAdult Nonfiction973 LeChecked InAdd Copy to MyList


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