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001 2011050566
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008 111212s2012 nyu b 001 0 eng
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035 $a(OCoLC)ocn753624757
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050 00 $aE169.1$b.L5295 2012
082 00 $a973$223
100 1 $aLepore, Jill,$d1966-
245 14 $aThe mansion of happiness :$ba history of life and death /$cJill Lepore.
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aNew York :$bAlfred A. Knopf,$c2012.
300 $axxxiii, 282 p. ;$c25 cm.
500 $a"This is a Borzoi book"--T.p. verso.
500 $a"Parts of this book originally appeared in The New Yorker"--T.p. verso.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520 $a"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
505 0 $aIntroduction: 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.
520 $aA history of American ideas about life and death from before the cradle to beyond the grave.
651 0 $aUnited States$xSocial life and customs.
651 0 $aUnited States$xSocial conditions.
651 0 $aUnited States$xIntellectual life.
650 0 $aPolitics and culture$zUnited States$xHistory.
650 0 $aPopular culture$zUnited States$xHistory.
650 0 $aLife$xSocial aspects$zUnited States$xHistory.
650 0 $aLife (Biology)$xSocial aspects$zUnited States$xHistory.
650 0 $aLife cycle, Human$xSocial aspects$zUnited States$xHistory.
650 0 $aDeath$xSocial aspects$zUnited States$xHistory.
650 0 $aHappiness$xSocial aspects$zUnited States$xHistory.
730 0 $aNew Yorker (New York, N.Y. : 1925)
856 42 $3Contributor biographical information$uhttp://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1205/2011050566-b.html
856 42 $3Publisher description$uhttp://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1205/2011050566-d.html