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Author:
Lepore, Jill, 1966-
Title:
The mansion of happiness : a history of life and death / Jill Lepore.
Edition:
1st Vintage Books ed.
Publisher:
Vintage Books,
Copyright Date:
2013, c2012
Description:
xxxiii, 282 p. ; 21 cm.
Subject:
Politics and culture--United States--History.
Popular culture--United States--History.
Life--History.--United States--History.
Life (Biology)--History.--United States--History.
Life cycle, Human--History.--United States--History.
Death--History.--United States--History.
Happiness--History.--United States--History.
United States--Social life and customs.
United States--Social conditions.
United States--Intellectual life.
Notes:
Originally published: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2012. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:
A history of American ideas about life and death discusses how the age of discovery, Darwin's theories of evolution, and the space age changed ideas about life on Earth.
ISBN:
0307476456
9780307476456 (pbk.)
LCCN:
bl2013011267
Locations:
DPPE403 -- Kendall Young Library (Webster City)

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