Author: Jill Lepore
Edition: 1
Publisher: Knopf
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 0307592995
The Mansion of Happiness: A History of Life and Death
Renowned Harvard scholar and New Yorker staff writer Jill Lepore has composed a strikingly original, ingeniously conceived, and beautifully crafted history of American ideas about life and death from before the cradle to beyond the grave. Medical books The Mansion of Happiness. br>
How does life begin? What does it mean? What happens when we die? “All anyone can do is ask,” Lepore writes. “That's why any history of ideas about life and death has to be, like this book, a history of curiosity.” Lepore starts that history with the story of a seventeenth-century Englishman who had the idea that all life begins with an egg and ends it with an American who, in the 1970s, began freezing the dead. In between, life got longer, the stages of life multiplied, and matters of life and death moved from the library to the laboratory, from the humanities to the sciences Medical books The Mansion Of Happiness: A History Of Life And Death By Jill Lepore Compact. Store Search search Title, ISBN and Author The Mansion of Happiness: A History of Life and Death by Jill Lepore Estimated delivery 3-12 business days Format Compact Disc Condition Brand New Author Biography Jill Lepore is the David Woods Kemper 41 professor of American History at Harvard University and a staff writer at The New Yorker. Details ISBN 1455882763 ISBN-13 9781455882762 Title The Mansion of Happiness: A History of Life and Death Author Jill Lepore Format Compact Disc Publisher Brilli
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Store Search search Title, ISBN and Author The Mansion of Happiness: A History of Life and Death by Jill Lepore Estimated delivery 3-12 business days Format Compact Disc Condition Brand New Author Biography Jill Lepore is the David Woods Kemper 41 professor of American History at Harvard University and a staff writer at The New Yorker. Details ISBN 1455882763 ISBN-13 9781455882762 Title The Mansion of Happiness: A History of Life and Death Author Jill Lepore Format Compact Disc Publisher Brilli
format cd rom or audio cd title the mansion of happiness a history of life and death author lepore jill publisher brilliance audio publication date jun 05 2012 pages unknown binding cd rom or audio cd edition unabridged dimensions 6 25 wx 5 25 hx 1 00 d isbn 1455882739 subject history united states general description a history of american ideas about life and death includes coverage of topics ranging from the 17 th century englishman who investigated a belief about life starting with eggs and
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How does life begin? What does it mean? What happens when we die? “All anyone can do is ask,” Lepore writes. “That's why any history of ideas about life and death has to be, like this book, a history of curiosity.” Lepore starts that history with the story of a seventeenth-century Englishman who had the idea that all life begins with an egg and ends it with an American who, in the 1970s, began freezing the dead. In between, life got longer, the stages of life multiplied, and matters of life and death moved from the library to the laboratory, from the humanities to the sciences. Lately, debates about life and death have determined the course of American politics. Each of these debates has a history. Investigating the surprising origins of the stuff of everyday life—from board games to breast pumps—Lepore argues that the age of discovery, Darwin, and the Space Age turned ideas about life on earth topsy-turvy. “New worlds were found,” she writes, and “old paradises were lost.” As much a meditation on the present as an excavation of the past, The Mansion of Happiness is delightful, learned, and altogether beguiling.
