The mansion of happiness : a history of life and death / Jill Lepore.
TITLE:
The mansion of happiness : a history of life and death / Jill Lepore.
Publication Date:
2012
Publication Information:
New York : Alfred A. Knopf,
Edition:
1st ed.
Physical Description:
xxxiii, 282 p.
Bibliography Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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
Language:
English
ISBN:
9780307592996
General Note:
"Parts of this book originally appeared in The New Yorker"--T.p. verso.
