The Mansion of Happiness
Title | The Mansion of Happiness PDF eBook |
Author | Jill Lepore |
Publisher | Vintage |
Total Pages | 322 |
Release | 2013-03-26 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0307476456 |
Renowned Harvard scholar and New Yorker staff writer Jill Lepore has written a strikingly original, ingeniously conceived, and beautifully crafted history of American ideas about life and death from before the cradle to beyond the grave. 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.
The Mansion of Happiness
Title | The Mansion of Happiness PDF eBook |
Author | Robin Ekiss |
Publisher | University of Georgia Press |
Total Pages | 107 |
Release | 2009 |
Genre | Poetry |
ISBN | 0820334081 |
Robin Ekiss's meditations on memory and mortality are a canary in the coal mine of imagination. With disembodied dolls, dank Parisian catacombs, the gilded interior of a Fabergé egg, and the unfathomable edge of Niagara Falls as the dominion of these poems, reading Ekiss's work is like peering into the perfectly still world of a diorama or daguerreotype: an experience both uncanny and uncompromising.
Antiques
Title | Antiques PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 1136 |
Release | 1927 |
Genre | Antiques |
ISBN |
Guide to Buddhahood
Title | Guide to Buddhahood PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 152 |
Release | 1907 |
Genre | Buddha (The concept) |
ISBN |
The Metropolitan Museum of Art Activity Book
Title | The Metropolitan Museum of Art Activity Book PDF eBook |
Author | Osa Brown |
Publisher | ABRAMS |
Total Pages | 104 |
Release | 1990-03 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 9780810924376 |
These exciting activities, based on over 30 treasures in America's greatest art museum, are fun to make and play with. They include a Japanese carp kite, a colonial American board game, a French jumping jack, and many more.
The New Yorker
Title | The New Yorker PDF eBook |
Author | Harold Wallace Ross |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 844 |
Release | 2007-05 |
Genre | American wit and humor, Pictorial |
ISBN |
The Mansion of Happiness
Title | The Mansion of Happiness PDF eBook |
Author | Jon Loomis |
Publisher | Field Poetry |
Total Pages | 0 |
Release | 2016 |
Genre | Poetry |
ISBN | 9780997335507 |
Rueful, tender visions of the Apocalypse as seen from the Midwest