TY - BOOK N2 - "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 N2 - A history of American ideas about life and death from before the cradle to beyond the grave. AB - "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 AB - A history of American ideas about life and death from before the cradle to beyond the grave. T1 - The mansion of happiness :a history of life and death / DA - 2012. CY - New York : AU - Lepore, Jill, ET - 1st ed. CN - E169.1 CN - E169.1 PB - Alfred A. Knopf, PP - New York : PY - 2012. N1 - "This is a Borzoi book"--T.p. verso. N1 - "Parts of this book originally appeared in The New Yorker"--T.p. verso. ID - 455044 KW - Politics and culture KW - Popular culture KW - Life KW - Life (Biology) KW - Life cycle, Human KW - Death KW - Happiness SN - 9780307592996 SN - 0307592995 TI - The mansion of happiness :a history of life and death / LK - http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1205/2011050566-b.html LK - http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1205/2011050566-d.html LK - http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1212/2011050566-t.html LK - http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1212/2011050566-s.html UR - http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1205/2011050566-b.html UR - http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1205/2011050566-d.html UR - http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1212/2011050566-t.html UR - http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1212/2011050566-s.html ER -