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Author | : Jill Lepore |
Publisher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 322 |
Release | : 2013-03-26 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0307476456 |
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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.
Author | : Robin Ekiss |
Publisher | : University of Georgia Press |
Total Pages | : 107 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 0820334081 |
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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.
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Total Pages | : 1136 |
Release | : 1927 |
Genre | : Antiques |
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Total Pages | : 152 |
Release | : 1907 |
Genre | : Buddha (The concept) |
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Author | : Osa Brown |
Publisher | : ABRAMS |
Total Pages | : 104 |
Release | : 1990-03 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 9780810924376 |
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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.
Author | : Jon Loomis |
Publisher | : Field Poetry |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 9780997335507 |
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Author | : Harold Wallace Ross |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 844 |
Release | : 2007-05 |
Genre | : American wit and humor, Pictorial |
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Author | : Carol S. Leonard |
Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 326 |
Release | : 2024-07-30 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0429626797 |
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The way in which the Russian Revolution of October 1917 is regarded and commemorated has changed considerably over time, and is a contentious subject, well demonstrated by the absence of any official commemoration in Russia in 2017, a huge contrast to the very large celebrations which took place in Soviet times. This book, which brings together a range of leading historians of the Russian Revolution—from both Russia and the West, and both younger and older historians—explores the changes in the way in which the October 1917 Revolution is commemorated, and also examines fundamental questions about what the Russian Revolution—indeed what any revolution—was anyway. Among the issues covered are how Soviet and Western historians diverged in their early assessments of what the Revolution achieved, how the period studied by historians has recently extended both much earlier before 1917 and much later afterwards, and how views of the Revolution within the Soviet Union changed over time from acceptance of the official Communist Party interpretation to more independent viewpoints. Overall, the book provides a major reassessment of one of the twentieth century’s most important events.
Author | : Kalluri Sasanka |
Publisher | : The Little Booktique Hub |
Total Pages | : 60 |
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Genre | : Fiction |
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This book is a perfect thriller. It revolves around a mansion that is said to be haunted by a ghost. One of the believed myths is that a bloodthirsty king who was murdered has come back and is staying in a secret basement, killing those who try to investigate the history of that king. Those who enter a hidden tunnel are cursed, haunted, and killed. Six friends, after completing their graduation set on a trip, visit that mansion and get trapped. How did they escape, and who is the culprit? Did any of them find someone dead? How did they investigate that mansion and set others free? The mysteries take so many routes like rivers and end at a point in the sea. They end at a conclusion. It also revolves around friendship and love. The thriller attracts, and no one can guess what's going to happen next or at the end. The thriller's introduction and conclusion captivate everyone and simply keep your soul in while reading the novel and the chapters. Thrillers have long been a popular genre, but THE MANSION's STRAIN is a fresh take on the genre, and the thrill is palpable. Read the suspense novel and get thrilled, Have a happy reading.
Author | : Mary Lowe Dickinson |
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Total Pages | : 426 |
Release | : 1901 |
Genre | : Christian education |
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