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The Way We Never Were: American Families and the Nostalgia Trap [Book]
The definitive edition of the classic, myth-shattering history of the American familyLeave It to Beaver was not a documentary, a man's home has never been his castle, the "male breadwinner marriage" is the least traditional family in history, and rape and sexual assault were far higher in the 1970s than they are today. In The Way We Never Were, acclaimed historian Stephanie Coontz examines two centuries of the American family, sweeping away misconceptions about the past that cloud current debate
Memento Mori: The Art of Contemplating Death to Live a Better Life [Book]
A transformative guide to embrace your own mortality and live a more fulfilling life Talking about death has been deemed morbid, taboo, or even pathological. But in order to fully embrace life, scientists, psychologists, and spiritual leaders all agree--contemplating death is the key to living a life with meaning. This life-changing book will give you a 12 week program to befriend death in your own way, creating your own personal, daily meditation on what it means to be mortal. Through personal
The Yellowing: The King in Yellow & the Decay of the 19th Century - Paperback
by D. C. Raymond (Editor), Robert W. Chambers (Author), John Denham Parsons (Author)1895. The Yellow Nineties. As the age of the Napoleonic and American Civil Wars closes, a new technology shrinks the world and with it, our minds. An apocalyptic sentiment takes hold, and with it, the motif of a single colour-one representing decay, salaciousness, greed, gaslight, fever, madness, and sensationalism: Yellow.Traditional values and art, ever at odds, become cartoon inversions s of themselves: One si