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Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Satisfaction not guaranteed/ Peter N. Stearns.
Reminder of title:	dilemmas of progress in modern society /
Author:	Stearns, Peter N.
Published:	New York :New York University Press, : c2012.,
Description:	1 online resource (ix, 270 p.).
Subject:	Progress. -
Online resource:	Full text available:
ISBN:	9780814783634 (electronic bk.)

Satisfaction not guaranteed = dilemmas of progress in modern society /
Stearns, Peter N.

Satisfaction not guaranteeddilemmas of progress in modern society /[electronic resource] :Peter N. Stearns. - New York :New York University Press,c2012. - 1 online resource (ix, 270 p.).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: being cheerful and modern -- The gap: happiness scalesand the edge of sadness -- Component parts: modernity and ideas of happiness and progress as historical forces -- Modernity'sdeficiencies --False starts and surprises: making modernity more difficult -- The dilemmas of work in modernity -- Death as a modern quandary -- Century of the child? Childhood, parenting, and modernity -- Born to shop: consumerism as the modern panacea.

ISBN: 9780814783634 (electronic bk.)Subjects--Topical Terms:

646679
Progress.

LC Class. No.: CB430 / .S74 2012

Dewey Class. No.: 909.83

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