age happy problems (18 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Zustand: Very Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

paperback. Zustand: Very Good. Raising a Healthy, Happy Eater 2nd Edition: Avoid Picky Eating, Identify Feeding Problems & Set Your Child on the Path to Adventurous Eating: Avoid . Adventurous Eating, from Birth to School-Age This book is in very good condition and will be shipped within 24 hours of ordering. The cover may have some limited signs of wear but the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains undamaged. This book has clearly been well maintained and looked after thus far. Money back guarantee if you are not satisfied. See all our books here, order more than 1 book and get discounted shipping. .

paperback. Zustand: Very Good. Shipped within 24 hours from our UK warehouse. Clean, undamaged book with no damage to pages and minimal wear to the cover. Spine still tight, in very good condition. Remember if you are not happy, you are covered by our 100% money back guarantee.

Hardback. Zustand: Very Good. 1962 Edition - VERY GOOD in good dust jacket. DJ in protective mylar. Binding is tight and square. No marks in text. . . . . . . . In his 30's, American novelist, short story writer, and essayist Herbert Gold set out some of his impressions of the 1950s, mostly while travelling the wide world looking for what was not Cleveland. He offers the collection again in 1962, to test the validity of history against his predictions. . . a brilliantly ironic and reflective collection of essays and observations about postwar American life?its prosperity, anxieties, and illusions of happiness. This was Gold?s first major nonfiction work, written at a time when America had emerged triumphant from World War II and was deep in the conformist 1950s, poised on the edge of the ?New Frontier.? Through essays and sketches that mix satire with sociological reflection, Gold dissects suburban marriage, middle-class ambition, cultural trends, and the tension between individuality and conformity.Gold?s prose blends novelist?s flair with essayist?s bite?he was part of the same literary generation as Norman Mailer and Saul Bellow, and it shows in his mix of insight and swagger.For a reader in 2025, The Age of Happy Problems remains surprisingly resonant. Its critiques of consumer culture, overwork, and superficial happiness anticipate the social media era?s obsession with curated perfection and endless productivity. The anxieties Gold observed?alienation amid abundance, shallow self-invention, the decline of privacy?echo through modern life. His exploration of ?mass inertia? and ?mass destruction? also mirrors current concerns about technological overload and global instability.In today?s age of digital self-reinvention, Gold?s skepticism about ?creating ourselves in our own image? through consumption feels prophetic.In short, The Age of Happy Problems offers a sharp mirror for both its time and ours: a midcentury diagnosis of modern unease that foreshadows the challenges of identity and meaning in the 21st century.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. First edition. Stain at the bottom margin of two pages, light sunning at the foot of the spine, very good in a very good dust jacket with rubbing, and a few creased tears.

Zustand: New. In.

Zustand: Good. Good condition. Good dust jacket. (United States, Civilization) A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.

Zustand: New. pp. xix + 238.

Zustand: Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Zustand: New. In.

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. 250 pages. 9.00x6.25x0.75 inches. In Stock.

Zustand: New. An exploration of some of the not-so-happy problems confronting people in an age of mass destruction and mass inertia. Herbert Gold tackles issues that are very much of significance to the individual, dealing with topics as diverse as teaching, writing, love, marriage, divorce and death. Num Pages: 250 pages. BIC Classification: 3JJ; JH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 408. . 2002. 1st Edition. paperback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

Zustand: New.

Zustand: New. In.

Hardcover. Zustand: Brand New. 238 pages. 9.02x5.98x9.00 inches. In Stock.

Hardback. Zustand: Very Good-. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. Dust jacket is edgeworn and age-toned with creases and tears to outer edges, notable tears to spine edges which should be handled with care, spine and rear upper panel sunned, unprice clipped; blue cloth boards are sunned and faintly marked with white, gilt titling bright, upper corners bumped; binding is tight; pages are unmarked, upper edges blue and dusty. Herbert Gold's ink signature and dedication to novelist Brian Glanville (to whom this copy belonged) on front endpaper. Books signed by Herbert Gold are extremely scarce. ; 5.75 x 1 x 8.5 inches; 238 pages.

Zustand: New.