The prime of life a history of modern adulthood
2016
DAISY Sound Recording
A historian looks at the idea of adulthood and how it has changed over the last two hundred years. He points out that the normal script for adulthood (marriage, career, home ownership, parenting, etc.) may have changed, but uncertainty and anxiety over the transition to adulthood is not new. 2015
Item Details
Edition: Daisy edition.
Description:
- 1 DAISY disc (17 hours, 4 minutes) : sound ; 12 cm
- 4 3/4 in.
- digital DAISY
- audio file Daisy
Target Audience Note: Male narrator. NLS/BPH
Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Access restricted to persons who are visually impaired or physically disabled and cannot use conventional print materials.
- Narrated by: Richard Davidson.
- Digital talking book. 1 level and 14 navigation points. Digitally mastered.
- Recorded from: Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2015. 9780674047679
- System requirements: IBM PC or compatible; double speed or faster CD-ROM drive; sound card and sound output device; DAISY playback software or DAISY talking book player. Also plays in CD-MP3 player or computer with MP3-capable software.
- DAISY 2.02 standard; MP3 compression at 32 kbps.
- Description based on print version.
Contents:
- Prologue: The voyage of life
- The tangled transition to adulthood
- Achieving intimacy
- I do : the evolution of marriage
- I don't : alternatives to marriage
- The trials of parenting
- Finding fulfillment in work
- The angst of adulthood
- Epilogue: Reclaiming adulthood.
LCCN: 2015993824
Control Number: 3175101
Publisher: Washington, D.C. : National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped, Library of Congress, 2016.