Everybody wants it. But what exactly is happiness? The pursuit of happiness has been recognized by everyone from poets to politicians as what makes the world go round. The world's largest and fastest-growing industries - alcohol, pharmaceuticals, mind altering drugs, self-help books, counselling, travel, and tourism - all profit heavily from our intent to become completely happy with our lives. In the first comprehensive book to address this most basic of human desires, Daniel Nettle explores why we want to be happy, how we ...
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Everybody wants it. But what exactly is happiness? The pursuit of happiness has been recognized by everyone from poets to politicians as what makes the world go round. The world's largest and fastest-growing industries - alcohol, pharmaceuticals, mind altering drugs, self-help books, counselling, travel, and tourism - all profit heavily from our intent to become completely happy with our lives. In the first comprehensive book to address this most basic of human desires, Daniel Nettle explores why we want to be happy, how we assess our levels of happiness, and the different ways that happiness is interpreted in different cultures. Using statistical information from the National Child Development Study, a project that has collected social and emotional data from thousands of people since 1958, Nettle shows the ways in which definitions and sources of happiness have changed over time.
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Good. Good condition. Good dust jacket. 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.
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Near Fine in Fine jacket. Book 12 mo., hardcover, near fine in fine yellow dj. clean and unmarked. 205 pp. including references. In a world obsessed by happiness, this is the first book to look thoroughly at what happiness is and how it works. Bringing together the latest insights from psychiatry, psychology, and philosophy, Nettle sheds light on this most basic of human desires.
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Very good in very good dust jacket. pages clean and unmarked, binding tight, cover clean with small signs of wear. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 224 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade.
A small book, stuffed with reasonable and practical information about happiness -- how much do people have, how much can be expected, what and why we are happy, and how to improve your own happiness.
I loved it. Not only WOULD recommend it, HAVE recomended it. Well worth buying and reading again and again.