Author: Michael W. Eysenck
Publisher: Psychology Press
Keywords: myths, facts, happiness
Number of Pages: 144
Published: 1994-06-01
List price: $32.00
ISBN-10: 0863771351
ISBN-13: 9780863771354
What is happiness? How can you tell if you are happy? How important are love, sex, money, and family relationships? Can happiness last? Is there a blueprint for happiness? Is unhappiness a terminal illness? Is there a ’happiness gene’? This book, by one of Britain’s leading psychologists, is based fairly and squarely on scientific evidence, and provides realistic insights into these questions. Michael Eysenck is Professor of Psychology at Royal Holloway University of London. He is the author of numerous academic and popular books and articles, including Mindwatching and Cog
Author: Daniel Nettle
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: smile, science, happiness
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2006-09-07
List price: $17.95
ISBN-10: 0192805592
ISBN-13: 9780192805591
Bringing together the latest insights from psychiatry, psychology, and philosophy, Daniel Nettle sheds light on happiness, the most basic of human desires. Nettle examines whether people are basically happy or unhappy, whether success can make us happy, what sort of remedies to unhappiness work, why some people are happier than others, and much more. The book is packed with fascinating observations. We discover the evolutionary reason why negative thoughts are more powerful than positive ones. We read that happiness varies from country to country, for example, the Swiss are much more hap
Author: Peter Warr
Publisher: Psychology Press
Keywords: unhappiness, happiness, work
Number of Pages: 568
Published: 2007-02-04
List price: $64.95
ISBN-10: 0805857117
ISBN-13: 9780805857115
Award-winning psychologist Peter Warr explores why some people at work are happier or unhappier than others. He evaluates different approaches to the definition and assessment of happiness, and combines environmental and person-based themes to explain differences in people’s experience. A framework of key job characteristics is linked to an account of primary mental processes, and those are set within a summary of demographic, cultural, and occupational patterns. Consequences of happiness or unhappiness for individuals and groups are also reviewed, as is recent literature on unemployment a
Author: Alain De Botton
Publisher: Vintage
Keywords: vintage, happiness, architecture
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2008-04-08
List price: $18.00
ISBN-10: 0307277240
ISBN-13: 9780307277244
The Achitecture of Happiness is a dazzling and generously illustrated journey through the philosophy and psychology of architecture and the indelible connection between our identities and our locations.One of the great but often unmentioned causes of both happiness and misery is the quality of our environment: the kinds of walls, chairs, buildings, and streets that surround us. And yet a concern for architecture is too often described as frivolous, even self-indulgent. Alain de Botton starts from the idea that where we are heavily influences who we can be, and argues that it is architecture
Author: Adam Phillips
Publisher: Fourth Estate
Keywords: happiness, maps, sane, going
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2005-10-01
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0007155395
ISBN-13: 9780007155392
Writings on madness fill entire libraries, but until now nobody has thought to engage exclusively with the idea of sanity; we define it simply as that bland and nebulous state of not being mentally ill. But what is sanity? How broad, how eccentric is its range of behavior? And how do we go about crafting a creative and fluid definition of a sane existence, one we can guide ourselves by? Madness is always present in our lives -- in the chaos of our experience as babies, the rebellion of our adolescence, the irrational nature of our sexual appetites. In a society governed by indulgence and exce
Author: Paul Ormerod
Publisher: Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA)
Keywords: policy, public, economics, happiness
Number of Pages: 107
Published: 2007-07-27
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0255366000
ISBN-13: 9780255366007
Customer Reviews: Happiness runs in a circular motion... October 29, 2008Gerry O’neill (Morrisville, NC United States)1 out of 1 found this review helpfulYou can’t always get what you want But if you try sometime, You might find, You get what you need. Jagger/Richard Paul Ormerod and Helen Johns set their sights on the latest fad in economics, that of "Happiness" and provide an extensive and devastating critique. Personally, I find that the concept itself is flawed, as the pleasure and pain calculus of Bentham was flawed. Not to mention the whole notion of the i
Author: Nancy L. Van Pelt
Publisher: Review & Herald Pub Assn
Keywords: happiness, family, blueprint, forward, day
Number of Pages: 141
Published: 1985-08
List price: $2.25
ISBN-10: 0828002800
ISBN-13: 9780828002806
