Happiness: The Science Behind Your Smile - Couverture rigide

Nettle, Daniel

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ISBN 10 : 0192805584 ISBN 13 : 9780192805584

Editeur : OUP Oxford, 2005

Synopsis

Book by Nettle Daniel

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

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.

Biographie de l'auteur :

Daniel Nettle is Lecturer in Psychology at University of Newcastle. His publications include Vanishing Voices (with Suzanne Romaine), Linguistic Diversity, and Strong Imagination: Madness, Creativity, and Human Nature. He runs the psychological research website www.psychresearch.org.uk. Vanishing Voices was winner of the BAAL prize for 2001, and was described by The New Yorker as 'a superb study of endangered languages'. Strong Imagination was described as 'a fascinating, pithy little book' (Sunday Times), giving 'a critical survey of current psychiatric knowledge that is as good an overview as is available from any source' (Times Literary Supplement).

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: OUP Oxford
• Date d'édition: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0192805584
• ISBN 13: 9780192805584
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 224