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Happiness : the science behind your smile / Daniel Nettle.

By:

Nettle, Daniel [author.]

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: Oxford, UK ; New York, N.Y. : Oxford University Press, 2005Description: vi, 216 pages : illustrations ; 18 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

0192805584
9780192805584

Subject(s):

Happiness

DDC classification:

152.42 22

LOC classification:

BF575.H27 N48 2005

Contents:

1. Comfort and joy -- 2. Bread and circuses -- 3. Love and work -- 4. Worriers and enthusiasts -- 5. Wanting and liking -- 6. Panaceas and placebos -- 7. A design for living.

Review: "Daniel Nettle uses the results of the latest psychological studies to ask what makes people happy and unhappy, what happiness really is, and to examine our urge to achieve it. Along the way we look at brain systems, at mind-altering drugs, and how happiness is now marketed to us as a commodity. Nettle concludes that while it may be unrealistic to expect lasting happiness, our evolved tendency to seek happiness drives us to achieve much that is worthwhile in itself."--BOOK JACKET.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Book	City Campus City Campus Main Collection	152.42 NET (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available		A292060B

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 198-212).

1. Comfort and joy -- 2. Bread and circuses -- 3. Love and work -- 4. Worriers and enthusiasts -- 5. Wanting and liking -- 6. Panaceas and placebos -- 7. A design for living.

"Daniel Nettle uses the results of the latest psychological studies to ask what makes people happy and unhappy, what happiness really is, and to examine our urge to achieve it. Along the way we look at brain systems, at mind-altering drugs, and how happiness is now marketed to us as a commodity. Nettle concludes that while it may be unrealistic to expect lasting happiness, our evolved tendency to seek happiness drives us to achieve much that is worthwhile in itself."--BOOK JACKET.

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