Happiness [[electronic resource] ] : the science behind your smile / / Daniel Nettle
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| Autore: |
Nettle Daniel
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| Titolo: |
Happiness [[electronic resource] ] : the science behind your smile / / Daniel Nettle
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| Pubblicazione: | Oxford, UK ; ; New York, N.Y., : Oxford University Press, 2005 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (225 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 152.4/2 |
| Soggetto topico: | Happiness |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references(p. 198-212). |
| Nota di contenuto: | Comfort and joy -- Bread and circuses -- Love and work -- Worriers and enthusiasts -- Wanting and liking -- Panaceas and placebos -- A design for living. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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. This is the first book to comprehensively address the most basic of human desires. - ;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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Happiness |
| ISBN: | 1-383-00276-2 |
| 1-280-75268-8 | |
| 0-19-156671-3 | |
| 1-4294-3075-3 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910777885203321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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