happiness

"From helping the planet through recycling and saving water, to promoting important causes with awesome art exhibitions, and partying to raise money for charity, there are many little and large ways that you can help to make a difference in the neighborhood, the country, and the world! So, get your voice heard, get active, and start to make a difference!".

Integrates insights gleaned from psychology, neuroscience, sociology, and applied economics to draw surprising conclusions about the true caauses of happiness and the means we have to effect it.

"Flip through these pages to find happiness. Pick one thing or all of them, from exercises and foods that boost hapiness to tips from professional 'happy makers,' like psychologists and even magicians. This book will motivate and empower you to get happy! What's even better, our tips, tricks, and advice are all backed by real science."--Back cover.

Grammy-award winning singer Pharrell Williams brings his hit song to readers and encourages them to celebrate being happy.

A Native American allegory in which a young boy, distressed over the death of his sister, is given a scroll with seven pictures that holds the secret to self-understanding and happiness and is tasked with figuringit out.

"In winter 2014, a Tibetan monk lectured the world leaders gathered at Davos on the importance of Happiness. The recent DSM-5, the manual of all diagnosable mental illnesses, for the first time included shyness and grief as treatable diseases. Happiness has become the biggest idea of our age, a new religion dedicated to well-being. In this brilliant dissection of our times, political economist William Davies shows how this philosophy, first pronounced by Jeremy Bentham in the 1780s, has dominated the political debates that have delivered neoliberalism. From a history of business strategies of how to get the best out of employees, to the increased level of surveillance measuring every aspect of our lives; from why experts prefer to measure the chemical in the brain than ask you how you are feeling, to why Freakonomics tells us less about the way people behave than expected, The Happiness Industry is an essential guide to the marketization of modern life. Davies shows that the science of happiness is less a science than an extension of hyper-capitalism"--.

Explains simple meditation techniques from Zen Buddhism to improve satisfaction and find contentment in relationships, jobs, and daily living.

Examines Adam Smith's "The Theory of Moral Sentiments" and discusses how it can be applied to twenty-first century life.