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100 Simple Secrets of Happy People
by David Niven

ISBN 0061157910 (0-06-115791-0)
Softcover, Harper San Francisco

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Scientists and academics have spent entire careers investigating what makes people happy. But hidden in obscure scholarly journals and reports, their research is all too often inaccessible to ordinary people. Now the bestselling author of the 100 Simple Secrets series distills the scientific findings of over a thousand of the most important studies on happiness into easy-to-digest nuggets of advice. Each of the hundred practices is illustrated with a clear example and illuminated by a straightforward explanation of the science behind it to show you how to transform a ho-hum existence into a full and happy life.
- Believe in yourself: Across all ages, and all groups, a solid belief in one's own abilities increases life satisfaction by about 40 percent, and makes us happier both in our home lives and in our work lives.
- Turn off your TV: Watching too much TV can triple our hunger for more possessions, while reducing our personal contentment by about 5 percent for every hour a day we watch.
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14,000 Things to Be Happy About
by Barbara Kipfer

ISBN 0894803700 (0-89480-370-0)
Softcover, Workman Pub Co

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Flannel sheets. Strawberry ice cream. Making faces at monkeys in the zoo. Dog dishes that say "Good Dog." Carolers singing around a Norwegian spruce. Sun burning off the morning fog. Cabanas.
It's the little things that make life worth living, and they can be found by the dozens in this obsessive, quirky, and utterly captivating compendium with over 950,000 copies in print. A pure, unadulterated listing, it offers not a single explanation, aside, or footnote, but reading it is as irresistible as eating popcorn. Randomly selected and catalogued over the course of twenty years-and illustrated with joyous and jewel-like precision by the gifted artist Pierre Le-Tan-14,000 THINGS is Barbara Ann Kipfer's perfect antidote to the all-too-frequently-mentioned things we should be unhappy about.
It's a celebration of almost everything that's ever made us smile. And that itself is reason number 14,001.
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The Architecture of Happiness
by Alain De Botton

ISBN 0375424431 (0-375-42443-1)
Hardcover, Pantheon Books

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ARCHITECTURE , Buildings , Style. [via]
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Aristotle Nicomachean Ethics
by Joe Sachs

ISBN 1585100358 (1-58510-035-8)
Softcover, Focus Pub R Pullins & Co

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A complete translation of Aristotle s classic that is both faithful and readable. This is a major translation of a seminal book in Ethics. In this volume, Joe Sachs supplements his excellent translation with well-chosen notes and a glossary of important terms. Designed for courses in undergraduate philosophy, as well as for the general reader interested in the major works of western civilization. [via]
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Aristotle: Nicomachean Ethics, Books Ii--iv
by Aristotle

ISBN 185326461X (1-85326-461-X)
Softcover, Lb May & Assoc Inc

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This work presents the Nicomachean Ethics in a fresh English translation by Christopher Rowe that strives to be meticulously accurate yet also accessible. The translation is accompanied by Sarah Broadie's detailed line-by-line commentary, which brings out the subtlety of Aristotle's thought as it develops from moment to moment. In addition, a substantial introductory section features a thorough examination of the text's main themes and interpretative problems and also provides preambles to each of the ten books of the Nicomachean Ethics. An indispensable resource for students approaching the Nicomachean Ethics for the first time, this detailed treatment is ideal for courses in classical or ancient philosophy, the philosophy of Aristotle, and ethics. [via]
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Aristotle: The Nicomachean Ethics
by H. Rackham

ISBN 0674990811 (0-674-99081-1)
Hardcover, Harvard Univ Pr

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Aristotle, great Greek philosopher, researcher, reasoner, and writer, born at Stagirus in 384 BCE, was the son of Nicomachus, a physician, and Phaestis. He studied under Plato at Athens and taught there (367-347); subsequently he spent three years at the court of a former pupil, Hermeias, in Asia Minor and at this time married Pythias, one of Hermeias's relations. After some time at Mitylene, in 343-2 he was appointed by King Philip of Macedon to be tutor of his teen-aged son Alexander. After Philip's death in 336, Aristotle became head of his own school (of 'Peripatetics'), the Lyceum at Athens. Because of anti-Macedonian feeling there after Alexander's death in 323, he withdrew to Chalcis in Euboea, where he died in 322.
Nearly all the works Aristotle prepared for publication are lost; the priceless ones extant are lecture-materials, notes, and memoranda (some are spurious). They can be categorized as follows: I Practical: Nicomachean Ethics; Great Ethics (Magna Moralia); Eudemian Ethics; Politics; Economics (on the good of the family); On Virtues and Vices. II Logical: Categories; Analytics (Prior and Posterior); Interpretation; Refutations used by Sophists; Topica. III Physical: Twenty-six works (some suspect) including astronomy, generation and destruction, the senses, memory, sleep, dreams, life, facts about animals, etc. IV Metaphysics: on being as being. V Art: Rhetoric and Poetics. VI Other works including the Constitution of Athens; more works also of doubtful authorship. VII Fragments of various works such as dialogues on philosophy and literature; and of treatises on rhetoric, politics and metaphysics.
The Loeb Classical Library edition of Aristotle is in twenty-three volumes.
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Aristotle's Nicomachaen Ethics
by Aristotle

ISBN 0911589031 (0-911589-03-1)
Softcover, Peripatetic Pr

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Aristotle's "Nicomachean Ethics" is considered to be one of the most important treatises on ethics ever written. In an incredibly detailed study of virtue and vice in man, Aristotle examines one of the most central themes to man, the nature of goodness itself. In Aristotle's "Nicomachean Ethics," he asserts that virtue is essential to happiness and that man must live in accordance with the "doctrine of the mean" (the balance between excess and deficiency) to achieve such happiness. [via]
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The Art of Happiness
by Dalai Lama, Howard C. Cutler

ISBN 1573221112 (1-57322-111-2)
Hardcover, Riverhead Books

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Have you ever wondered what it would be like to sit down with the Dalai Lama and really press him about life's persistent questions? Why are so many people unhappy? How can I abjure loneliness? How can we reduce conflict? Is romantic love true love? Why do we suffer? How should we deal with unfairness and anger? How do you handle the death of a loved one? These are the conundrums that psychiatrist Howard Cutler poses to the Dalai Lama during an extended period of interviews in The Art of Happiness: A Handbook for Living.
At first, the Dalai Lama's answers seem simplistic, like a surface reading of Robert Fulghum: Ask yourself if you really need something; our enemies can be our teachers; compassion brings peace of mind. Cutler pushes: But some people do seem happy with lots of possessions; but "suffering is life" is so pessimistic; but going to extremes provides the zest in life; but what if I don't believe in karma? As the Dalai Lama's responses become more involved, a coherent philosophy takes shape. Cutler then develops the Dalai Lama's answers in the context of scientific studies and cases from his own practice, substantiating and elaborating on what he finds to be a revolutionary psychology. Like any art, the art of happiness requires study and practice--and the talent for it, the Dalai Lama assures us, is in our nature. --Brian Bruya [via]
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The Art of Happiness
by Howard Cutler

ISBN 0340750154 (0-340-75015-4)
Softcover, Trafalgar Square

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In this unique and important book, one of the wold's great spiritual leaders offers his practical wisdom and advice on how we can overcome everyday human problems and achieve lasting happiness. [via]
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The Art of Happiness at Work
by Bstan-Dzin-Rgya-Mtsho, Howard C. Cutler

ISBN 1573222615 (1-57322-261-5)
Hardcover, Riverhead Books

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The Art Of Happiness At Work
by Dalai Lama, Howard C. Cutler

ISBN 1594480540 (1-59448-054-0)
Softcover, Riverhead Books

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In their 1998 book The Art of Happiness: A Handbook for Living, His Holiness the Dalai Lama and co-author Howard C. Cutler, M.D., explored how inner development contributes to overall happiness. In their second collaboration, the authors considered how they could best follow their highly successful first book. They chose a subject that affects millions of people around the world and produced. In this very readable, useful book, the authors attempt to discover the following: "Where does work fit in to our overall quest for happiness?" and "To what degree does work satisfaction affect our overall life satisfaction and happiness?"
The Art of Happiness at Work is a modern-day Socratic dialogue in which Cutler asks the Dalai Lama about the difficulties and rewards we might encounter in the workplace. The authors explore issues such as work and identity, making money, the Buddhist concept of "right livelihood," and transforming dissatisfaction at work. The discussion appears simple, if not obvious, at first, but upon closer scrutiny, the Dalai Lama's profound wisdom and sensitivity emerges. For the Dalai Lama, basic human values such as kindness, tolerance, compassion, honesty, and forgiveness are the source of human happiness. Throughout the book, he illustrates with clear examples how bringing those qualities to bear on work-related challenges can help us tolerate or overcome the most thorny situations. Recognizing that not all problems can be solved, the Dalai Lama provides very sound advice. The authors urge balance and self-awareness and wisely state, "No matter how satisfying our work is, it is a mistake to rely on work as our only source of satisfaction." --Silvana Tropea [via]
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Authentic Happiness: Using the New Positive Psychology to Realize Your Potential for Lasting Fulfillment
by Martin E. P. Seligman

ISBN 0743222989 (0-7432-2298-9)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster

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A national bestseller, Authentic Happiness launched the revolutionary new science of Positive Psychologyand sparked a coast-to-coast debate on the nature of real happiness.

According to esteemed psychologist and bestselling author Martin Seligman, happiness is not the result of good genes or luck. Real, lasting happiness comes from focusing on ones personal strengths rather than weaknessesand working with them to improve all aspects of ones life. Using practical exercises, brief tests, and a dynamic website program, Seligman shows readers how to identify their highest virtues and use them in ways they havent yet considered. Accessible and proven, Authentic Happiness is the most powerful work of popular psychology in years. [via]
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The Be
by Robert Schuller

ISBN 0849903637 (0-8499-0363-7)
Hardcover, W Pub Group

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The Be Happy Attitudes
by Robert Schuller

ISBN 0553264583 (0-553-26458-3)
Softcover, Bantam Books

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In a society of quick fixes and instant gratification, it seems as though true happiness is always just around the next bend. But the "happiness" of the world will never offer the wholeness that makes one content and satisfied. Dr. Robert Schuller believes the answer to this cycle of disappointment, frustration, and regret can be found in one of the most famous passages in scripture - Jesus' Sermon on the Mount.
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Being Happy: A Handbook to Greater Confidence and Security
by Andrew Matthews

ISBN 0843128682 (0-8431-2868-2)
Softcover, Price Stern Sloan

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In this successful humorous text, the author shares some fundamental principles that work towards improving the quality of life for everyone.
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The Christian's Secret Of A Happy Life
by Hannah Whitall Smith

ISBN 1597894036 (1-59789-403-6)
Softcover, Barbour Pub Inc

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Hannah Whitall Smith's Christian classic, abridged and updated for the modern reader. [via]
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The Christian's Secret Of A Happy Life
by Elisabeth Elliot, Hannah Whitall Smith

ISBN 0849929806 (0-8499-2980-6)
Softcover, Word Books

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The Christian's Secret Of A Happy Life
by Harold J. Chadwick, Hannah Whitall Smith

ISBN 088270754X (0-88270-754-X)
Softcover, Bridge Logos Pub

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A Christian's Secret To A Happy Life
by Hannah W. Smith

ISBN 088368649X (0-88368-649-X)
Softcover, Whitaker House

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The Complete Life's Little Instruction Book
by H. Jackson Brown

ISBN 1558534903 (1-55853-490-3)
Hardcover, Thomas Nelson Inc

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The Complete Life's Little Instruction Book contains the 1,560 entries found in all three volumes of the New York Times Bestselling Life's Little Instruction Book series. Bound in a deluxe, maroon, leather edition, this collectible hardcover makes a perfectly elegant gift for any occasion.

Though originally written as a gift from a father to a son, its simple message has been enjoyed by men and women of all ages.

"Most of us already know how to live a successful and purposeful life," says the author. "We know we should be understanding and thoughtful, responsible, courageous, and appreciative. It's just that we sometimes need reminding." Life's Little Instruction Book is that reminder.
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The Conquest of Happiness
by Bertrand Russell

ISBN 0871401622 (0-87140-162-2)
Softcover, Liveright Publishing Corporation

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The Conquest of Happiness is Bertrand Russells recipe for good living. First published in 1930, it pre-dates the current obsession with self-help by decades. Leading the reader step by step through the causes of unhappiness and the personal choices, compromises and sacrifices that (may) lead to the final, affirmative conclusion of The Happy Man, this is popular philosophy, or even self-help, as it should be written.
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Don't Sweat the Small Stuff at Work: Simple Ways to Minimize Stress and Conflict While Bringing Out the Best in Yourself and Others
by Richard Carlson

ISBN 0786883367 (0-7868-8336-7)
Softcover, Hyperion Books

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Carlson shows readers how to interact more peaceably and joyfully with colleagues, clients, and bosses and reveals tips to minimize stress and bring out the best in themselves and others [via]
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Don't Sweat the Small Stuff...and It's All Small Stuff: Simple Ways to Keep the Little Things from Taking over Your Life
by Richard Carlson

ISBN 0786881852 (0-7868-8185-2)
Softcover, Hyperion Books

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Don't Sweat the Small Stuff...and It's All Small Stuff is an audiobook that tells you how to keep from letting the little things in life drive you crazy. In thoughtful and insightful language, author Richard Carlson reveals ways to calm down in the midst of your incredibly hurried, stress-filled life.
You can learn to put things into perspective by making the small daily changes Dr. Carlson suggests, including advice such as "Choose your battles wisely"; "Remind yourself that when you die, your 'in' box won't be empty"; and "Make peace with imperfection". With Don't Sweat the Small Stuff... you'll also learn how to:
* Live in the present moment
* Let others have the glory at times
* Lower your tolerance to stress
* Trust your intuitions
* Live each day as it might be your last
With gentle, supportive suggestions, Dr. Carlson reveals ways to make your actions more peaceful and caring, with the added benefit of making your life more calm and stress-free. [via]
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El Arte De LA Felicidad
by Dalai Lama

ISBN 9871138784 (987-1138-78-4)
Softcover, Random House Mondadori

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The Ethics
by Aristotle

ISBN 1419118528 (1-4191-1852-8)
Softcover, Kessinger Pub Co

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We will next speak of Liberality. Now this is thought to be the mean state, having for its object-matter Wealth: I mean, the Liberal man is praised not in the circumstances of war, nor in those which constitute the character of perfected self-mastery, nor again in judicial decisions, but in respect of giving and receiving Wealth, chiefly the former. By the term Wealth I mean "all those things whose worth is measured by money." [via]
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Excuse Me Your Life Is Waiting: The Astonishing Power of Feelings
by Lynn Grabhorn

ISBN 1571743812 (1-57174-381-2)
Softcover, Hampton Roads Pub Co Inc

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Excuse Me, Your Life is Waiting clarifies why most of our dreams have never materialized, why the majority of us have lived with all-too-empty bank accounts, tough relationships, failing health, and often spiritually unfulfilling lives. In an easy-to-read style peppered with logical explanations, simple steps, and true-life examples, author Lynn Grabhorn shows us how to turn it all around -- right now. [via]
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The Excuse Me, Your Life Is Waiting Playbook
by Lynn Grabhorn

ISBN 1571742700 (1-57174-270-0)
Softcover, Hampton Roads Pub Co Inc

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This witty guide to Lynn Grabhorn's Excuse Me, Your Life is Waiting is no ordinary workbook. The Playbook not only takes the reader well beyond the basic ground rules of deliberate creation, as laid out in Excuse Me, but also does so in a uniquely entertaining manner.
However, don't be fooled by the goofy, upbeat graphics. Whether The Playbook is to be used by groups or individuals, its overall content is designed to gently awaken and enhance the great Master in us all.
While The Playbook holds within its unusual pages many more ideas and techniques than presented in Excuse Me, Your Life Is Waiting, it also holds a myriad of keys to enhance one's spiritual path, should any awakening soul be so inclined to accept them.
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Finding Flow: The Psychology of Engagement With Everyday Life
by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

ISBN 0465024114 (0-465-02411-4)
Softcover, Perseus Books Group

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The author of Flow explains how to improve the quality of readers' lives through a series of stimulating challenges, demonstrating how the use of tasks requiring high degrees of skill and commitment can enhance and enrich one's everyday routine. [via]
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Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience
by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

ISBN 0060920432 (0-06-092043-2)
Softcover, Harpercollins

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You have heard about how a musician loses herself in her music, how a painter becomes one with the process of painting. In work, sport, conversation or hobby, you have experienced, yourself, the suspension of time, the freedom of complete absorption in activity. This is "flow," an experience that is at once demanding and rewarding--an experience that Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi demonstrates is one of the most enjoyable and valuable experiences a person can have. The exhaustive case studies, controlled experiments and innumerable references to historical figures, philosophers and scientists through the ages prove Csikszentmihalyi's point that flow is a singularly productive and desirable state. But the implications for its application to society are what make the book revolutionary. [via]
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Flow: the Psychology of Optimal Experience
by Csikszentmihalyi

ISBN 1428800271 (1-4288-0027-1)
Softcover, Academic Internet Pub Inc

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Never HIGHLIGHT a Book Again! Virtually all testable terms, concepts, persons, places, and events are included. Cram101 Textbook Outlines gives all of the outlines, highlights, notes for your textbook with optional online practice tests. Only Cram101 Outlines are Textbook Specific. Cram101 is NOT the Textbook. Accompanys: 9780060920432 [via]
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Follow Your Heart: Finding Purpose in Your Life and Work
by Andrew Matthews

ISBN 0843174919 (0-8431-7491-9)
Hardcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated

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Happiness: A History
by Darrin M. McMahon

ISBN 0802142893 (0-8021-4289-3)
Softcover, Grove Pr

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Darrin M. McMahon's sweeping new book, chronicling the evolution of happiness over two thousand years of Western culture and thought, argues that our modern belief in happiness - that happiness is a natural right - is a relatively recent development. It is a product of a dramatic revolution in human expectations carried out since the eighteenth century. Central to the development of Christianity, ideas of happiness assumed their modern form during the Enlightenment, when men and women were first introduced to the novel prospect that they could - in fact should - be happy in this life as opposed to the hereafter. Ultimately, the Enlightenment's recognition of happiness as a motivating ideal led to its consecration in the Declaration of Independence and France's Declaration of the Rights of Man. McMahon follows this great pursuit through to the present day, showing how our modern search for happiness continues to generate new forms of pleasure, but also, paradoxically, new forms of pain. In the tradition of works by Peter Gay and Simon Schama, Happiness draws on numerous sources, including art and architecture, poetry and scripture, music and theology, literature and myth to offer a sweeping intellectual history of man's most elusive yet coveted goal. [via]
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Happiness: A Guide to Developing Life's Most Important Skill
by Daniel Goleman, Jesse Browner

ISBN 0316167258 (0-316-16725-8)
Softcover, Little Brown & Co

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A molecular biologist turned Buddhist monk, described by scientists as "the happiest man alive," demonstrates how to develop the inner conditions for true happiness. [via]
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Happiness: A Guide to Developing Life's Most Important Skill
by Matthieu Ricard, Jesse Browner

ISBN 0316057835 (0-316-05783-5)
Hardcover, Little Brown & Co

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The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom
by Jonathan Haidt

ISBN 0465028020 (0-465-02802-0)
Softcover, Basic Books

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Happiness: Lessons from a New Science
by Richard Layard, P. R. G. Layard

ISBN 1594200394 (1-59420-039-4)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA

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There is a paradox at the heart of our lives. We all want more money, but as societies become richer, they do not become happier. This is not speculation: It's the story told by countless pieces of scientific research. We now have sophisticated ways of measuring how happy people are, and all the evidence shows that on average people have grown no happier in the last fifty years, even as average incomes have more than doubled. The central question the great economist Richard Layard asks in Happiness is this: If we really wanted to be happier, what would we do differently? First we'd have to see clearly what conditions generate happiness and then bend all our efforts toward producing them. That is what this book is about-the causes of happiness and the means we have to effect it. Until recently there was too little evidence to give a good answer to this essential question, but, Layard shows us, thanks to the integrated insights of psychology, sociology, applied economics, and other fields, we can now reach some firm conclusions, conclusions that will surprise you. Happiness is an illuminating road map, grounded in hard research, to a better, happier life for us all. [via]
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How We Choose to Be Happy: The 9 Choices of Extremely Happy People, Their Secets, Their Stories
by Rick Foster, Greg Hicks

ISBN 0399525750 (0-399-52575-0)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group

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How We Choose to Be Happy: The 9 Choices of Extremely Happy People-Their Secrets, Their Stories
by Richard Foster, Greg Hicks

ISBN 039952990X (0-399-52990-X)
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The Joy Diet: 10 Daily Practices for a Happier Life
by Martha Beck

ISBN 0609609904 (0-609-60990-4)
Hardcover, Random House Inc

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La Conquista De La Felicidad / the Conquest of Happiness
by Bertrand Russell

ISBN 8497592883 (84-9759-288-3)
Softcover, Debolsillo

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Learned Optimism
by Martin E. P. Seligman

ISBN 0671741586 (0-671-74158-6)
Softcover, Pocket Books

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Learned Optimism: How to Change Your Mind & Your Life
by Martin E Seligman

ISBN 1400078393 (1-4000-7839-3)
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Learned Optimism: The Skill to Conquer Life's Obstacles, Large and Small
by Martin E. Seligman

ISBN 0394579151 (0-394-57915-1)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group

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Life's Little Instruction Book
by H. Jackson Brown

ISBN 1558538356 (1-55853-835-6)
Softcover, Thomas Nelson Inc

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Read years ago that it was not the responsibility of parents to pave the road for their children, but to provide a road map. That's how I hoped he or she would use these mind and heart reflections. [via]
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Life's Little Instruction Book: 511 Suggestions, Observations, and Reminders on How to Live a Happy and Rewarding Life
by Brown, H. Jackson, Jr.

ISBN 1558531211 (1-55853-121-1)
Hardcover, Nelson Incorporated, Thomas

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H. Jackson Brown, Jr. originally wrote Life's Little Instruction Book" as a gift for his son who was leaving home to begin his freshman year in college. Brown says, "I read years ago that it was not the responsibility of parents to pave the road for their children but to provide a road map, and I wanted to provide him with what I had learned about living a happy and rewarding life." Life's Little Instruction Book" is a guidebook that gently points the way to happiness and fulfillment. The observations are direct, simple, and as practical as an umbrella.
"But it's not just for young people," says Brown. "Most of us already know how to live a successful and purposeful life. We know we should be more understanding and thoughtful, more responsible, courageous and appreciative. It's just that we sometimes need reminding." Life's Little Instruction Book" is that reminder, as well as the perfect gift for a relative or a friend who needs encouragement at any time of the year.
- Never give up on anybody. Miracles happen every day.
- Be brave. Even if you're not, pretend to be. No one can tell the difference.
- Think big thoughts, but relish small pleasures.
- Learn to listen. Opportunity sometimes knocks softly.
- Never deprive someone of hope; it might be all they have.
- Be kinder than necessary.
- Become the most positive and enthusiastic person you know.
- Commit yourself to constant self-improvement.
- Don't major in minor things.
- Never cut what can be untied.
Since its debut in 1991, Life's Little Instruction Book" has revolutionized the publishing industry. This little plaid book, which has been embraced the world over, has sold more than nine million copies, spent more than two years atop the New York Times bestseller list, and has been translated into 33 languages. Though originally written as a gift from a father to a son, its simple message has been enjoyed by men and women of all ages around the world.
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Life's Little Instruction Book: A Few More Suggestions, Observations, and Reminders on How to Live a Happy and Rewarding Life
by Brown, H. Jackson, Jr.

ISBN 1558538364 (1-55853-836-4)
Softcover, Nelson Incorporated, Thomas

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A few years ago, Jack Brown jotted down a list of fatherly advice for his son as Adam left home to begin a new life as a college freshman. That list became Life's Little Instruction Book", the phenomenal book that has sold more than five million copies in less than two years and has been translated into 13 languages. "But within a few days of presenting Adam with Life's Little Instruction Book"," says Brown, "I began to think of many other entries I wished I had included. How could I have forgotten to mention, 'Rake a big pile of leaves every Fall and jump in it with someone you love,' or 'Be gentle with the earth,' or something as practical as 'Get a Flu Shot' and 'Never drive while holding a hot cup of coffee between your knees'?" Obviously, there was only one thing to do: start another list. It took Jack Brown more than two years to complete the list, and Adam says "It's more useful than the first one."
Since its debut in 1991, Life's Little Instruction Book" has revolutionized the publishing industry. This little plaid book, which has been embraced the world over, has sold more than nine million copies, spent more than two years atop the New York Times bestseller list, and has been translated into 33 languages. Though originally written as a gift from a father to a son, its simple message has been enjoyed by men and women of all ages around the world.
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Life's Little Instruction Book Vol. 2: A Few More Suggestions, Observations, and Reminders on How to Live a Happy and Rewarding Life
by Brown, H. Jackson, Jr.

ISBN 1558532161 (1-55853-216-1)
Softcover, Nelson Incorporated, Thomas

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Now available in a deluxe hardcover edition, Brown's second volume of suggestions, observations, and reminders on how to live a happy life is the perfect gift for that special friend who can use some encouragment--any time of the year. [via]
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The Loss of Happiness in Market Democracies
by Robert Edwards Lane

ISBN 0300091060 (0-300-09106-0)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr

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Nichomachean Ethics
by Aristotle, Kim Hye-Kyung

ISBN 0760752362 (0-7607-5236-2)
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Aristotle's "Nicomachean Ethics" is the first systematic treatise on ethics, and two millennia after it was written, it is still among the best. It speaks to human beings about themselves and their relations to others as clearly, forcefully, and systematically today as it did when it was written. It would also be hard to over estimate its historical importance. Virtually every moral philosopher has to deal with the issues grappled with in the "Nicomachean Ethics", and many of the positions argued for by Aristotle have been adopted, sometimes in an almost wholesale fashion, by other philosophers. [via]
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Notes on How to Live in the World (and Still Be Happy)
by Hugh Prather

ISBN 0385182619 (0-385-18261-9)
Softcover, Broadway Books

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Planet Two: Earth in a Higher Dimension...Are You Ready?
by Lynn Grabhorn

ISBN 157174407X (1-57174-407-X)
Softcover, Hampton Roads Pub Co Inc

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In this book, the author talks specifically about the end results after the earth changes predicted after 2012, when the Mayan calendar comes to an end. The future that she sees is not a very pleasant one for all dwellers on the planet. It is very much like Judgement Day, threshing the chaff (those with a lower frequency) from the grain (those with a higher frequency), with the grain going to Heaven and the chaff to Hell, kind of stuff. However, most of the book deals with what Heaven (Planet Two) will be like. The portion that deals with this is in a fast read question answer format. Some of the questions taken up are as follows: 'Will my friends and family make it?', 'Will I get a job there?', 'How does the economy work?' and so on. She also provides essential information as to how one can get there. [via]
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The Progress Paradox: How Life Gets Better While People Feel Worse
by Gregg Easterbrook

ISBN 0812973038 (0-8129-7303-8)
Softcover, Random House Inc

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Ordinary middle-class Americans have often tried to assuage their jealousy of the rich by repeating the axiom "money can't buy happiness" to themselves. But according to New Republic senior editor Gregg Easterbrook, "the rich" are, in fact, those same ordinary middle-class Americans and no, they're not happy at all. Wages have soared over the past fifty years and regular citizens own large homes, new cars, and luxuries aplenty. Better still, the environment, with a few exceptions, is getting cleaner, crime is on the decline, and diseases are being wiped out as life span increases. So why do people report a sense that things are getting steadily worse and that catastrophe is imminent? Easterbrook presents a few psychological rationales, including "choice anxiety," where the vastness of society's options is a burden, and "abundance denial," where people somehow manage to convince themselves that they are deprived of material comforts. The sooner we accept how good we have it, the better off the whole world will be, he says, because if we would just realize that we have this wealth, we could be using it to alleviate hunger, provide health care for the millions who lack it, and otherwise address the ills that actually do exist. While at times the book's attempts to make the world a better place seem a bit of a stretch, it's admirable that Easterbrook is willing to make that stretch and not suggest people simply light up cigars and bask in their newly discovered joys. One might look a bit askance at some of Easterbrook's sunny perspectives on our societal fortunes--he celebrates rampant consumerism while skating past the rampant consumer debt that lies beneath it, for instance--but it's hard to deny that the pessimistic viewpoint is much more widely stated than that of optimists. Is the glass really half empty or should we, as Easterbrook indicates, enjoy the wonderful world in which we secretly live? --John Moe [via]
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The Saints' Guide to Happiness : Everyday Wisdom from the Lives and Lore of the Saints
by Robert Ellsberg

ISBN 0374253536 (0-374-25353-6)
Hardcover, Farrar, Straus & Giroux

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A noted spiritual writer seeks answers to life's big questions in the stories of the saints

In All Saints---published in 1997 and already a classic of its kind---Robert Ellsberg told the stories of 365 holy people with great vividness and eloquence. In The Saints' Guide to Happiness, Ellsberg looks to the saints to answer the questions: What is happiness, and how might we find it?

Countless books answer these questions in terms of personal growth, career success, physical fitness, and the like. The Saints' Guide to Happiness proposes instead that happiness consists in a grasp of the deepest dimension of our humanity, which characterizes holy people past and present. The book offers a series of "lessons" in the life of the spirit: the struggle to feel alive in a frenzied society; the search for meaningful work, real friendship, and enduring love; the encounter with suffering and death; and the yearning to grasp the ultimate significance of our lives. In these "lessons," our guides are the saints: historical figures like Augustine, Francis of Assisi, and Teresa of Avila, and moderns such as Dorothy Day, Flannery O'Connor, and Henri J. Nouwen. In the course of the book the figures familiar from stained-glass windows come to seem exemplars, not just of holy piety but of "life in abundance," the quality in which happiness and holiness converge.
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The Saints' Guide To Happiness: Practical Lessons In The Life Of The Spirit
by Robert Ellsberg

ISBN 0385515669 (0-385-51566-9)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group

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Stumbling on Happiness
by Daniel Gilbert

ISBN 1400077427 (1-4000-7742-7)
Softcover, Random House Inc

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Do you know what makes you happy? Daniel Gilbert would bet that you think you do, but you are most likely wrong. In his witty and engaging new book, Harvard professor Gilbert reveals his take on how our minds work, and how the limitations of our imaginations may be getting in the way of our ability to know what happiness is. Sound quirky and interesting? It is! But just to be sure, we asked bestselling author (and master of the quirky and interesting) Malcolm Gladwell to read Stumbling on Happiness, and give us his take. Check out his review below. --Daphne Durham

Guest Reviewer: Malcolm Gladwell

Malcolm Gladwell is the author of bestselling books Blink and The Tipping Point, and is a staff writer for The New Yorker.

Several years ago, on a flight from New York to California, I had the good fortune to sit next to a psychologist named Dan Gilbert. He had a shiny bald head, an irrepressible good humor, and we talked (or, more accurately, he talked) from at least the Hudson to the Rockies--and I was completely charmed. He had the wonderful quality many academics have--which is that he was interested in the kinds of questions that all of us care about but never have the time or opportunity to explore. He had also had a quality that is rare among academics. He had the ability to translate his work for people who were outside his world.
Now Gilbert has written a book about his psychological research. It is called Stumbling on Happiness, and reading it reminded me of that plane ride long ago. It is a delight to read. Gilbert is charming and funny and has a rare gift for making very complicated ideas come alive.
Stumbling on Happiness is a book about a very simple but powerful idea. What distinguishes us as human beings from other animals is our ability to predict the future--or rather, our interest in predicting the future. We spend a great deal of our waking life imagining what it would be like to be this way or that way, or to do this or that, or taste or buy or experience some state or feeling or thing. We do that for good reasons: it is what allows us to shape our life. And it is by trying to exert some control over our futures that we attempt to be happy. But by any objective measure, we are really bad at that predictive function. We're terrible at knowing how we will feel a day or a month or year from now, and even worse at knowing what will and will not bring us that cherished happiness. Gilbert sets out to figure what that's so: why we are so terrible at something that would seem to be so extraordinarily important?
In making his case, Gilbert walks us through a series of fascinating--and in some ways troubling--facts about the way our minds work. In particular, Gilbert is interested in delineating the shortcomings of imagination. We're far too accepting of the conclusions of our imaginations. Our imaginations aren't particularly imaginative. Our imaginations are really bad at telling us how we will think when the future finally comes. And our personal experiences aren't nearly as good at correcting these errors as we might think.
I suppose that I really should go on at this point, and talk in more detail about what Gilbert means by that--and how his argument unfolds. But I feel like that might ruin the experience of reading Stumbling on Happiness. This is a psychological detective story about one of the great mysteries of our lives. If you have even the slightest curiosity about the human condition, you ought to read it. Trust me. --Malcolm Gladwell

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