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Engineering Happiness : A New Approach for Building a Joyful Life

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Manel Baucells and Rakesh Sarin have been conducting ground-breaking research on happiness for more than a decade, and in this book they distill their provocative findings into a lively, accessible guide for a wide audience of readers. Integrating their own research with the latest thinking in the behavioral and social sciences--including management science, psychology, and economics--they offer a new approach to the puzzle of happiness. Woven throughout with wisdom from the world's religions and literatures, Engineering Happiness has something to offer everyone--regardless of background, profession, or aspiration--who wants to better understand, control, and attain a more joyful life.

- Shows how a few major principles can explain how happiness works and why it is so elusive

- Demonstrates how the essence of attaining happiness is choice

- Explores how to avoid happiness traps

- Tells how to recognize happiness triggers in everyday life

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Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780520268210
  • ISBN-10: 0520268210
  • Publisher: University of California Press
  • Publish Date: March 2012
  • Dimensions: 8.95 x 5.96 x 0.72 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 0.61 pounds
  • Page Count: 248

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