The geography of bliss: one grump's search for the happiest places in the world
Part foreign affairs discourse, part humor, and part twisted self-help guide, this book takes the reader from America to Iceland to India in search of happiness, or, in the crabby author's case, moments of "un-unhappiness." The book uses a mixture of travel, psychology, science and hu...
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| Summary: | Part foreign affairs discourse, part humor, and part twisted self-help guide, this book takes the reader from America to Iceland to India in search of happiness, or, in the crabby author's case, moments of "un-unhappiness." The book uses a mixture of travel, psychology, science and humor to investigate not what happiness is, but where it is. Are people in Switzerland happier because it is the most democratic country in the world? Do citizens of Singapore benefit psychologically by having their options limited by the government? Is the King of Bhutan a visionary for his initiative to calculate Gross National Happiness? Why is Asheville, North Carolina, so darn happy? NPR correspondent Weiner answers those questions and many others, offering travelers of all moods some interesting new ideas for sunnier destinations and dispositions.--From publisher description. |
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Titel: The geography of bliss
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i Contents
Introduction i
Chapter / The Netherlands ^
Happiness Is a Number
Chapter ^c Switzerland %j
Happiness Is Boredom
Chapter J5 Bhutan 49
Happiness Is a Policy
Chapter -+¦ Qatar 97
Happiness Is a Winning Lottery Ticket
Chapter ZZ Iceland 141
Happiness Is Failure
Chapter O Moldova 185
Happiness Is Somewhere Else
Chapter / Thailand 219
Happiness Is Not Thinking
Chapter cS Great Britain 2.45
Happiness Is a Work in Progress
x Contents
Chapter ^7 India 2.75
Happiness Is a Contradiction
Chapter 7(_s America 307
Happiness Is Home
Epilogue 32/I
Are We There Yet?
Acknowledgments 327 |
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