America the anxious : how our pursuit of happiness is creating a nation of nervous wrecks
Title:
America the anxious : how our pursuit of happiness is creating a nation of nervous wrecks
Pursuit of happiness, and why it is making us anxious.
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Publication Date as Range:
2016
ISBN:
9781250071521
Edition:
First U.S. edition.
Physical Description:
247 pages ; 22 cm.
General Note:
"First published in Great Britain under the title The pursuit of happiness: and why it is making us anxious by Hutchinson, Penguin Random House HK"--Title page verso.
Contents:
Coming to America: obsessed with happiness, but nobody's happy -- Personal journey? it's not all about you -- Happiness for sale: self-help America -- Workaholics -- "I don't care as long as he's happy": dispatches from the parenting happiness rat race -- God's plan of happiness -- I'm not a happy person, I just play one on facebook -- Positive psychology (or if you're not happy, it's your own fault, you lazy schmuck) -- Star-spangled happy.
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