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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
Format:
Books
Publication Date(s):
2016
ISBN:
9781250071521
Uniform Title:
Pursuit of happiness and why it's making us anxious.
Edition:
First U.S. edition.
Physical Description:
247 pages ; 22 cm.
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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