Geography of Bliss One Grump's Search for the Happiest Places in the World

Name: Geography of Bliss One Grump's Search for the Happiest Places in the World
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ISBN: 9780446698894

ISBN-10: 044669889X

ISBN-13: 9780446698894

Edition: N/A

Authors: Eric Weiner

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Part foreign affairs discourse, part humor, and part twisted self-help guide, The Geography of Bliss 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 beguiling 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 Qatar, awash in petrodollars, find joy in all that cash? Is the King of Bhutan a visionary for his initiative to calculate Gross National Happiness? Why is Asheville, North Carolina so damn happy? With engaging wit and…

Book details

List price: $18.99
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Publication date: 1/5/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 368
Size: 5.25" wide x 8.00" long x 0.87" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English