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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 150
EAN: 9780446698894
ISBN: 044669889X
Label: Twelve
Manufacturer: Twelve
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 368
Publication Date: January 05, 2009
Publisher: Twelve
Sales Rank: 21828
Studio: Twelve
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Product Description:
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 surprising insights, Eric Weiner answers those questions and many others, offering travelers of all moods some interesting new ideas for sunnier destinations and dispositions. (2007)
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Rating:  - Flawed (of necessity) but Deeply Entertaining
An entertaining book ostensibly about how place impacts happiness. Weiner's approach is far from comprehensive. He draws conclusions on whether certain places are happy based on very brief interactions with two or three people per country; had he selected different interviewees, his judgments may have been completely different. Plus, Weiner visits far too few and quite random locations. So, though it is flawed as serious research, the book is a lot of fun (and serious research doesn't seem to be ... Read More
Rating: - A Wonderous Armchair Traveler's Adventure
Author Eric Weiner makes a Clint Eastwood-esque double dare to the world: Go ahead. Make me happy. Then he sets off on a continent-hopping voyage to see if the source of a person's happiness is the same as the source of good real estate: location, location, location. Is it true that the inhabitants of some countries are happier than those living elsewhere? What makes people universally happy? Are there shared commonalities between the happier places? And what is happiness and how can it be measured? ... Read More
Rating:  - Amusing and insightful
I read this a few months ago.A friend asked me what I read recently and it took me a while but I remembered this book.It made quite an impression on me.If you are an NPR fan, you would probably enjoy this book.It has similar tone, language, cadence and sense of humor.It is casually intelligent and skeptical but insightful and amusing.
Rating: - Great Book
I bought this book for a school project about the happiest places in the world and this book was awesome!Reads like a novel.Weiner did a qualitative study on the happiest places in the world starting off with quantitative data from the world's happiness database.If you are looking for a great, informative, and witty book to read then Bliss is the one. If you are looking for more quantitative research on the subject of happiness with charts and citations etc. this book is not going to give that ... Read More
Rating: - Audio Interview with Eric ~ Come Listen In...
I had the honor of reading Eric's book and speaking with him on my author interview Internet talk show, Words To Mouth. If you're here checking out his reviews, you may be interested in hearing Eric talk about The Geography of Bliss in his own words at http://wordstomouth.com/?p=276.
In the least, try Eric's "Be Thai" Happiness Recipe:
*Don't obsess about happiness;
*Don't think too much;
*Put much effort into life, but lower your results expectations;
*Don't be ... Read More
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