Places For Happiness

Author : Charles Montgomery
Publisher : Doubleday Canada
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2013-11-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780385669139

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Happy City by Charles Montgomery Pdf

Charles Montgomery’s Happy City will revolutionize the way we think about urban life. After decades of unchecked sprawl, more people than ever are moving back to the city. Dense urban living has been prescribed as a panacea for the environmental and resource crises of our time. But is it better or worse for our happiness? Are subways, sidewalks and condo towers an improvement on the car-dependence of sprawl? The award-winning journalist Charles Montgomery finds answers to such questions at the intersection between urban design and the emerging science of happiness, during an exhilarating journey through some of the world’s most dynamic cities. He meets the visionary mayor who introduced a “sexy” bus to ease status anxiety in Bogotá; the architect who brought the lessons of medieval Tuscan hill towns to modern-day New York City; the activist who turned Paris’s urban freeways into beaches; and an army of American suburbanites who have hacked the design of their own streets and neighborhoods. Rich with new insights from psychology, neuroscience and Montgomery’s own urban experiments, Happy City reveals how our cities can shape our thoughts as well as our behavior. The message is as surprising as it is hopeful: by retrofitting cities and our own lives for happiness, we can tackle the urgent challenges of our age. The happy city can save the world--and all of us can help build it.

Author : Helen Russell
Publisher : Running Press Adult
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2019-05-07
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780762467884

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The Atlas of Happiness by Helen Russell Pdf

A fun, illustrated guide that takes us around the world, discovering the secrets to happiness. Author Helen Russell (The Year of Living Danishly) uncovers the fascinating ways that different nations search for happiness in their lives, and what they can teach us about our own quest for meaning. This charming and diverse assortment of advice, history, and philosophies includes: Sobremesa from Spain Turangawaewae from New Zealand Azart from Russia Tarab from Syria joie de vivre from Canada and many more.

Author : Dan Buettner
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2017-10-03
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781426218491

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The Blue Zones of Happiness by Dan Buettner Pdf

New York Times best-selling author Dan Buettner reveals the surprising secrets of what makes the world's happiest places—and shows you how to apply these lessons to your own life. In this inspiring guide, you’ll find game-changing tools drawn from global research and expert insights for achieving maximum fulfillment. Along the way, you'll: • Discover the three strands of happiness—pleasure, purpose, and pride—that feature prominently in the world's happiest places. • Take the specially designed Blue Zones Happiness Test to pinpoint areas in your life where you could cultivate greater joy, deeper meaning, and increased satisfaction. • Meet the world's Happiness All-Stars: inspiring individuals from Denmark to the United States who reveal dynamic, practical ways to improve day-to-day living. • Discover specific, science-based strategies for setting up a “life radius” of community, work, home, and self to create healthier, happiness-boosting habits for the long-term.

Author : William Peterson
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2016-02-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9780824858230

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Places for Happiness by William Peterson Pdf

Places for Happiness explores two of the most important performance-based activities in the Philippines: the processions and Passion Plays associated with Easter and the mass-dance phenomenon known as “street dancing.” The scale of these handcrafted performances in terms of duration, time commitment, and productive labor marks the Philippines as one of the world’s most significant and undervalued performance-centered cultures. Drawing on a decade of fieldwork, William Peterson examines how people come together in the streets or on temporary stages, celebrating a shared sense of community and creating places for happiness. The first half of the book focuses on localized and often highly idiosyncratic versions of the Passion of Christ. Peterson considers not only what people do in these events, but what it feels like to participate. The book’s second half provides a window into the many expressions of “street dancing.” Street dancing is inflected by localized indigenous and folk dance traditions that are reinforced at school and practiced in conjunction with religious civic festivals. Peterson identifies key frames that shape and contain the individual in the Philippines, while tracking how the local expands its expressive home by engaging in a dialogue with regional, national, and diasporic Filipino imaginaries. Ultimately Places for Happiness explores how community-based performance responds to and fulfills basic human needs. Many Filipinos rely on family members and immediate neighbors for support and sustenance, and community-based performance assumes a unique and leading role in defining, reinforcing, and celebrating shared belief systems. By bringing forth the internal, phenomenological, and embodied aspects of a range of community-based practices contributing to human happiness, the book offers a cultural framework that interweaves the individual experience with that of the collective, plotting out what resides inside the body through the coordinates of culture.

Author : Eric Weiner
Publisher : Twelve
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2008-01-03
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780446511070

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The Geography of Bliss by Eric Weiner Pdf

Now a new series on Peacock with Rainn Wilson, THE GEOGRAPHY OF BLISS is part travel memoir, part humor, and part twisted self-help guide that takes the viewer across the globe 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? In a unique mix of travel, psychology, science and humor, Eric Weiner answers those questions and many others, offering travelers of all moods some interesting new ideas for sunnier destinations and dispositions.

Author : Adam Okulicz-Kozaryn
Publisher : Springer
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2015-07-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137436337

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Happiness and Place by Adam Okulicz-Kozaryn Pdf

This book is about places - cities, suburbs and towns - and happiness of people living there. Taking an interdisciplinary approach, Okulicz-Kozaryn examines the relations between human happiness and the infrastructure of the places they live. This thought-provoking book argues for the overlooked idea that we are happiest in smaller areas.

Author : David Maddison,Katrin Rehdanz,Heinz Welsch
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2020-05-29
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781788119344

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Handbook on Wellbeing, Happiness and the Environment by David Maddison,Katrin Rehdanz,Heinz Welsch Pdf

This topical and engaging Handbook brings together cutting-edge research on the relationship between happiness and the natural environment. With interdisciplinary contributions from top scholars, it explores the role of happiness research as a new approach to environmental social science, illustrating the critical links between human wellbeing, happiness and the environment.

Author : Holly Heald
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2021-01-26
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1838197400

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Looking for Happiness in All the Wrong Places by Holly Heald Pdf

From the moment we are born, we step onto a convey belt which propels us through life. Taking us from early childhood to young adulthood our experiences, families, friends and the education system teach us about the World and eventually in adulthood we join the race to succeed at life. The problem is that many of the ideas that are sold to us on the journey, are built on concepts such as economic growth that many of us don't really understand. Consequently, many of us have bought into ideas of the World and what it means to be successful and happy with little understanding of what it means and how it affects our lives, the lives of the people around us and our environment. Looking for Happiness in All the Wrong Places considers the question of happiness in the context of a World obsessed with economic growth and money, and how we may find true meaning and success in our lives that doesn't cost the World.

Author : Lisa T.E. Sonne
Publisher : Union Square & Co.
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2015-10-05
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781435161399

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The Happiness Handbook by Lisa T.E. Sonne Pdf

Happiness is a word that is thrown around so much that it can easily lose its meaning. But as hard as happiness can be to truly define, it can be even more difficult to attain. Everybody wants to be happy, of course, but what if they’re not? Is happiness something that comes and goes like the weather, or is it something that we can develop and nurture within ourselves? The Happiness Handbook has the answer. In this entertaining yet practical guide, Lisa TE Sonne (Buddha Meditations) provides dozens of positive affirmations as well as imaginative and occasionally even scientifically tested ways to bring happiness into your life every day, including: Go for a morning walk Learn how to meditate Close your eyes and think of somebody you love Perform five acts of kindness, today No matter what life throws at you, The Happiness Handbook will help you turn your frown upside down.

Author : Tim Madigan
Publisher : Vernon Press
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2019-02-15
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781622735167

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A Global Perspective on Friendship and Happiness by Tim Madigan Pdf

In A Global Perspective on Friendship and Happiness, editors Tim Delaney and Tim Madigan have organized a collection of original articles on the subjects of friendship and happiness. Each of these chapters offers a unique perspective and serves as worthy contributions to the field of friendship and happiness studies. The chapters found in this publication are the result of the "Happiness & Friendship" conference held June 12-14, 2017 at Mount Melleray Abbey, Waterford, Ireland. The contributing authors come from many diverse countries and academic disciplines thus enhancing this outstanding volume.

Author : Roman Adrian Cybriwsky
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2015-12-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781440835575

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Global Happiness by Roman Adrian Cybriwsky Pdf

An authoritative, comprehensive, and highly accessible assessment of the happiest and least happy countries and cities in the world, as well as of the happiest and least happy cities and states in the United States. Which are the happiest countries in the world and which nations are the least contented? Which cities in the world are considered the happiest and unhappiest? Which American cities and states are at the top of the list and which ones rank poorly? Presenting findings that are based on solid data and authoritative information, this book offers a bold take on the geography of happiness around the world—and presents results that are often unexpected. It enables readers to make informed cross-cultural comparisons between countries and world cities, and uniquely synthesizes global information in a way that allows us answer the important question: "What makes us happy?" A book like no other, Global Happiness: A Guide to the Most Contented (and Discontented) Places around the Globe tackles the complex equation of determining what places offer the happiest living experiences by considering quality of life, prospects for the future, social relations, confidence in good government, and many other factors that together constitute critical differences in living experience. The author—a professor of geography and urban studies as well as a world traveler—also takes into account the current events, politics, and environmental situations of specific regions, states, and cities, and considers what residents of the cities and countries say about their own places to derive accurate and fair assessments.

Author : Robert Edwards Lane
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 486 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2000-01-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0300091060

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The Loss of Happiness in Market Democracies by Robert Edwards Lane Pdf

Despite the fact that citizens of advanced market democracies are satisfied with their material progress, many are haunted by a spirit of unhappiness. There is evidence of a rising tide of clinical depression in most advanced societies, and in the United States studies have documented a decline in the number of people who regard themselves as happy. Although our political and economic systems are based on the utilitarian philosophy of happiness--the greatest good for the greatest number--they seem to have contributed to our dissatisfaction with life. This book investigates why this is so. Drawing on extensive research in such fields as quality of life, economics, politics, sociology, psychology, and biology, Robert E. Lane presents a challenging thesis. He shows that the main sources of well-being in advanced economies are friendships and a good family life and that, once one is beyond the poverty level, a larger income contributes almost nothing to happiness. In fact, as prosperity increases, there is a tragic erosion of family solidarity and community integration, and individuals become more and more distrustful of each other and their political institutions. Lane urges that we alter our priorities so that we increase our levels of companionship even at the risk of reducing our income.

Author : R. Allan Freeze
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2022-08-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783031109133

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The Metrics of Happiness by R. Allan Freeze Pdf

This book provides a comprehensive treatment of how happiness and wellbeing are measured. It presents an accessible summary of the philosophy, methodology, and applicability of the various measurement techniques that have been generated by the leaders of the happiness movement. It traces the history of development of the core ideas, and clarifies the unexpectedly wide range of techniques that are used. The book provides an unbiased assessment of the strengths and weaknesses of each approach and differentiates the contributions that have been made by psychologists, economists, environmentalists, and health scientists. It examines applications at a personal scale, in the workplace, at a societal scale, and on the world stage. It does so in an easy-to-read anecdotal writing style that will appeal to a wide range of academic and lay readers who enjoy popularized non-fiction that address matters of social concern.

Author : Amy Blankson
Publisher : BenBella Books, Inc.
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2017-04-11
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781942952954

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The Future of Happiness by Amy Blankson Pdf

Technology, at least in theory, is improving our productivity, efficiency, and communication. The one thing it's not doing is making us happier. We are experiencing historically high levels of depression and dissatisfaction. But we can change that. Knowing that technology is here to stay and will continue to evolve in form and function, we need to know how to navigate the future to achieve a better balance between technology, productivity, and well-being. Technology can drive—not diminish—human happiness. In The Future of Happiness, author Amy Blankson, cofounder of the global positive psychology consulting firm GoodThink, unveils five strategies successful individuals can use, not just to survive—but actually thrive—in the Digital Age: • Stay Grounded to focus your energy and increase productivity • Know Thyself through app-driven data to strive toward your potential • Train Your Brain to develop and sustain an optimistic mindset • Create a Habitat for Happiness to maximize the spaces where you live, work, and learn • Be a Conscious Innovator to help make the world a better place By rethinking when, where, why, and how you use technology, you will not only influence your own well-being but also help shape the future of your community. Discover how technologies can transform the idea of "I'll be happy when . . ." to being happy now.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 776 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1870
Category : Electronic
ISBN : COLUMBIA:0035528176

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New Englander and Yale Review by Anonim Pdf