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Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Chronic pain is one of the biggest barriers to the enjoyment of life. While it is complex to diagnose and medically treat pain, you will learn that it is far more critical to realize that chronic pain and disability do not have to prevent you from living a happy life.
Author
Language
English
Description
The best-selling author offers a new collection of satirical and humorous essays that chronicle his own life and ordinary moments that turn beautifully absurd, including how he coped with the pandemic, his thoughts on becoming an orphan in his seventh decade, and the battle-scared America he discovered when he resumed touring.
Author
Language
English
Description
"Rich with new insights from psychology, neuroscience, and Montgomery's own urban experiments, Happy City reveals how cities can shape our thoughts as well as our behavior. The message is ultimately 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 we can all help build it."
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Publisher
O-O Happiness
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
"There are lots of diets around.Most of them require you to buy some product,join a group or exercise all day.This diet works - I lost 10 kilos, or 22 pounds, in 4 weeks and I didn't have to buy anything special or sign up to anything,and my heart rate dropped from 70 to 55 beats per minute.If you follow this diet you will lose weight, quickly - and you can even eat KFC on the 7th day!."--
Author
Publisher
Simple Truths
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
For years, Ellen Leanse worked with the biggest technology titans that fight for our attention, including Apple, Facebook, Google, and Microsoft... programming habits that revolved around our devices. By mapping how the mind works, innovators like Ellen are able to ingrain habits for all of us, revolving around our technology. But what if we could instead create habits that revolve around happiness? In this refreshing, practical book, you'll learn...
7) Happy is
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Series
Publisher
Capstone Press
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
"Photographs and short rhyming verses describe how it feels to be happy"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Hachette Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
From the creator of the blog "Renegade Mothering," Janelle Hanchett's forthright, wickedly funny, and ultimately empowering memoir chronicling her tumultuous journey from young motherhood to abysmal addiction and a recovery she never imagined possible.
At 21, Janelle Hanchett embraced motherhood with the reckless self-confidence of those who have no idea what they're getting into. Having known her child's father for only three months, she found...
12) Happy
Author
Publisher
Lemniscaat
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
Teaches about emotions with illustrations of fish portraying these feelings, including curiosity, sadness, and confusion.
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Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"If you long to be free from the overwhelming and exhausting prison of people pleasing, When Making Others Happy Is Making You Miserable is the book for you. Bestselling author and recovering people pleaser Karen Ehman offers stories and practical tools to help you quit the pleasing game and reclaim your peace and purpose for good"--
Author
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
Description
A powerful elegy to the intimacies and idiocies of family, The Promise of Happiness tells the story of an apparently ordinary family on the cusp of an extraordinary moment: the return of the family's prodigal daughter, Juliet. Her release from an upstate New York prison throws the Judds, formerly of London but now scattered, back together.
For her father, Juliet's conviction for a theft she may not have committed had proven the disintegration of...
16) Solitaire
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Series
Language
English
Description
Tori Spring isn't sure how to be happy again. Then she meets Michael Holden, and they try to unmask the mysterious Solitaire (and survive high school) in Alice Oseman's stunning, unflinching and honest debut novel, which first introduced her fan-favorite Heartstopper characters Nick and Charlie.
17) No reservations
Author
Language
English
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Description
"Four friends, three struggling relationships, and one final wish: find your happiness. Both heartwarming and heart-wrenching, Sheryl Lister invites readers to take a trip of a lifetime with her new women's fiction novel that reminds us all to live without regrets"--
18) From strength to strength: finding success, happiness, and deep purpose in the second half of life
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"The roadmap for finding purpose, meaning, and success as we age, from bestselling author, Harvard professor, and the Atlantic's happiness columnist Arthur Brooks. Many of us assume that the more successful we are, the less susceptible we become to the sense of professional and social irrelevance that often accompanies aging. But the truth is, the greater our achievements and our attachment to them, the more we notice our decline, and the more painful...
Author
Language
English
Description
"The novel begins with the character of Ethan, a lawyer living in New York City who tells us the story of his family's life just as they learn his father - a textile manufacturer who spent long trips throughout Asia - has fathered a secret family from a woman he met on one of his trips and set up in a house in Queens. From here, we move to different related characters as the novel expands outward to the woman, her sons, a few surprise relations, some...
Author
Publisher
Hachette Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Language
English
Description
"Rolf Dobelli -- successful businessman, founder of the TED-style ideas conference Zurich Minds, bestselling author, and all-around seeker of big ideas -- has made finding a shortcut to happiness his life's mission. He's synthesized the leading thinkers and the latest science in happiness to find the best shortcuts to satisfaction in THE ART OF THE GOOD LIFE..."--Amazon.com.
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