FIRST PRINTING of the First Edition (stated). A fascinating cultural history of the nature and subjective human experience of happiness, revealing accurate and inaccurate assumptions about this emotion and how it comes into being, offering both historical lessons as well as many memorable insights into the practical means usually chosen to induce this emotion - wisdom, drugs, money, bodies, and celebration. Hardcover with dust jacket, notes, indexed, 355pp. A very nice copy, the jacket neatly encased in an acid-free archival protector. Rare in this original printing. Size: 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" tall.

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Title

Happiness Myth, The : Why What We Think is Right is Wrong - A History of What Really Makes Us Happy

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HarperCollins Publishers, New York

Publication Date

2007

Binding

Hardcover

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First Edition (stated).

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Fine

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Fine

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