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Americans are addicted to happiness. When we’re not popping pills, we leaf through scientific studies that take for granted our quest for happiness, or read self-help books by everyone from armchair philosophers and clinical psychologists to the Dalai Lama on how to achieve a trouble-free life: Stumbling on Happiness; Authentic Happiness: Using the New Positive Psychology to Realize Your Potential for Lasting Fulfillment; The Art of Happiness: A Handbook for Living. The titles themselves draw a stark portrait of the war on melancholy. More than any other generation, Americans of today believe in the transformative power of positive thinking. But who says we’re supposed to be happy? Where does it say that in the Bible, or in the Constitution? In Against Happiness, the scholar Eric G. Wilson argues that melancholia is necessary to any thriving culture, that it is the muse of great literature, painting, music, and innovation—and that it is the force underlying original insights. Francisco Goya, Emily Dickinson, Marcel Proust, and Abraham Lincoln were all confirmed melancholics. So enough Prozac-ing of our brains. Let’s embrace our depressive sides as the wellspring of creativity. What most people take for contentment, Wilson argues, is living death, and what the majority takes for depression is a vital force. In Against Happiness: In Praise of Melancholy, Wilson suggests it would be better to relish the blues that make humans people.
Author: Eric Wilson
Format: Hardback
Number of Pages: 166
Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc
Publication Date: 01 Feb 2008
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ASIN: 0446540781 Product Name: AGAINST MEDICAL ADVICE: ONE: One Family's Struggle with an Agonizing Medical Mystery
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James Patterson has had more New York Times bestsellers than any other writer, ever, according to Guinness World Records. Since his first novel won the Edgar Award in 1977 James Patterson's books have sold more than 300 million copies. He is the author of the Alex Cross novels, the most popular detective series of the past twenty-five years, including Kiss the Girls and Along Came a Spider. He writes full-time and lives in Florida with his family.
Authors: James Patterson, Hal Friedman
Format: Paperback
Number of Pages: 304
Publisher: HACHETTE
Publication Date: 08 Sep 2008
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Description: In need of some thrilling, heart-stopping reads? Dive into Agatha Christie's wildly acclaimed murder mysteries At Betram's Hotel and Taken at the Flood , two detective fiction that result in gripping "whodunnit" narratives. At Bertram's Hotel investigates the mysterious dissapearance of Canon Pennyfather, while Taken at the Flood follows Hercule Poirot who must find out why he is approached to find a missing person giided only by the spirit world.
Consists of: At Bertram's Hotel (Well Read), Taken at the Flood (Well Read)
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Author: Dawn D. Radtke
Format: Paperback
Number of Pages: 128
Publisher: Better Yourself Books
Publication Date: 1989