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And strange at Ecbatan the trees: A novel

Science Fiction & Fantasy

BISHOP, Michael

Science Fiction

Harper&Row

Science fiction adventure wrritten by Hugo and Nebula Award nominated author

Stolen Faces

Literature & Fiction

Harpercollins

Presents the winning stories for best science fiction and fantasy of 1989, featuring works by Elizabeth Ann Scarborough, Geoffrey A. Landis, and Connie Willis

Nebula Awards 25: Sfwa's Choice for the Best Science Fiction and Fantasy 1989 (Nebula Awards Showcase)

United States

Harcourt

Philosophers defend theories of what well-being is but ignore what psychologists have learned about it, while psychologists learn about well-being but lack a theory of what it is. In The Good Life, Michael Bishop brings together these complementary investigations and proposes a powerful, new theory for understanding well-being. The network theory holds that to have well-being is to be "stuck" in a self-perpetuating cycle of positive emotions, attitudes, traits and accomplishments. For someone with well-being, these states -- states such as joy and contentment, optimism and adventurousness, extraversion and perseverance, strong relationships, professional success and good health -- build upon and foster each other. They form a kind of positive causal network (PCN), so that a person high in well-being finds herself in a positive cycle or "groove." A person with a lesser degree of well-being might possess only fragments of such a network -- some positive feelings, attitudes, traits or successes, but not enough to kick start a full-blown, self-perpetuating network. Although recent years have seen an explosion of psychological research into well-being, this discipline, often called Positive Psychology, has no consensus definition. The network theory provides a new framework for understanding Positive Psychology. When psychologists investigate correlations and causal connections among positive emotions, attitudes, traits, and accomplishments, they are studying the structure of PCNs. And when they identify states that establish, strengthen or extinguish PCNs, they are studying the dynamics of PCNs. Positive Psychology, then, is the study of the structure and dynamics of positive causal networks. The Good Life represents a new, inclusive approach to the study of well-being, an approach committed to the proposition that discovering the nature of well-being requires the knowledge and skills of both the philosopher in her armchair and the scientist in her lab. The resulting theory provides a powerful, unified foundation for future scientific and philosophical investigations into well-being and the good life.

The Good Life: Unifying the Philosophy and Psychology of Well-Being

Politics & Social Sciences

Philosophy

Oxford University Press

The appearance of unicorns on a Colorado cattle ranch joins a dying man, the ranch owner, and a Ute man and his daughter in a test of courage and humanity

Unicorn Mountain

Fantasy

Grafton Books A Division of the Collins Publishing Group

An art critic for a great metropolitan newspaper reluctantly becomes a superhero in a novel of heroism. By the author of The Secret Ascension, Unicorn Mountain, and No Enemy But Time.

Count Geiger's Blues

Tor Books

It is 1982. The United States has a permanent Moonbase. Richard M. Nixon is in the fourth term of the "imperial presidency." And an eccentric novelist named Philip K. Dick has just died in California. Or has he? Psychiatrist Lia Pickford, M.D., is nonplussed when Dick walks into her office in small-town Georgia, with a cab idling outside, to ask for help. And Cal Pickford, a longtime Dick fan stunned by the news of his hero's death, is electrified when his wife tells him of the visit. So begins a sequence of events involving Cal in the repressive Nixon regime, the affairs of an aging movie queen, a hip but frightened Vietnamese immigrant and an old black man who works as a groom--all leading up to a fateful confrontation between Dick, Cal, and Nixon himself on the moon.

Philip K. Dick is dead, alas

Orb Books

Critic Xavier Thaxton detests popular culture. But when a wildly improbable plunge into a pool of toxic waste gives him an allergy to High Art and transforms him into (of all things) a costumed superhero, he is forced to reconsider his values--and his life.

Count Geiger's Blues: A Comedy

St Martins Pr

Paul Lloyd and his ex-wife, RuthClaire, discover a living descendant of a hominid species long thought extinct, homo habilis

Ancient of Days

In an alternate universe, Richard M. Nixon, in the fourth term of the "imperial presidency," is about to undertake a fateful meeting

The Secret Ascension

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