Rocking the Boat

William Davies

Religion & Spirituality

Marshall Pickering

The harbour that failed

History

Ampersand Press

Flushed Away

David Bowers

Lord, Peter

Chris Lloyd

Dick Clement

Ian La Frenais

DreamWorks Animation SKG Home Entertainment

The Happiness Industry: How the Government and Big Business Sold us Well-Being

In winter 2014, a Tibetan monk lectured the world leaders gathered at Davos on the importance of Happiness. The recent DSM-5, the manual of all diagnosable mental illnesses, for the first time included shyness and grief as treatable diseases. Happiness has become the biggest idea of our age, a new religion dedicated to well-being. In this brilliant dissection of our times, political economist William Davies shows how this philosophy, first pronounced by Jeremy Bentham in the 1780s, has dominated the political debates that have delivered neoliberalism. From a history of business strategies of how to get the best out of employees, to the increased level of surveillance measuring every aspect of our lives; from why experts prefer to measure the chemical in the brain than ask you how you are feeling, to why Freakonomics tells us less about the way people behave than expected, The Happiness Industry is an essential guide to the marketization of modern life. Davies shows that the science of happiness is less a science than an extension of hyper-capitalism.

The Happiness Industry: How the Government and Big Business Sold Us Well-Being

Business & Money

Economics

Speaking Tiger

Nervous States: How Feeling Took Over the World

Politics & Social Sciences

Sociology

Jonathan Cape Penguin Random House UK

The Story of the Irish Mail

Engineering & Transportation

Transportation

Llygad Gwalch Cyf

<p>This is a self-help manual for those who find that they are spoiling the lives of both themselves and those around them with their almost constant irritability and flashes of bad temper. It speaks to those who often find themselves saying and doing things they later regret. It will help the reader understand why such behavior occurs and what can be done to prevent it. Like all the "Overcoming" guides it takes a positive approach for which the long-term goal in this case is lasting 'good temper' and also looks at how best to handle situations which would tax even the most good-natured person!</p>

Overcoming Anger and Irritability

Self-Help

Personal Transformation

Robinson Publishing

Hungarian - English Phrase Book (Magyar-angol társalgás)

Lexika Tankönyvkiadó

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