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The Last Self-Help Book You'll Ever Need
Paul Pearsall
Basic Books, 2007
Refreshing antidote to too much positive thinking
+ The Best Ever
+ Buy 20 copies of this and hand them out like candy
+ will the real path to the good life stand up?
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Happiness: The Science behind Your Smile
Daniel Nettle
Oxford University Press, USA, 2006
Excellent! Fun to read and illuminating at once.
+ A beautifully written book
+ Happiness is like the tooth fairy. It never comes.
+ Intelligent & Illuminating
+ Great summary of current thinking on happiness
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Worry
Edward M. Md Hallowell
Ballantine Books, 1998
Help for the common man and woman
+ Useful stuff here for the worryworts of the world
+ Intelligent, Informative, Inspiring
+ Very Interesting
+ very informative book on worry
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A Mind of its Own: How Your Brain Distorts and Deceives
Cordelia Fine
W. W. Norton, 2006
Best of both worlds
+ A disturbing book
+ Well worth the price; great staring place
+ Great book for former hostages of "Religion"....
+ Entertaining and informative - a "must read"
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Against Happiness: In Praise of Melancholy
Eric G. Wilson
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008
Beautiful, important book
+ Happiness is a bust!
As a society, we are in love with happiness. We lust for it, we search for it, we will do anything to have it. And it's almost never questioned. In fact, if you don't want happiness, your own or at least someone else's satisfaction, most people probably think you're crazy and you'll probably never ...
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Zen And the Art of Happiness
Chris Prentiss
Power Pr, 2006
Brilliant way to understand life!
+ Very good read!
+ Peace of mind
+ A journey of a thousand miles...
+ A must read
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How Successful People Win: Using Bunkhouse Logic to Get What You Want in Life
Ben Stein
New Beginnings Press, 2006
Saddle Up...Long Ride Ahead, But It's Worth It
+ Good Advice
+ That rarest of rare beast ...
+ One of the Best Books Ever!
+ You can escape from the rat trap
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How to Stop Worrying and Start Living
Dale Carnegie
Pocket, 2004
Everybody needs to read this book.
+ Another Excellent book by Carnegie
+ Stop Stressing Out!
+ Effective Worry-Fighting Techniques
+ Very helpful and encouraging book.
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The Schopenhauer Cure: A Novel (P.S.)
Irvin Yalom
Harper Perennial, 2006
Existential angst, or Buddism without spirituality
+ Death and values
+ Yalom on death
This book was my introduction to Schopenhauer. From the quotes and summaries of his philosopy, it seems to me that his observations of the world and his attempts to detach from it are similar to Buddism. A Course in Miracles teaches the necessity of thinking and looking beyond this world. ...
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The How of Happiness: A Scientific Approach to Getting the Life You Want
Sonja Lyubomirsky
Penguin Press HC, The, 2007
It works, and let me add a bit....
+ Wow!
+ You can achieve happiness
+ Your Happiness
+ All according to plan.
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Authentic Happiness: Using the New Positive Psychology to Realize Your Potential for Lasting Fulfillment
Martin Seligman
Free Press, 2004
Right at the top!
+ Happiness it is!
+ The Starting Point To Finding Happiness
+ Interesting!
+ Test your happiness levels and learn what can inffluence them
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The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom
Jonathan Haidt
Basic Books, 2006
A Great Foundation for Understanding Happiness
+ You can really discuss this book with your coffee partner
+ A very good hypothesis
+ So that explains it!
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Plato, Not Prozac!: Applying Eternal Wisdom to Everyday Problems
Lou Marinoff
Harper Paperbacks, 2000
I would definitely recommend...
I personally found this book to be very interesting and insightful. As a student of both psychology and philosophy, I greatly appreciate the way both are presented. His thoughts were synonymous with my personal humanistic view of working with others in counseling. It's encouraging to hear and ...
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The Psychology of Happiness
Michael Argyle
Routledge, 2002
On the way ... to happiness
This book was written in style and order to talk both to beginners in psychological studies and more advanced analysts. It is a source for basic classifications as well as useful references to selected scientific litterature. Planners of related psycho-social experiments might get extra benefit if ...
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The Pursuit of Happiness: Discovering the Pathway to Fulfillment, Well-Being, and Enduring Personal Joy
David G. Myers
Harper Paperbacks, 1993
A treasure-trove of modern wisdom
+ Love and Work
+ An interesting book, but not original and not very helpful
+ Why we are happy. Really. Buy this by the case and give
+ Fascinating summaries of studies of well-being
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