This is a book about the thing that everybody wants. Tracing the history of happiness from its prehistoric origins to its current super-commercialised form in an age of mass consumerism and epidemic depression, In Search of Happiness aims to answer the question: What is happiness? Drawing from the sciences and the arts, John F. Schumaker constructs a new definition of a much-used but poorly understood term. The result is startling and ultimately inspiring - a highly readable blueprint for seeking and finding genuine happiness, both as individuals and as a society.
- ISBN10 0143020161
- ISBN13 9780143020165
- Publish Date 1 May 2006
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 14 May 2010
- Publish Country NZ
- Publisher Penguin Group (NZ)
- Imprint Penguin Books (NZ)
- Format Paperback
- Pages 287
- Language English