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The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom is a 2006 book written by American social psychologist Jonathan Haidt.In it, Haidt poses several "Great Ideas" on happiness espoused by thinkers of the past—such as Plato, Buddha and Jesus—and examines them in the light of contemporary psychological research, extracting from them any lessons that still apply to our modern lives.
August 1949. " Dark They Were, and Golden-Eyed " is a science fiction short story by American writer Ray Bradbury. It was originally published in the magazine Thrilling Wonder Stories in August 1949, under the title " The Naming of Names ". It was subsequently included in the short-story collections A Medicine for Melancholy and S Is for Space .
For Your Eyes Only is a collection of short stories by the British author Ian Fleming, featuring the fictional British Secret Service agent Commander James Bond, the eighth book to feature the character. It was first published by Jonathan Cape on 11 April 1960. It marked a change of format for Fleming, who had previously written James Bond ...
Life. " It's a Good Life " is a short story by American writer Jerome Bixby, written in 1953. In 1970, the Science Fiction Writers of America selected it for The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume One, as one of the 20 best short stories in science fiction published prior to the Nebula Award. The story was first published in Star Science ...
Everything Is F*cked. The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life is a 2016 nonfiction self-help book by American blogger and author Mark Manson. [ 1] The book covers Manson's belief that life's struggles give it meaning and argues that typical self-help books offer meaningless positivity which is ...
The Only Good Indians is a 2020 horror novel by Stephen Graham Jones. [1] It was first published on July 14, 2020, through Saga Press and Titan Books . [ 2 ] This novel follows four members for the Blackfeet Nation as they come to terms with events that happened a year prior.
Summary Air date 25 "Babysitting Blues" Hoping for a real "grown-up" job, Tracy volunteers to be Snuffy's babysitter for the day, but discovers she has to miss the Air Carnival to do so. Worried that she won't be a good babysitter, she discovers she's wrong when Snuffy enjoys having fun with her and she is the greatest babysitter yet.
Six Myths about the Good Life. Six Myths about the Good Life: Thinking about what has Value is a popular philosophical book by Joel J. Kupperman of the University of Connecticut. Its primary focus is on what has value, and which values are most worth espousing in life — a question central to what is known as the philosophy of life.