The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth In Ancient Wisdom

Author: Jonathan Haidt

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Price : $34.99 AUD
ISBN : 9780465028023
Publisher : Basic Books
Imprint : Basic Books
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Weight (g) : 0.299
Publication date : 01 January 2006
Dimensions : 204mm X 135mm X 21mm
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Author : Jonathan Haidt
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Edition : 2nd Revised edition
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Language : English
Dewey classification : 215
Reading Level : good
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Pages : 320
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Description

In his widely praised book, award-winning psychologist Jonathan Haidt examines the worlds philosophical wisdom through the lens of psychological science, showing how a deeper understanding of enduring maxims-like Do unto others as you would have others do unto you, or What doesnt kill you makes you stronger-can enrich and even transform our lives.

Awards

Shortlisted for BT Mind Awards Book of the Year 2007.

Author description

Jonathan Haidtis a professor of psychology at the University of Virginia.His research examines morality, the moral emotions, and the intuitive foundations of politics and religion.He is the co-editor of Flourishing: Positive Psychology and the Life Well-Lived, and the author of The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion. He lives in Charlottesville, Virginia."

Acknowledgement of country

The Bundjalung of Byron Bay Arakwal People have lived in the coastal landscape around Byron Bay for at least 22,000 years.We acknowledge and show respect for the original people on the land on which we are based. We respectfully acknowledge the ancient cultural presence in the Australian landscape by First Nation peoples and their ongoing traditional and spiritual custodianship of the marine areas, beaches, bush, rivers, lakes and mountains.