Engineering Happiness: A New Approach for Building a Joyful Life (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780520268210)

Manel Baucells and Rakesh Sarin have been conducting ground-breaking research on happiness for more than a decade, and in this book they distill their provocative findings into a lively, accessible guide for a wide audience of readers. Integrating their own research with the latest thinking in the behavioral and social sciences--including management science, psychology, and economics--they offer a new approach to the puzzle of happiness. Woven throughout with wisdom from the world's religions and literatures, Engineering Happiness has something to offer everyone--regardless of background, profession, or aspiration--who wants to better understand, control, and attain a more joyful life.

- Shows how a few major principles can explain how happiness works and why it is so elusive

- Demonstrates how the essence of attaining happiness is choice

- Explores how to avoid happiness traps

- Tells how to recognize happiness triggers in everyday life

Author: Manel Baucells, Rakesh Sarin
ISBN-10: 0520268210
ISBN-13: 9780520268210
Publisher: University of California Press
Language: English
Published: 03/12/2012
Pages: 248
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.61lbs
Size: 8.95h x 5.96w x 0.72d

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 01/23/2012 pg. 158