The Progress Paradox: How Life Gets Better While People Feel Worse by Easterbrook, Gregg

The Progress Paradox: How Life Gets Better While People Feel Worse (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780812973037)

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The Progress Paradox: How Life Gets Better While People Feel Worse by Easterbrook, Gregg

The Progress Paradox: How Life Gets Better While People Feel Worse

$20.00
The Progress Paradox: How Life Gets Better While People Feel Worse by Easterbrook, Gregg

The Progress Paradox: How Life Gets Better While People Feel Worse

$20.00
Format: Paperback
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In The Progress Paradox, Gregg Easterbrook draws upon three decades of wide-ranging research and thinking to make the persuasive assertion that almost all aspects of Western life have vastly improved in the past century-and yet today, most men and women feel less happy than in previous generations.

Detailing the emerging science of "positive psychology," which seeks to understand what causes a person's sense of well-being, Easterbrook offers an alternative to our culture of crisis and complaint. He makes a compelling case that optimism, gratitude, and acts of forgiveness not only make modern life more fulfilling but are actually in our self-interest. An affirming and constructive way of seeing life anew, The Progress Paradox will change the way you think about your place in the world-and about our collective ability to make it better.

Author: Gregg Easterbrook
ISBN-10: 0812973038
ISBN-13: 9780812973037
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Language: English
Published: 11/09/2004
Pages: 400
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.66lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.33w x 0.87d

Review Citation(s):
New York Times 01/16/2005 pg. 20
By Gregg Easterbrook
By Gregg Easterbrook
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GREGG EASTERBROOK is a senior editor of The New Republic, a contributing editor of The Atlantic Monthly, a visiting fellow in economics at the Brookings Institution, and a columnist for ESPN.com. He is the author of six books, including A Moment on the Earth, a New York Times and American Library Association Notable Book. He has also been a contributing editor at Newsweek and an editor of The Washington Monthly. He lives in Maryland and can be reached via the Internet at www.greggeasterbrook.com.

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