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"The knowledge and wisdom of 100 happiness professors from around the world. " It may be surprising to learn the amount of scientific research conducted on happiness and that there is a World Database of Happiness, a cumulative and continuous register of that research. In fact, the United States ranks higher than average in happiness, though not as high as the Nordic countries, including the happiest of nations, Denmark. So perhaps there is a lot to be learned about happiness and how to achieve it. "The World Book of Happiness" is a fascinating compilation of brief essays by 100 of the most prominent experts in positive psychology working in 50 countries. Writing from their own areas of expertise in language free of academic jargon, the contributors examine the principles of happiness, also known as subjective well-being, and how to achieve it. These expert recommendations are shown as "keys" to happiness. The book reveals many paths to happiness. From the founder of positive psychology, it is "other people matter." From Germany it is "pride, modesty and gratitude." In Malaysia it is "nourish the soul," and in Austria "fitness, friends and fun" bring happiness. And in Denmark, home to the happiest: "Believe in yourself." But what, too, of genetics, geography and health? The experts also consider these factors and recommend keys to happiness that address what we think we cannot control. Positive psychology may not be widely known, but the desire to be happy is universal. By transforming information into knowledge and knowledge into wisdom, "The World Book of Happiness" brings readers a hopeful and practical guide to that elusive state of being.

Die Weltformel für das Glück! Ist es Zeit? Ist es Geld? Ist es Gesundheit? Gibt es so etwas wie allgemeingültige Regeln zum Glücklichsein? Eine internationale Autorenriege – von Island bis Südafrika, von China bis Australien – eröffnet ungeahnte Denkräume und neue Wege zu den Auslösern des Glücks: Erfolg, menschliche Nähe, Genetik, Humor. Was haben die Chancen des Lebens und der freie Wille, aber auch Schmerz und Traurigkeit mit Glück zu tun? Dieses Buch führt den Leser auf die Spur: Hier ist das Wissen von 100 Glücksforschern aus aller Welt versammelt – ohne philosophische oder spirituelle Spekulationen. Sie arbeiten auf dem Gebiet der Positiven Psychologie, die sich auf die menschlichen Stärken konzentriert. Neben den individuellen Einflussfaktoren werden in diesem Band vor allem die größeren Zusammenhänge beschrieben, die für den Einzelnen, in einer Gruppe, Organisation oder Gesellschaft das Glücksempfinden stärken. Die Glücksbotschaft: Do worry, be happy. • Das ultimative Buch zum Thema ›Glück‹ • Erkenntnisse aus der ganzen Welt

With The World Book of Happiness Leo Bormans launched a unique international project and a movement for happiness. After the succes of this book (+200,000 copies sold) he spent two years studying the scientific research on love, gathering insights from the greatest experts. In this book, 100 researchers from 50 countries summarize in 1000 words their particular views on love. The result is a kaleidoscopic work full of wisdom and insight into the system and the mystery of love. The World Book of Love is all about attachment, passion and devotion, jealousy and abuse, Darwin, speed dates and brain scans. It's about parental love, friends, sex, marriage and divorce, butterflies in the stomach and elderly care. But above all it is a book about the secret of romantic love. In a globalized world we can all learn from each other. 75 colour illustrations

Lykke (Luu-kah) (n): Happiness It's easy to see why Denmark is often called the world's happiest country. Not only do they have equal parental leave for men and women, free higher education and trains that run on time, but they burn more candles per household than anywhere else. So nobody knows more about happiness - what the Danes call lykke - than Meik Wiking, CEO of the Happiness Research Institute in Copenhagen and author of the bestselling sensation The Little Book of Hygge. But he believes that, whilst we can certainly learn a lot from the Danes about finding fulfilment, the keys to happiness are actually buried all around the globe. In this captivating book, he takes us on a treasure hunt to unlock the doors to inner fulfilment. From how we spend our precious time, to how we relate to our neighbours and cook dinner, he gathers evidence, stories and tips from the very happiest corners of the planet. This is the ultimate guide to how we can all find a little more lykke in our lives.

The word-of-mouth bestseller * Published in more than 30 countries * 3 million copies sold worldwide Are you stressed out, overbooked and underwhelmed by life? Fed up with pleasing everyone else before you please yourself? Finding it hard working from home? Then it's time to stop giving a f**k, and care less to get more. This irreverent and practical book explains how to rid yourself of unwanted obligations, shame, and guilt - and give your f**ks instead to people and things that make you happy. From family dramas to having a bikini body, the simple 'NotSorry Method' for mental decluttering will help you unleash the power of not giving a f**k and will free you to spend your time, energy and money on the things that really matter. 'The anti-guru' Observer 'Absolutely blinding. Read it. Do it.' Mail on Sunday 'Genius' Cosmopolitan 'I love Knight's book even before I start reading . . . Works a charm' Sunday Times Magazine 'Life-affirming . . . The key practice she advocates is devising for yourself a "fuck budget" . . . It's a beautiful way of streamlining your psyche' Lucy Mangan, Guardian ALSO AVAILABLE FROM SARAH KNIGHT: YOU DO YOU: how to be who you are and use what you've got to get what you want AND Get Your Sh*t Together - the New York Times bestseller helping you organise the f**ks you want and need to give

Winner of the 2014 National Book Award for Poetry A luminous, seductive new collection from the "fearless" (The New York Times) Pulitzer Prize–winning poet Louise Glück is one of the finest American poets at work today. Her Poems 1962–2012 was hailed as "a major event in this country's literature" in the pages of The New York Times. Every new collection is at once a deepening and a revelation. Faithful and Virtuous Night is no exception. You enter the world of this spellbinding book through one of its many dreamlike portals, and each time you enter it's the same place but it has been arranged differently. You were a woman. You were a man. This is a story of adventure, an encounter with the unknown, a knight's undaunted journey into the kingdom of death; this is a story of the world you've always known, that first primer where "on page three a dog appeared, on page five a ball" and every familiar facet has been made to shimmer like the contours of a dream, "the dog float[ing] into the sky to join the ball." Faithful and Virtuous Night tells a single story but the parts are mutable, the great sweep of its narrative mysterious and fateful, heartbreaking and charged with wonder.