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Author Weiner, Eric, 1963-

Title The geography of bliss : one grump's search for the happiest places in the world / Eric Weiner.

Imprint New York, N.Y. : Twelve, 2008.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Pittsburg 2nd Fl Non-Fiction  910.4 Wei    ---  Available
Edition 1st ed.
Description x, 329 p. ; 24 cm.
Summary Part foreign affairs discourse, part humor, and part twisted self-help guide, this book takes the reader from America to Iceland to India in search of happiness, or, in the crabby author's case, moments of "un-unhappiness." The book uses a mixture of travel, psychology, science and humor to investigate not what happiness is, but where it is. Are people in Switzerland happier because it is the most democratic country in the world? Do citizens of Singapore benefit psychologically by having their options limited by the government? Is the King of Bhutan a visionary for his initiative to calculate Gross National Happiness? Why is Asheville, North Carolina, so darn happy? NPR correspondent Weiner answers those questions and many others, offering travelers of all moods some interesting new ideas for sunnier destinations and dispositions.--From publisher description.
Subject Weiner, Eric, 1963- -- Travel.
Voyages and travels.
ISBN 9780446580267
0446580260

 
    
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