Engineering Happiness: A New Approach for Building a Joyful Life

Author/Contributor(s):	Baucells, Manel
Publisher:	University of California Press
Date:	03/12/2012
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

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