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Redistributing Happiness

Author : Hiroshi Ono
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1440832986
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (48 download)

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Download or read book Redistributing Happiness written by Hiroshi Ono and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2016-08-29 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on international comparisons of data on happiness, this book offers both general and academic audiences a simple, deep, and honest answer to the timeless question: "What makes people happy"? The conventional recipe for happiness has long included money, marriage, and parenthood as basic ingredients. What research is telling us, however, is that these elements don't relate to happiness in quite the way we might expect them to. Redistributing Happiness: How Social Policies Shape Life Satisfaction explores the factors that determine "life satisfaction" and demonstrate how an individual's happiness is largely shaped by social context—by where they live and local policies, norms and attitudes about religious beliefs, economic and political security, income redistribution, and more. The book begins with a review of the contributions of other disciplines—such as economics, psychology, and political science—to common explanations of the sources of happiness. Next, the authors offer an international comparison based on their own research on what makes people happy, taking into consideration factors such as marriage, children, money, and job status. Most importantly, special attention is paid to how social policies and social context directly affect people's happiness. All readers high school age and up will enjoy the book's comprehensive—and fascinating—answer to the happiness question because of how the authors connect an individual's experience to the broader environment of the social system and situation in which that person resides.

Researching Happiness

Author : Cieslik, Mark
Publisher : Policy Press
ISBN 13 : 1529206138
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (292 download)

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Download or read book Researching Happiness written by Cieslik, Mark and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2021-05-25 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This original collection draws on the latest empirical research to explore the practical challenges facing happiness researchers today. By uniquely combining the critical approach of sociology with techniques from other disciplines, the contributors illuminate new qualitative and biographical approaches of the study of happiness and well-being.

Capturing Happiness

Author : Clayton M.E. (author)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780463791790
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (917 download)

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Download or read book Capturing Happiness written by Clayton M.E. (author) and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Economics of Happiness

Author : Bruno S. Frey
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319758071
Total Pages : 79 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (197 download)

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Download or read book Economics of Happiness written by Bruno S. Frey and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-02-26 with total page 79 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses on what makes people happy. The author explains methods for measuring subjective life satisfaction and well-being by discussing economic and sociodemographic factors, as well as the psychological, cultural and political dimensions of personal happiness. Does higher income increase happiness? Are people in rich countries, such as the United States, the United Kingdom and Scandinavian countries, happier than those living elsewhere? Does losing one’s job make one unhappy? What is the role of genetic endowments inherited from our parents? How important are physical and emotional health to subjective life satisfaction? Do older people tend to be happier, or younger people? Are close social relationships necessary for happiness? Do political conditions, such as respect for human rights, democracy and autonomy, play a part? How can governments contribute to the population’s happiness? This book answers these questions on the basis of extensive interdisciplinary research reflecting the current state of knowledge. The book will appeal to anyone interested in learning more about the various dimensions of personal well-being beyond the happiness-prosperity connection, as well as to policymakers looking for guidance on how to improve happiness in societies.

Song of Ascension

Author : Darin Penzera
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1469152320
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (691 download)

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Download or read book Song of Ascension written by Darin Penzera and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2012-02-08 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A book about a spiritual journey within a soul, that begins with its fall and ends with its ascension. The fall occurring into the abyss between what life is and what life should be; the journey undertaken to seek a way out of the dark abyss to the light. At some point in our life we all have to go on a great spiritual quest to give our life meaning; we may begin in the darkest night, or in a twilight period, or even on a bright dawn, the point we depart from may differ but we all desire to arrive at the same place, at a sense of deep meaning for life. This book is the light of hope to all those lost in the darkness. This book’s purpose is to serve for all who read it as the spiritual map showing the way to ascend to life’s highest meaning and joy.

Authentic Portraits

Author : Chris Orwig
Publisher : Rocky Nook, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1681983486
Total Pages : 591 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (819 download)

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Download or read book Authentic Portraits written by Chris Orwig and published by Rocky Nook, Inc.. This book was released on 2019-09-06 with total page 591 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most successful portraits take us well beyond the surface of how someone looks and show us the inner essence of who someone is. They reveal character, soul, and depth. They uncover hidden hopes and profound truths, revealing that authentic and deeply human light that shines within. And while technical expertise is undoubtedly important, it’s not the light, camera, or pose that creates a great portrait. It’s you, and it’s the connection you create with the subject that makes all the difference. In Authentic Portraits, photographer Chris Orwig teaches you that the secret to creating meaningful portraits is simple: curiosity, empathy, kindness, and soul…plus a bit of technique. While Chris spends significant time on the fundamentals of “getting the shot”—working with natural light, nailing focus, dialing in the correct exposure, effectively posing and directing the subject, intentionally composing the frame—he also passionately discusses the need for personal development, creative collaboration, and connection with the subject. Because who you are directly and deeply affects what you create, and it is only through cultivating your own inner light that you will be able to bring it out in your subjects. Filled with instruction, insight, and inspiration, Authentic Portraits is an honest and personal book about creating better frames. It’s also about becoming your best self. Take the journey, and you’ll learn to find your vision and voice, bring intention to your photography and your life, embrace mystery, and understand the importance of gratitude and empathy. Along the way, you will teach the camera to see in a way that replicates how you feel, and you’ll find you have all you need to create work of lasting significance.

The Good Society

Author : Henrik Christoffersen
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3642372384
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (423 download)

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Download or read book The Good Society written by Henrik Christoffersen and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-11-26 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Denmark and Switzerland are small and successful countries with exceptionally content populations. However, they have very different political institutions and economic models. They have followed the general tendency in the West toward economic convergence, but both countries have managed to stay on top. They both have a strong liberal tradition, but otherwise their economic strategies are a welfare state model for Denmark and a safe haven model for Switzerland. The Danish welfare state is tax-based, while the expenditures for social welfare are insurance-based in Switzerland. The political institutions are a multiparty unicameral system in Denmark, and a permanent coalition system with many referenda and strong local government in Switzerland. Both approaches have managed to ensure smoothly working political power-sharing and economic systems that allocate resources in a fairly efficient way. To date, they have also managed to adapt the economies to changes in the external environment with a combination of stability and flexibility.

The One-Minute Happiness Journal

Author : Eva Olsen
Publisher : Castle Point Books
ISBN 13 : 9781250234773
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (347 download)

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Download or read book The One-Minute Happiness Journal written by Eva Olsen and published by Castle Point Books. This book was released on 2019-10-22 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focus on all the good in your life in just one minute a day! Gratitude for what brings us joy is a proven way to feel happier every day. And it doesn’t have to take a lot of time. With this simple guided journal, just one minute a day of reflection will help you focus on the joy in your life and improve your positive outlook. With 365 provocative prompts designed to pinpoint the happiness already present in your life, this book will be a welcome point of reflection at the end of every day.

Anneliese's House

Author : Lou Andreas-Salomé
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 1640141014
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (41 download)

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Download or read book Anneliese's House written by Lou Andreas-Salomé and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2021 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first English translation of a presciently modern portrayal of emerging feminist sensibilities in a nineteenth-century family, by one of Germany's leading pre-First World War writers.

Thumbs Up!

Author : Joey Reiman
Publisher : BenBella Books, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1941631207
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (416 download)

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Download or read book Thumbs Up! written by Joey Reiman and published by BenBella Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2015-07-07 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Purpose defines you. What you do with that purpose redefines the world. Joey Reiman was told he might never move his hand again after a horrible, paralyzing accident in 1975. Refusing to accept this prognosis and give in to negative thoughts, all he wanted to do was move his thumb. "If I could just raise my thumb," Reiman thought, "the rest will follow." With this seed of what he now calls optimalism—believing that optimism creates optimal outcomes—Reiman did it. He gave himself a thumbs up. Now Reiman, the world's leading purpose branding expert and motivational speaker, will share his belief system with you. In Thumbs Up!, Reiman shows how five simple pointers will ultimately help you activate your dreams into actions. The secret to success is right at your fingertips. Your digits will guide you to: Give the world a thumbs up Point to your purpose in life Give your middle finger to fear March forth to take action Remember the little things that matter Thumbs Up! is a how-to that focuses on looking up and rising up to all you imagined you could be and determining that a life of purpose begins in the palm of your hand. Start your journey of life to deeper love, more meaningful work, better health, greater wealth, and richer faith.

PollMighty and VotePecker

Author : Umamahesh Shista
Publisher : Notion Press
ISBN 13 : 1638865167
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (388 download)

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Download or read book PollMighty and VotePecker written by Umamahesh Shista and published by Notion Press. This book was released on 2021-06-21 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How not to detest Politics, earlier the better? Should your young mind understand and plan a career in Politics? Are Honesty and Politics Mutually Exclusive? If the young generation asks impossible questions, will Society change? Welcome to the world of Politika with the PollMighty Voter and the VotePecker Politician. Dare the turbulent seas of Politics by singing together the verses of introspection. The seven hundred verses in the book authored by Umamahesh Shista do not provide sugar coating but understanding of life’s bitter pills, Politics being just one of them.

Happiness

Author : Randy Alcorn
Publisher : NavPress
ISBN 13 : 1496403851
Total Pages : 575 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (964 download)

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Download or read book Happiness written by Randy Alcorn and published by NavPress. This book was released on 2015-09-17 with total page 575 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do you ever wonder whether God even cares if we’re happy? This world can be so hard, and we aren’t promised an easy road. But that’s not the whole story. The Bible is filled with verses that prove that ours is a God who not only loves celebrations but also desperately wants his children to experience happiness. Why else would he go to the lengths he did to ensure our eternal happiness in his presence? We know that we will experience unimaginable joy and happiness in heaven, but that doesn’t mean we can’t also experience joy and happiness here on earth. In Happiness, noted theologian Randy Alcorn (bestselling author of Heaven) dispels centuries of misconceptions about happiness, including downright harmful ideas like the prosperity gospel, and provides indisputable proof that God not only wants us to be happy, he commands it. Randy covers questions like: How can I cultivate happiness in my life? What’s the difference between joy and happiness? Can good things become idols that steal our happiness? Is seeking happiness selfish? How can I achieve happiness through gratitude? What does it look like to receive God’s grace? The most definitive study on the subject of happiness to date, this book is a paradigm-shifting wake-up call for the church and Christians everywhere.

Redefining Success in America

Author : Michael Kaufman
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022655029X
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (265 download)

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Download or read book Redefining Success in America written by Michael Kaufman and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2019-06-07 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Work hard in school, graduate from a top college, establish a high-paying professional career, enjoy the long-lasting reward of happiness. This is the American Dream—and yet basic questions at the heart of this competitive journey remain unanswered. Does competitive success, even rarified entry into the Ivy League and the top one percent of earners in America, deliver on its promise? Does realizing the American Dream deliver a good life? In Redefining Success in America, psychologist and human development scholar Michael Kaufman develops a fundamentally new understanding of how elite undergraduate educations and careers play out in lives, and of what shapes happiness among the prizewinners in America. In so doing, he exposes the myth at the heart of the American Dream. Returning to the legendary Harvard Student Study of undergraduates from the 1960s and interviewing participants almost fifty years later, Kaufman shows that formative experiences in family, school, and community largely shape a future adult’s worldview and well-being by late adolescence, and that fundamental change in adulthood, when it occurs, is shaped by adult family experiences, not by ever-greater competitive success. Published research on general samples shows that these patterns, and the book’s findings generally, are broadly applicable to demographically varied populations in the United States. Leveraging biography-length clinical interviews and quantitative evidence unmatched even by earlier landmark studies of human development, Redefining Success in America redefines the conversation about the nature and origins of happiness, and about how adults develop. This longitudinal study pioneers a new paradigm in happiness research, developmental science, and personality psychology that will appeal to scholars and students in the social sciences, psychotherapy professionals, and serious readers navigating the competitive journey.

This Is Happiness

Author : Niall Williams
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1635574218
Total Pages : 375 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (355 download)

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Download or read book This Is Happiness written by Niall Williams and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2019-12-03 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE WASHINGTON POST and REAL SIMPLE A profound and enchanting new novel from Booker Prize-longlisted author Niall Williams about the loves of our lives and the joys of reminiscing. You don't see rain stop, but you sense it. You sense something has changed in the frequency you've been living and you hear the quietness you thought was silence get quieter still, and you raise your head so your eyes can make sense of what your ears have already told you, which at first is only: something has changed. The rain is stopping. Nobody in the small, forgotten village of Faha remembers when it started; rain on the western seaboard was a condition of living. Now--just as Father Coffey proclaims the coming of electricity--it is stopping. Seventeen-year-old Noel Crowe is standing outside his grandparents' house shortly after the rain has stopped when he encounters Christy for the first time. Though he can't explain it, Noel knows right then: something has changed. This is the story of all that was to follow: Christy's long-lost love and why he had come to Faha, Noel's own experiences falling in and out of love, and the endlessly postponed arrival of electricity--a development that, once complete, would leave behind a world that had not changed for centuries. Niall Williams' latest novel is an intricately observed portrait of a community, its idiosyncrasies and its traditions, its paradoxes and its inanities, its failures and its triumphs. Luminous and otherworldly, and yet anchored with deep-running roots into the earthy and the everyday, This Is Happiness is about stories as the very stuff of life: the ways they make the texture and matter of our world, and the ways they write and rewrite us.

Capturing Happiness

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (182 download)

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Download or read book Capturing Happiness written by and published by . This book was released on 2023-10-11 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Capturing Happiness is an anthology of inspirational short stories written by students, alumni, and others associated with Brigham Young University - Idaho. 116 authors represented by more than 10 different countries invite you into their lives, offering personal details of strength, courage, and perseverance. All were prompted to share a time when they overcame a significant obstacle or learned a powerful life lesson. Stories range from battling cancer to helping someone in need. Given the nature of the assignment and the location, most authors shared stories of faith and healing related to their religious beliefs. Capturing Happiness will inspire you to overcome and remember your moments of triumph.

Transforming Conflict

Author : Terasa G. Cooley
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1538161842
Total Pages : 161 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (381 download)

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Download or read book Transforming Conflict written by Terasa G. Cooley and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2022-05-16 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Conflict is endemic to congregational life. Because congregations exist to help us find meaning and purpose, we find it difficult to realize that not everyone shares our understanding or approach. Many of us have cultural backgrounds that teach us that conflict is bad or to be avoided. Conflict Transformation, on the other hand, treats conflict as an opportunity to learn and grow, both individually, and institutionally. Exploring new understandings of how our bodies and minds respond to conflict, Cooley offers concrete strategies for personal growth and healthy congregational functioning. Anticipating new conflicts that may arise from recent traumas of pandemic response and political division, Cooley offers a way to make painful conversations sources of healing. Drawing on over 30 years of experience as a parish minister and denominational official, Cooley weaves personal reflections with intellectual theory. Each chapter includes discussion questions that make it a valuable resource for group conversation and learning.

Positive Balance

Author : M. Joseph Sirgy
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030402894
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (34 download)

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Download or read book Positive Balance written by M. Joseph Sirgy and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-06-18 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book provides a new theory of well-being designed to integrate many disparate concepts of well-being, such as subjective well-being, personal happiness, mental well-being, emotional well-being, psychological well-being, hedonic well-being, social well-being, life satisfaction, domain satisfaction, and eudaimonia. It lays the foundation for a new a theory of mental well-being based on a hierarchical perspective of positive mental health and guided by the concept of positive balance. Written by a well-known expert in the field, this book addresses the issue of positive balance related to physiological, emotional, cognitive, meta-cognitive, developmental and social-ecological levels of an individual and analyses the factors at each level that contribute to an individual’s positive mental health experience. It discusses in detail the effects of neurochemicals such as dopamine, serotonin, or cortisol; positive and negative affect; satisfaction in salient and multiple life domains vis-à-vis dissatisfaction in life domains; positive versus negative evaluations about one’s life using certain standards of comparison; positive psychological traits of personal growth and intrinsic motivation, etc. vis-à-vis negative traits like pessimism and impulsiveness; and perceived social resources like social contribution and social actualization vis-à-vis perceived constraints like exclusion and ostracism. This original work is of interest to students, researchers and practitioners of quality of life and wellbeing studies, positive psychology, developmental psychology and mental health..