The Happiness Project: Or, Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have More Fun - Brossura

Rubin, Gretchen

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ISBN 10: 006158326X ISBN 13: 9780061583261

Casa editrice: HarperCollins, 2011

Riassunto

Chronicles the author's year spent testing the edicts of conventional wisdom to assess their actual potential for improving life, describing how she engaged in various activities from getting more sleep and singing to her children to starting a blog and imitating a spiritual master. Reprint. A #1 best-seller. 200,000 first printing.

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Recensione:

Packed with fascinating facts about the science of happiness and rich examples of how she improves her life through changes small and big The Happiness Project made me happier by just reading it. --Amy Scribner, Bookpage

For those who generally loathe the self-help genre, Rubins book is a breath of peppermint-scented air. Well-researched and sharply written. . . . Rubin takes an orderly, methodical approach to forging her own path to a happier state of mind. --Kim Crow, Cleveland Plain Dealer

Practical and never preachy . . . the rare self-help tome that doesn t feel shameful to read. --Daily Beast

L'autore:

Gretchen Rubin is the author of several books, including the bestselling Forty Ways to Look at Winston Churchill and Forty Ways to Look at JFK. Her daily blog, www.happiness-project.com, ranks in the prestigious Technorati "Top 5K" and appears on Slate and the Huffington Post. Rubin started her career as a lawyer, and she was clerking for Justice Sandra Day O'Connor when she realised she really wanted to be a writer. She lives in New York City with her husband and two young daughters.

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• Editore: HarperCollins
• Data di pubblicazione: 2011
• ISBN 10: 006158326X
• ISBN 13: 9780061583261
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 315