Engineering Happiness: A New Approach for Building a Joyful Life

By Rakesh Sarin and Manel Baucells

Book Overview

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

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520268210
• ISBN13: 9780520268210
• Release Date: March 2012
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.89 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.9"