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|pages=288
|publisher=Profile Books Ltd
|date=January 2007
|isbn=978-1861979896
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If The Secrets of Happiness is mistakenly shelved among the growing ranks of self-help manuals in bookshops, it should carry a health warning. I won't say the book depressed me, but I was left under no illusion as to the
My thanks to the publishers for forwarding this book.
If you're interested in thinking about humanity's place in the scheme of things, and the existence or otherwise of God, you may also enjoy [[A Devil's Chaplain]] by Richard Dawkins. You might also enjoy [[Not Exactly - In Praise Of Vagueness by Kees van Deemter]].
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|name=Jill
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|comment= Oh, how fascinating. I suppose, then, as the founding fathers would have us believe, it's the pursuit of happiness that is our right. Or rather, it's our duty.
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|name=Magda
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|comment= Oh, any book that reminds us that happiness has not much to do with the avoidance of suffering or the fulfilment of desire is to be welcomed in our obsessively navel-gazing era.
Psychological studies generally tend to show that - unfortunately - happiness is more of a personality, or even temperamental trait than effect of anything that happens to us or that we do. I think it's a very good reason why making people happy should NOT be a political aim: people can be happy in pretty much any circumstances (maybe apart from the very extreme ones).
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