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What Happy People Know
How the New Science of Happiness Can Change Your Life for the Better
by Cameron Stauth ; Dan Baker
ISBN: 1579546021
ISBN-13: 9781579546021
Format: Hardcover
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Bibliographic Details
Publisher: St Martins Pr
Published date: 2003
Size: 6.75 x 10.25 inches
Weight: 1.16 pounds
Pages: 256
Publisher's Notes
Profiles unhappiness as a chemical brain response that helped early humans to survive, offering advice on how to achieve happiness by retraining brain activity, accepting a painful past, and designing a future. 100,000 first printing. First serial, Prevention.
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