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Help!: How to Become Slightly Happier and Get a Bit More Done

Help!: How to Become Slightly Happier and Get a Bit More Done

by OliverBurkeman (Author)

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    Paperback 2011

    $6.65
Synopsis

How do you solve the problem of human happiness? It's a subject that has occupied some of the greatest philosophers of all time, from Aristotle to Paul McKenna - but how do we sort the good ideas from the terrible ones? Over the past five years, Oliver Burkeman has travelled to some of the strangest outposts of the 'happiness industry' in an attempt to find out. In Help!, Oliver presents his findings. It's a witty and thought-provoking exploration that punctures many of self-help's most popular myths, while also offering clear-headed, practical and often counterintuitive advice on a range of subjects, from stress, procrastination and insomnia to wealth, laughter, time management and creativity. It doesn't claim to have solved the problem of human happiness. But it might just bring us one step closer.

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Format: Paperback
 Publisher: Canongate Books Ltd
Published: 06 Jan 2011
ISBN 10: 0857860259
ISBN 13: 9780857860255

Media Reviews
Addictive, wise and very funny. Burkeman never takes himself too seriously, but the rest of us should. -- Tim Harford, author of THE UNDERCOVER ECONOMIST
Filters the actually-quite-useful from the potentially-very-harmful-nonsense . . . quite inspirational. -- Mark Watson, comedian
Author Bio
Oliver Burkeman is a feature writer for the Guardian. He is a winner of the Foreign Press Association's Young Journalist of the Year award, and has been shortlisted for the Orwell Prize and the What The Papers Say Feature Writer of the Year award. He writes a popular weekly column on psychology, This Column Will Change Your Life, and has reported from London, Washington and New York. His work has also appeared in Esquire, Elle, GQ, the Observer and the New Republic. He was born in Liverpool in 1975, grew up in York, and holds a degree in Social and Political Sciences from Cambridge University.