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The Happiness Trip

A Scientific Journey

The Happiness Trip( )
Author: Punset, Eduardo
Foreword by: Damasio, Antonio
Series title:Sciencewriters Ser.
ISBN:978-1-933392-44-8
Publication Date:Jun 2007
Publisher:Chelsea Green Publishing
Book Format:Paperback
List Price:USD $12.95
Book Description:

The search for happiness is quintessentially human—a concept that has no bearing on any other creature on earth yet figures foremost among our deepest desires. In the realm of hard science, the journey to happiness is still in its infancy; the final destination, uncertain. The Happiness Trip is a lucid and passionate approach to the science of happiness and its conditioning factors: emotions, stress, hormonal flows and aging, as well as the social, economic, cultural and...
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Book Details
Pages:160
Detailed Subjects: Self-Help / Personal Growth / Happiness
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):5.52 x 8.43 x 0.46 Inches
Book Weight:0.438 Pounds
Author Biography
Punset, Eduardo (Author)
Antonio Damasio was born in Lisbon, Portugal and studied medicine at the University of Lisbon Medical School, where he also did his neurological residency and completed his doctorate. Eventually, he moved to the United States as a research fellow at the Aphasia Research Center in Boston. From 1976 to 2005, he was M.W. Van Allen Professor and Head of Neurology at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics. He is currently the David Dornsife Professor of Neuroscience, Psychology, and Neurology, and director of the Brain and Creativity Institute at the University of Southern California.

He has written several books on his research including Descartes' Error: Emotion, Reason, and the Human Brain, which won the Science et Vie prize; The Feeling of What Happens: Body and Emotion in the Making of Consciousness; and Looking for Spinoza: Joy, Sorrow, and the Feeling Brain. He has also received the Prince of Asturias Award in Science and Technology, the Kappers Neuroscience Medal, the Beaumont Medal from the American Medical Association, the Nonino Prize, the Reenpaa Prize in Neuroscience, and the Honda Prize.

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