Product Description: An authoritative, comprehensive, and highly accessible assessment of the happiest and least happy countries and cities in the world, as well as of the happiest and least happy cities and states in the United States.• Supplies insightful and interesting information about all of the most contented and least contented countries and cities around the globe―and the factors that make the people who live in these places notably happy or discontented• Examines and explains the complexity of happiness and contentment as they apply to specific places and regions in the world• Synthesizes and evaluates the maze of existing rankings of cities and countries in the world with fresh and original information to produce a novel assessment of the geography of global happiness• Presents information about cities and countries in all parts of the world fairly and in both positive and negative light...read more

Product Description: The concept of well-being has emerged as a key category of social and political thought, especially in the fields of moral and political philosophy, development studies, and economics.This book takes a critical look at the notion of well-being by examining what well-being means, or could mean, to people living in a number of different regions including Sudan, Nepal, Papua New Guinea, India, Sierra Leone, and the UK...read more