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9781556594496 | Copper Canyon Pr, October 29, 2013, cover price $16.00

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A cultural history of the concept of happiness challenges popular beliefs about how such goals as wealth, an ideal body, and anti-depressants have actually affected happiness levels in the past, in an account that tests popular scientific perspectives that promote dogmatic or ritualized modes of self-care. By the author of Doubt: A History.

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9780060813970 | Harper San Francisco, April 1, 2007, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: A cultural history of the concept of happiness challenges popular beliefs about how such goals as wealth, an ideal body, and anti-depressants have actually affected happiness levels in the past.

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9780231128469 | Columbia Univ Pr, June 1, 2003, cover price $85.00

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9780231128476, titled "End of the Soul: Scientific Modernity, Atheism, And Anthropology in France" | Columbia Univ Pr, December 15, 2005, cover price $32.00

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9780299214005 | Univ of Wisconsin Pr, November 2, 2005, cover price $26.95

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9780299214043 | Univ of Wisconsin Pr, November 2, 2005, cover price $15.95

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A study on the role of skepticism in the development of intellectual and religious history celebrates the doubt-related activities of such figures as the Buddha, Susan B. Anthony, and Thomas Jefferson, noting their achievements as proponents for creativity, intellectual progress, and social change. Reprint. 25,000 first printing. (view table of contents)

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9780060097721 | Harper San Francisco, October 1, 2003, cover price $27.95 | About this edition: In this sweeping history, Jennifer Michael Hecht celebrates doubt as an engine of creativity and as an alternative to the political and intellectual dangers of certainty -- Just as belief has its own history featuring people whose unique expressions of faith have forever changed the world, doubt has a vibrant story and tradition with its own saints martyrs, and sages.

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9780060097950, titled "Doubt: A History. the Great Doubters and Their Legacy of Innovation from Socrates and Jesus to Thomas Jefferson and Emily Dickinson" | Reprint edition (Harpercollins, September 1, 2004), cover price $16.99 | About this edition: A study of the role of skepticism in the development of intellectual and religious history celebrates the doubt-related activities of such figures as the Buddha, Susan B.

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9780971031005 | 1 edition (Tupelo Pr, August 1, 2001), cover price $13.95

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