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Hardcover:
9780300186086 | Yale Univ Pr, November 12, 2013, cover price $26.00
Paperback:
9781556594496 | Copper Canyon Pr, October 29, 2013, cover price $16.00
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9781435290808 | Reprint edition (Paw Prints, May 29, 2008), cover price $25.95
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.
Hardcover:
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.
Hardcover:
9780231128469 | Columbia Univ Pr, June 1, 2003, cover price $85.00
Paperback:
9780231128476, titled "End of the Soul: Scientific Modernity, Atheism, And Anthropology in France" | Columbia Univ Pr, December 15, 2005, cover price $32.00
Hardcover:
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
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.
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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.
Paperback:
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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Paperback:
9780971031005 | 1 edition (Tupelo Pr, August 1, 2001), cover price $13.95
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