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9780262028240 | Mit Pr, October 31, 2014, cover price $16.95
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9781608195107 | Bloomsbury Pub Plc USA, November 8, 2011, cover price $25.00
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9781608195152 | Reprint edition (Bloomsbury Pub Plc USA, October 2, 2012), cover price $18.00
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9780789747983 | Que Pub, February 16, 2012, cover price $24.99
Product Description: Explores why contemporary Anglo-American society is obsessed with happiness. Striving to be happy is now a morally imperative pursuit. Through the lens of novel social theory, this book explicates how this has transpired as consequence of a complex "conspiracy of coordination" between political, organizational and psychological developments...read more
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9780230289567 | Palgrave Macmillan, December 15, 2011, cover price $110.00 | About this edition: Explores why contemporary Anglo-American society is obsessed with happiness.
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9780312658854 | 1 edition (Picador USA, August 3, 2010), cover price $16.00
Product Description: A sharp-witted knockdown of America’s love affair with positive thinking and an urgent call for a new commitment to realismAmericans are a “positive” people—cheerful, optimistic, and upbeat: this is our reputation as well as our self-image...read more
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9781427208361 | Unabridged edition (St Martins Pr, October 13, 2009), cover price $29.99 | About this edition: A sharp-witted knockdown of America’s love affair with positive thinking and an urgent call for a new commitment to realismAmericans are a “positive” people—cheerful, optimistic, and upbeat: this is our reputation as well as our self-image.
Product Description: Americans are a positive people -- cheerful, optimistic, and upbeat. This is our reputation as well as our self-image. In this utterly original take on the American frame of mind, Barbara Ehrenreich traces the strange career of our sunny outlook from its origins as a marginal nineteenth-century healing technique to its enshrinement as a dominant, almost mandatory, cultural attitude, and exposes the downside of irrational optimism...read more
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9781410424709 | Large print edition (Thorndike Pr, March 17, 2010), cover price $31.95 | About this edition: Americans are a positive people -- cheerful, optimistic, and upbeat.
9780805087499 | 1 edition (Metropolitan Books, October 13, 2009), cover price $23.00
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