The antidote : happiness for people who can't stand positive thinking /
Exploring the dark side of the theories put forth by such icons as Norman Vincent Peale and Eckhart Tolle by looking to both ancient philosophy and current business theory, Burkeman--a feature writer for British newspaper The Guardian--offers up the counterintuitive idea that only by embracing and e...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Faber and Faber,
[2012]
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| Summary: | Exploring the dark side of the theories put forth by such icons as Norman Vincent Peale and Eckhart Tolle by looking to both ancient philosophy and current business theory, Burkeman--a feature writer for British newspaper The Guardian--offers up the counterintuitive idea that only by embracing and examining failure and loss and unhappiness will we become free of it. |
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| Physical Description: | 236 pages ; 22 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-225) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780865479418 0865479410 9780865478015 0865478015 |