Happiness

Daniel Nettle is Lecturer in Biological Psychology at the Open University. As well as specialist in scholarly and scientific articles, he is author of three OUP books, Vanishing Voices (with Suzanne Romaine), Linguistic Diversity, and Strong Imagination: Madness, Creativity, and Human Nature. Vanishing Voices was winner of the BAAL prize for 2001, and was described by The New Yorker as 'a superb study of endangered languages'. Strong Imagination was described as 'a fascinating, pithy little book' (Sunday Times), giving 'a critical survey of current psychiatric knowledge that is as good an overview as is available from any source' (Times Literary Supplement).

• Introduction ; 1. Comfort and Joy ; 2. Bread and Circuses ; 3. Love and Work ; 4. Worries and Enthusiasts ; 5. Wanting and Liking ; 6. Placebos and panaceas ; 7. A Design for Living ; References

An authoritative, challenging, even profound analysis of the most up-to-date research into its subject.