Dancing in the streets : a history of collective joy
The architecture of happiness
A brief history of happiness
Renewing American culture : the pursuit of happiness
Happiness and public policy : theory, case studies and implications
The nature of happiness
Happiness: a history
Happiness: lessons from a new science
Happiness: the science behind your smile
Happiness : personhood, community, purpose
Journal of Happiness Studies
Plato on pleasure and the good life
The art of happiness at work
The psychology of happiness
Happiness and benevolence
The science of happiness : how our brains make us happy--and what we can do to get happier
The happiness hypothesis : finding modern truth in ancient wisdom
Stumbling on happiness
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online:
The Happiness Formula (BBC)
World Database of Happiness
"Pleasure" (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
"Is Happiness All in Your Head" (Talk of the Nation)

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America against the world : how we are different and why we are disliked
The shape of things to come : prophecy and the American voice
Windows on nature : the great habitat dioramas of the American Museum of Natural History
The arrogance of American power : what U.S. leaders are doing wrong and why it's our duty to dissent
Dark ages America : the final phase of empire
Philosophy Americana : making philosophy at home in American culture
Who are we? : the challenges to America's identity
Light and liberty : reflections on the pursuit of happiness
The European dream : how Europe's vision of the future is quietly eclipsing the American dream
Happiness and public policy : theory, case studies and implications
The old, weird America : the world of Bob Dylan's basement tapes
Americans and their land : the house built on abundance
Making America work
What matters in America : reading and writing about contemporary culture

online:
FedStats: U.S. government agency statistics portal
American FactFinder
Bureau of Labor Statistics
National Center for Health Statistics
The OECD Factbook
The World Factbook (CIA)

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The TedTalks conference series is invitation-only, but the videos are available online for anyone to watch or download. Browse the hundreds of talks by discipline (technology, entertainment, design, business, science, culture, arts, & global issues) or choose from some of the most interesting linked below.

>> Hans Rosling: Debunking third-world myths with the best stats you've ever seen
>> Ken Robinson says schools kill creativity
>> Al Seckel says our brains are mis-wired
>> Dean Ornish on the world's killer diet
>> Robert Neuwirth on our "shadow cities"
>> Stewart Brand on squatter cities
>> Stefan Sagmeister on happy design
>> Richard Dawkins on militant atheism
>> Malcolm Gladwell on spaghetti sauce
>> Jeff Hawkins on how brain science will change computing
>> Al Gore on averting climate crisis
>> Nicholas Negroponte on One Laptop per Child
>> Bob Thurman on Buddha & the internet
>> Seth Godin on sliced bread
>> Michael Shermer on believing strange things
>> Richard Baraniuk on open-source learning
>> Ray Kurzweil on how technology will transform us
>> Filmmaker/Artist Gregory Colbert on "Ashes and Snow"
>> James Watson on how he discovered DNA
>> Phil Borges on endangered cultures
>> Jane Goodall on what separates us from the apes

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From The New Yorker: Drawing on his Ghanaian roots and on examples from philosophy and literature, he attempts to steer a course between the extremes of liberal universalism, with its tendency to impose our values on others, and cultural relativism, with its implicit conviction that gulfs in understanding cannot be bridged. Catalog link Find in another library

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