Making sense : a student's guide to research and writing
Making sense : a student's guide to research and writing : engineering and the technical sciences
How to write a lot : a practical guide to productive academic writing
How to do a research project : a guide for undergraduate students
Writing history essays : a student's guide
Writing to teach; writing to learn in higher education
Good essay writing : a social sciences guide
Engaged writers and dynamic disciplines : research on the academic writing life
Visual research methods : image, society, and representation
The sociology student writer's manual
Researching and writing : a portable guide

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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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In the penultimate episode of HBO's The Sopranos, Dr. Melfi was called out by a colleague who'd Googled Stanton Samenow and Samuel Yochelson's research on psychotherapy and criminality. You can find their book, The Criminal Personality, in the library and search JSTOR and other library databases for critiques of their work.

also in the library:

The Sopranos on the couch : analyzing television's greatest series
Reading the Sopranos : hit TV from HBO
The Sopranos and philosophy : I kill therefore I am

online:
More on the mental health community's response to the final episodes.

Posted by Brandy at 11:54 AM | Permalink

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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