Happy

Happy
Derren Brown
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h234 x 153mm - 448pg
15 Nov 2015 US
9780593076200
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Everyone says they want to be happy. But that's much more easily said than done. What does being happy actually mean? And how do you even know when you feel it? Across the millennia, philosophers have thought long and hard about happiness, and come up with all sorts of different definitions and ideas for how we might live a considered life. Here, Derren explores the history of happiness from classical times until today, when the self-help industry has attempted to claim happiness as its own and flung all sorts of terrible counter-productive 'solutions' into the world. His aim is to reclaim happiness for us all, and enable us to appreciate the really good things in life for what they are, in all their transient glory. Fascinating, entertaining and revelatory, this is a book for anyone who has ever wondered if there must be more to life...
"Til now, we've known Derren Brown as a supreme illusionist and magician. Now he surprises us with a new and brilliant identity: as a philosopher. Not just any philosopher. Brown takes philosophy back to its truest task: that of helping us to live and die well. His book is deeply informative, moving, wise and full of love. It sets out to change lives - and it will. Derren has pulled off a properly implausible trick: that of making the deepest ideas relevant, humane and urgent." -- Alain de Botton "In this wise and perceptive book Derren Brown has conjoined personal experience, profoundly sensible psychology and the magic of philosophy to produce a really excellent account of how to be happy - really, maturely, properly happy. This is a wonderfully educative - and enjoyable! - book, and should be on everyone's reading list, always. " -- A.C. Grayling
Derren began his UK television career in December 2000 with a series of specials called Mind Control. Since redefining the genre of magic for intelligent, modern audiences, he has become synonymous with the art of psychological manipulation. His TV shows have become must-see events. Amongst a varied and notorious career, Derren has played Russian Roulette on live television, convinced middle-managers to commit an armed robbery in the street, led the nation in a seance, stuck viewers to their sofas, successfully predicted the National Lottery, motivated a shy man to land a packed passenger plane at 30,000 feet, exposed psychic and faith-healing charlatans, and hypnotised a man to assassinate Stephen Fry. On top of this he tours the UK every year with a sell-out stage show. He has published three books: Tricks of the Mind, Confessions of a Conjuror and a book of his caricatures, Portraits. At home, Derren is a quiet 41-year old who paints, keeps a parrot and enjoys Bach. He dislikes mushrooms and blue cheese, and wishes he could play the piano.
Status: No local or imported stock presently available
ISBN-13: 9780593076200
Published: 15 Nov 2015
Published In: United States
Imprint: Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group
Publisher: Transworld Publishers
Format: Trade Paperback
Height: 234mm
Width: 153mm
Pages: 448
Dewey: 158

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