A newly married woman longs, irrationally, for a silk umbrella; a husband chases away his wife's beloved cat; a betrayed mother impulsively sacks her housekeeper. Underneath the surface of these precisely observed tales of love, marriage and family life in mid-century Copenhagen pulse currents of desire, violence and despair, as women and men dream of escaping their conventiona...(展开全部)

The Trouble with Happiness is a short-story collection from Tove Ditlevsen, the acclaimed author of the Copenhagen Trilogy, never before translated in English A newly married woman longs, irrationally, for a silk umbrella; a husband chases away his wife’s beloved cat; a betrayed mother impulsively sacks her housekeeper. Underneath the surface of these precisely observed tales o...(展开全部)

A newly married woman longs, irrationally, for a silk umbrella; a husband chases away his wife's beloved cat; a betrayed mother impulsively sacks her housekeeper. Underneath the surface of these precisely observed tales of love, marriage and family life in mid-century Copenhagen pulse currents of desire, violence and despair, as women and men dream of escaping their conventiona...(展开全部)

In the midst of spiraling ecological devastation, multispecies feminist theorist Donna J. Haraway offers provocative new ways to reconfigure our relations to the earth and all its inhabitants. She eschews referring to our current epoch as the Anthropocene, preferring to conceptualize it as what she calls the Chthulucene, as it more aptly and fully describes our epoch as one in ...(展开全部)

在《幸福陷阱》一书中，路斯-哈里斯博士提供了一种摆脱压力、焦虑和抑郁的方法，揭开了真正充实生活的秘密。 在第二版中，本书的内容更新并扩充了50%，介绍了接纳与承诺疗法（ACT）的见解和技巧，涵盖更多的主题，提供了更多的实用工具。通过这本指南，学习如何明确自己的价值观，培养自我同情，找到真正的满足感，从而： 减轻压力和烦恼 更有效地处理痛苦的想法和感受 打破自我挫败的习惯 克服不安全感和自我怀疑 建立更好的人际关系 提高工作绩效，找到工作成就感 新的主题包括：激活自我同情；如何应对孤独、悲伤和创伤；如何处理取悦他人、完美主义和拖延症等困难行为；以及如何做出艰难的决定。 《幸福陷阱》适合所有人。无论你是缺乏自信、面临疾病、应对丧失、从事高压力工作，还是患有焦虑症或抑郁症，本书都将告诉你如何由内而外地建立真正的幸福。

Michael Warner, one of our most brilliant social critics, argues that gay marriage and other moves toward normalcy are bad not just for gays but for everyone. In place of sexual status quo, Warner offers a vision of true sexual autonomy that will forever change the way we think about sex, shame and identity.

"The Promise of Happiness" is a provocative cultural critique of the imperative to be happy. It asks what follows when we make our desires and even our own happiness conditional on the happiness of others: 'I just want you to be happy', 'I'm happy if you're happy'. Combining philosophy and feminist cultural studies, Sara Ahmed reveals the affective and moral work performed by t...(展开全部)

Bertrand Russell describes the purpose of this book as the putting together of some remarks on the state of happiness which are inspired by common sense, rather than any profound philosophy or deep erudition. It is based on the belief that many people who are unhappy could become happy by well-directed effort. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of th...(展开全部)

Probing the ominous side of career advice to "follow your passion," this data-driven study explains how the passion principle fails us and perpetuates inequality by class, gender, and race; and it suggests how we can reconfigure our relationships to paid work. "Follow your passion" is a popular mantra for career decision-making in the United States. Passion-seeking seems like a...(展开全部)

In this new edition of his landmark book, Richard Layard shows that there is a paradox at the heart of our lives. Most people want more income. Yet as societies become richer, they do not become happier. This is not just anecdotally true, it is the story told by countless pieces of scientific research. We now have sophisticated ways of measuring how happy people are, and all th...(展开全部)