Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness: Britain and the American Dream 0374600597, 9780374600594

Happiness for All?: Unequal Hopes and Lives in Pursuit of the American Dream 9781400884971

How the optimism gap between rich and poor is creating an increasingly divided society The Declaration of Independence

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Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Bread 9780231885645

A collection of letters of a social worker and a teacher of the social sciences that discuss the hazards that often lead

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The Patenting of Life, Limiting Liberty, and the Corporate Pursuit of Seeds 9780739190814, 9780739190807

Throughout world history, what human beings ate was determined by what local producers cultivated, and what they planted

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The Delight Makers: Anglo-American Metaphysical Religion and the Pursuit of Happiness 9780226823348

An ambitious history of desire in Anglo-American religion across three centuries. The pursuit of happiness weaves dispar

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The Pursuit of Happiness and the American Regime : Political Theory in Literature 9781498554206, 9781498554190

The Declaration of Independence claims that individuals need liberty to pursue happiness, but provides little guidance o

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The Good Life: Ethics and the Pursuit of Happiness 9781472965998, 9780826476470

The Dalai Lama once wrote that the object of human existence was to be happy. This sounds extremely glib as happiness in

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The Chinese Pursuit of Happiness: Anxieties, Hopes, and Moral Tensions in Everyday Life 0520306317, 9780520306318

What defines "happiness," and how can we attain it? The ways in which people in China ask and answer this univ

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The Chinese Pursuit of Happiness: Anxieties, Hopes, and Moral Tensions in Everyday Life 9780520973671

What defines "happiness," and how can we attain it? The ways in which people in China ask and answer this univ

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The Political Thought of Frederick Douglass: In Pursuit of American Liberty 9780814725405

Frederick Douglass, one of the most prominent figures in African-American and United States history, was born a slave, b

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The Enlightenment The Pursuit of Happiness 1680-1790 9780241004838

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