{"product_id":"the-geography-of-bliss","title":"Eric Weiner: The Geography of Bliss [2008] paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhat makes a nation happy? Is one country's sense of happiness the same as another's? In the last two decades, psychologists and economists have learned a lot about who's happy and who isn't. The Dutch are, the Romanians aren't, and Americans are somewhere in between...\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAfter years of going to the world's \u003ci\u003eleast\u003c\/i\u003e happy countries, Eric Weiner, a veteran foreign correspondent, decided to travel and evaluate each country's different sense of happiness and discover the nation that seemed happiest of all. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e*He discovers the relationship between money and happiness in tiny and extremely wealthy Qatar (and it's not a good one)\u003cbr\u003e*He goes to Thailand, and finds that \u003ci\u003enot thinking\u003c\/i\u003e is a contented way of life. \u003cbr\u003e*He goes to the tiny Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan, and discovers they have an official policy of Gross National Happiness!\u003cbr\u003e*He asks himself why the British don't \u003ci\u003edo \u003c\/i\u003ehappiness?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn Weiner's quest to find the world's happiest places, he eats rotten Icelandic shark, meditates in Bangalore, visits strip clubs in Bangkok and drinks himself into a stupor in Reykjavik. Full of inspired moments, \u003ci\u003eThe Geography of Bliss\u003c\/i\u003e accomplishes a feat few travel books dare and even fewer achieve: to make you happier.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Weiner, Eric","offers":[{"title":"Very Good","offer_id":50559152390483,"sku":"XV80552775083","price":6.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0616\/4001\/6057\/files\/weiner-eric-the-geography-of-bliss-xv80552775083-1146453480.jpg?v=1741735168","url":"https:\/\/chaptersbookstore.pro\/products\/the-geography-of-bliss","provider":"Chapters Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}