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From the bliss of lingering in a warm bed on a winter morning, to a bracing springtime walk by the seaside, A PRIVATE HISTORY OF HAPPINESS offers the reader a wealth of delightfully fresh perceptions of where and how happiness may be found. These 99 moments of happiness are arranged by theme – Morning, Friendship, Garden, Family, Leisure, Nature, Food and Drink, Well-being, Creativity, Love and Evening – and each is followed by a brief description and commentary that sets the extract in context and encourages further reflection. Drawing on a wide and international range of literary sources – from Ptolemy to Tolstoy – George Myerson reveals that small, unpretentious joys have been shared by human beings across cultures and over thousands of years. He invites us to discover the happiness in our own lives that can be found here and now.

Focusing on everyday moments of joy, this book presents a historical exploration of happiness as experienced by real individuals from various cultures and time periods. It encourages readers to reflect on their own lives and find happiness in simple, personal experiences rather than relying on contemporary guides or formulas.

This text investigates the background of Thus Spake Zarathustra, offering a concise summary of the book and giving close-up explanations of the most important arguments.

Move over e-commerce, mantra of the late 20th century... welcome in-commerce, catchword of the new millennium! Everyone remembers 'It's good to talk, the cosy slogan of the telephone at the end of the last century. But now we are witnessing a global campaign to promote the mobile: as credit card, Internet link, e-mail port, and, if you still have time, voice-mail junction. By 2003, we are told, there will be 900 million Internet-connected mobiles. This Postmodern Encounter gives the gist of the massive campaign to mobilise the globe, and asks the urgent question: what is happening to the idea of communication? Key thinkers of the 20th century offer an essential alternative to these new doctrines of m-communication: Martin Heidegger, who saw humanity as "the entity which talks", and Jurgen Habermas, current-day advocates of authentic communication. This is a close encounter between alien visions of communication - between the conflicting utopianisms of 20th-century philosophers and 21st-century "mobilised communication."