AMONG the recent glut of books about happiness, this one shines out. Highly readable and entertaining, its authors are perhaps the pre-eminent researchers on the subject and their conclusions are backed by the latest data. Some of their observations are well-known – happy people are healthier, for example – while others are less so: too much happiness is a bad thing, it seems, since revelling in positive feeling can distract us from other useful goals. The advice on how to gain an appropriate level of happiness is way ahead of that offered by most self-help books.
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Happiness
Wiley