The Well Of Being

Author : Jean-Pierre Weill
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1250092701
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Well of Being written by Jean-Pierre Weill and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2016-11 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An enchanting, visually arresting, “extraordinary children’s book for adults...that peers into the depths of the human experience and the meaning of our existence.” (Brainpickings.org).

Author : Alonzo L. Plough
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0190080493
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Well-Being: Expanding the Definition of Progress written by Alonzo L. Plough and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2020-10-22 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cities and countries around the globe are starting to incorporate a well-being approach by reorienting policies and budgets to benefit people and long-term sustainability. With insights from an international group of scientists, practitioners, and innovators, Well-Being considers the measurement focus of conversations surrounding well-being, then moves beyond to action: shifts in policy, narratives, and power, and alignment with other movements acrosssectors.

Author : Tom Rath
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1595620400
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wellbeing: The Five Essential Elements written by Tom Rath and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-05-04 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shows the interconnections among the elements of well-being, how they cannot be considered independently, and provides readers with a research-based approach to improving all aspects of their lives.

Author : Jean-Pierre Weill
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780985800321
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Evolve written by Jean-Pierre Weill and published by . This book was released on 2021-02 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a picture-book about freedom. With watercolors and simple words, it retells the biblical stories of Adam, Cain, and Abraham, as developmental stages on the journey to the self. It invites us to co-author our lives, that we may celebrate the sanctity of the individual.

Author : Guy Fletcher
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317594835
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Philosophy of Well-Being written by Guy Fletcher and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-14 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Well-being occupies a central role in ethics and political philosophy, including in major theories such as utilitarianism. It also extends far beyond philosophy: recent studies into the science and psychology of well-being have propelled the topic to centre stage, and governments spend millions on promoting it. We are encouraged to adopt modes of thinking and behaviour that support individual well-being or 'wellness'. What is well-being? Which theories of well-being are most plausible? In this rigorous and comprehensive introduction to the topic, Guy Fletcher unpacks and assesses these questions and many more, including: Are pleasure and pain the only things that affect well-being? Is desire-fulfilment the only thing that makes our lives go well? Can something be good for someone who does not desire it? Is well-being fundamentally connected to a distinctive human nature? Is happiness all that makes our lives go well? Is death necessarily bad for us? How is the well-being of a whole life related to well-being at particular times? Annotated further reading and study and comprehension questions follow each chapter, and a glossary of key terms is also included, making The Philosophy of Well-Being essential reading for students of ethics and political philosophy. This title is also suitable for those in related disciplines such as psychology, politics and sociology.

Author : Ed Diener
Publisher : Oxford Positive Psychology
ISBN 13 : 0195334078
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Well-being for Public Policy written by Ed Diener and published by Oxford Positive Psychology. This book was released on 2009 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The authors explain why subjective indicators of well-being are needed, showing how these can offer useful input and giving examples of policy uses of well-being measures. They also describe the validity of the subjective well-being measures as well as potential problems, then delve into objections to their use for policy purposes.

Author : Edward Diener
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 9780262541466
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Culture and Subjective Well-Being written by Edward Diener and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2003-01-24 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The question of what constitutes the good life has been pondered for millennia. Yet only in the last decades has the study of well-being become a scientific endeavor. This book is based on the idea that we can empirically study quality of life and make cross-society comparisons of subjective well-being (SWB). A potential problem in studying SWB across societies is that of cultural relativism: if societies have different values, the members of those societies will use different criteria in evaluating the success of their society. By examining, however, such aspects of SWB as whether people believe they are living correctly, whether they enjoy their lives, and whether others important to them believe they are living well, SWB can represent the degree to which people in a society are achieving the values they hold dear. The contributors analyze SWB in relation to money, age, gender, democracy, and other factors. Among the interesting findings is that although wealthy nations are on average happier than poor ones, people do not get happier as a wealthy nation grows wealthier.

Author : Andy Cope
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 085708867X
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book How to Be a Well Being written by Andy Cope and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2020-08-31 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ***BUSINESS BOOK AWARDS - FINALIST 2021 - PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT AND WELLBEING*** Make the Most of Every Single Day Uncertainty, instability, pressure, anxiety and now pandemic pandemonium . . . the world is hell bent on robbing us of our wellbeing. It's time to fight back. Twenty-Two Rules for Life that Just work It's time to ditch the tired, old wisdom, and take life into your own hands. We've all fallen for the mantra that 'you only live once,' but it's a big fat lie. The truth is that you get to live – really LIVE – every single day of your life. Based on the wisdom of Positive Psychology, How to be a WELL BEING teaches you to: Strive toward your true potential Stop wasting time and start achieving Focus on what's truly important Rethink your thinking Find meaning and fulfillment Upgrade to YOU 2.0 It's time to raise your personal bar from mental health to mental WEALTH. 'Memento mori' – remember death. No more messing around. No more wasting time. A new world calls for new rules. It's time to re-focus on what's most important and to take massive strides towards your true potential. 'I forget what came before sliced bread, but whatever it was, this is better than that.' —Mylee from Swindon

Author : Henry J. Bruton
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 0472024191
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book On the Search for Well-Being written by Henry J. Bruton and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2010-05-18 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book takes on one of the great questions of the day: Why are some countries enormously rich and others so heartbreakingly poor? Henry J. Bruton organizes the discussion around three basic ideas. The first is that well-being reflects not only the availability and distribution of goods and services, but also employment, values, institutions, and quality of preferences. The second is that ignorance is ubiquitous; hence growth of well-being depends primarily on commitments to searching and learning. The extent of such commitments is embedded in deep-seated characteristics of the society, its history, and the degree to which it can look ahead. The third is that economic policy-making is largely a matter of muddling through; furthermore, the idea that an economy can be assumed to be in a general equilibrium and can therefore be left to itself must be rejected. The author explores these ideas and their implications for the processes of growth and for policies to facilitate that growth. The book breaks new ground in its emphasis on ignorance and learning and its generalized definition of well-being. Drawing from contemporary work in evolutionary economics, the economics of technological change, analytical economic history, and the new political economy, this work should be of interest to historians, sociologists, and students of technology, as well as economists. While directly concerned with development, it has implications for labor, trade, economic history, and industrial organization. Henry J. Bruton is Professor of Economics, Williams College.

Author : Anna Alexandrova
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190677228
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Philosophy for the Science of Well-Being written by Anna Alexandrova and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017-07-07 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Well-being, happiness and quality of life are now established objects of social and medical research. Does this science produce knowledge that is properly about well-being? What sort of well-being? The definition and measurement of these objects rest on assumptions that are partly normative, partly empirical and partly pragmatic, producing a great diversity of definitions depending on the project and the discipline. This book, written from the perspective of philosophy of science, formulates principles for the responsible production and interpretation of this diverse knowledge. Traditionally, philosophers' goal has been a single concept of well-being and a single theory about what it consists in. But for science this goal is both unlikely and unnecessary. Instead the promise and authority of the science depends on it focusing on the well-being of specific kinds of people in specific contexts. Skeptical arguments notwithstanding, this contextual well-being can be measured in a valid and credible way - but only if scientists broaden their methods to make room for normative considerations and address publicly and inclusively the value-based conflicts that inevitably arise when a measure of well-being is adopted. The science of well-being can be normative, empirical and objective all at once, provided that we line up values to science and science to values.