100 Years of Happiness

Nathan Carlin, PhD, is director of the Medical Humanities and Ethics Certificate Program at the University of Texas Medical School in Houston, TX.Donald Capps, PhD, is William Harte Felmeth Professor of pastoral theology (emeritus) and adjunct professor of pastoral theology at Princeton Theological Seminary in Princeton, NJ.

• Series Foreword by J. Harold EllensPrefaceIntroductionPart I Some Insights about Happinesschapter 1 Cultivating Happinesschapter 2 The Desire for Happinesschapter 3 The Science of Happinesschapter 4 The Conquest of HappinessPart II Some Findings about Happinesschapter 5 The Pursuit of Happinesschapter 6 Authentic Happinesschapter 7 Realistic Happinesschapter 8 Evolving Happinesschapter 9 Forecasting Happinesschapter 10 Becoming HappierPart III Some Questions about Happinesschapter 11 The Artifice of Happinesschapter 12 Against Happinesschapter 13 Exploring Happinesschapter 14 AfterthoughtsNotesReferencesIndex

The authors included are interesting and provide substantive food for thought. At the end, you will want to join Carlin and Capps in the coffee shop to discuss your own perspective of happiness and to follow up by journaling your seven keys to happiness. . . . 100 Years of Happiness is a good read. It won't make you happy, but it will get you thinking.