Affluenza (Paperback)
Oliver James (author)
£12.99
Paperback
592 Pages /
Published: 27/12/2007
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There is currently an epidemic of 'affluenza' throughout the world - an obsessive, envious, keeping-up-with-the-Joneses - that has resulted in huge increases in depression and anxiety among millions. Over a nine-month period, bestselling author Oliver James travelled around the world to try and find out why. He discovered how, despite very different cultures and levels of wealth, affluenza is spreading. Cities he visited include Sydney, Singapore, Moscow, Copenhagen, New York and Shanghai, and in each place he interviewed several groups of people in the hope of finding out not only why this is happening, but also how one can increase the strength of one's emotional immune system. He asks: why do so many more people want what they haven't got and want to be someone they're not, despite being richer and freer from traditional restraints? And, in so doing, uncovers the answer to how to reconnect with what really matters and learn to value what you've already got. In other words, how to be successful and stay sane.
Publisher: Ebury Publishing
ISBN: 9780091900113
Number of pages: 592
Weight: 409 g
Dimensions: 198 x 126 x 37 mm
MEDIA REVIEWS
"Oliver James is excellent at showing why social scientists think that the surge in material affluence can produce the opposite of happiness." -- Avner Offer, Professor of Economic History, University of Oxford
"Should be mandatory reading for everyone" -- Will Self
"Never before have I read a book that so precisely captures the way we are all being emotionally snookered by the demands of 21st-century living... read this book" -- Jeremy Vine
"A wonderfully clear and cogent thesis" * Guardian *
"An absorbing and effective wake-up call" * London Lite *
"Should be mandatory reading for everyone" -- Will Self
"Never before have I read a book that so precisely captures the way we are all being emotionally snookered by the demands of 21st-century living... read this book" -- Jeremy Vine
"A wonderfully clear and cogent thesis" * Guardian *
"An absorbing and effective wake-up call" * London Lite *
Oliver James
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