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1. The Practices of Happiness

   Political Economy, Religion and Wellbeing

   Edited by Ian Steedman, John R Atherton, Elaine Graham

   Series: Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy

   There is growing evidence that rising levels of prosperity in Western economies since 1945 have not been matched by greater incidences of reported well-being and happiness. Indeed, material affluence is often accompanied instead by greater social and individual distress. A growing literature within...

   Published July 21st 2010 by Routledge
2. Her Own Life

   Autobiographical Writings by Seventeenth-Century Englishwomen

   Edited by Helen Wilcox, Elaine Hobby, Hilary Hind, Elspeth Graham

   During a period when writing was often the only form of self-expression for women, Her Own Life contains extracts from the autobiographical texts of twelve seventeenth-century women addressing a wide range of issues central to their lives....

   Published October 4th 1989 by Routledge