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American mania : when more is not enough / Peter C. Whybrow.
LIBRA HN90.M6 W55 2005
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Whybrow, Peter C.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Social values--United States.
- Social values.
- Self-interest.
- Consumption (Economics).
- Wealth--Social aspects.
- Wealth.
- United States.
- Wealth--Social aspects--United States.
- Consumption (Economics)--Health aspects--United States.
- Self-interest--United States.
- Social ethics--United States.
- Social ethics.
- Happiness.
- National characteristics, American--History.
- National characteristics, American.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 338 pages ; 25 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : W.W. Norton, [2005]
- Summary:
- In this startling analysis of a prosperous American society, renowned psychiatrist Whybrow reveals why, as a nation of acquisitive migrants, people's insatiable quest for "more" now threatens its citizens' health and happiness.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [265]-322) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0393059944
- OCLC:
- 56214089
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