What makes a nation happy? Is one country's sense of happiness the same as another's? In the last two decades, psychologists and economists have learned a lot about who's happy and who isn't. The Dutch are, the Romanians aren't, and Americans are somewhere in between...After years of going to the world's least happy countries, Eric Weiner, a veteran foreign correspondent, decided to travel and evaluate each country's different sense of happiness and discover the nation tha...

Bestselling author of Geography of Bliss returns with this funny, illuminating chronicle of a globe-spanning spiritual quest to find a faith that fits.When a health scare puts him in the hospital, Eric Weiner-an agnostic by default-finds himself tangling with an unexpected question, posed to him by a well-meaning nurse. "Have you found your God yet?" The thought of it nags him, and prods him-and ultimately launches him on a far-flung journey to do just tha...

The New York Times bestselling author of The Geography of Bliss and The Geography of Genius embarks on a rollicking intellectual journey, following in the footsteps of history’s greatest thinkers and showing us how each—from Epicurus to Gandhi, Thoreau to Beauvoir—offers practical and spiritual lessons for today’s unsettled times.We turn to philosophy for the same reasons we travel: to see the world from a different perspective, to uneart...

Part biography, part travelogue, part self-help, New York Times bestselling author Eric Weiner follows in the footsteps of Benjamin Franklin, mining his life for inspiration and practical lessons for living a purposeful and virtuous life.Ben Franklin lingers in our lives and in our imaginations. One of only two non-presidents to appear on US currency, Franklin was a founder, statesman, scientist, inventor, diplomat, publisher, humorist, and philosopher. He...

Tag along on this New York Times bestselling “witty, entertaining romp” (The New York Times Book Review) as Eric Weiner travels the world, from Athens to Silicon Valley—and back through history, too—to show how creative genius flourishes in specific places at specific times.In this “intellectual odyssey, traveler’s diary, and comic novel all rolled into one” (Daniel Gilbert, author of Stumbling on Happiness), acclaimed travel writer Weine...

Una lectura apasionante en la que Eric Weiner nos invita a viajar por el mundo y a través del tiempo para demostrarnos cómo el genio creativo florece en lugares y en momentos específicosWeiner examina la conexión entre lo que nos rodea y nuestras ideas más innovadoras. Explora la Viena de 1900, la Florencia del Renacimiento, la antigua Atenas, la Hangzhou de la dinastía Song y Silicon Valley para mostrar cómo ciertos escenarios urbanos propician el ingenio. Con el p...

Una lectura apasionante en la que Eric Weiner nos invita a viajar por el mundo y a través del tiempo para demostrarnos cómo el genio creativo florece en lugares y en momentos específicosWeiner examina la conexión entre lo que nos rodea y nuestras ideas más innovadoras. Explora la Viena de 1900, la Florencia del Renacimiento, la antigua Atenas, la Hangzhou de la dinastía Song y Silicon Valley para mostrar cómo ciertos escenarios urbanos propician el ingenio. Con el ...

Now a new series on Peacock with Rainn Wilson, THE GEOGRAPHY OF BLISS is part travel memoir, part humor, and part twisted self-help guide that takes the viewer across the globe to investigate not what happiness is, but WHERE it is.Are people in Switzerland happier because it is the most democratic country in the world? Do citizens of Qatar, awash in petrodollars, find joy in all that cash? Is the King of Bhutan a visionary for his initiative to calculate Gross Nati...

Bestselling author of Geography of Bliss returns with this funny, illuminating chronicle of a globe-spanning spiritual quest to find a faith that fits.When a health scare puts him in the hospital, Eric Weiner-an agnostic by default-finds himself tangling with an unexpected question, posed to him by a well-meaning nurse. "Have you found your God yet?" The thought of it nags him, and prods him-and ultimately launches him on a far-flung journey to do just tha...

Miért növekszik robbanásszerűen a kreativitás egyes helyeken?Miért képesek a géniuszok olyan jól boldogulni rendetlenség és káosz közepette is?Tényleg séta közben jutnak eszünkbe a legjobb gondolatok?Vajon mi köze van az osztrigáknak a skót felvilágosodáshoz, és a reneszánsznak a pestisjárványhoz?Eric Weiner azokat a helyeket – például az ókori Athént, a Szung-dinasztia korabeli Kínát, a középkori Firenzét vagy napjaink Szilícium-völgyét – látogatja meg és m...

Former NPR reporter Eric Weiner's new book, Man Seeks God: My Flirtations with the Divine, recounts his voyage around the world to discover more about his own beliefs. During a season that, for many, centers on religion and spirituality, Ray Suarez and Weiner discuss the quest for God and personal faith.

The ups and downs, the schemes and scams, the IPOs and hostile takeovers, the egos, the brilliance, the greed and the glory-this is the story of Wall Street, told by the men and women who made it happen. Once upon a time, Wall Street was just a footpath near the southern tip of Manhattan Island.Today it is the center of the financial world, the pivot point on which economies turn, companies rise and fall, and daring men and women go from rags to unbelievable riches, and sometimes b...