O's Big Book of Happiness [antikvár]

HERE WE GOIt's almost more joy than one volume can hold: O's Big Book of Happiness features more than 100 of the richest, juiciest, and most enthralling articles, all rounded up from the pages of Q The Oprah Magazine. As we set out to select this year's compendium of delights, we've focused on youyour pleasure and personal fulfillment. That's why this best-of-the-bunch edition teems with the deeply inspiring ("Only Connect," page 149), the encouraging ("Your Great Idea Whose Time Has Come," page 250), the irresistible ("A Little Mouse Music," page 184), and, by all means, the let's-dance-a-jig celebratory ("Baby Steps, Olé!" page 135).With trademark O candor, we've taken on some challenges as well. We've covered everything from the sags, the droops, and the wrinkles ("Uncrumpling My Face," page 118, and "The Gray Is Coming!" page 112), to confidence woes ("The Cure for Self-Consciousness," page 131), to relational missteps ("Love Traps 101," page 174). In fact, here in our eighth year of stories there isn't a single topic we've shied away fromright down to the super-duper personal ("Don't Do It in the Dark!" page 186). Your sex dilemmas, family dramas, spiritual Saharas, health hang ups, age anxietiesthink of this book not only as a shot of color for your coffee table or bookcase, but also as a gathering of sage voices on every imaginable subject.Among the wisest people in these pages are the new friends I've had the privilege of intemewing. I've borrowed strength and inspiration from the resilient Christine McFadden, who crawled her way back to emotional equilibrium after the murder of her four children (page 90); the charismatic Bobby Kennedy Jr., an environmental lawyer who couldn't be more passionate and articulate on the subject of what we need to do to rescue our planet (page 306); and, finally, the unconventional British entrepreneur Richard Branson, whose latest brainchild is an assembly of 12 "elders" who just might be able to intervene in long-standing global conflicts and finally usher in a worldwide détente (page 316).We weren't kidding when we called this the Big Booka comprehensive guide to the great adventure that is your life. Wherever your quest takes you, I hope this collection will be your companion.