Translating Happiness A cross-Cultural Lexicon of Well-Bring by Tim Lomas is an original and curious book published by MIT press focused, interested, in searching for places, cultures and particularly words about happiness and all its meanings. A lot of words for a lot of harmony and joy in this world.The author is a Lecturer in Positive Psychology and decided to reunite from the world, 80 languages, 400 words, starting from the italian Abbiocco :-) all connected with joy, happiness and yes, well-being, analyzing and explaining this human state in words.
Also, adds the author, when we don't understand some words, the important is to penetrate their essence like when you speak a foreign language and you don't understand one or two words but the meaning of a phrase is complete.
This passion for happiness, but also for Buddhism, Chinese culture, Asia, started when mr.Lomas attended a trip to China at the age of 19,
discovering a different world and a different philosophy of living and..well-being.
He also discovered that the words that defined happiness were different from our ones, analyzing this difference seen with our western perception and "lenses" for using this expression.
Enjoy this book, fresh, positive, informative and plenty of happy and joyous words all waiting for you and for a wonderful trip on this Earth plenty of happiness!
I thank MIT Press for the physical copy of this book.
Anna Maria Polidori
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