Blubberland
Subtitle: the dangers of happiness
By: Elizabeth Farrelly.
Publisher: UNSW Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Sydney
Language: eng
Number of pages: 219
ISBN-13: 9780868408378
Subjects: Happiness; Consumption (Economics); Public spaces; Popular culture
Description: "Why is western humanity, richer and safer than ever before, also fatter, sadder and more fearful? Blubberland is a witty and engaging critique of the way we live now. It covers architecture and city-making but looks also at why we desire, what we mean by beauty, our friend-foe relationship with nature and why truth is a life and death thing, even when we think we don't believe in it." -- Publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 204-210) and index.