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Be ambitious; find everlasting love; look after your health ... There are countless stories about how we ought to live our lives. These narratives can make our lives easier, and they might sometimes make us happier too. But they can also trap us and those around us. In Happy Ever After, bestselling happiness expert Professor Paul Dolan draws on a wealth of evidence to bust the common myths about our sources of happiness and shows that there can be many unexpected paths to lasting happiness. Some of these might involve not going into higher education, choosing not to marry, rewarding acts rooted in self-interest and caring a little less about living forever. By freeing ourselves from the myth of the perfect life, we might each find a life worth living.

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'Few books change one's life; in 48 hours this has improved mine' Jenni Russell, Sunday TimesHow can we make it easier to be happy? Using the latest cutting-edge research, Professor Paul Dolan reveals that wellbeing isn't about how we think - it's about what we do. By making deliberate choices that bring us both pleasure and meaning, we can redesign our lives for maximum happiness - without thinking too hard about it.'Outstanding, cutting-edge, and profound. If you're going to read one book on happiness, this is the one' Nassim Nicholas Taleb'Bold and original ... what I wish for my grandchildren: a life that is rich in activities both pleasurable and meaningful' Daniel Kahneman, author of Thinking Fast and Slow

THEM!, The Thing, The Blob, old movies like those kicked off today's science fiction in the 1950s and turned space aliens and monsters into entertainment and it can be fun to watch the phony scientists, absurd creatures, and hard-to-believe special effects, but for all of that, there might have been something else about those old movies - they might have been true.THEM! AGAIN! uncovers monstrous secrets hidden in the desert of White Sands - secrets connecting familiar stories - secrets that were once buried and have now come back to life and it's all good, clean, monsters vs. humans fun - and plenty of it - 600+ pages of an homage to the classic sci-fi stories that started it all. And, it has spawned a series - Stories of White Sands which begins with this tale of travelers stranded in the Bunker, an isolated desert bar, when monsters from the past reappear to threaten humanity - and, as it turns out, not all of the monsters are outside in the night . . .