MARC details
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| International Standard Book Number |
9781783253371 |
| 050 ## - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER |
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| Classification number |
BF575 |
| Item number |
GRA 2019 |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Gray, Catherine |
| Dates associated with a name |
1965 - |
| Relator term |
author |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
The unexpected joy of the ordinary : |
| Remainder of title |
in celebration of being average / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc. |
Catherine Gray |
| 264 ## - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE |
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| Place of production, publication, distribution, manufacture |
London : |
| Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer |
Aster, an imprint of Octopus Publishing Group Ltd, |
| Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice |
2019. ♭2019 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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| Extent |
276 pages ; |
| Other physical details |
23 cm |
| 336 ## - CONTENT TYPE |
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| Source |
rdacontent |
| Content type term |
text |
| Content type code |
txt |
| 337 ## - MEDIA TYPE |
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| Source |
rdamedia |
| Media type term |
unmediated |
| Media type code |
n |
| 338 ## - CARRIER TYPE |
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| Source |
rdacarrier |
| Carrier type term |
volume |
| Carrier type code |
nc |
| 500 ## - GENERAL NOTE |
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| General note |
Self-help publications |
| 504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE |
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| Bibliography, etc. note |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| 505 ## - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE |
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| Formatted contents note |
The pursuit of the extraordinary --<br/>Ordinary living --<br/>Ordinary being --<br/>Ordinary loving --<br/>Ordinary learning --<br/>Ordinary brains and downtime --<br/>Ordinary bodies --<br/>An ordinary kinda conclusion. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. |
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| Summary, etc. |
<br/>Ordinary. Average. Normal. The everyday is the wall-to-wall humdrum we seek to upgrade, like a fifties carpet we long to replace. More money. A bigger house. A better body. An upgraded career. The ultimate relationship. A highly inconvenient psychological phenomenon called 'the hedonic treadmill' has us eternally questing for more. Catherine Gray was a grandmaster in eye-rolling the ordinary, and the art of everlasting reaching. Until the daemon of depression made her re-think everything. Knitting together personal storytelling and illuminating science, this book probes great minds in neuroscience and psychology. It explodes 'extraordinary-seeking' myths such as big bucks means big happiness, expensive weddings predict future happiness, high intensity exercise is the best kind, and the workaday is less important than the showreel. This soulful, hilarious and life-affirming book is a manifesto on how to outwit the hedonic treadmill and retrain our negatively-biased brains. But most of all, it's a love letter to an average life beautifully lived. Because maybe, just maybe, an ordinary life is the most satisfying one of all. |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name entry element |
Gray, Catherine. |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name entry element |
Happiness. |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name entry element |
Bonheur. |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) |
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| Source of classification or shelving scheme |
Library of Congress Classification |
| Koha item type |
Books |
| Classification part |
575 |
| Item part |
GRA |
| Call number prefix |
BF |
