# Translating Happiness

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- Book: [Translating Happiness](https://www.bookquiver.com/tim-lomas/translating-happiness) ([Translating Happiness.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/tim-lomas/translating-happiness.md))
- Authors: [Tim Lomas](https://www.bookquiver.com/tim-lomas)
- Publisher: the_mit_press
- ISBN: 978-02-6253-708-7
- Pages: 240
- Published: 2019-02-26
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

How embracing untranslatable terms for well-being—from the Finnish sisu to the Yiddish mensch—can enrich our emotional understanding and experience. Western psychology is rooted in the philosophies...