Andrew E. Clark Livres

If policymakers want to improve lives, it is important to understand how people feel - and why. This book charts new territory, providing the first map of the long-term drivers of people's happiness. Along the way, it highlights both familiar and more groundbreaking routes to progress. There are helpful signposts in here for all those seeking different and better paths to advance people's well-being.--Martine Durand, chief statistician and director of statistics of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development

Drawing on a range of evidence using large-scale data from various countries, the authors consider the key factors that affect human well-being, including income, education, employment, family conflict, health, childcare, and crime.

This fine collection of 25 newly designed walks, put together by members of the Chiltern Society, will help you to enjoy the very best of the Chilterns’ spectacular countryside. You’ll enjoy magnificent scenery, stunning wildlife, delightful villages and warm hospitality. From the Barton Hills in the north, via places steeped in history like Hampden and Hughenden, to Cookham, Henley and Dorney down by the Thames in the south, you’re guaranteed to fall in love with this special landscape.The routes are described in detail, with accompanying maps and background information to help you learn more about the points of interest you’ll discover as you go.

Stereochemistry is an important concept that often causes confusion amongst students when they learn it for the first time. In this book we deal with tricky concepts like conformation and configuration, how to represent them accurately and how to use the correct terms to describe them in both organic and inorganic chemistry.