Happiness wins science book prize

clipped from news.bbc.co.uk Happiness wins science book prize Daniel Gilbert beat five other shortlisted titles A scientific exploration of the various ways people attempt to make themselves happy has won the annual Royal Society Prize for Science Books. Daniel Gilbert's Stumbling on Happiness had been tipped as the favourite to win the prestigious £10,000 award. It beat five other titles including Henry Nicholl's Lonesome George, an account of the last known individual of a subspecies of Galapagos tortoise.