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We are healthier and generally better off than ever before. So why do so many of us have the uneasy feeling that things are not quite right, that we are less happy than we could be and less sure of our beliefs than we would like to be? In Well & Good, Richard Eckersley examines the facts and feelings that determine how we live now. What makes us happy, and gives us meaning? He considers the role of the spiritual in a postmodern world born of science, and shaped by uncertainty. He looks from the issue of youth suicide to violence and obscenity in the media, and asks whether we"ve created a world that"s actually hazardous for our children to grow up in. What do governments miss when they rely on economic measures to asses progress? What effect does global and political uncertainty have on our sense of well-being? He reflects on where the headlong tumble of technological change could be taking us—and suggests how we might start to wrest back some control. Well & Good is for anyone who has ever wondered what really matters, and why.