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You might like Bertrand Russell's 1930 _The Conquest of Happiness_. At least if you're the target audience:

"I shall confine my attention to those who are not subject to any extreme cause of outward misery. I shall assume a sufficient income to secure food and shelter, sufficient health to make ordinary bodily activities possible... My purpose is to suggest a cure for the ordinary day-to-day unhappiness from which most people in civilised countries suffer." http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Bertrand_Russell#Conquest_of_Ha...