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‘Philosophical, funny, cleverly structured, unpredictable’ Gabrielle ZevinIf a machine could offer a prescription for happiness but you might not like the results would you take the test?Eat more tangerines. Divorce your wife. Cut off your right index finger. The Apricity machine’s recommendations are often surprising, but they’re 99.97% guaranteed to make you happier. Pearl works for Apricity – meaning happiness is her job – but her teenage son Rhett seems more content to be unhappy, and refuses to submit to the test. Is Pearl failing as a mother and in her job – and does she even believe in happiness any more?Warm, witty and utterly charming, The Happiness Machine is where A Visit from the Goon Squad meets Where’d You Go Bernadette.First published as Tell the Machine Goodnight.

Полный вариант заголовка: «Theorie des machines simples en ayant egard au frottement de leurs parties et a la roideur des cordages / par C. A. Coulomb».

Полный вариант заголовка: «A treatise on spinning machinery : Illustrated with plans of different machines made use of in that art : from the spindle and distaff of the ancients to the machines which have been invented or improved by the moderns : with some preliminary observations, tending to mshew that the arts of spinning, weaving, and sewing, were invented by the ingenuity of females : and a postskript, including an interesting account of the mode of spinning yarn in Ireland / By Andrew Gray».