How many words are there in the book "Stress Management Strategies: A Guide to Health and Happiness"?

Currently the most widely circulated Chinese translation of the 5th edition of China Light Industry Press, the main text has an actual word count of about 620,000 words. Counting the appendices, references and accompanying exercise templates, the total number of words in the layout is around 650,000 words.

If it hadn't been for the preparation book list for a stress management course for an organization last year, I wouldn't have gone to the copyright page to check the numbers. After all, when I took this book home for the first time, I just thought it was so heavy that it could be used as a makeshift mouse pad, and I had no intention of wondering how many words it contained.

Many people found ridiculously different word counts, but they actually chose different versions. In the early years, the simplified translation version published in Taiwan directly cut off nearly two-thirds of the practical cases and exercise modules of the book, leaving only 280,000 words. It reads more like a general science pamphlet, and its practicality is greatly reduced. ； If you look for the latest 7th edition of the original English version, it has about 180,000 English words, which translates into roughly the same volume as the Chinese and domestic translations. In other places, it is marked that the book has more than 700,000 words. That is the number of words in the page calculated by the publisher when selecting the topic. It takes into account the space occupied by the blank space on the exercise pages and the spacing between paragraphs. It is not the same statistical standard as the actual number of words in the content.

The last time I promoted a book for an Internet company to provide internal training on employee stress management, some children were discouraged after seeing the 600,000-word annotation, saying that they just wanted to slump after get off work and how could they have the energy to read such a thick book. In fact, there is really no need to be burdened. This book itself is written in a modular manner. If you just want to solve the anxiety of daily overtime work and deadlines, you can skip the previous theoretical content on the physiology and sociology of stress and directly read the chapters on intervention methods. It adds up to more than 100,000 words. If you read it for 20 minutes every day while commuting, you will be able to understand the available methods in half a month.

Of course, many readers complain that the full translation is a little "too word-rich". All the interviews with scholars, reference indexes and even directories of relevant foreign public welfare organizations included in the original version are fully translated. The extra tens of thousands of words are indeed of little use to ordinary readers. This is a matter of opinion. For pure self-regulation, a simplified version with the appendix deleted is enough. If you are doing psychology-related research or taking courses related to stress management, the supplementary content of the full translation can save you a lot of time in finding information.