Alain Botton

ARCHITECTURE OF HAPPINESS (Book)

Alain Botton

ISBN:9780241142486

What makes a house beautiful? Is it serious to spend your time thinking about home decoration? Why do people disagree about taste? And can buildings make us happy? In "The Architecture of Happiness"...more details
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The Architecture of Happiness (Book)

Alain De Botton

ISBN:9780141015002

Bestselling author Alain de Botton has written about love, travel, status and how philosophy can console us. Now he turns his attention to one of our most intense but often hidden love affairs: with our houses and their furnishing...more details
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A Week at the Airport: A Heathrow Diary (Book)

Alain de Botton

ISBN:9780307739674

From the bestselling author of "The Art of Travel" comes a wittily intriguing exploration of the strange "non-place" that he believes is the imaginative center of our civilization.
Given unprecedented access to one of the world's busiest airports as a "writer-in-residence...more details
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Art of Travel The (Book)

De Botton Alain

ISBN:9780241140123

This is an inspirational and witty guide to how to make our travels go better, dealing with everything from the airport to the hotel minibar....more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:272

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Art of Travel- Audio The (Book)

De Botton Alain

ISBN:9780140867930

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Art of Travel-CSD The (Book)

De Botton Alain

ISBN:9780241140109

Few things are as exciting as the idea of travelling somewhere far from home. Somewhere with better weather, more interesting customs and more inspiring landscapes. So why are we so often dissatisfied with the reality of travel? In "The Art of Travel" Alain de Botton...more details
Format:Hardback  Pages:272

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ART OF TRAVEL (Book)

Alain De Botton

ISBN:9780140276626

The perfect antidote to those guidebooks that tell us what to do when we get there, "The Art of Travel" tries to explain why we really wanted to go there in the first place - and modestly suggests how we could learn to be happier on our journeys....more details
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CONSOLATIONS OF PHILOSOPHY - PB (Book)

Alain De Botton

ISBN:9780140276619

'Witty, thoughtful, entertaining ...a stylish book, which manages to make philosophy both enjoyable and relevant, at the same time providing a very sensible digest of consolations for many of our current psychological ills' - Anthony Clare...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:272

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Consolations of Philosophy The (Book)

De Botton Alain

ISBN:9780241140093

Published to coincide with a Channel 4 series on the same theme, Alain de Botton has written this witty and enlightening book to look at how philosophy can change your life...more details
Format:Hardback  Pages:272

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Consolations of Philosophy The (Book)

De Botton Alain

ISBN:9780140867978

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Consolations of Philosophy: Popular Penguins The (Book)

De Botton Alain

ISBN:9780141038377

Alain de Botton's The Consolations of Philosophy takes the discipline of logic and the mind back to its roots. Drawing inspiration from six of the finest minds in history - Socrates...more details
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Essays in Love (Book)

Alain De Botton

ISBN:9780330440783

"Essays in Love" will appeal to anyone who has ever been in a relationship or confused about love. The book charts the progress of a love affair from the first kiss to argument and reconciliation...more details
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ESSAYS IN LOVE (Book)

Alain De Botton

ISBN:9780330334365

Charting the progress of an affair, from first kiss to argument and reconciliation, from intimacy and tenderness to anxiety, this is a wholly modern attempt to define the age-old dilemmas of the heart by detailing the highs and lows of contemporary romance....more details
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How Proust Can Change Your Life (Book)

Alain de Botton

ISBN:9780679779155

Alain de Botton combines two unlikely genres--literary biography and self-help manual--in the hilarious and unexpectedly practical How Proust Can Change Your Life.
Who would have thought that Marcel Proust...more details
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HOW PROUST CAN CHANGE YOUR LIFE (Book)

Alain De Botton

ISBN:9780330354912

'What a marvellous book this is ...de Botton dissects what (Proust) had to say about friendship, reading, looking carefully, paying attention taking your time...more details
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How Proust Can Change Your Life (Book)

Alain De Botton

ISBN:9780330347624

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How Proust..Change Yr Life(cas

Alain de Botton

ISBN:9781572700970

Drawing from Proust's letters, essays, and fiction, de Botton transforms Proust's life and work into a no-nonsense guide to life, including how to revive a relationship...more details
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How to Think More About Sex (Book)

Alain de Botton

ISBN:9781447202271

Think more about sex by thinking about it in a different way...more details
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Kiss & Tell (Book)

Alain de Botton

ISBN:9780312155612

Dr. Samuel Johnson observed that everyone's life is a subject worthy of the biographer's art. Accused by a former girlfriend of being unable to empathize...more details
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Kiss and Tell (Book)

Alain De Botton

ISBN:9780330347594

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On Love (Book)

Alain de Botton

ISBN:9780802142405

The best-selling author of How Proust Can Change Your Life and The Art of Travel revisits his utterly charming debut novel, On Love. The narrator is smitten by Chloe on a ParisLondon flight...more details
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On Seeing and Noticing (Book)

Alain de Botton

ISBN:9780141023076

In On Seeing and Noticing, Alain de Botton takes everyday concerns such as expressing sadness or being romantic and dispenses advice and observations based on the works of some of history's greatest writers...more details
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Pleasures and Sorrows of Work The (Book)

De Botton Alain

ISBN:9780241143537

We spend most of our waking lives at work - in occupations often chosen by our unthinking sixteen-year-old selves. And yet we rarely ask ourselves how we got there or what it might mean for us. Equally intrigued by work's pleasures and its pains...more details
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Pleasures and Sorrows of Work The (Book)

Botton De Alain

ISBN:9780141027913

Why do so many of us love or hate our work?
How has it come to dominate our lives?
And what should we do about it?

Work makes us. Without it we are at a loss; in work we hope to have a measure of control over our lives. Yet for many of us...more details
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Religion for Atheists - A Non-believer's Guide to the Uses of Religion (Book)

Alain de Botton

ISBN:9780241144770

WHAT IF RELIGIONS ARE NEITHER ALL TRUE NOR ALL NONSENSE?

The boring debate between fundamentalist believers and non-believers is finally moved on by Alain de Botton's inspiring new book...more details
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Religion for Atheists: A Non-Believer's Guide to the Uses of Religion (Book)

Alain de Botton

ISBN:9780307379108

"What if religions are neither all true nor all nonsense?" The long-running and often boring debate between fundamentalist believers and non-believers is finally moved forward by Alain de Botton's inspiring new book...more details
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Romantic Movement (Book)

Alain De Botton

ISBN:9780330335898

In" The Romantic Movement," Alain de Botton explores the progress of a love affair from first meeting to breaking up, intercut with musings on the nature of art of love. The relationship between Alice...more details
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Status Anxiety (Book)

Alain de Botton

ISBN:9780375725357

Anyone who' s ever lost sleep over an unreturned phone call or the neighbor' s Lexus had better read Alain de Botton' s irresistibly clear-headed new book...more details
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Status Anxiety (Book)

De Botton Alain

ISBN:9780241142387

For this study, de Botton asks where our worries about status come from and what, if anything, we can do to reduce them. He looks at how people have coped with these anxieties in the past with a range of unexpected examples and entertaining anecdotes....more details
Format:Hardback  Pages:336

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STATUS ANXIETY (Book)

Alain De Botton

ISBN:9780141014869

Do you worry about how well you're doing? Are you envious of your friends' success? Are you suffering from status anxiety?
We all worry about what others think of us. We all long to succeed and fear failure. We all suffer – to a greater or lesser degree...more details
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The Architecture of Happiness (Book)

Alain de Botton

ISBN:9780375424434

One of the great but often unmentioned causes of both happiness and misery is the quality of our environment: the kinds of walls, chairs, buildings and streets that surround us.
And yet a concern for architecture and design is too often described as frivolous...more details
Format:Hardcover  Pages:280

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The Architecture of Happiness (Book)

Alain de Botton

ISBN:9780307277244

"The Achitecture of Happiness "is a dazzling and generously illustrated journey through the philosophy and psychology of architecture and the indelible connection between our identities and our locations.
One of the great but often unmentioned causes of both happiness and misery is the quality of our environment: the kinds of walls...more details
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The Art of Travel (Book)

Alain de Botton

ISBN:9780375725340

Any Baedeker will tell us "where" we ought to travel, but only Alain de Botton will tell us "how" and "why. "With the same intelligence and insouciant charm he brought to How Proust Can Save Your Life...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:272

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The Art of Travel (Book)

Alain de Botton

ISBN:9780375420825

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The Consolations of Philosophy (Book)

Alain de Botton

ISBN:9780679779179

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The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work (Book)

Alain de Botton

ISBN:9780375424441

We spend most of our waking lives at work-in occupations often chosen by our unthinking younger selves. And yet we rarely ask ourselves how we got there or what our occupations mean to us.
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The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work" is an exploration of the joys and perils of the modern workplace...more details
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The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work (Book)

Alain de Botton

ISBN:9780307277251

We spend most of our waking lives at work-in occupations often chosen by our unthinking younger selves. And yet we rarely ask ourselves how we got there or what our occupations mean to us.
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The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work" is an exploration of the joys and perils of the modern workplace...more details
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The Romantic Movement: Sex, Shopping, and the Novel (Book)

Alain de Botton

ISBN:9780312144036

In" The Romantic Movement," Alain de Botton explores the progress of a love affair from first meeting to breaking up, intercut with musings on the nature of art of love. The relationship between Alice...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:336

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Week at the Airport (Book)

de Botton Alain

ISBN:9781846683596

In the summer of 2009, bestselling author Alain de Botton will be given unprecedented access to wander around Heathrow, one of the world's biggest...more details
Format:Paperback / softback  Pages:112

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