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 Format:Paperback / softback Pages:280
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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 Format:Paperback Pages:272
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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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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 Format:Paperback / softback Pages:224
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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 Format:Paperback
'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 Format:Paperback Pages:224
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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 Format:Paperback
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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 Format:Paperback / softback Pages:320
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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 Format:Paperback Pages:107
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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 Format:Paperback Pages:208
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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 Format:Analog Audio Cassette
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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 Format:Paperback Pages:272
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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 Format:Paperback Pages:194
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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 Format:Paperback / softback Pages:64
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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 Format:Hardback Pages:320
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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 Format:Hardback Pages:320
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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 Format:Paperback Pages:320
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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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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 Format:Paperback Pages:280
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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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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. " The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work" is an exploration of the joys and perils of the modern workplace...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:326
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Alain de Botton
ISBN:9781423392897
We spend most of our waking lives at work a " 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. The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work is an exploration of the joys and perils of the modern workplace...more details Format:CD
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Alain de Botton
ISBN:9781423392903
We spend most of our waking lives at work a " 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. The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work is an exploration of the joys and perils of the modern workplace...more details Format:CD
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Alain de Botton
ISBN:9781423392910
We spend most of our waking lives at work a " 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. The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work is an exploration of the joys and perils of the modern workplace...more details Format:CD
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Alain de Botton
ISBN:9781423392927
We spend most of our waking lives at work a " 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. The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work is an exploration of the joys and perils of the modern workplace...more details Format:CD
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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. " The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work" is an exploration of the joys and perils of the modern workplace...more details Format:Paperback Pages:326
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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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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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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
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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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 Format:Paperback / softback Pages:272
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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 Format:Hardback Pages:352
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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 Format:Paperback / softback Pages:256
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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
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