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Essays in Love
Author: Alain de Botton Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 0 Why do we fall in love - and why do we break up? Written in the style of a novel,...
The Course of Love: An unforgettable story of love and marriage from
A brilliant new novel about love and marriage, twenty years after the bestselling hit Essays in Love Modern love is never easy. Society is obsessed with stories of romance, but...
The Art of Travel
Top Ten bestseller in hardback, and over 60,000 sold in hardback and trade paperback Few activities seem to promise us as much happiness as going travelling- taking off for somewhere...
The School of Life: An Emotional Education
The essential guide to surviving modern life - a crash course in emotional maturity from the bestselling author of The Consolations of Philosophy This is a book about everything you...
The Consolations of Philosophy
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 -...
How To Think More About Sex
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The Architecture of Happiness
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The Course Of Love
A philosophical novel wrapped in the form of a love story, The Course of Love chronicles the full arc of a modern marriage — from the intoxicating rush of early...
The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work
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The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work
Alain de Botton brings his trademark powers of insight to what most of us do all day- work Work makes us. Without it we are at a loss; in work...
The Architecture of Happiness
Highly acclaimed writer and philosopher Alain de Botton turns his attention to interior design and architecture In The Architecture of Happiness, bestselling author Alain de Botton explores one of our...
Status Anxiety
Status Anxiety has spent two and a half months in the Sunday Times top five bestseller list, selling over 50,000 copies. We all worry about what others think of us....
The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work
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We spend most of our waking lives at work-in occupations most often chosen by our inexperienced younger selves. And yet we rarely ask ourselves how we got there or what...
The Consolations of Philosophy
Alain de Botton, best-selling author of How Proust can Change Your Life, has set six of the finest minds in the history of philosophy to work on the problems of...
Religion for Atheists
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From the author of The Architecture of Happiness, a deeply moving meditation on how we can still benefit, without believing, from the wisdom, the beauty, and the consolatory power that...
The News: A User's Manual
Our lives are saturated with news. But how does it affect us? And how should we read it? Today, the news occupies the same dominant position in our lives as...
Status Anxiety
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The Consolations of Philosophy
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The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work
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The News: A User's Manual
Our lives are saturated with news. But how does it affect us? And how should we read it? Today, the news occupies the same dominant position in our lives as...
The News: A UserÕs Manual
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How Proust Can Change Your Life
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The Art of Travel (Tpb)
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Status Anxiety
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Religion for Atheists: A non-believer's guide to the uses of religion
The Sunday Times bestseller that exploded the God debate All of us, whether religious, agnostic or atheist, are searching for meaning. And in this wise and life-affirming book, non-believer Alain...
Religion for Atheists: A non-believer's guide to the uses of religion
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Goodbye Europe: The unique must-have collection
Author: Various Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 From Paris to Prague, from the past to the present, authors and artists say farewell in this unique collection. In these pages...
Paris to the Moon
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * "The finest book on France in recent years."-Alain de Botton, The New York Times Book Review In 1995, Adam Gopnik, his wife, and their infant...
The French Art of Not Trying Too Hard
Sick of striving? Giving up on grit? Had enough of hustle culture? Daunted by the 10,000-hour rule? Relax: As the French know, it's the best way to be better at...
The Little Prince: And Letter to a Hostage
Antoine de Saint-Exupery's classic tale - beloved by children and adults alike - now in a beautiful clothbound edition Antoine de Saint-Exupery first published The Little Prince in 1943, only...
The God Desire
Author: David Baddiel Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 112 From the bestselling author of Jews Don't Count ' A hugely heartfelt, funny, kind, fascinating, human and clever book ' ALAIN...
What Makes Us Human?: 130 answers to the big question
A dazzling insight into what gives meaning to our life and to us as a species.What makes us human? From Carlo Rovelli on the particles of dust that make us,...
Re: Society: 40 Years of ING Engaging with the Arts
Art is an essential part of ING's corporate identity. The ING Collection was founded in 1974 to create a stimulating working environment. Over the years, the collection has grown to...
The Maps We Carry: Psychedelics, trauma and our new path to mental
'Rose Cartwright breaks all our old certainties and liberates us to approach our mental struggles with new humanity and creativity. The book cannot fail to interest anyone concerned with their...
Failosophy: A Handbook For When Things Go Wrong
Author: Elizabeth Day Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 160 From the Sunday Times bestselling author of How to Fail 'Elizabeth Day has revolutionised the way we see failure' Stylist 'A...
Big Questions From Little People . . . Answered By Some Very Big
Why is the sea salty? How far away is space? Why can't I tickle myself? Why can't we live forever? Children ask the most interesting and challenging questions. But how...
Debate and Dialogue: Alain Chartier in his Cultural Context
In early humanist France two debating traditions converge: one literary and vernacular, one intellectual and conducted mainly via Latin epistles. Debate and Dialogue demonstrates how the two fuse in the...
The Imagination Muscle
'Beautiful, moving, profoundly imaginative in itself - this book is as entertaining as it is relevant and practical' ALAIN DE BOTTON'Anyone who has an imagination - that is, everyone -...
Humanise: A Maker's Guide to Building Our World
In this manifesto for change, one of the world's preeminent designers explores how buildings and cities around the world lost their soul - and what we can do about it...
The Imagination Muscle
'Beautiful, moving, profoundly imaginative in itself - this book is as entertaining as it is relevant and practical' ALAIN DE BOTTON'Anyone who has an imagination - that is, everyone -...
The Art of Physics: How ideas from science can transform your life
Author: Zahaan Bharmal Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 'Exceptionally interesting' - Alain de Botton 'Fascinating ... You'll never again view your own world in quite the same way. A...