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Alain de Botton

Status Anxiety

Editura: Vintage Books USA

Anul aparitiei: 2005

"There's no writer alive like de Botton" ( Chicago Tribune ), and now this internationally heralded author turns his attention to the insatiable human quest for status--a quest that has less to do with material comfort than love. 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, immediately. For in its pages, a master explicator of our civilization and its discontents explores the notion that our pursuit of status is actually a pursuit of love, ranging through Western history and thought from St. Augustine to Andrew Carnegie and Machiavelli to Anthony Robbins. Whether it's assessing the class-consciousness of Christianity or the convulsions of consumer capitalism, dueling or home-furnishing, Status Anxiety is infallibly entertaining. And when it examines the virtues of informed misanthropy, art appreciation, or walking a lobster on a leash, it is not only wise but helpful.

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How Proust Can Change Your Life

Editura: Vintage Books USA

Anul aparitiei: 1998

A bestselling author draws on the work of one of history's most important writers to show us how to best live life in a book that's "delightfully original.... A self-help book in the deepest sense of the term" (The New York Times). 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, one of the most important writers of our century, could provide us with such a rich source of insight into how best to live life? Proust understood that the essence and value of life was the sum of its everyday parts. As relevant today as they were at the turn of the century, Proust's life and work are transformed here into a no-nonsense guide to, among other things, enjoying your vacation, reviving a relationship, achieving original and unclichéd articulation, being a good host, recognizing love, and understanding why you should never sleep with someone on a first date. It took de Botton to find the inspirational in Proust's essays, letters and fiction and, perhaps even more surprising, to draw out a vivid and clarifying portrait of the master from ...

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The Architecture of Happiness

Editura: Vintage International

Anul aparitiei: 2008

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, chairs, buildings, and streets that surround us. And yet a concern for architecture is too often described as frivolous, even self-indulgent. Alain de Botton starts from the idea that where we are heavily influences who we can be, and argues that it is architecture's task to stand as an eloquent reminder of our full potential.

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The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work

Editura: Vintage Books USA

Anul aparitiei: 2010

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 our jobs mean to us. The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work is an exploration of the joys and perils of the modern workplace, beautifully exploring what other people wake up to do each day--and night--to make our frenzied world function. With a philosophical eye and his signature combination of wit and wisdom, Alain de Botton leads us on a journey around an eclectic range of occupations, from rocket scientist to biscuit manufacturer, from accountant to artist--in search of what makes jobs either soul-destroying or fulfilling.

Alain de Botton

The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work

Editura: Pantheon Books

Anul aparitiei: 2009

Peering closely at details of the workday and workplace, de Botton gets at the whys and wherefores of routine, practice, and process, focusing a new and unexpectedly revealing light on the essential meaning of work.

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The Consolations of Philosophy

Editura: Vintage Books USA

Anul aparitiei: 2001

From the internationally heralded author of How Proust Can Change Your Life comes a remarkable book that presents the wisdom of some of the greatest thinkers of the ages as advice for our day to day struggles. "A fine introduction the world of philosophy." -- Newsweek Solace for the broken heart can be found in the words of Schopenhauer. The ancient Greek Epicurus has the wisest, and most affordable, solution to cash flow problems. A remedy for impotence lies in Montaigne. Seneca offers advice upon losing a job. And Nietzsche has shrewd counsel for everything from loneliness to illness. The Consolations of Philosophy is a book as accessibly erudite as it is useful and entertaining.

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A Week at the Airport

Editura: Vintage International

Anul aparitiei: 2010

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," Alain de Botton found it to be a showcase for many of the major crosscurrents of the modern world--from our faith in technology to our destruction of nature, from our global interconnectedness to our romanticizing of the exotic. He met travelers from all over and spoke with everyone from baggage handlers to pilots to the airport chaplain. Weaving together these conversations and his own observations--of everything from the poetry of room service menus to the eerie silence in the middle of the runway at midnight--de Botton has produced an extraordinary meditation on a place that most of us never slow down enough to see clearly. Lavishly illustrated in color by renowned photographer Richard Baker, A Week at the Airport reveals the airport in all its turbulence and soullessness and--yes--even beauty.

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Romantic Movement

Editura: Picador USA

Anul aparitiei: 1996

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, an advertising executive, and Eric, a banker, is examined at every stage, supplemented by quizzes and line drawings by the author and commentary by a chorus of great philosophers, from Descartes to Plato to Aretha Franklin. The Romantic Movement will charm readers and lovers alike with wit, insight, and intelligence.

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The Romantic Movement

Editura: Pan Macmillan

Anul aparitiei: 1995

By the author of the acclaimed Essays in Love Page dim. 197 x 132 x 22 Weight: 280 grams

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A Week at the Airport A Heathrow Diary

Editura: Profile Books Ltd

Anul aparitiei: 2009

Takes readers on a journey through the days and nights of the UK's largest airport. Page dim. 196 x 122 x 8 Weight: 158 grams

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Religion for Atheists A non-believer's guide to the uses of religion

Editura: Penguin Books Ltd

Anul aparitiei: 2013

All of us, whether religious, agnostic or atheist, are searching for meaning. In this book, a non-believer both rejects the supernatural claims of the major religions and points out just how many good ideas they sometimes have about how we should live. It looks at the God debate with fresh eyes. Page dim. 145 x 197 x 20 Weight: 368 grams

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The News A User's Manual

Editura: Penguin Books Ltd

Anul aparitiei: 2015

With an exploration of our obsession with media, this book examines a number of archetypal news stories - a plane crash, a murder, a political scandal, a celebrity interview - from a perspective to ask intriguing questions: why do disaster stories titillate? why obsess over love lives of the famous? Page dim. 200 x 134 x 21 Weight: 300 grams

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The Architecture of Happiness

Editura: Penguin Books Ltd

Anul aparitiei: 2014

What makes a house truly beautiful? Why are many new houses so ugly? Why do we argue so bitterly about sofas and pictures - and can differences of taste ever be satisfactorily resolved? This book explores one of our most intense but often hidden love affairs: with our houses and their furnishings. Page dim. 197 x 129 x 21 Weight: 306 grams

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The Art of Travel

Editura: Penguin Books Ltd

Anul aparitiei: 2014

Provides an insight into everything from holiday romance to hotel mini-bars, airports to sight-seeing. This book suggests how we might be happier on our journeys. Page dim. 196 x 127 x 21 Weight: 302 grams

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Essays In Love

Editura: Pan Macmillan

Anul aparitiei: 2015

The classic book on love by the bestselling author of How Proust Can Change Your Life and The Consolations of Philosophy. Page dim. 197 x 131 x 13 Series: Picador Classic Weight: 204 grams

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Do Humankind's Best Days Lie Ahead?

Editura: Oneworld Publications

Anul aparitiei: 2016

In a world driven by technology and ever-closer global networks, is humanity approaching a Golden Age, or is the notion of progress an illusion born in the West? Page dim. 113 x 177 x 10 Weight: 100 grams

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The Course of Love

Editura: Penguin Books Ltd

Anul aparitiei: 2017

Page dim. 199 x 130 x 17 Weight: 172 grams

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How Proust Can Change Your Life

Editura: Pan Macmillan

Anul aparitiei: 2019

A fascinating and illuminating look at Proust's most famous works by renowned philosopher Alain de Botton. Page dim. 197 x 170 x 10 Series: Picador Classic Weight: 206 grams

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The School of Life

Editura: Penguin Books Ltd

Anul aparitiei: 2019

Page dim. 157 x 232 x 27 Weight: 486 grams

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The School of Life An Emotional Education

Editura: Penguin Books Ltd

Anul aparitiei: 2019

Page dim. 143 x 223 x 32 Weight: 524 grams