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The consolations of philosophy
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Alain De Botton |
A good introduction to philosophy and the great philosophers for young people, with a short biographical note, and an analysis of how they approached the major issues of life. Chapter headings inclu… |
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How Proust can change your life
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Alain De Botton |
The starting point of How Proust Can Change Your Life is that a great novel can be nothing less than life-transforming. This is an unusual claim: our education system, while stressing that novels are… |
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Status anxiety
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Alain De Botton |
This is a book about an almost universal anxiety that rarely gets mentioned directly: an anxiety about what others think of us; about whether we’re judged a success or a failure, a winner or a loser.… |
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The Art of Travel
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Alain De Botton |
An exploration of the human desire to travel presents a series of essays on airports, museums, landscapes, holiday romances, and hotel mini-bars, offering suggestions on how to render travel more ful… |
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Religion for Atheists
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Alain De Botton |
What if religions are neither all true nor all nonsense? The long-running and often boring debate between believers and non-believers is finally moved forward by Alain de Botton's inspiring book, whi… |
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A week at the airport
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Alain De Botton |
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. |
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Yong bao shi shui nian hua =
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Alain De Botton |
Zuo zhe yi ta yan zheng xiang shi de zhuan ye xue shi wei gen ji, yong ta de sheng hua miao bi xiang wo men wei wei dao chu " zhui yi " de zhen zheng miao chu, miao hui chu pu lu si te zhen shi er yo… |
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Art as therapy
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Alain De Botton |
Two authorities on popular culture reveal the ways in which art can enhance mood and enrich lives - now available in paperback. This passionate, thought-provoking, often funny, and always-accessible … |
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Religion for atheists
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Alain De Botton |
What if religions are neither all true nor all nonsense? The long-running and often boring debate between believers and non-believers is finally moved forward by Alain de Botton's inspiring book, whi… |
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Essays in Love
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Alain De Botton |
"*Essays in Love* is a novel about two young people, who meet on an airplane between London and Paris and rapidly fall in love. The structure of the story isn’t unusual, but what lends the book its i… |
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