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A Selection from Alain De Botton
Published: 26/01/12
Tradepaperback 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 religion has to offer. Alain de Botton was brought up in a committedly atheistic household, and though he was powerfully swayed by his parents' views, he underwent, in his mid-twenties, a crisis of faithlessness. His feelings of doubt about atheism had their origins in listening to Bach's cantatas, were further... (more info) Usually despatched immediately
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The Pleasures and Sorrows of Workby Alain de Botton | 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... (more info)
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| | A Week At The Airport : A Heathrow Diaryby Alain de Botton | In the summer of 2009, Alain de Botton was invited by the owners of Heathrow airport to become their first ever Writer in Residence. He was... (more info)
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| | Architecture of Happinessby Alain De Botton | Bestselling author, Alain de Botton has written about love, travel, status and how philosophy can console us. Now, he turns his attention to... (more info)
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| | Essays In Loveby Alain De Botton | "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... (more info)
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| | Status Anxietyby Alain De Botton | 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, usually... (more info)
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| | The Art of Travelby Alain de Botton | With the help of a selection of writers, artists and thinkers - including Flaubert, Edward Hopper, Wordsworth and Van Gogh - Alain de... (more info)
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| | '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, "LiteraryReview". (more info) Usually despatched immediately
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