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The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2009; US$ 15.95We 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... more...
The Art of Travel
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2008; US$ 16.00Any 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 , de Botton considers the pleasures of anticipation; the allure of the exotic, and the value of noticing everything from a seascape in Barbados to... more...
Status Anxiety
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2008; US$ 15.95Anyone 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 turns his attention to the insatiable quest for status, a quest that has less to do with material comfort... more...
The Architecture of Happiness
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2008; US$ 18.00The 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,... more...
The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work
McClelland & Stewart 2010; US$ 19.99From the international bestselling author of The Architecture of Happiness and How Proust Can Change Your Life comes this lyrical, erudite look at our world of work. We spend most of our time at work, but what we do there rarely gets discussed in the sort of lyrical and descriptive prose our efforts surely deserve. Determined to correct this lapse,... more...
A Week at the Airport
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2010; US$ 15.00From 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... more...
A Week at the Airport
Profile 2010; US$ 14.38In the summer of 2009, Alain de Botton will be invited by the owners of Heathrow airport to become their first ever Writer in Residence. He will be installed in the middle of Terminal 5 on a raised platform with a laptop connected to screens, enabling passengers to see what he is writing and to come and share their stories. He will meet travellers... more...
Essays in Love
Pan Macmillan UK 1994; US$ 18.03Essays 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, from intimacy and tenderness to the onset of anxiety and heartbreak. The work?s genius lies in the way it minutely analyses emotions we?ve all felt before... more...
Religion for Atheists
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2012; US$ 16.00What 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, which boldly argues that the supernatural claims of religion are entirely false?but that it still has some very important things to... more...
The Consolations of Philosophy
Penguin Books Ltd 2001; Not AvailableThe Consolations of Philosophy is Alain de Botton's internationally bestselling guide to life The inspiration for the TV series Philsophy: A Guide to Happiness Alain de Botton, bestselling 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 everyday life.... more...









