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AS HEARD ON THE DIARY OF A CEO PODCAST WITH STEVEN BARTLETTFrom the Sunday Times bestselling author of The School of LifeThis is a book about how to optimise your mental health. Written with kindness and sympathy, it is a practical guide to emotional…
THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER'Honest, funny and dripping with witty aphorisms. Extremely entertaining and enlightening [...] all the way to journey's end' HeraldOne of our greatest voices in modern philosophy, author of The Course of Love, The…
'De Botton is a national treasure.' - Susan Hill, author of The Woman in BlackA unique love story and a classic work of philosophy, rooted in the mysterious workings of the human heart and mind. Perhaps it is true that we do not really exist until there…
The essential guide to mental health from the bestselling author of The School of LifeA Therapeutic Journey follows the arc from mental crisis and collapse to convalescence and recovery. Written with kindness, knowledge and sympathy, it is both a practical…
In this rigorous and supremely honest book Alain de Botton helps us navigate the intimate and exciting - yet often confusing and difficult - experience that is sex. Few of us tend to feel we're entirely normal when it comes to sex, and what we think…
What does it mean to live happily ever after? At dinner parties and over coffee, Rabih and Kirsten's friends always ask them the same question: how did you meet? The answer comes easily - it's a happy story, one they both love to tell. But there is a…
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.…
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? What should I do with my life? What will I have achieved when I retire? This book explains why it is we do what we do all day, but its…
Discover everything you were never taught at school about how to lead a better life... Introduced and edited by the bestselling author of The Consolations of Philosophy, The Art of Travel and The Course of Love 'Alain de Botton likes to take big, complex…
The essential guide to how to live wisely and well in the twenty-first century - from Alain de Botton, the bestselling author of The Consolations of Philosophy, The Art of Travel and The Course of Love This is a book about everything you were never taught…
THE NUMBER ONE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERFrom one of our greatest voices in modern philosophy, author of The Course of Love, The Consolations of Philosophy and The School of Life, The Architecture of Happiness explores the fascinating hidden links between…
A legtöbb embernek még felnőttként is nehézséget okoz, hogy őszintén beszéljen vágyairól, azok száma pedig elenyésző, akik úgy érzik, hogy a szexszel kapcsolatos gondolataik normálisak lennének. Szeretet és vágy, kaland és elkötelezettség között lavírozva,…
Alain de Botton, a svájci születésű, Angliában élő fiatal író-filozófus e könyvének kirobbanó nemzetközi sikerét némely értelmiségiek fanyalogva fogadták, felpanaszolván, hogy a filozófiáról való fecsegésnek nagyobb keletje van, mint a filozófiai műveknek…
Rabihnak és Kirstennek vacsorapartikon és kávézáskor gyakran felteszik a kérdést: hogyan ismertétek meg egymást? A válasz könnyen jön, kedves sztori, mindketten szívesen mesélik. Van azonban egy második része is a történetnek, csak erre sosem kérdeznek…