Autor Alain de Botton
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…
Architektura štěstí je jednou z "knih života", kterými chce autor obrátit zrak čtenářů na věci všední, věci kolem nás a otevřít jim oči v jejich vnímání. Jedním z důležitých, ale opomíjených důvodů, proč se cítíme šťastní či nikoli, je prostředí, v němž…
`What a marvellous book this is . . . de Botton dissects what [Proust] had to say about friendship, reading, looking carefully, paying attention taking your time, being alive and adds his own delicious commentary. The result is an intoxicating as it…
V roce 2006 se na anglosaském knižním trhu nečekaně rozhořela válka o náboženství: Známý evoluční biolog Richard Dawkins ve svém bestselleru Boží blud napadl jménem vědy a racionality víru v jakoukoli vyšší moc a strhl lavinu publikací, v nichž si vědečtí…
Sets six of the finest minds in the history of philosophy to work on the problems of everyday life. Here then are Socrates, Epicurus, Seneca, Montaigne, Schopenhauer and Nietzsche on some of the things that bother us all: lack of money, the pain of love,…
A brilliant new novel about love and marriage in the modern world - from the author the bestselling novel Essays in Love Modern love is never easy. Society is obsessed with stories of romance, but what comes after happily ever after? This is a love story…
Looks at the manic and peculiar positions that 'the news' occupies in our lives. Mixing current affairs with philosophical reflections, this title offers an illustrated guide to the precautions we should take before venturing anywhere near the news and…
Kniha Umění cestovat je jednou z řady originálních esejistických knih, které svého autora proslavily ve třiceti zemích světa. Filozof Alain de Botton se v nich obrací k základním otázkám sužujícím dnešního člověka a nabízí čerstvou, relevantní ´filozofii…
Často slýcháme, že umění je velmi důležité. Jen zřídka se ale dozvíme, proč vlastně. Alain de Botton a John Armstrong jsou přesvědčeni, že umění nám může pomoci řešit ta nejniternější a zároveň nejobyčejnější dilemata: Proč mě nebaví moje práce? Proč…
Ve starověkém Řecku a Římě byli filozofové přirozenou autoritou při hledání odpovědí na ty nejnaléhavější otázky. Od té doby se ale myšlenka hledání moudrosti ve filozofii stávala čím dál bizarnější. V knize Útěcha ve filozofii se Alain de Botton rozhodl…