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Alain De Botton

'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 is someone there to see us existing, we cannot properly speak until there is someone who can understand what we are saying in e...

Alain De Botton / De Botton, Alain

Alternando ideas y anécdotas sabrosas, Alain de Botton nos ofrece un libro que habla de arquitectura, pero habla sobre todo de lo que nos falta y a menudo nos sobra para llegar a la auténtica felicidad.Si es verdad que somos lo que comemos, también es cierto que somos lo que habitamos, y basta con entrar en una casa para saber no solo qué posee, sino qué esconde y qué desea ...

Alain De Botton

The 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, and streets that surround us....

Alain De Botton

Alain de Botton's redemptive volume charts a course from collapse to recovery with kindness, compassion and wisdom. "Alain de Botton, one of our era's most uncommonly perceptive, lyrical, and lucid existential contemplatives." -- The Marginalian A Therapeutic Journey is a collection of essays about mental challenge and health. Written with kindness, knowledge and sympathy, it i...

The School Of Life / Alain De Botton

How to live wisely and well in the twenty-first century--an introduction to the modern art of emotional intelligence. Emotional intelligence affects every aspect of the way we live, from romantic to professional relationships, from our inner resilience to our social success. It is arguably the single most important skill for surviving the twenty-first century. But what does it...

Alain De Botton

"A self-help manual for the intelligent person" ("The New York Times Book Review"), this stylish, erudite, and frequently hilarious book dips deeply into Marcel Proust's life and work to uncover a font of wonderful advice on such subjects as cultivating friendships, suffering successfully, and recognizing love. ...

Alain De Botton

¿Cómo podemos conseguir que la filosofía forme parte de nuestra vida cotidiana? Alain de Botton demuestra que ésta es una inagotable fuente de consuelo, capaz de inspirarnos y motivarnos a diario.En un fascinante recorrido a través de 2.400 años de filosofía occidental, el autor recurre a la vida y obra de seis filósofos fundamentales para examinar otros tantos problemas comune...

Alain De Botton

¿Cómo podemos conseguir que la filosofía forme parte de nuestra vida cotidiana? Alain de Botton demuestra que ésta es una inagotable fuente de consuelo, capaz de inspirarnos y motivarnos a diario.En un fascinante recorrido a través de 2.400 años de filosofía occidental, el autor recurre a la vida y obra de seis filósofos fundamentales para examinar otros tantos problemas comu...

De Botton, Alain

Este libro apela a cualquiera a quien el amor haya turbado o a todo aquel que haya amado alguna vez. Bottoncartografía los avatares de la relación sentimental narrándonos la historia de dos jóvenes amantes, desde el primerbeso hasta el comienzo de la ansiedad y las palpitaciones. A través del relato, reconocemos la inquietud que siemprenos provoca la decisión de en qué momento ...

Alain De Botton

Alain De Botton

"What if religions are neither all true nor all nonsense? "Alain de Botton s bold and provocative book argues that we can benefit from the wisdom and power of religion without having to believe in any of it. He suggests that rather than mocking religion, agnostics and atheists should instead steal from it because the world s religions are packed with good ideas on how we might ...

Alain De Botton

We all know the headiness and excitement of the early days of love. But what comes after? In Edinburgh, a couple, Rabih and Kirsten, fall in love. They get married, they have children but no long-term relationship is as simple as happily ever after. "The Course of Love" is a novel that explores what happens after the birth of love, what it takes to maintain love, and what happe...

Alain De Botton

"An engrossing tale [that] provides plenty of food for thought" ( People, Best New Books pick), this playful, wise, and profoundly moving second novel from the internationally bestselling author of How Proust Can Change Your Life tracks the beautifully complicated arc of a romantic partnership .We all know the headiness and excitement of the early days of love. But what comes a...

Alain De Botton / Armstrong, John

Two authorities on popular culture reveal the ways in which art can enhance mood and enrich lives - now available in paperbackThis passionate, thought-provoking, often funny, and always-accessible book proposes a new way of looking at art, suggesting that it can be useful, relevant, and therapeutic. Through practical examples, the world-renowned authors argue that certain great...

Alain De Botton

Any 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 the takeoffs at Heathrow. Even as de Bo...

Alain De Botton

Anyone 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 than with love. To demonstrate...

Alain De Botton

From the internationally heralded author of How Proust Can Change Your Life comes this remarkable new book that presents the wisdom of some of the greatest thinkers of the ages as advice for our day to day struggles.Solace for the broken heart can be found in the words of Schopenhauer. The ancient Greek Epicurus has the wisest, and most affordable, solution to cash flow problem...

Alain De Botton,The School Of Life

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're supposed to be feeling rarely matches up with the reality. This book argues that 21st-century sex is ultimately fated to be a balanci...

Botton, Alain De

Perhaps it is true that we do not really exist until there is someone there to see us existing, we cannot properly speak until there is someone who can understand what we are saying in essence, we are not wholly alive until we are loved.A man and a woman meet over casual conversation on a flight from Paris to London, and so begins a love story - from first kiss to first argumen...