The School Of Life
This is a book about everything you were never taught at school. It's about how to understand your emotions, find and sustain love, succeed in your career, fail well and overcome shame and guilt. It's also about letting go of the myth of a perfect life in order to achieve genuine emotional maturity. Written in a hugely accessible, warm and humane style, The School of Life is the ultimate guide to the emotionally fulfilled lives we all long for - and deserve. This book brings together ten years of essential and transformative research on emotional intelligence, with practical topics including: - how to understand yourself - how to master the dilemmas of relationships - how to become more effective at work - how to endure failure - how to grow more serene and resilient
Pleasures and Sorrows of Work
From one of our greatest voices in modern philosophy, author of The Course of Love, The Consolations of Philosophy, Religion for Atheists and The School of Life - a lucid exploration of the state in which most of us spend most of our lives 'De Bot...
Religion for Atheists
SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER NUMBER ONE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER From one of our greatest voices in modern philosophy, author of The Course of Love, The Consolations of Philosophy, The Art of Travel and The School of Life 'A serious and optimis...
Essays In Love
'De Botton is a national treasure.' - Susan Hill, author of The Woman in Black A 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 unti...
How Proust Can Change Your Life
With an introduction by comedian and novelist David Baddiel A novel in seven volumes, Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time is considered a major literary work of the twentieth century. And even more crucially, one that you should have read by no...
Architecture of Happiness
THE NUMBER ONE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER From 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 ...
Consolations of Philosophy
THE SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER One of the most influential voices in modern philosophy - the author of The Course of Love, Religion for Atheists, The Art of Travel and The School of Life Alain de Botton presents a one-stop shop for solving...
Course of Love
SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER From one of our great thinkers on modern life and the human condition - an unforgettable story of love and marriage from the author of bestselling novel Essays in Love as well as The Consolations of Philosophy, Reli...
Art of Travel
THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER 'Honest, funny and dripping with witty aphorisms. Extremely entertaining and enlightening [...] all the way to journey's end' Herald One of our greatest voices in modern philosophy, author of The Course of Love,...
How to Think More Effectively
A guide to identifying, nurturing and growing our insight and creativity for more effective thinking. We know that our minds are capable of great things because, every now and then, they come out with a very brilliant idea or two. However, our min...
The Architecture of Happiness
A thoughtful study of architecture that examines how we both shape and are shaped by our surroundings considers how our private homes and public edifices--from Classical to Gothic to minimalist Modern--reflect how we feel and explains how our stylistic choices can be used to increase our chances of happiness. Reprint. 50,000 first printing.
Filosofins Tröst
Filosofins Tröst [Bok / Flexband]
Kärlekens Väg
Vad innebär det att leva lyckliga i alla sina dagar? Alain de Bottons hybridroman om vad som händer med kärleken när förälskelsen lagt sig. Kirsten och Rabihs vänner frågar alltid samma sak: Hur träffades ni? På ytan är det en enkel fråga med ett tydligt svar. Märkligt nog är det aldrig någon som frågar: Vad hände sedan?Vi träffas, blir förälskade, gifter oss. Men det är inte då som berättelsen tar slut, utan det är egentligen då som allt börjar. Kärlekens väg handlar om ett äktenskap, om moderna relationer och om hur man överlever dem. I Kärlekens väg återvänder hyllade Alain de Botton till romanformatet och visar upp en mästerlig fusion mellan fiktion och filosofiska betraktelser. de Botton är författare till en rad bästsäljande böcker, bland annat Låt Proust förändra ditt liv och Filosofins tröst. En finstämd skildring av den relation som börjar efter att passionen har lagt sig. The Guardian I denna roman visar de Botton åter upp sin förmåga att klä våra förhoppningar och osäkerheter i ord. New York Times Alain de Botton är författare och filosof. Hans författarskap har nått en publik i över 30 länder och täcker in ett brett spektrum av ämnen kärlek, resor, arkitektur och litteratur. de Bottons globala bästsäljare Kärlek : en betraktelse utgav han redan vid 23 års ålder.
Romantic Movement
The Romantic Movement is the story of its beguiling heroine Alice and her quest for love, cataloguing the progress of her affair with Eric in all its thrills and pitfalls. Delightfully funny as well as moving, the novel elaborates on the psycholog...
The Art of Travel
A wise and utterly original book of travel essays from an international bestselling author that will "give one an expansive sense of wonder" ( The Baltimore Sun ). Any Baedeker will tell us where we ought to travel, but only Alain ...
Status Anxiety
THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER From one of our greatest voices in modern philosophy, author of The Course of Love, The Consolations of Philosophy, Religion for Atheists and The School of Life - Alain de Botton sets out to understand our unive...
The Course of Love
'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 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 explores what happens after the birth of love, what it takes to maintain, and what happens to our original ideals under the pressures of an average existence. We see, along with Rabih and Kirsten, the first flush of infatuation, the effortlessness of falling into romantic love, and the course of life thereafter. Interwoven with their story and its challenges is an overlay of philosophy--an annotation and a guide to what we are
The Consolations of Philosophy
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 problems. A remedy for impotence lies in Montaigne. Seneca offers advice upon losing a job. And Nietzsche has shrewd counsel for everything from loneliness to illness. The Consolations of Philosophy is a book as accessibly erudite as it is useful and entertaining.
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THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER From one of our greatest voices in modern philosophy, author of The Course of Love, The Consolations of Philosophy, Religion for Atheists and The School of Life - an accessible and eye-opening exploration of our...
How Proust Can Change Your Life
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Varieties of Melancholy
This is a book that celebrates the most neglected but valuable emotion we can feel: melancholy. Melancholy isn't depression or anger or bitterness, it's a serene, accepting, gentle, wise and kindly response to the difficulties and occasional miser...
What Is Culture For?
Our societies frequently proclaim their enormous esteem for culture. Music, film, literature and the visual arts enjoy high prestige and are viewed by many as getting close to the meaning of life. But what is culture really for? This book proposes...
Heartbreak
Almost no one gets through life without, at some point, having their heart broken. Advice at such a dark moment tends to focus on letting time do the healing. But there is also a vital role for understanding and perspective. We sometimes make our ...
Dating
Dating might seem a trivial and relatively inconsequential part of love, but it is in fact key to getting into the kind of relationship that can last and help us flourish. The process we call dating sits on top of some of the largest themes of lov...
How to Survive the Modern World
A guide to modern times that explores the challenges living in the 21st century can pose to our mental wellbeing. The modern world has brought us a range of extraordinary benefits and joys, including technology, medicine and transport. But it can ...
The School of Life Guide to Modern Manners
A guide to confronting modern social situations with confidence and grace.
Replacement for Religion
Many of us find ourselves in the odd situation of not believing in religion - but nevertheless being interested in it, moved by it and sympathetic to some of its aims. We may enjoy religious art and architecture, music and community, and even some...
Why You Will Marry the Wrong Person
It's one of the things we are most afraid might happen to us. We go to great lengths to avoid it. And yet we do it all the same. We marry the wrong person. Anyone we might marry could, of course, be a little bit wrong for us. We know that perfecti...
Anxiety
A guide to our anxious minds; offering a route to calm, self-compassion and mental well-being. Far more than we tend to realise, we're all - in private - deeply anxious. There is so much that worries us across our days and nights: whether our hope...
Affairs
Our societies are remarkably confident on the matter: affairs are terrible things and only fools, monsters and knaves would ever be involved in them. Those who are their victims deserve unending sympathy and access to a good lawyer. This stance ma...
An Emotional Menagerie: Feelings from A to Z
An Emotional Menagerie