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. And yet a concern for architecture is too often described as frivolous, even self-indulgent. Alain de Botton starts from the idea that where we are heavily influences who we can be, and argues that it is...
The Achitecture of Happiness is a dazzling and generously illustrated journey through the philosophy and psychology of architecture and the ind...
In The Romantic Movement, Alain de Botton explores the progress of a love affair from first meeting to breaking up, intercut with musings on the nature of art of love. The relationship between Alice, an advertising executive, and Eric, a banker, is examined at every stage, supplemented by quizzes and line drawings by the author and commentary by a chorus of great philosophers, from Descartes to Plato to Aretha Franklin. The Romantic Movement will charm readers and lovers alike with wit, insight, and intelligence.
In The Romantic Movement, Alain de Botton explores the progress of a love affair from first meeting to breaking up, intercut with musings on...
Dr. Samuel Johnson observed that everyone's life is a subject worthy of the biographer's art. Accused by a former girlfriend of being unable to empathize, the narrator of Alain de Botton's Kiss & Tell takes Johnson's idea to heart and decides to write about the next person who walks into his life.
He meets Isabel Rogers, a production assistant at a small stationery company in London, apparently an ordinary woman. But as the biographer's understanding of Isabel deepens, she becomes remarkable. Her smallest quirks, private habits, and opinions become worthy of the most...
Dr. Samuel Johnson observed that everyone's life is a subject worthy of the biographer's art. Accused by a former girlfriend of being unable to emp...
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 Botton takes the reader along on his own peregrinations, he also cites such distinguished fellow-travelers as Baudelaire, Wordsworth, Van Gogh, the biologist Alexander von Humboldt,...
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...
Alain de Botton combines two unlikely genres--literary biography and self-help manual--in the hilarious and unexpectedly practical How Proust Can Change Your Life. Who would have thought that Marcel Proust, one of the most important writers of our century, could provide us with such a rich source of insight into how best to live life? Proust understood that the essence and value of life was the sum of its everyday parts. As relevant today as they were at the turn of the century, Proust's life and work are transformed here into a no-nonsense guide to, among other things, enjoying your...
Alain de Botton combines two unlikely genres--literary biography and self-help manual--in the hilarious and unexpectedly practical How Proust Can Chan...
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...
From the internationally heralded author of How Proust Can Change Your Life comes this remarkable new book that presents the wisdom of some of ...
"On Love" is globally bestselling novelist-philosopher Alain De Botton s iconic debutthe novel that launched his decorated literary career; and a funny, profound, and searingly true-to-life exploration of love. A man and a woman meet over casual conversation on a flight from Paris to London, and so begins a love storyfrom fist kiss to first argument, elation to heartbreak, and everything in between. Each stage of the relationship is illuminated with starling clarity, as de Botton explores emotions often felt but rarely understood. Now, in tandem with the arrival of "The Course of Love"de...
"On Love" is globally bestselling novelist-philosopher Alain De Botton s iconic debutthe novel that launched his decorated literary career; and a funn...
Auf der Fährte seiner Bestseller »Trost der Philosophie« und »Kunst des Reisens« widmet sich Alain de Botton in seinem neuen Buch dem verborgenen Zusammenspiel von Architektur und Glück. Er reist zu den Meisterwerken der Architektur, zu den großen Villen von Palladio und den Wohntürmen von Corbusier. Geleitet wird er von der Frage, dem jeden Hausbau, Wohnungswechsel und Ikea-Besuch vorausgehen sollten: welches Haus passt zu mir? Wie viel Farbe mag ich, wie viel Licht brauche ich, soll der Spiegel wirklich so groß sein? Nur solange die Proportionen des Außenraums mit den Proportionen...
Auf der Fährte seiner Bestseller »Trost der Philosophie« und »Kunst des Reisens« widmet sich Alain de Botton in seinem neuen Buch dem verborgenen...
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 live and arrange our societies. De Botton looks to religion for insights into how to build a sense of community, make relationships last, overcome feelings of envy and inadequacy, inspire travel, get more...
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 wis...
