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Alain de Botton on The Consolations of Philosophy
by Alain de Botton
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Online Video
Mr. de Botton discussed his book The Consolations of Philosophy, published by Pantheon Books.
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Alain de Botton on the Pleasures and Sorrows of Work
by Alain de Botton
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Online Video
For most people the word work is synonymous with jobs, labor and occupations. The things we do to pay the rent. The mundane routine can often overshadow the nuances of the work that we do.
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Alain de Botton: A Kinder, Gentler Philosophy of Success
by Alain de Botton
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Audio Download | Online Video
Alain de Botton examines our ideas of success and failure -- and questions the assumptions underlying these two judgments.
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The Architecture of Happiness
by Alain de Botton
Available on:
Audio Download ($11.95) | Audio CD ($70.00) | Audio Cassette ($53.96) | MP3 CD ($29.95)
This dazzling journey through the philosophy and psychology of architecture explores the indelible connection between our identities and our locations. Alain de Botton argues that our environment heavily influences who we can be.
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The Art of Travel
by Alain de Botton
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Audio Download | Audio Cassette
Few activities seem to promise us as much happiness as going travelling: taking off for somewhere else, somewhere far from home, a place with more interesting weather, customs, and landscapes....
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The Consolations of Philosophy
by Alain de Botton
Available on:
Audio Download | Audio CD ($27.95) | Audio Cassette | MP3 CD
In The Consolations of Philosophy, Alain de Botton has performed a stunning feat. He has transformed the arcane into something accessible and entertaining, something useful and kind.
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How Proust Can Change Your Life
by Alain de Botton
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Audio Cassette
Drawing from Proust's letters, essays, and fiction, de Botton transforms Proust's life and work into a no-nonsense guide to life.
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The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work
by Alain de Botton
Available on:
Audio Download | Audio CD | MP3 CD ($24.99)
We spend most of our waking lives at work - in occupations often chosen by our unthinking younger selves. And yet we rarely ask ourselves how we got there or what our occupations mean to us.
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Status Anxiety
by Alain de Botton
Available on:
Audio Download ($13.95) | Audio CD ($29.95) | Audio Cassette | MP3 CD
This is a book about an almost universal anxiety that rarely gets mentioned directly: an anxiety about what others think of us, about whether we’re judged a success or a failure, a winner or a loser.
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