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How to Think More About Sex by Alain de Botton
Category: Philosophy and Religion | Series: 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. Th ...Show more
How to Travel (The School of Life) by Alain de Botton
Category: Health and Wellbeing
An original and comprehensive look at what it is we seek when we set off on an adventure abroad - and at how we can travel better, so that our experiences overseas become truly transformative and memorable. Going travelling is one of the few things we undertake in a direct attempt to make ourselves happ ...Show more
Joys and Sorrows Of Parenting by The School of Life; Alain de Botton (Series edited by); Bronia Stewart (Photographer)
Category: Pregnancy
Being a parent can be one of the sources of our greatest joys. It is also intermittently the cause of some of our deepest sorrows. It is likely that we will spend at least some of the time in despair and confusion, wondering whether it really has to be so hard. Philosophy has, over the last 2,000 years, ...Show more
Kiss and Tell by Alain De Botton
Category: Audio Books
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 empathise, the narrator of Kiss & Tell takes Johnson's idea to heart and decides to write about the next person who walks into his life. He meets Isabel Rog ...Show more
News - A User's Manual by Alain de Botton
Category: Languages and Reference
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On Confidence (The School of Life) by School of Life (Business Enterprise) Staff; Alain de Botton (Series edited by)
Category: Personal Development | Series: Essay Bks.
We spend vast amounts of time acquiring confidence in narrow technical fields: quadratic equations or bioengineering; economics or pole vaulting. But we overlook the primordial need to acquire a more free ranging variety of confidence - one that can serve us across a range of tasks: speaking to stranger ...Show more
On Love by Alain De Botton
Category: Fiction
The best-selling author of How Proust Can Change Your Life and The Art of Travel revisits his utterly charming debut novel, On Love. The narrator is smitten by Chloe on a ParisLondon flight, and by the time they've reached the luggage carousel he knows he is in love. He loves her chestnut hair, watery g ...Show more
On Seeing and Noticing (Audio CD) by Alain De Botton
Category: Audio Books
In On Seeing and Noticing, Alain de Botton takes everyday concerns such as expressing sadness or being romantic and dispenses advice and observations based on the works of some of history's greatest writers, artists and thinkers.
Re: Society 40 Years of ING Engaging with the Arts by Alain de Botton & Konrad Schiller
Category: Art and Design
Art is an essential part of ING's corporate identity. The ING Collection was founded in 1974 to create a stimulating working environment. Over the years, the collection has grown to become an extensive and internationally renowned collection of artworks, with a focus on contemporary art by professional ...Show more
Religion for Atheists: A Non-Believer's Guide to the Uses of Religion by Alain de Botton
Category: Languages and Reference
From the author of The Architecture of Happiness, a bold argument on how we can still benefit, without believing, from the wisdom, the beauty, and the consolatory power that religion has to offer. What if religions are neither all true nor all nonsense? The long-running and often boring debate between ...Show more
Religion for Atheists: A Non-believer's Guide to the Uses of Religion by Alain de Botton
Category: Philosophy and Religion
Argues that the supernatural claims of religion are of course entirely false - and yet that religions still have important things to teach the secular world. This book proposes that we should look to religions for insights into how to build a sense of community, make our relationships last, overcome fee ...Show more
Religion for Atheists - A Non-believer's Guide to the Uses of Religion by Alain de Botton
Category: Philosophy and Religion
The boring debate between fundamentalist believers and non-believers is finally moved on by Alain de Botton's inspiring new book, which boldly argues that the supernatural claims of religion are of course entirely false - and yet that religions still have important things to teach the secular world. Rat ...Show more