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A Therapeutic Journey: Lessons from the School of Life by Alain de Botton
Category: Personal Development
The essential guide to mental health from the bestselling author of The School of Life: A Therapeutic Journey follows the arc from mental crisis and collapse to convalescence and recovery. Written with kindness, knowledge and sympathy, it is both a practical guide and a source of consolation and compani ...Show more
A Therapeutic Journey - Lessons from the School of Life by Alain de Botton
Category: Self
The essential guide to mental health from the bestselling author of The School of LifeThis is a book about getting unwell. About losing direction and hope. About imagining that we have let ourselves and everyone down.But it is also a book about getting better. About regaining the thread, rediscovering m ...Show more
A Week At The Airport - A Heathrow Diary by Alain de Botton
Category: Philosophy and Religion
In the summer of 2009, Alain de Botton will be invited by the owners of Heathrow airport to become their first ever Writer in Residence. He will be installed in the middle of Terminal 5 on a raised platform with a laptop connected to screens, enabling passengers to see what he is writing and to come and ...Show more
A Week at the Airport:: A Heathrow Diary by Alain De Botton
Category: Audio Books
We all spend longer than we would like waiting around in airports, but we rarely discover anything about our fellow travellers or those who work there. In the summer of 2009, however, Alain de Botton was given unprecedented, unrestricted access to wander around Heathrow, one of the world's biggest airpo ...Show more
Art Is Therapy by Alain De Botton
Category: Art
Published in the form of a giant yellow post-it block (designed by Irma Boom), Alain de Botton and John Armstrong's Art Is Therapy provoke us into rethinking assumptions about what a museum visit is for. What is the purpose of art? They proposed it can be enjoyed for its powerfully therapeutic effect on ...Show more
Art as Therapy by Alain de Botton; John Armstrong
Category: Art and Design
" What is art's purpose? In this engaging, lively, and controversial new book, bestselling philosopher Alain de Botton and art historian John Armstrong propose a new way of looking at familiar masterpieces, suggesting that they can be useful, relevant, and - above all else - therapeutic for their viewer ...Show more
Art as Therapy by Alain de Botton
Category: Art and Design
There is widespread agreement that art is 'very important' - but it can be remarkably hard to say quite why. Yet if art is to enjoy its privileges, it has to be able to demonstrate its relevance in understandable ways to the widest possible audience. Alain de Botton and John Armstrong have a firm belief ...Show more
Art as Therapy: Works from the Collection of the NGV by Alain de Botton
Category: Art and Design
Renowned philosophers authors Alain de Botton John Armstrong explore therapeutic potential of art, contextualise fifty-eight individual or groups of works in NGV collection according to their potential to help guide us with some of life'severyday problems: work, love, status, self-worth questions of mor ...Show more
Big Ideas for Curious Minds: An Introduction to Philosophy by The School of Life; Alain de Botton (Series edited by); Anna Doherty (Illustrator)
Category: Children's | Series: School of Life
Children are, in many ways, born philosophers. Without prompting, they ask some of the largest questions: about time, mortality, happiness and the meaning of it all. Yet sadly, too often, this inborn curiosity is not developed and with age the questions fall away. This is a book designed to harness chil ...Show more
Calm: Educate yourself in the art of remaining calm, and learn how to defend yourself from panic and fury (The School of Life) by The School of Life Press (Series editor Alain de Botton)
Category: Philosophy and Religion | Series: The\School of Life Library
Few life skills are as neglected, yet as important, as the ability to remain calm. Our very worst decisions and interactions are almost invariably the result of a loss of calm - and a descent into anxiety and agitation. Surprisingly, but very fortunately, our power to remain calm can be rehearsed and im ...Show more
Do Humankind's Best Days Lie Ahead? by Steven Pinker Malcolm Gladwell Alain De Botton Matt Ridley
Category: Philosophy and Religion
From the Enlightenment onwards, the West has had an enduring belief that through the evolution of institutions, innovations, and ideas, the human condition is improving. This process is supposedly accelerating as new technologies, individual freedoms, and the spread of global norms empower individuals a ...Show more
Emotionally Intelligent Office (The School of Life) by Alain de Botton
Category: Business
Stress and mental ill health currently costs the United States economy $300 billion a year. Modern businesses continue to place huge emphasis on technical training, yet a lot of what determines the success or failure of organisations has nothing to do with the sort of hard skills taught at business scho ...Show more