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In our current political climate, it seems impossible to have a civil conversation with someone who has a different opinion. Dialogue is shut down when ...
'A brilliant and original book... Everybody should read it' Guardian Acclaimed as one of the most exciting books in the history of American letters, this ...
'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 ...
What is a good life, and how is it related to a happy one? What are virtues, and how do they affect the nature of ...
Abandon Every Hope mournfully investigates the literatures of the slaughterhouse and a world motivated by profitable death, to ultimately ask- where does this horror begin ...
Spirituality for atheists.
'An extraordinary book . . . It will shake up your most fundamental beliefs about everyday experience, and it just might change your life.' Paul ...
Highly acclaimed writer and philosopher Alain de Botton turns his attention to interior design and architecture
In The Architecture of Happiness, bestselling author Alain de ...
Top Ten bestseller in hardback, and over 60,000 sold in hardback and trade paperback
Few activities seem to promise us as much happiness as ...
Alain de Botton's The Consolations of Philosophy takes the discipline of logic and the mind back to its roots. Drawing inspiration from six of ...
From the bestselling author of How to Live, an enthralling and original new book about a group of young thinkers, the birth of existentialism and ...
Can thought arise out of matter? Can self, soul, consciousness, I" arise out of mere matter? If it cannot, then how can you or I ...
Status Anxiety has spent two and a half months in the Sunday Times top five bestseller list, selling over 50,000 copies.
We all worry ...
Why thinking in pictures? Short answer: because the words seem to need help. If you sample the many big ideas books to hit the shelves ...
A book for our times: a moving meditation on the tension between loneliness and freedom, individualism and love.
At no time before have so many ...