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On Love by Alain De Botton
$19.95 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
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 by Alain de Botton
$3.95 AUD
Category: Display & Gift | Series: Pocket Penguin 70 Years | Reading Level: very good
Every book tells a story . . . And the 70 titles in the Pocket Penguins series are emblematic of the renowned breadth and quality that formed part of the original Penguin vision in 1935 and that continue to define our publishing today. Together, they tell one version of the unique story of Penguin Bo ...Show more
Religion for Atheists: A Non-Believer's Guide to the Uses of Religion by Alain de Botton
$27.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
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
$35.00 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
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
$22.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | Reading Level: very good
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
Status Anxiety by Alain De Botton
$27.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | Reading Level: very good
In Status Anxiety, bestselling author Alain de Botton sets out to understand our universal fear of failure - and how we might change. We all worry about what others think of us. We all long to succeed and fear failure. We all suffer - to a greater or lesser degree, usually privately and with embarrassme ...Show more
The Architecture of Happiness by Alain de Botton
$22.95 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
"The Architecture of Happiness" is Alain de Botton's exploration of the hidden links between buildings and our well being. Bestselling author Alain de Botton has written about love, travel, status and how philosophy can console us. Now he turns his attention to one of our most intense but often hidden l ...Show more
The Architecture of Happiness by Alain de Botton
$27.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
One of the great, but often unmentioned, causes of both happiness and misery is the quality of our environment: the kind of walls, chairs, buildings and streets we're surrounded by. And yet a concern for architecture and design is too often described as frivolous, even self-indulgent. The Architecture o ...Show more
The Architecture of Happiness by Alain de Botton
$39.95 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
One of the great, but often unmentioned, causes of both happiness and misery is the quality of our environment: the kind of walls, chairs, buildings and streets we
The Art of Travel by Alain de Botton
$24.95 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
This is an inspirational and witty guide to how to make our travels go better, dealing with everything from the airport to the hotel minibar. Paperback
The Art of Travel by Alain de Botton
$22.95 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | Reading Level: very good
The "Art of Travel" is Alain de Botton's travel guide with a difference: an exploration of why we travel and what we learn when we do. As seen on Channel 4 Few activities seem to promise is as much happiness as going travelling: taking off for somewhere else, somewhere far from home, a place with more i ...Show more
The Art of Travel by Alain de Botton
$26.99 AUD
Category: Travel
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 every ...Show more