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A Therapeutic Journey: Lessons from the School of Life by Alain de Botton
$36.99 AUD
Category: Health & Self Help
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 Week At The Airport - A Heathrow Diary by Alain de Botton
$24.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | Reading Level: very good
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
Art as Therapy by Alain de Botton
$45.00 AUD
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 by Alain de Botton; John Armstrong
$24.95 AUD
Category: Art and Design | Reading Level: very good
" 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
Big Ideas for Curious Minds: An Introduction to Philosophy by The School of Life; Alain de Botton (Series edited by); Anna Doherty (Illustrator)
$35.00 AUD
Category: Children's & YA | 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
Do Humankind's Best Days Lie Ahead? by Steven Pinker Malcolm Gladwell Alain De Botton Matt Ridley
$16.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
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
Essays In Love by Alain De Botton
$21.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | Series: Picador classics
With an introduction by Sheila Heti A unique love story and a classic work of philosophy, rooted in the mysterious workings of the human heart and mind. Perhaps it is true that we do not really exist until there is someone there to see us existing, we cannot properly speak until there is someone who can ...Show more
Essays In Love by Alain De Botton
$24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Picador Collection
'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 in the mysterious workings of the human heart and mind. Perhaps it is true that we do not really exist until there is someone there to see us existing, we cannot pr ...Show more
How Proust Can Change Your Life by De Botton Alain
$20.00 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
"A self-help manual for the intelligent person...witty, funny and tonic". -- The New York Times Book Review For anyone who ever wondered what Marcel Proust had in mind when he wrote the one-and-a-quarter-million words of In, Search of Lost Time (while bedridden, no less), Alain de Botton has the answ ...Show more
How Proust Can Change Your Life by Alain de Botton
$24.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | Reading Level: very good
With an introduction by comedian and novelist David Baddiel A novel in seven volumes, Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time is considered a major literary work of the twentieth century. And even more crucially, one that you should have read by now. However, as one of its most distinguishing features is ...Show more
How to Think More About Sex by Alain de Botton
$19.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | Series: The School of Life | Reading Level: very good
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
News - A User's Manual by Alain de Botton
$27.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
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