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(0)Alain De Botton
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Publisher
Bolinda audio
Pub. Date
2013
Description
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 of Happiness starts from the idea that where we are heavily influences who we can be - and argues that it is architecture?s task to stand as an eloquent...
Author
Publisher
Hamish Hamilton
Pub. Date
2004
Description
For this study, de Botton asks where our worries about status come from and what, if anything, we can do to reduce them. He looks at how people have coped with these anxieties in the past with a range of unexpected examples and entertaining anecdotes.
Author
Publisher
Hamish Hamilton
Pub. Date
2012
Description
The debate between fundamentalist believers and non-believers is finally moved on by Alain de Botton, who 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.
Author
Publisher
Hamish Hamilton
Pub. Date
2016
Description
What does it mean to live happily ever after? At dinner parties and over coffee, Rabih and Kirsten's friends always ask them the same question: how did you meet? The answer comes easily - it's a happy story, one they both love to tell. But there is a second part to this story, the answer to a question their friends never ask: what happened next? Rabih and Kirsten find each other, fall in love, get married. Society tells us this is the end of the story....