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    The School of Life: An Emotional Education

    Alain de Botton, The School of Life

    How to live wisely and well in the twenty-first century–an introduction to the modern art of emotional intelligence.

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    The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work

    Alain de Botton

    Why do so many of us love or hate our work? How has it come to dominate our lives? And what should we do about it? What should I do…

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    A Therapeutic Journey

    Alain de Botton

    The essential guide to mental health from the bestselling author of The School of Life

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    Essays In Love

    Alain de Botton

    The classic book on love by the bestselling author of How Proust Can Change Your Life and The Consolations of Philosophy.

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    The Consolations of Philosophy

    Alain de Botton

    Sets six of the finest minds in the history of philosophy to work on the problems of everyday life. Here then are Socrates, Epicurus, Seneca, Montaigne, Schopenhauer and Nietzsche on…

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    Status Anxiety

    Alain de Botton

    Looking at history, philosophy, economics, art and politics, this book reveals the many ingenious ways that great minds have overcome their worries.

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    The Consolations of Philosophy

    Alain de Botton

    Sets six of the finest minds in the history of philosophy to work on the problems of everyday life. Here then are Socrates, Epicurus, Seneca, Montaigne, Schopenhauer and Nietzsche on…

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    The Course of Love: An unforgettable story of love and marriage from the author of bestselling novel Essays in Love

    Alain de Botton

    Rabih and Kirsten find each other, fall in love, get married. Society tells us this is the end of the story. In fact, it is only the beginning. From the…

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    How To Think More About Sex

    Alain de Botton

    Think more about sex by thinking about it in a different way.

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    How Proust Can Change Your Life

    Alain de Botton

    A fascinating and illuminating look at Proust’s most famous works by renowned philosopher Alain de Botton.

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    The Architecture of Happiness

    Alain de Botton

    What makes a house truly beautiful? Why are many new houses so ugly? Why do we argue so bitterly about sofas and pictures - and can differences of taste ever…

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    Religion for Atheists: A non-believer’s guide to the uses of religion

    Alain de Botton

    All of us, whether religious, agnostic or atheist, are searching for meaning. In this book, a non-believer both rejects the supernatural claims of the major religions and points out just…

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    The Art of Travel

    Alain de Botton

    Provides an insight into everything from holiday romance to hotel mini-bars, airports to sight-seeing. This book suggests how we might be happier on our journeys.

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    A Therapeutic Journey

    Alain de Botton

    From the Sunday Times bestselling author of The School of Life

    A healthy mind knows how to hope, hanging on tenaciously to the reasons to keep going.

    A healthy mind…

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    The Consolations of Philosophy

    Alain De Botton

    Wisdom from some of the greatest thinkers in history is shared in this book that provides advice on day-to-day struggles, such as a broken heart or cash flow problems. Illustrations.

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    The Romantic Movement: Sex, Shopping, and the Novel

    Alain de Botton

    In this witty, innovative novel of a modern relationship, de Botton explores the progress of a love affair from first meeting to breaking up, intercut with musings on the nature…

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    The Art of Travel

    Alain De Botton

    An inquiry into the human desire to travel and the ways in which the travel experience is affected by anticipation and memory presents a series of thought-provoking and humorous essays…

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    On Love

    Alain de Botton

    In this dazzlingly original first novel, Alain de Botton tells of a young man smitten by a woman on a Paris-London flight. On Love plots the course of their affair…

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    The Romantic Movement

    Alain de Botton

    By the author of the acclaimed Essays in Love

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    The News: A User’s Manual

    Alain De Botton

    Explores our relationship with ‘the news’. Mixing current affairs with philosophical reflections, this title offers a guide to the precautions we should take before venturing anywhere near the news and…

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    The News: A User’s Manual

    Alain de Botton

    Looks at the manic and peculiar positions that ‘the news’ occupies in our lives. Mixing current affairs with philosophical reflections, this title offers an illustrated guide to the precautions we…

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    The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work

    Alain De Botton

    Why do so many of us love or hate our work? How has it come to dominate our lives? And what should we do about it? What should I do…

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    The News: A User’s Manual

    Alain de Botton

    With an exploration of our obsession with media, this book examines a number of archetypal news stories - a plane crash, a murder, a political scandal, a celebrity interview -…

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    A Week at the Airport

    Alain De Botton

    From the bestselling author of The Art of Travel comes a wittily intriguing exploration of the strange non-place that he believes is the imaginative center of our civilization.

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    The Architecture of Happiness

    Alain De Botton

    Bestselling author de Botton considers how individuals’ private homes and public edifices influence how they feel, and how dwellings could be built in such a way as to promote a…

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    Religion for Atheists: A Non-believer’s Guide to the Uses of Religion

    Alain De Botton

    De Botton’s bold and provocative book argues that readers can benefit from the wisdom and power of religion–without having to believe in any of it. He suggests that rather than…

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    How Proust Can Change Your Life

    Alain De Botton

    A self-help manual for the intelligent person ( The New York Times Book Review ), this stylish, erudite, and frequently hilarious book dips deeply into Marcel Proust’s life and work…

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    The Course of Love

    Alain De Botton

    How does love survive and thrive in the long term? In Edinburgh, Rabih and Kirsten, fall in love, get married, have children. But this is their story after the first…

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    A Therapeutic Journey: Lessons from the School of Life

    Alain de Botton

    A Therapeutic Journey is a collection of essays about mental challenge and health. Written with kindness, knowledge and sympathy, it is a practical guide to well-being and a source of…

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    On Love

    Alain de Botton

    Vietnamese 2016 edition of a collection of 24 famous literary essays about love by Alain de Botton. Vietnamese translation by Tran Quoc Tan.

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    Status Anxiety

    Alain De Botton

    The bestselling author of The Consolation of Philosophy addresses an almost universal anxiety that rarely gets mentioned directly: what others think of us. With the help of philosophers, artists and…

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    Kiss & Tell

    Alain de Botton,de Botton

    Dr. Samuel Johnson observed that everyone’s life is a subject worthy of the biographer’s art. Accused by a former girlfriend of being unable to empathize with this sentiment, the narrator…

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    The Iconic British House

    Dominic Bradbury

    A definitive survey of the finest examples of residential architecture in Britain from 1900 to the present, featuring both major architects and more recent emerging talents.

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    Art as Therapy

    Alain de Botton,Dr. John Armstrong

    Two authorities on popular culture reveal the ways in which art can enhance mood and enrich lives - now available in paperback

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    The Romantic Movement: Sex, Shoppping, and the Novel

    Alain de Botton

    In The Romantic Movement, Alain de Botton explores the progress of a love affair from first meeting to breaking up, intercut with musings on the nature of art of love…

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    The Consolations of Philosophy

    Alain de Botton

    Sets six of the finest minds in the history of philosophy to work on the problems of everyday life. Here then are Socrates, Epicurus, Seneca, Montaigne, Schopenhauer and Nietzsche on…

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    The Consolations of Philosophy

    Alain de Botton

    Sets six of the finest minds in the history of philosophy to work on the problems of everyday life. Here then are Socrates, Epicurus, Seneca, Montaigne, Schopenhauer and Nietzsche on…

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    How Proust Can Change Your Life

    Alain de Botton

    A study of the benefits Marcel Proust can being to our lives. In this book, Alain de Botton creates a distillation of Proust’s life which provides a view of the…

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    The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work

    Alain de Botton

    Why do so many of us love or hate our work? How has it come to dominate our lives? And what should we do about it? What should I do…

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    How Proust Can Change Your Life

    Alain de Botton

    Tells you everything you wanted to know about Proust. Taking as its starting point the life of the celebrated French writer and eccentric, this book shows how your life can…

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    Status Anxiety

    Alain de Botton

    There are few more powerful desires than the wish to be thought of as a success, worthy of dignity and respect. We long for status and dread its opposite. This…

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    Status Anxiety

    Alain de Botton

    There are few more powerful desires than the wish to be thought of as a success, worthy of dignity and respect. We long for status and dread its opposite. This…

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    The Art of Travel

    Alain de Botton

    Provides an insight into everything from holiday romance to hotel mini-bars, airports to sight-seeing. This book suggests how we might be happier on our journeys.

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    The Art of Travel

    Alain de Botton

    Provides an insight into everything from holiday romance to hotel mini-bars, airports to sight-seeing. This book suggests how we might be happier on our journeys.

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    The Architecture of Happiness

    Alain de Botton

    What makes a house truly beautiful? Why are many new houses so ugly? Why do we argue so bitterly about sofas and pictures - and can differences of taste ever…

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    The Architecture of Happiness

    Alain de Botton

    What makes a house truly beautiful? Why are many new houses so ugly? Why do we argue so bitterly about sofas and pictures - and can differences of taste ever…

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    Kiss and Tell

    Alain de Botton

    Presents a challenge to biographical norms by setting out to chart the life of someone unknown, intimate with their biographer, and still alive. The subject of the book is Isabel…

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    Kiss and Tell

    Alain de Botton

    Presents a challenge to biographical norms by setting out to chart the life of someone unknown, intimate with their biographer, and still alive. The subject of the book is Isabel…

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