Alain De Botton
The Consolations Of Philosophy
$9.95 (Paperback book / Penguin Books )
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 the finest minds in history - Socrates, Epicurus, Seneca, Montaigne, Schopenh... More »
Consolations Of Philosophy
$26.95 (Paperback book / Penguin )
Alain de Botton, best-selling author of How Proust can Change Your Life, has set six of the finest minds in the history of philosophy to work on the problems of everyday life. Here then are Socrates, Epicurus, Seneca, Mo... More »
Architecture Of Happiness
$24.95 (Compact disc / Penguin )
In his extraordinary new book, Alain de Botton considers the hopes and fears we have for our homes at a new level of depth and insight, considering such questions as: Why do people disagree about taste? Can beautiful sur... More »
Art Of Travel
$26.95 (Paperback book / Penguin )
Few activities seem to promise as much happiness as going travelling: taking off for somewhere else, somewhere far from home, a place with more interesting weather, customs and landscapes. But although we are inundated w... More »
Essays In Love
$24.95 (Paperback book / Picador )
Essays in Love is a stunningly original love story.
Taking in Aristotle, Wittgenstein, history, religion and Groucho Marx, Alain de Botton charts the progress of a love affair from the first kiss to argument and reconcil... More »
Status Anxiety
$26.95 (Paperback book / Penguin Books )
Do you worry about how well you're doing? Are you envious of your friends' success? Are you suffering from status anxiety?
We all worry about what others think of us. We all long to succeed and fear failure. We all suffe... More »
On Love A Novel
$29.95 (Paperback book / Grove Press )
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 reach... More »
Status Anxiety Dvd
$39.95 (Digital video disc / Abc Video )
Rating:PG
This is a DVD about an almost universal anxiety that rarely gets
mentioned directly: an anxiety about what others think of us; about
whether we're judged a success or failure, a winner or a loser.
This DVD is a... More »
Philosophy A Guide To Happiness Dvd
$39.95 (Digital video disc / Abc Video )
Rating:PG
This six part series on philosophy is presented by popular British
philosopher Alain de Botton, featuring six thinkers who have
influenced history, and their ideas about the pursuit of the happy
life.
Episode ... More »
The Art Of Travel
$24.95 (Digital video disc / Abc Dvd )
Few things are as exciting as the idea of travelling somewhere else. But the reality of travel seldom matches our daydreams e tragi-comic disappointments are well-known: the disorientation, the mid-afternoon despair, the... More »
How Proust Can Change Your Life
$24.99 (Paperback book / Picador )
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