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A Therapeutic Journey: Lessons from the School of Life by Alain de Botton
36.99 AUD
Category: Personal Development
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
19.95 AUD
Category: AUDIO
We all spend longer than we would like waiting around in airports, but we rarely discover anything about our fellow travellers or those who work there. In the summer of 2009, however, Alain de Botton was given unprecedented, unrestricted access to wander around Heathrow, one of the world's biggest airpo ...Show more
Art as Therapy by Alain de Botton; John Armstrong
29.99 AUD
Category: ART & CRAFTS | 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
Art as Therapy by Alain de Botton
45.00 AUD
Category: ART & CRAFTS
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
Do Humankind's Best Days Lie Ahead? by Steven Pinker Malcolm Gladwell Alain De Botton Matt Ridley
16.99 AUD
Category: ATLAS & REFERENCE
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
Religion for Atheists: A Non-Believer's Guide to the Uses of Religion by Alain de Botton
27.99 AUD
Category: Spirituality & Religion
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
22.99 AUD
Category: ATLAS & REFERENCE | 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
Religion for Atheists: A Non-believer's Guide to the Uses of Religion by Alain de Botton
35.00 AUD
Category: ATLAS & REFERENCE
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
Status Anxiety by Alain De Botton
27.99 AUD
Category: SELF HELP | 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: ARCHITECTURE
"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 (Audio CD) by Alain De Botton
39.95 AUD
Category: AUDIO
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