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A Therapeutic Journey: Lessons from the School of Life by Alain de Botton
$36.99 AUD
Category: Psychology
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
Art as Therapy by Alain de Botton; John Armstrong
$29.95 AUD
Category: Art Theory
" 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)
$42.99 AUD
Category: Children's Education | 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: 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
$24.99 AUD
Category: Reference Essays | 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
Essays In Love by Alain De Botton
$21.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy | 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
$9.99 AUD
Category: Psychology
Essays in Love will appeal to anyone who has ever been in a relationship or confused about love. This book charts the progress of a relationship between a man and a woman, from their first kiss to the onset of anxiety and heartbreak. The work’s genius lies in the way it minutely analysis emotions we’ ...Show more
How Proust Can Change Your Life by Alain De Botton
$19.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy | Series: Picador Classic Ser.
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 i ...Show more
How to Think More About Sex by Alain de Botton
$19.99 AUD
Category: Health | Series: The School of Life
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
Religion for Atheists: A Non-Believer's Guide to the Uses of Religion by Alain de Botton
$27.99 AUD
Category: 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
Status Anxiety by Alain De Botton
$27.99 AUD
Category: Psychology
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
$27.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy
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