Alain de Botton
Essays In Love
95%
Essays in Love will appeal to anyone who has ever been in a relationship or confused about love.…
Art as Therapy
89%
There is widespread agreement that art is 'very important' — but it can be remarkably hard to say…
The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work
88%
We spend most of our waking lives at work — in occupations often chosen by our unthinking…
A Week At The Airport: A Heathrow Diary
98%
In the summer of 2009, Alain de Botton will be invited by the owners of Heathrow airport to become…
Essays in Love
57%
Taking in Aristotle, Wittgenstein, history, religion, and Groucho Marx, the author charts the…
Status Anxiety
57%
We all worry about what others think of us. We all long to succeed and fear failure. We all suffer…
The Art of Travel
57%
Few activites seem to promise us as much happiness as going travelling: taking off for somewhere…