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The Pleasures & Sorrows of Work by Alain de Botton
$30.00 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
"The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work" is Alain de Botton's lucid exploration of a subject key to most of our lives. 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? Work makes us. Without it we are at a loss; in work we hope to have a measu ...Show more
The School of Life: An Emotional Education by Alain de Botton, The School of Life
$25.00 AUD
Category: Self-Help
What does it mean to live wisely and well in the twenty-first century? And how should we go about doing it? These are the most important questions to ask ourselves and the ones we most often avoid dealing with. This insightful, witty and generous book reveals one simple answer to the question of a good ...Show more
The Sorrows of Love by School of Life (Business enterprise) Staff (Contribution by); Alain de Botton (Series edited by)
$23.00 AUD
Category: Self-Help | Series: Essay Bks.
Love has, quite unfairly, come to be associated with being happy. However, it is also one of the most reliable routes to misery. We tend to treat our sadness individually, as if it were unique and shameful. But, as this book explains, there are some solid reasons why love should be highly sorrowful at t ...Show more
The Sorrows of Work by School of Life Staff; Alain de Botton (Series edited by)
$25.95 AUD
Category: Self-Help | Series: Essay Bks.
Work can be a route to creativity, excitement and purpose. Nevertheless, many of us end up confused, discouraged and beaten by our working lives. The temptation is often just to blame ourselves, and to feel privately ashamed and guilty. However, as this book lucidly explains, there is a range of well-em ...Show more
What is Culture For? (The School of Life) by The School of Life; Alain de Botton (Series edited by)
$27.00 AUD
Category: Philosophy | Series: Essay Bks.
Our societies frequently proclaim their enormous esteem for culture. Music, film, literature and the visual arts enjoy high prestige and are viewed by many as getting close to the meaning of life. But what is culture really for?This book proposes that works of culture were all made, in one way or anothe ...Show more