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Alain de Botton is the author of three works of fiction and five of nonfiction, including How Proust Can Change Your Life, The Consolations of Philosophy, and The Art of Travel. He lives in London.
Alain de Botton is represented by the Knopf Speakers Bureau (http://www.knopfspeakersbureau.com).
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The Architecture of Happiness
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: April 8, 2008
Price: $18.00
The Achitecture of Happiness is a dazzling and generously illustrated journey through the philosophy and psychology of architecture and the indelible connection between our identities and our locations.
One of the great but often unmentioned causes of both happiness and misery is the quality of our environment: the kinds of walls, chairs... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: April 8, 2008
Price: $18.00
The Achitecture of Happiness is a dazzling and generously illustrated journey through the philosophy and psychology of architecture and the indelible connection between our identities and our locations.
One of the great but often unmentioned causes of both happiness and misery is the quality of our environment: the kinds of walls, chairs... Read more >
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The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work
Format: Hardcover, 336 pages
On Sale: June 2, 2009
Price: $26.00
We spend most of our waking lives at work–in occupations often chosen by our unthinking younger selves. And yet we rarely ask ourselves how we got there or what our occupations mean to us.
The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work is an exploration of the joys and perils of the modern... Read more >
Format: Hardcover, 336 pages
On Sale: June 2, 2009
Price: $26.00
We spend most of our waking lives at work–in occupations often chosen by our unthinking younger selves. And yet we rarely ask ourselves how we got there or what our occupations mean to us.
The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work is an exploration of the joys and perils of the modern... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook and a
trade paperback.
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How Proust Can Change Your Life
Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
On Sale: April 28, 1998
Price: $14.00
Alain de Botton combines two unlikely genres--literary biography and self-help manual--in the hilarious and unexpectedly practical How Proust Can Change Your Life.
Who would have thought that Marcel Proust, one of the most important writers of our century, could provide us with such a rich source of insight into how best to... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
On Sale: April 28, 1998
Price: $14.00
Alain de Botton combines two unlikely genres--literary biography and self-help manual--in the hilarious and unexpectedly practical How Proust Can Change Your Life.
Who would have thought that Marcel Proust, one of the most important writers of our century, could provide us with such a rich source of insight into how best to... Read more >
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The Consolations of Philosophy
Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
On Sale: April 3, 2001
Price: $14.95
From the internationally heralded author of How Proust Can Change Your Life comes this remarkable new book that presents the wisdom of some of the greatest thinkers of the ages as advice for our day to day struggles.
Solace for the broken heart can be found in the words of Schopenhauer. The... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
On Sale: April 3, 2001
Price: $14.95
From the internationally heralded author of How Proust Can Change Your Life comes this remarkable new book that presents the wisdom of some of the greatest thinkers of the ages as advice for our day to day struggles.
Solace for the broken heart can be found in the words of Schopenhauer. The... Read more >
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The Art of Travel
Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
On Sale: May 11, 2004
Price: $14.95
Any Baedeker will tell us where we ought to travel, but only Alain de Botton will tell us how and why. With the same intelligence and insouciant charm he brought to How Proust Can Save Your Life, de Botton considers the pleasures of anticipation; the allure of the exotic, and the... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
On Sale: May 11, 2004
Price: $14.95
Any Baedeker will tell us where we ought to travel, but only Alain de Botton will tell us how and why. With the same intelligence and insouciant charm he brought to How Proust Can Save Your Life, de Botton considers the pleasures of anticipation; the allure of the exotic, and the... Read more >
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Status Anxiety
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: May 10, 2005
Price: $15.00
Anyone who’s ever lost sleep over an unreturned phone call or the neighbor’s Lexus had better read Alain de Botton’s irresistibly clear-headed new book, immediately. For in its pages, a master explicator of our civilization and its discontents turns his attention to the insatiable quest for status, a quest that has... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: May 10, 2005
Price: $15.00
Anyone who’s ever lost sleep over an unreturned phone call or the neighbor’s Lexus had better read Alain de Botton’s irresistibly clear-headed new book, immediately. For in its pages, a master explicator of our civilization and its discontents turns his attention to the insatiable quest for status, a quest that has... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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The Architecture of Happiness
Format: Hardcover, 288 pages
On Sale: October 3, 2006
Price: $26.95
One of the great but often unmentioned causes of both happiness and misery is the quality of our environment: the kinds of walls, chairs, buildings and streets that surround us.
And yet a concern for architecture and design is too often described as frivolous, even self-indulgent. The Architecture of Happiness starts from... Read more >
Format: Hardcover, 288 pages
On Sale: October 3, 2006
Price: $26.95
One of the great but often unmentioned causes of both happiness and misery is the quality of our environment: the kinds of walls, chairs, buildings and streets that surround us.
And yet a concern for architecture and design is too often described as frivolous, even self-indulgent. The Architecture of Happiness starts from... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook and a
trade paperback.
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The Art of Travel
Format: Hardcover, 272 pages
On Sale: July 30, 2002
Price: $25.00
Aside from love, few actvities seem to promise us as much happiness as going traveling: taking off for somewhere else, somewhere far from home, a place with more interesting weather, customs, and landscapes. But although we are inundated with advice on where to travel, few people seem to talk about why... Read more >
Format: Hardcover, 272 pages
On Sale: July 30, 2002
Price: $25.00
Aside from love, few actvities seem to promise us as much happiness as going traveling: taking off for somewhere else, somewhere far from home, a place with more interesting weather, customs, and landscapes. But although we are inundated with advice on where to travel, few people seem to talk about why... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook and a
trade paperback.
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The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
On Sale: June 1, 2010
Price: $15.95
We spend most of our waking lives at work–in occupations often chosen by our unthinking younger selves. And yet we rarely ask ourselves how we got there or what our occupations mean to us.
The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work is an exploration of the joys and perils of the modern... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
On Sale: June 1, 2010
Price: $15.95
We spend most of our waking lives at work–in occupations often chosen by our unthinking younger selves. And yet we rarely ask ourselves how we got there or what our occupations mean to us.
The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work is an exploration of the joys and perils of the modern... Read more >
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The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work
Format: eBook
On Sale: June 2, 2009
Price: $26.00
We spend most of our waking lives at work–in occupations often chosen by our unthinking younger selves. And yet we rarely ask ourselves how we got there or what our occupations mean to us.
The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work is an exploration of the joys and perils of the modern... Read more >
Format: eBook
On Sale: June 2, 2009
Price: $26.00
We spend most of our waking lives at work–in occupations often chosen by our unthinking younger selves. And yet we rarely ask ourselves how we got there or what our occupations mean to us.
The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work is an exploration of the joys and perils of the modern... Read more >
Also available as a
hardcover and a
trade paperback.
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The Architecture of Happiness
Format: eBook, 288 pages
On Sale: December 10, 2008
Price: $18.00
One of the great but often unmentioned causes of both happiness and misery is the quality of our environment: the kinds of walls, chairs, buildings and streets that surround us.
And yet a concern for architecture and design is too often described as frivolous, even self-indulgent. The Architecture of Happiness starts from... Read more >
Format: eBook, 288 pages
On Sale: December 10, 2008
Price: $18.00
One of the great but often unmentioned causes of both happiness and misery is the quality of our environment: the kinds of walls, chairs, buildings and streets that surround us.
And yet a concern for architecture and design is too often described as frivolous, even self-indulgent. The Architecture of Happiness starts from... Read more >
Also available as a
hardcover and a
trade paperback.
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The Art of Travel
Format: eBook, 272 pages
On Sale: November 19, 2008
Price: $14.95
Any Baedeker will tell us where we ought to travel, but only Alain de Botton will tell us how and why. With the same intelligence and insouciant charm he brought to How Proust Can Save Your Life, de Botton considers the pleasures of anticipation; the allure of the exotic, and the... Read more >
Format: eBook, 272 pages
On Sale: November 19, 2008
Price: $14.95
Any Baedeker will tell us where we ought to travel, but only Alain de Botton will tell us how and why. With the same intelligence and insouciant charm he brought to How Proust Can Save Your Life, de Botton considers the pleasures of anticipation; the allure of the exotic, and the... Read more >
Also available as a
hardcover and a
trade paperback.
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Status Anxiety
Format: eBook, 320 pages
On Sale: December 10, 2008
Price: $15.00
“Every adult life could be said to be defined by two great love stories. The first—the story of our quest for sexual love—is well known and well charted. . . . The second—the story of our quest for love from the world—is a more secret and shameful tale. And yet this... Read more >
Format: eBook, 320 pages
On Sale: December 10, 2008
Price: $15.00
“Every adult life could be said to be defined by two great love stories. The first—the story of our quest for sexual love—is well known and well charted. . . . The second—the story of our quest for love from the world—is a more secret and shameful tale. And yet this... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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