Status Anxiety
Written by Alain De Botton
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...
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The Art of Travel
Written by Alain De Botton
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...
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Status Anxiety
Written by Alain De Botton
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...
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The Art of Travel
Written by Alain De Botton
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...
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The Arithmetic of Life and Death
Written by George Shaffner
Format: Trade Paperback, 220 pages
On Sale: May 1, 2001
Price: $15.00
Whether you realize it or not, numbers are everywhere--and integral to almost every facet of your life . . . from your next raise in pay to the inevitable rise of inflation, your weekly family budget to your end of the national debt. And as George Shaffner amazingly reveals, there are...
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