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A Therapeutic Journey: Lessons from the School of Life by Alain de Botton
$42.00 NZD
Category: Non-fiction general
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
$35.00 NZD
Category: General | Reading Level: very good
" 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)
$44.99 NZD
Category: Children Non-Fiction | 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
$18.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction
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
How To Think More About Sex by Alain De Botton, The School of Life
$28.00 NZD
Category: Self-help | Series: The\School of Life Ser.
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 think we're supposed to be feeling rarely matches up with the ...Show more
Religion for Atheists: A Non-Believer's Guide to the Uses of Religion by Alain de Botton
$30.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction
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
Religion for Atheists - A Non-believer's Guide to the Uses of Religion by Alain de Botton
$30.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction | Reading Level: very good
The boring debate between fundamentalist believers and non-believers is finally moved on by Alain de Botton's inspiring new book, which boldly argues that the supernatural claims of religion are of course entirely false - and yet that religions still have important things to teach the secular world. Rat ...Show more
Status Anxiety by Alain De Botton
$30.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction | Reading Level: very good
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
$35.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction | Reading Level: very good
In his extraordinary new book, Alain de Botton explores the importance of buildings in our lives, pondering our attachment to our homes and considering such questions as: Why do people disagree about taste? Can beautiful surroundings make us good? Not to mention: What makes a window frame attrac ...Show more
The Architecture of Happiness by Alain de Botton
$30.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction
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
The Art of Travel by Alain de Botton
$30.00 NZD
Category: Travel writing
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 value of noticing every ...Show more
The Consolations of Philosophy by Alain de Botton
$31.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction | Reading Level: very good
The "Consolations of Philosophy" is Alain de Botton's internationally bestselling guide to life. It is the inspiration for the TV series "Philsophy: A Guide to Happiness. Alain de Botton, bestselling author of "How Proust Can Change Your Life", has set six of the finest minds in the history of philosoph ...Show more