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  • The Consolations of Philosophy

    by Alain De Botton ...
    Series series Vintage International
    From the author of How Proust Can Change Your Life, a delightful, truly consoling work that proves that philosophy can be a supreme source of help for our most painful everyday problems.Perhaps only Alain de Botton could uncover practical wisdom in the writings of some of the greatest thinkers of all time. But uncover he does, and the result is an unexpected book of both solace and humor. Dividing ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Course of Love

    A Novel

    by Alain de Botton ...
    “An engrossing tale [that] provides plenty of food for thought” (People, Best New Books pick), this playful, wise, and profoundly moving second novel from the internationally bestselling author of How Proust Can Change Your Life tracks the beautifully complicated arc of a romantic partnership.**We all know the headiness and excitement of the early days of love. But what comes after? In Edinburgh, ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Black Moses

    A Novel

    by Alain Mabanckou ...
    Translated by Helen Stevenson ...
    The "heart-breaking" (New York Times Book Review), rollicking, award-winning novel that has been described as "Oliver Twist in 1970s Africa" (Les Inrockuptibles)"One of the most compelling books you'll read in any language this year." —Rolling StoneWinner of the Hurston-Wright Legacy AwardLonglisted for the Man Booker International PrizeShortlisted for the ... ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Architecture of Happiness

    by Alain De Botton ...
    Series series Vintage International
    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, buildings, and streets that surround us. And yet a concern for architecture is too often ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Order without Design

    How Markets Shape Cities

    by Alain Bertaud ...
    An argument that operational urban planning can be improved by the application of the tools of urban economics to the design of regulations and infrastructure.Urban planning is a craft learned through practice. Planners make rapid decisions that have an immediate impact on the ground—the width of streets, the minimum size of land parcels, the heights of buildings. The language they use to describe ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • The Lost Estate (Le Grand Meaulnes)

    by Henri Alain-Fournier ...
    Translated by Robin Buss ...
    'I read it for the first time when I was seventeen and loved every page. I find its depiction of a golden time and place just as poignant now as I did then' Nick HornbyThe Lost Estate is Robin Buss's translation of Henri Alain-Fournier's poignant study of lost love, Le Grand Meaulnes.When Meaulnes first arrives at the local school in Sologne, everyone is captivated by his good looks, daring and ... Read more

    $9.69 USD

  • Status Anxiety

    by Alain De Botton ...
    Series series Vintage International
    “There's no writer alive like de Botton” (Chicago Tribune), and now this internationally heralded author turns his attention to the insatiable human quest for status—a quest that has less to do with material comfort than love.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 ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work

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    by Alain De Botton ...
    Series series Vintage International
    We spend most of our waking lives at work—in occupations most often chosen by our inexperienced younger selves. And yet we rarely ask ourselves how we got there or what our jobs mean to us.The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work is an exploration of the joys and perils of the modern workplace, beautifully exploring what other people wake up to do each day—and night—to make our frenzied world function. ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Religion for Atheists

    A Non-believer's Guide to the Uses of Religion

    by Alain De Botton ...
    Series series Vintage International
    What if religions are neither all true nor all nonsense? The long-running and often boring debate between fundamentalist believers and non-believers is finally moved forward by Alain de Botton’s inspiring new book, which boldly argues that the supernatural claims of religion are entirely false—but that it still has some very important things to teach the secular world.Religion for Atheists ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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    On Confidence

    by The School Of Life, Alain de Botton ...
    Narrated by Alain de Botton ...
    Series series Pocket Library

    Unabridged

    1 hour 9 min

    A thought-provoking essay that teaches us that confidence is not a gift from the gods, but a skill that can be learned.We spend vast amounts of time acquiring confidence in narrow technical fields: quadratic equations or bioengineering; economics or pole vaulting. But we overlook the primordial need to acquire a more free ranging variety of confidence—one that can serve us across a range of tasks: ... Read more

    $14.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • The Art of Travel

    by Alain De Botton ...
    Series series Vintage International
    A wise and utterly original book of travel essays from an international bestselling author that will “give one an expansive sense of wonder” (The Baltimore Sun).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 ... Read more

    Was $13.99 USD Now $10.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Revolutionary Yiddishland

    A History of Jewish Radicalism

    by Alain Brossat, Sylvia Klingberg ...
    Translated by David Fernbach ...
    This “rich and poignant” history traces Jewish radicals from their Eastern European roots through years of hope, Nazi resistance, and beyond—“with fascinating asides on Spain and Palestine” (Noam Chomsky).Jewish radicals manned the barricades on the avenues of Petrograd and the alleys of the Warsaw ghetto; they were in the vanguard of those resisting Franco and the Nazis. They originated in ... Read more

    $9.99 USD