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What is pretentiousness? Why do we despise it? And more controversially: why is it vital to a thriving culture? In this brilliant, passionate essay, Dan ...
From the eminent philosopher, an answer to the big question- how should I live my life?
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From the bestselling author of Waking Up and The End of Faith, comes the "best of" conversations from the internationally popular podcast Making Sense.
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Abandon Every Hope mournfully investigates the literatures of the slaughterhouse and a world motivated by profitable death, to ultimately ask- where does this horror begin ...
Spirituality for atheists.
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Highly acclaimed writer and philosopher Alain de Botton turns his attention to interior design and architecture
In The Architecture of Happiness, bestselling author Alain de ...
Top Ten bestseller in hardback, and over 60,000 sold in hardback and trade paperback
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Alain de Botton's The Consolations of Philosophy takes the discipline of logic and the mind back to its roots. Drawing inspiration from six of ...
From the bestselling author of How to Live, an enthralling and original new book about a group of young thinkers, the birth of existentialism and ...