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The News

A User's Manual

by Alain De Botton ...

From the author of The Architecture of Happiness, a thought-provoking look at the manic and peculiar position that news has achieved in our lives.What does the news do to our brains, our souls and our views of one another? We spend an inordinate amount of time checking on it. It molds how we view reality, we're increasingly addicted to it on our luminous gadgets, we check it every morning when we ... Read more

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From the author of The Architecture of Happiness, a thought-provoking look at the manic and peculiar position that news has achieved in our lives.What does the news do to our brains, our souls and our views of one another? We spend an inordinate amount of time checking on it. It molds how we view reality, we're increasingly addicted to it on our luminous gadgets, we check it every morning when we
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The School of Life

An Emotional Education

by The School of Life, Alain de Botton ...

Emotional intelligence affects every aspect of the way we live, from romantic to professional relationships, from our inner resilience to our social success. It is arguably the single most important skill for surviving the twenty-first century. But what does it really mean?One decade ago, Alain de Botton founded The School of Life, an institute dedicated to understanding and improving our ... Read more

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Emotional intelligence affects every aspect of the way we live, from romantic to professional relationships, from our inner resilience to our social success. It is arguably the single most important skill for surviving the twenty-first century. But what does it really mean?One decade ago, Alain de Botton founded The School of Life, an institute dedicated to understanding and improving our
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How Proust Can Change Your Life

by Alain De Botton ...

Series series Vintage International
A bestselling author draws on the work of one of history’s most important writers to show us how to best live life in a book that’s "delightfully original.... A self-help book in the deepest sense of the term" (The New York Times).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 ... Read more

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A bestselling author draws on the work of one of history’s most important writers to show us how to best live life in a book that’s "delightfully original.... A self-help book in the deepest sense of the term" (The New York Times).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
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How to Take Your Time

from How Proust Can Change Your Life

by Alain De Botton ...

Series series A Vintage Short
Curiously practical—this no-nonsense blend of literary biography and self-help unravels how interesting life can be if only you could resist the impulse to rush through the mundane rituals of modern life. Every morning, Marcel Proust sipped his two cups of strong coffee with milk, ate a croissant from one boulangerie, dunking it in his coffee as he slowly read the day’s paper with great care ... Read more

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Curiously practical—this no-nonsense blend of literary biography and self-help unravels how interesting life can be if only you could resist the impulse to rush through the mundane rituals of modern life. Every morning, Marcel Proust sipped his two cups of strong coffee with milk, ate a croissant from one boulangerie, dunking it in his coffee as he slowly read the day’s paper with great care
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A Job to Love

A practical guide to finding fulfilling work by better understanding yourself

by The School of Life, Alain de Botton ...

Series series The School of Life Library
A practical guide to finding fulfilling work - by understanding yourself.The idea that work might be fulfilling rather than just necessary is a recent invention. These days, in prosperous areas of the world, we don't only expect to get paid, we also expect to find meaning and satisfaction. It's a big ask and explains why so many people have an identity crisis in their work lives.A Job To Love is ... Read more

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A practical guide to finding fulfilling work - by understanding yourself.The idea that work might be fulfilling rather than just necessary is a recent invention. These days, in prosperous areas of the world, we don't only expect to get paid, we also expect to find meaning and satisfaction. It's a big ask and explains why so many people have an identity crisis in their work lives.A Job To Love is
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The Good Enough Parent

How to raise contented, interesting, and resilient children

by The School of Life, Alain de Botton ...

A compassionate guide to raising resilient, authentic, well-rounded children.The Good Enough Parent is a compendium of life lessons, including how to say 'No', how to look beneath the surface of "bad" behavior to find the root of what is going on, how to encourage a child to be genuinely kind, and how to handle the moodiness of adolescence.Rather than striving for perfection, the book argues, the ... Read more

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A compassionate guide to raising resilient, authentic, well-rounded children.The Good Enough Parent is a compendium of life lessons, including how to say 'No', how to look beneath the surface of "bad" behavior to find the root of what is going on, how to encourage a child to be genuinely kind, and how to handle the moodiness of adolescence.Rather than striving for perfection, the book argues, the
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Coffee With a Side of Murder

A Clarissa Spencer Cozy Mystery, #5

by Alaine Allister ...

Series Book 5 - A Clarissa Spencer Cozy Mystery
Witchcraft, ghosts and a cat with attitude.Clarissa Spencer is just an ordinary small town reporter. Except her snarky cat talks to her, her house is haunted and her boyfriend probably thinks she’s insane. Oh, and she has yet another suspicious death to investigate - this time in her best friend's coffee shop.Aren’t small towns supposed to be boring? ... Read more

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Witchcraft, ghosts and a cat with attitude.Clarissa Spencer is just an ordinary small town reporter. Except her snarky cat talks to her, her house is haunted and her boyfriend probably thinks she’s insane. Oh, and she has yet another suspicious death to investigate - this time in her best friend's coffee shop.Aren’t small towns supposed to be boring?
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A Therapeutic Journey: Lessons from The School of Life

by Alain de Botton ...

Alain de Botton's redemptive volume charts a course from collapse to recovery with kindness, compassion and wisdom.AS FEATURED ON THE DIARY OF A CEO PODCAST WITH STEVEN BARTLETT**"This book does a wonderful job of making you realise that the thing you’re going through, and the way that you are, isn’t evidence of your inadequacy. It’s actually evidence that you are perfectly human"**Steven Bartlett ... Read more

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Alain de Botton's redemptive volume charts a course from collapse to recovery with kindness, compassion and wisdom.AS FEATURED ON THE DIARY OF A CEO PODCAST WITH STEVEN BARTLETT**"This book does a wonderful job of making you realise that the thing you’re going through, and the way that you are, isn’t evidence of your inadequacy. It’s actually evidence that you are perfectly human"**Steven Bartlett
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The New Negro

The Life of Alain Locke

by Jeffrey C. Stewart ...

Winner of the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Biography Winner of the 2018 National Book Award for Nonfiction A tiny, fastidiously dressed man emerged from Black Philadelphia around the turn of the century to mentor a generation of young artists including Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, and Jacob Lawrence and call them the New Negro -- the creative African Americans whose art, literature, music, and ... Read more

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Winner of the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Biography Winner of the 2018 National Book Award for Nonfiction A tiny, fastidiously dressed man emerged from Black Philadelphia around the turn of the century to mentor a generation of young artists including Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, and Jacob Lawrence and call them the New Negro -- the creative African Americans whose art, literature, music, and
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The School of Life Dictionary

by The School of Life, Alain de Botton ...

The School of Life's dictionary of emotional intelligence brings us the vocabulary we need in order to understand ourselves, others, and the world around us.A dictionary is a guide to a language. This one is a guide to the language of emotions and a tool to help us express our truest selves.Through an alphabetical selection of over 200 words and phrases (FOMO, existential angst, unrequited love, ... Read more

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The School of Life's dictionary of emotional intelligence brings us the vocabulary we need in order to understand ourselves, others, and the world around us.A dictionary is a guide to a language. This one is a guide to the language of emotions and a tool to help us express our truest selves.Through an alphabetical selection of over 200 words and phrases (FOMO, existential angst, unrequited love,
... Read more
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

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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
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How to Overcome Your Childhood

by The School of Life, Alain de Botton ...

A guide to breaking free from the enduring, and sometimes damaging, behavioral patterns we learned in childhood.As we try to navigate the complexities and anxieties of adulthood, considering our childhoods can feel like a daunting task. They happened so long ago; we can probably barely remember, let alone relate to, the little person we used to be. But one of the most powerful explanations for why ... Read more

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A guide to breaking free from the enduring, and sometimes damaging, behavioral patterns we learned in childhood.As we try to navigate the complexities and anxieties of adulthood, considering our childhoods can feel like a daunting task. They happened so long ago; we can probably barely remember, let alone relate to, the little person we used to be. But one of the most powerful explanations for why
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