Art of Travel (de Botton Alain)(Paperback / softback)

Art of Travel (de Botton Alain)(Paperback / softback)

Provides an insight into everything from holiday romance to hotel mini-bars, airports to sight-seeing. This book suggests how we might be happier on our

The Art of Travel (de Botton Alain)(Paperback)

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

School of Life - An Emotional Education (de Botton Alain)(Paperback / softback)

Course of Love (de Botton Alain)(Paperback / softback)

A brilliant new novel about love and marriage in the modern world - from the author the bestselling novel Essays in Love Modern love is never easy. Society is obsessed with stories of romance, but what comes after happily ever after? This is a love story with a difference. From dating to marriage,

On Love (de Botton Alain)(Paperback)

'On Love' is globally bestselling novelist-philosopher Alain De Botton s iconic debutthe novel that launched his decorated literary career; and a funny, profound, and searingly true-to-life exploration of love. A man and a woman meet over casual conversation on a flight from Paris to London, and so

Status Anxiety (de Botton Alain)(Paperback / softback)

Looking at history, philosophy, economics, art and politics, this book reveals the many ingenious ways that great minds have overcome their

Kiss & Tell (de Botton Alain)(Paperback)

Dr. Samuel Johnson observed that everyone's life is a subject worthy of the biographer's art. Accused by a former girlfriend of being unable to empathize, the narrator of Alain de Botton's Kiss & Tell takes Johnson's idea to heart and decides to write about the next person who walks into his life

News - A User's Manual (Botton Alain de)(Paperback / softback)

With an exploration of our obsession with media, this book examines a number of archetypal news stories - a plane crash, a murder, a political scandal, a celebrity interview - from a perspective to ask intriguing questions: why do disaster stories titillate? why obsess over love lives of the

Consolations of Philosophy (de Botton Alain)(Paperback / softback)

Sets six of the finest minds in the history of philosophy to work on the problems of everyday life. Here then are Socrates, Epicurus, Seneca, Montaigne, Schopenhauer and Nietzsche on some of the things that bother us all: lack of money, the pain of love, inadequacy, anxiety; the fear of failure and

Religion for Atheists - A non-believer's guide to the uses of religion (de Botton Alain)(Paperback / softback)

All of us, whether religious, agnostic or atheist, are searching for meaning. In this book, a non-believer both rejects the supernatural claims of the major religions and points out just how many good ideas they sometimes have about how we should live. It looks at the God debate with fresh eyes

Architecture of Happiness (de Botton Alain)(Paperback / softback)

What makes a house truly beautiful? Why are many new houses so ugly? Why do we argue so bitterly about sofas and pictures - and can differences of taste ever be satisfactorily resolved? This book explores one of our most intense but often hidden love affairs: with our houses and their

The Course of Love (De Botton Alain)(Paperback)

'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

Art as Therapy (Botton Alain)(Paperback)

Two authorities on popular culture reveal the ways in which art can enhance mood and enrich lives - now available in paperbackThis passionate, thought-provoking, often funny, and always-accessible book proposes a new way of looking at art, suggesting that it can be useful, relevant, and

Questions of Travel (Kretser Michelle de)(Paperback / softback)

Art of Decadence - European Fantasy Art of the Fin-De-Siecle (Unno Hiroshi)(Paperback / softback)

Far District (Hutchinson Ishion)(Paperback / softback)

As childhood memory is grafted to the world of imagination - shaped by books, art, music and travel - the two come together to develop a new vision of what 'home' might offer. 'Far District is a classic, which is to say a rare and exemplary first

Erasers (Robbe-Grillet Alain)(Paperback / softback)

Jealousy (Robbe-Grillet Alain)(Paperback / softback)

Dialogues and Essays (Seneca)(Paperback)

Alain de Botton's bestselling The Consolations of Philosophy--later made into a six-part TV series--has helped popularize ancient philosophy and especially the work of Seneca. This superb volume offers the finest translation of Seneca's dialogues and essays in print, capturing the full rangeof his

Tao of Travel (Theroux Paul)(Paperback / softback)

A compendium of travel writing from a master traveller. Part philosophical guide, part miscellany, part reminiscence, it celebrates fifty years of wandering the globe by collecting the best writing on travel from the books that shaped the author, as a reader and a

Art Deco Traveller: A Guide to the USA (Davidson Genista)(Paperback / softback)

Illustrated travel guide to America's Art Deco locations and architectural treasures: monuments, hotels, restaurants, theatres, lidos, bars and

Europe's Top 100 Masterpieces: Art for the Traveler (Steves Rick)(Paperback)

Explore Europe's top 100 works of art with America's most trusted travel authority, Rick Steves.Travel through time and discover Europe's most iconic paintings, sculptures, and historic buildings. From Venus to Versailles, Apollo to David, and Mona Lisa to The Thinker, Rick and co-author Gene

Art Deco Traveller - A Guide to the UK (Davidson Genista)(Paperback / softback)

Illustrated travel guide to the United Kingdom's Art Deco locations and architectural treasures: monuments, hotels, restaurants, theatres, lidos, bars and

Inca Kola (Parris Matthew)(Paperback / softback)

A modern classic of travel and