Kiss & Tell (de Botton Alain)(Paperback)

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

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

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,

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Demokracie jakožto problém - Alain de Benoist

Demokracie představuje problém: problém ve smyslu otázky, kterou je nutné vyřešit. Alain de Benoist v této krátké knize bourá zažité předsudky o demokracii a ukazuje, že evropskou civilizaci provázela již od počátku. Dokládá, že problémem není samotná idea demokracie,

Ramblings of a Wannabe Painter (Gauguin Paul)(Paperback)

'People tell me I'm not Rembrandt, Michelangelo, Puvis de Channes--but I already know that Why tell me?' --Paul Gauguin'Criticism is our censorship....' So begins one of the greatest invectives against criticism ever written by an artist. Paul Gauguin (1848-1903) wrote 'Racontars de Rapin' only

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

Být pohanem - Alain de Benoist

Proč jsem napsal tuto knihu? ptá se de Benoist. Abych odhalil esenciální rozdíly mezi pohanstvím a křesťanstvím. Svůj cíl však rozhodně překročil: ve svém bádání sahá až na kost toho, co je jádrem evropského myšlení, cítění a prožívání; toho, co je Evropanům

El beso de la mujer araa (Puig Manuel)(Paperback)

About the story: Kiss of the Spider Woman Kiss of the Spider Woman is two prisoners, Luis Molina and Valent n Arregui, share a cell in a Buenos Aires prison. The story takes place between September 9, 1975 and October 8, 1975. Molina, an effeminate gay window-dresser, is in jail for 'corruption of

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

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

Filosofie v období středověku - Alain De Libera

Autor předkládá v této knize souvislý esej o komplexní historičnosti středověké filosofie v jejích institucionálních a politických rámcích. De Liberova kniha je významnou měrou zaměřena polemicky proti obvyklým synoptickým prezentacím „středověkého myšlení' v

African Psycho (Mabanckou Alain)(Paperback / softback)

Alain Mabanckou's uproarious, fleet-footed English-language debut, reissued as a Serpent's Tail Classic to coincide with the publication of Black Moses, Mabanckou's first new novel in four

Kam kráčí středověká filosofie? - Alain De Libera

Co je to středověká filosofie? Jak myslet z hlediska filosofie jednotu 'období', které trvá deset století? Kdy středověk začíná? Kdy končí? Je-li veškerá periodizace vztažena ke svému tématu, odpovíme školometsky, že filosofický středověk začíná v 6. století uzavřením

O rasismu - Alain de Benoist

K tvrzení, že „věda existenci ras vyvrací“, existuje podstatná a velmí zvláštní námitka. I kdyby existence ras byla nesprávná, je třeba přezkoumat slovo „vyvrací“. Jinými slovy, působí rasistická ideologie na úrovní „dokazování“ a „vyvracení“ nebo spíše na