Alain de Botton is a Swiss-born British internationally bestselling author and philosopher. He is a cofounder of The School of Life, an organization with branches around the world offering educational programs helping individuals with life issues.
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The decline of religion in the West has brought a decline in community spirit. Could the secular world draw useful lessons from religious life? Alain de Botton offers new ways to find shared meaning.
Alain De Botton discusses how modern man now feels a sense of self-esteem based on their monetary situation and that living a humble/ordinary life is actually more fulfilling. Ironically, once you stop caring about superficial ambition, you start having growth in areas that truly matter.
Aside from love, few activities seem to promise us as much happiness as going traveling; taking off for somewhere else, somewhere far from home, a place with more interesting weather, customs, and landscapes.
A labor of love 8 years in the making, featuring contributions by Jane Goodall, Yo-Yo Ma, Jacqueline Woodson, Ursula K.
A study of architecture examines how we both shape and are shaped by our private homes and public edifices and explains how our stylistic choices can be used to increase our chances of happiness.
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The Course of Love explores what happens after the birth of love, what it takes to maintain, and what happens to our original ideals under the pressures of an average existence. This is a Romantic novel in the true sense, one interested in exploring how love can survive and thrive in the long term.
Plotting the course of an affair from the initial delirium of infatuation to the depths of suicidal despair, through a fit of anhedonia--defined in medical texts as a disease resulting from the terror brought on by the threat of utter happiness--and finally through the terrorist tactics employed...
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