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A Week at the Airport
Культурология

A Week at the Airport

Автор: Де Боттон Ален
Язык: английский
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We all spend longer than we would like waiting around in airports, but we rarely discover anything about our fellow travellers or those who work there. In the summer of 2009, however, Alain de Botton was given unprecedented, unrestricted access...
Essays in love
Культурология

Essays in love

Автор: Де Боттон Ален
Язык: английский
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Essays in Love is a novel about two young people, who meet on an airplane between London and Paris and rapidly fall in love. The structure of the story isn’t unusual, but what lends the book its interest is the extraordinary depth with which the...
Religion for Atheists
Культурология

Religion for Atheists

Автор: Де Боттон Ален
Язык: английский
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What if religions are neither all true or all nonsense? The boring debate between fundamentalist believers and non-believers is finally moved on by Alain's inspiring new book, which boldly argues that the supernatural claims of religion are of...
Status Anxiety
Культурология

Status Anxiety

Автор: Де Боттон Ален
Язык: английский
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This is a book about an almost universal anxiety that rarely gets mentioned directly: an anxiety about what others think of us; about whether we're judged a success or a failure, a winner or a loser. This is a book about status anxiety. We...