The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work
A Week at the Airport
Religion for Atheists
How to Think More About Sex
The News: A User's Manual
The Course of Love: A Novel
Alain de Botton FRSL (/dəˈbɒtən/; born 20 December 1969) is a Swiss-born British...
3-volume novel traces the fortunes of its hero, Anthony Adverse, from his illegitimate birth through his struggle to claim his rightful inheritance. Many ocean sequences.
Anthony Adverse was a love-child begotten in France, born in the Alps and...
This book introduces a novel approach to the design and operation of large ICT systems. It views the technical solutions and their stakeholders as complex adaptive systems and argues that traditional risk analyses cannot predict all future incidents...
There’s a new “Man in the Moon”—and the corporations exploiting Mother Earth are in for an ugly surprise.
Phil Hunter has just discovered the invention of the age—working antigravity—when he’s laid off from his job, the entire...
The novel can be classified as an alternate history for its portrayal of 19th century Europe and the changes resulting, particularly in Britain, from an explosive scientific discovery made in the 1850s. A new element has been discovered in a...