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  • 272

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  • 9780241967393

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  • 2 mm

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  • 13 mm

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  • 19 gram

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  • PAPERBACK

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  • 26 FEBRUARY 2015

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    Description

    Today, the news occupies the same dominant position in our lives as religion once did. But rarely do we consider how it touches us. Here, Alain de Botton examines a number of archetypal news stories - a plane crash, a murder, a political scandal, a celebrity interview - from a fresh perspective to ask intriguing questions: why do disaster stories titillate? why obsess over Today, the news occupies the same dominant position in our lives as religion once did. But rarely do we consider how it touches us. Here, Alain de Botton examines a number of archetypal news stories -...  Read More

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    Alain de Botton

    Alain de Botton is a writer and television producer who lives in London and aims to make philosophy relevant to everyday life. He can be contacted by email directly via

    He is a writer of essayistic books, which refer both to his own experiences and ideas- and those of artists, philosophers and thinkers. Its a style of writing that has been termed a philosophy of everyday life.

    His first book, Essays in Love [titled On Love in the US], minutely analysed the process of falling in and out of love. The style of the book was unusual, because it mixed elements of a novel together with reflections and analyses normally found in a piece of non-fiction. Its a book of which many readers are still fondest.

    Bibliography:
    * Essays In Love (1993)
    * The Romantic Movement (1994)
    * Kiss and Tell (1995)
    * How Proust Can Change Your Life (1997)
    * The Consolations of Philosophy (2000)
    * The Art of Travel (2002)
    * Status Anxiety (2004)
    * The Architecture of Happiness (2006)
    * The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work (2009)

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