Alain: 2045 books

Debbie Cohen, une Californienne de 16 ans, est loin d’imaginer l’extraordinaire expérience qu’elle va bientôt vivre. Sous la foi d’une légende racontée par un vieil homme, elle se rend en Afrique avec sa mère anthropologue. Mais ce qui doit être une simple mission d’observation prend...

The Achitecture of Happiness is a dazzling and generously illustrated journey through the philosophy and psychology of architecture and the indelible connection between our identities and our locations.One of the great but often unmentioned causes of both happiness and misery is the quality of our...

Alain de Botton combines two unlikely genres--literary biography and self-help manual--in the hilarious and unexpectedly practical How Proust Can Change Your Life. Who would have thought that Marcel Proust, one of the most important writers of our century, could provide us with such a rich...

From the bestselling author of The Art of Travel comes a wittily intriguing exploration of the strange "non-place" that he believes is the imaginative center of our civilization. Given unprecedented access to one of the world’s busiest airports as a “writer-in-residence,” Alain...

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 insouciant charm he brought to How Proust Can Save Your Life*,* de Botton considers the pleasures of anticipation; the allure of the exotic, and the value of noticing...

Alain-Fournier, the pseudonym of Henri-Alban Fournier, had a brief but significant literary career as the author of Le Grand Meaulnes (1913), which today is considered a classic of French literature. Killed during the First World War as an army lieutenant at the age of just twenty-seven, most of his...

In 12th century France, the word novel was assigned to all writings that were not written in Latin. On the other hand, in English, the word novel comes from the Italian word novella, which means NEW.I truly hope I have succeeded in writing such a novel.I would classify it as a puzzle-novel. In the...

The Manager’s Phrase Book is a collection of thousands of ready-to-use phrases that will enable you to move into the ranks of today’s most competent managers. You will have control of any situation at a moment’s notice, regardless of your position in the corporate world. You will have all the...

Rabih en Kirsten ontmoeten elkaar op het werk; ze worden verliefd, ze trouwen en krijgen kinderen - 'en ze leefden nog lang en gelukkig.' Helaas, geen enkele relatie is zo simpel. In 'Weg van liefde' onderzoekt Alain de Botton wat er gebeurt als twee mensen verliefd worden, wat ervoor nodig is om...

Curiously practical—this no-nonsense blend of literary biography and self-help unravels how interesting life can be if only you could resist the impulse to rush through the mundane rituals of modern life. Every morning, Marcel Proust sipped his two cups of strong coffee with milk, ate a croissant...

In Praise of Theatre is Alain Badiou’s latest work on the ‘most complete of the arts,’ the theatrical stage. This book, certain to be of great interest to scholars and theatre practitioners alike, elaborates the theory of the theatre developed by Badiou in works such as Rhapsody for the Theatre...

'I'm 79 years old. So why on earth should I concern myself with speaking about youth?' This is the question with which renowned French philosopher Alain Badiou begins his passionate plea to the young. Today young people, at least in the West, are on the brink of a new world. With the decline...

Mantes la jolie, juin 2013 Découverte du corps de Julien Balaré, saxophoniste notoire travaillant dans la prestigieuse usine de facture instrumentale Henri Selmer. Qui en voulait à cet homme? C'est la question que se pose la commandante Lentier, belle femme dont...

Ce livre contient les ouvrages suivants classés par ordre alphabétique (noms de famille auteurs ) Le Grand Meaulnes [Alain-Fournier] Alcools [Guillaume Apollinaire] Les Diaboliques [Jules Amédée Barbey d'Aurevilly] Les Fleurs du mal [Charles Baudelaire] Un crime d'amour [Paul Bourget] Jane Eyre...