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We are never really taught how to make sense of the torrent of news we face every day, writes Alain de Botton (author of the best-selling The Architecture of Happiness), but this has a huge impact on our sense of what matters and of how we should lead our lives. In his dazzling new book, de Botton takes twenty-five archetypal news stories - including an airplane crash, a murder, a celebrity interview and a political scandal - and submits them to unusually intense analysis with a view to helping us navigate our news-soaked age.

Urban planning is a craft learned through practice. Planners make rapid decisions that have an immediate impact on the ground - the width of streets, the minimum size of land parcels, the heights of buildings. The language they use to describe their objectives is qualitative - “sustainable,” “livable,” “resilient” - often with no link to measurable outcomes. Urban economics, on the other hand, is a quantitative science, based on theories, models, and empirical evidence largely developed in academic settings.

How to Get Out of This World Alive is an unique synthesis of psychology, philosophy, mysticism, and metaphysics. It provides practical tools for the listener who wants to be truly alive at all levels. Techniques developed and tested over 30 years are clearly set out to help you shift from making losing choices to winning ones.

A new pupil, Augustin Meaulnes, arrives at a rural school, and his bravado and charisma make an immediate impact on all those around him, including the 15-year-old François Seurel. The newcomer suddenly disappears for several days, during which time he stumbles across a mysterious manor house, which is home to a beautiful girl, Yvonne de Galais. After returning, ‘Le Grand Meaulnes’ embarks on a search to find again the lost manor and the happiness he found there.

In The Romantic Movement, Alain de Botton explores the progress of a love affair from first meeting to breaking up, intercut with musings on the nature of art of love. The relationship between Alice, an advertising executive, and Eric, a banker, is examined at every stage, supplemented by quizzes and commentary by a chorus of great philosophers, from Descartes to Plato to Aretha Franklin. The Romantic Movement will charm listeners and lovers alike with wit, insight, and intelligence.

View your sex life in a different light and learn how it can make you happier. Sex is the most intimately human experience there is. It is can also be the most confusing. Our desire to be together conflicts with our desire to avoid vulnerability and appear ‘normal’, leaving us detached, desensitised or embarrassed. Covering topics including adultery, lust, pornography and impotence, Alain de Botton argues that 21st century sex will always be a balancing act of trust versus risk, and of primal desire versus studied civility.

Dr. Samuel Johnson observed that everyone's life is a subject worthy of the biographer's art. Accused by a former girlfriend of being unable to empathise, the narrator of Kiss & Tell takes Johnson's idea to heart and decides to write about the next person who walks into his life. He meets Isabel Rogers, a production assistant at a small stationery company in London, apparently an ordinary woman. But as the biographer's understanding of Isabel deepens, she becomes remarkable.

Should you resign? Are you tired of your job? Are you eager to tell your boss your way of thinking? Is the idea of resigning trotting around in your head? Before going into a gale, give your job a last chance. Take an hour of your time and listen to this audiobook. In addition to learning that it is quite normal to question this subject, you will discover good reasons to resign and false pretexts, ways to revitalize your current work, a method to define your ideal job and achieve it, and tips to "vegetate positively" if you have to wait before leaving.

This manifesto remains the only attempt to date by GRECE, the primary New Right organization in France, to summarize its principles and key concepts. It was written in 1999 by Alain de Benoist, GRECE's founder, and Charles Champetier on the occasion of GRECE's 30th anniversary. It offers a strong argument in favor of the right to difference among cultures and civilizations, and the right of peoples to defend themselves from cultural homogenization.

Une vieille Tsigane en communication avec des esprits, condamnée à une fin tragique pour avoir découvert la vérité au sujet de sa fille. Une enfant retrouvée dans les bois, devenue plus tard une séductrice avide de vengeance. Un groupe d’hommes aux moeurs vicieuses, semant l’horreur sur leur passage. Un sergent de police acharné, tentant d’endiguer une série de meurtres barbares à caractère sexuel. Un loup rôdant dans la nuit, à la recherche d’une proie délectable.

Scotland, 1296. The winds of rebellion are blowing. The wars of independence for Scotland are on the brink of changing the history of Great Britain. Under assault from King Edward I, the besieged city of Berwick-upon-Tweed is delivered into the hands of the English, who massacre and burn everything in their path. Aileas and Fillan, 16-year-old orphan twins, get separated on that horrific night. Aileas is carried away and disappears while Fillan manages to join forces with a Scottish clan fleeing to the north, into the very heart of the Highlands.

Un día gris cualquiera, un hombre cualquiera y un vuelo de lo más aburrido entre París y Londres...y de repente, ese hombre levanta la vista y ve a Chloe, su vecina de asiento, una joven de ojos verde agua, hombros quebradizos y uñas mal cuidadas. Cuando el avión aterriza, él ya sabe que esa es la mujer de su vida. Es más: su amor es único y va a ser eterno.

Too Big To Fail è un podcast di finanza personale pressapochista, lazzarone, disordinato, pigro ed anche un po' antipatico.Proprio come te.Parliamo di soldi, come farli (in teoria), come spenderli (in pratica) e come risparmiarli ed investirli quando le mucche sono grasse e le cavallette son state uccise dal DDT.Parliamo (senza dare consigli finanziari, sia mai che ci arrestano) di come investire i tuoi soldi. E di come investiamo i nostri.Parliamo di carriera, d'imprenditoria, di politica solo quando ci scappa, di religione praticamente mai. Di sesso parliamo di rado ma ci pensiamo spesso, ...

Un soir de novembre 1910, Monsieur et Madame Seurel, directeurs d'une paisible école de la campagne solognote, reçoivent un nouveau pensionnaire, Augustin Meaulnes, accompagné par sa mère. Le prestige naturel de ce grand adolescent lui vaut d'être bientôt connu de tous les élèves comme "le Grand Meaulnes". En partageant la même chambre, Augustin et François, le fils des Seurel, se lient d'amitié. Le nouveau venu éveille rapidement chez le sensible François une véritable fascination.

Derrière la reine légendaire se cache une femme d'exception. Aliénor est couronnée reine d'Angleterre aux côtés de son époux, le jeune Henri II Plantagenêt. Elle est désormais l'une des femmes les plus puissantes d'Europe. Tandis que Henri part en guerre contre les ennemis de la Couronne afin d'asseoir son autorité, Aliénor se révèle une souveraine active sur tous les fronts et une mère dévouée pour leurs nombreux enfants. Mais bientôt délaissée par Henri, qui lui préfère sa jeune amante, Aliénor se voit peu à peu déposséder du pouvoir qui est sien.

From Paris to Prague, from the past to the present, authors and artists say farewell in this unique collection. In this audiobook you'll find personal letters, reminiscences, poetry, art and brand new fiction from some of the most talented and important voices at work today, including Jessie Burton, Alain de Botton, Matt Haig, Richard Herring, Owen Jones, Mark Kermode, Robert Macfarlane, Kate Mosse, Chris Riddell, Lionel Shriver and many others.

Mediation: Negotiation by Other Moves brings decades of critical analysis and experience that the authors tested worldwide in international organizations, governments, NGOs, universities, and corporations. You will understand mediation better and its significance in your personal and professional life. You will be able to develop a flexible mindset and a broad outlook to achieve sustainable outcomes.

Personnage mystique et dépravé, favori de la cour de Nicolas II, il joua un rôle politique influent dans les dix dernières années de la Russie tsariste. Né en Sibérie dans une famille de paysans, le jeune Grigori Iefimovitch adhéra à la secte chrétienne Khlysty (les "flagellants") et tira profit de ses voyages à l'Est, notamment au mont Athos en Grèce, ainsi qu'en Terre sainte, pour se forger une réputation de mystique et de guérisseur doué de pouvoirs magiques, allant jusqu'à se proclamer saint prêtre.

The Father’s Love Letters to YOU/manity: Intimate Messages From GOD Transform your life through an extraordinary collection of sacred messages that speak directly to your heart. This isn't just another spiritual book—it's a profound journey into the essence of divine love, written with such intimate detail that you'll feel each letter was penned just for you.

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