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What does it mean to live happily ever after? At dinner parties and over coffee, Rabih and Kirsten's friends always ask them the same question: how did you meet? The answer comes easily - it's a happy story, one they both love to tell. But there is a second part to this story, the answer to a question their friends never ask: what happened next? Rabih and Kirsten find each other, fall in love, get married. Society tells us this is the end of the story. In fact, it is only the beginning. From the first thrill of lust, to the joys and fears of real commitment, to the deep problems that surface slowly over two shared lifetimes, this is the story of a marriage. It is the story of modern relationships and how to survive them. Playful, wise and profoundly moving, The Course of Love is a delightful return to the novel by Alain de Botton, twenty years after his debut Essays in Love.

An aeroplane belonging to the Swiss national airline, carrying 229 people, takes off on a scheduled flight from New York to Geneva. Fifty minutes out of Kennedy Airport, as the stewardesses roll their trolleys down the aisles of the McDonald Douglas MD-11, the captain reports smoke in the cockpit. Ten minutes later, the plane disappears off the radar. The gigantic machine, each of its wings 52 metres long, crashes into the placid seas off Halifax, Nova Scotia, killing all on board. Rescue workers speak of the difficulty of identifying what were, only hours before, humans with lives and plans. Briefcases are found floating in the sea. 1. If we do not dwell on the risk of sudden disaster and pay a price for our innocence, it is because reality comprises two cruelly confusing characteristics: on the one hand, continuity and reliability lasting across generations; on the other, unheralded cataclysms. We find ourselves divided between a plausible invitation to assume that tomorrow will be much like today and the possibility that we will meet with an appalling event after which nothing will ever be the same again. It is because we have such powerful incentives to neglect the latter that Seneca invoked a goddess. 2. She was to be found on the back of many Roman coins, holding a cornucopia in one hand and a rudder in the other. She was beautiful and usually wore a light tunic and a coy smile. Her name was Fortune. She had originated as a fertility goddess, the firstborn of Jupiter, and was honoured with a festival on the 25th of May and with temples throughout Italy, visited by the barren and farmers in search of rain. But gradually her remit had widened, she had become associated with money, advancement, love and health. The cornucopia was symbol of her power to bestow favours, the rudder a symbol of her more sinister power to change destinies. She could scatter gifts, then with terrifying speed shift the rudder''s course, maintaining an imperturbable smile as she watched us choke to death on a fishbone or disappear in a landslide. 3. Because we are injured most by what we do not expect, and because we must expect everything (''There is nothing which Fortune does not dare''), we must, proposed Seneca, hold the possibility of disaster in mind at all times. No one should undertake a journey by car, or walk down the stairs, or say goodbye to a friend, without an awareness, w

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Alain de Botton demuestra que la filosofía es una inagotable fuente de consuelo, capaz de inspirarnos y motivarnos a diario. En un fascinante recorrido a través de 2.400 años de filosofía occidental, el autor recurre a la vida y obra de seis filosofos fundamentales para examinar otros tantos problemas comunes. Con esta singular combinacion de ingenio, sabiduria e invencion, esta obra es una guia practica para resolver problemas cotidianos y una deslumbrante introduccion a la historia de la filosofia. Encuadernacion: Rustica.

For Alain de Botton philosophy seems the natural place to seek answers to the riddles of human unhappiness, promising a way to 'change one's life for the better, to become a somewhat less disturbed, paranoid, inadequate, lovesick and panicked individual'. Here he pairs six philosophers - Socrates, Epicurus, Seneca, Montaigne, Schopenhauer and Nietzsche - with six everyday problems to which he feels they can give the most helpful and fascinating solutions.

" Le titre original de l''ouvrage Kiss and Tell (Embrasse et raconte) suggère l''intimité du narrateur, tout occupé à dresser la biographie de sa petite amie, la gracieuse Isabel qui mange des carott

Con una singular combinación de ingenio, sabiduría e invención, esta obra es una guía práctica para resolver problemas cotidianos. Para tomarse la vida con filosofía.

Alain The 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 Source Of Insight Into How Best To Live Life? Proust Understood That The Essence And Value Of Life Was The Sum Of Its Everyday Parts. As Relevant Today As They Were At The Turn Of The Century, Proust's Life And Work Are Transformed Here Into A No-Nonsense Guide To, Among Other Things, Enjoying Your Vacation, Reviving A Relationship, Achieving Original And Uncliched Articulation, Being A Good Host, Recognizing Love, And Understanding Why You Should Never Sleep With Someone On A First Date.

Pocas cosas son más emocionantes que la idea de ir a un lugar lejano. Algún sitio donde haga mejor tiempo, las constumbres sean más interesantes y los paisajes sirvan de inspiraión. Sin embargo, ¿por que a veces nos sentimos insatisfechos cuando viajamos? Este libro es el antidoto perfecto para esas guias que nos dicen que hacer cuando llegamos a un lugar. El arte de viajar nos explica, sencillamente, como ser felices en nuestros viajes