{"title":"Alain De Botton","description":"\u003cp\u003eFind your next read from \u003cstrong\u003eAlain De Botton\u003c\/strong\u003e. Bestsellers in our range include \u003cem\u003eThe School of Life\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eHow To Think More About Sex\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eEssays in Love\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBest for adult readers. Shop all our Alain De Botton books below, delivered across South Africa.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"9781447202271","title":"How To Think More About Sex","description":"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. By examining sex from a subjective - rather than scientific - perspective, he uncovers new ideas on how we can achieve that balance. Pulling back the sheets on modern sexuality, How To Think About Sex offers important and surprising wisdom that proves that being good in bed is really all in your head.","brand":"BOOKSITE","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39331643228275,"sku":"9781447202271","price":271.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2291\/7991\/products\/how-to-think-more-about-sex-alain-de-bottom-28159603015795.jpg?v=1637510398"},{"product_id":"9780241985830","title":"The School of Life","description":"THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER Give the gift of inspiration: an essential guide to living wisely and well, no matter what challenges the world throws at you - from Alain de Botton, the bestselling author of The Consolations of Philosophy, The Art of Travel and The Course of Love\n\nThis is a book about everything you were never taught at school. It's about how to understand your emotions, find and sustain love, succeed in your career, fail well and overcome shame and guilt. It's also about letting go of the myth of a perfect life in order to achieve genuine emotional maturity. Written in a hugely accessible, warm and humane style, The School of Life is the ultimate guide to the emotionally fulfilled lives we all long for - and deserve. This book brings together ten years of essential and transformative research on emotional intelligence, with practical topics including: - how to understand yourself\n- how to master the dilemmas of relationships\n- how to become more effective at work \n- how to endure failure\n- how to grow more serene and resilient Praise for Alain de Botton: 'What he has managed to do is remarkable: to help us think better so that we may live better lives' Irish Times 'A serious and optimistic set of practical ideas that could improve and alter the way we live' Jeanette Winterson, The Times 'Alain de Botton likes to take big, complex subjects and write about them with thoughtful and deceptive innocence' Observer","brand":"BOOKSITE","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39343356674163,"sku":"9780241985830","price":280.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2291\/7991\/files\/71p-hMOMU8L._SY466.jpg?v=1710919684"},{"product_id":"9781035038589","title":"Essays in Love","description":"De Botton is a national treasure.' - Susan Hill, author of The Woman in Black\n \n A unique love story and a classic work of philosophy, rooted in the mysterious workings of the human heart and mind.\n \n Perhaps it is true that we do not really exist until there is someone there to see us existing, we cannot properly speak until there is someone who can understand what we are saying in essence, we are not wholly alive until we are loved.\n \n A man and woman on a flight from Paris to London, and so begins their love story. From first kiss to first argument, infatuation to heartbreak, Alain de Botton illuminates each stage of their relationship with a clarity both startling and tender.\n \n With the verve of a novelist and the insight of a philosopher, Essays in Love unveils the mysteries of the human heart. It is essential reading for anyone seeking instruction in the art of love.","brand":"BOOKSITE","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45358992654451,"sku":"9781035038589","price":271.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2291\/7991\/files\/13906653482556.jpg?v=1789725569"},{"product_id":"9780241642566","title":"A Therapeutic Journey","description":"The essential guide to mental health from the bestselling author of The School of Life A Therapeutic Journey follows the arc from mental crisis and collapse to convalescence and recovery. Written with kindness, knowledge and sympathy, it is both a practical guide and a source of consolation and companionship in what might be some of our loneliest, most anguished moments. Alain de Botton explores how we can cope with a variety of forms of mental pain and illness, from the mild to the severe. It considers how and why we might become ill; how we can explain things to friends, family and colleagues; how we can find our ways towards recovery; and how we can build resilience, so as to live wisely alongside our difficulties. At heart this is a book about redemption - about regaining the thread of our lives, rediscovering meaning, and finding our way back to connection, warmth and joy. 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