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Status Anxiety
In Status Anxiety, bestselling author Alain de Botton sets out to understand our universal fear of failure - and how we might change. We all worry about what others think of us. We all long to succeed and fear failure. We all suffer - to a greater or lesser degree, usually privately and with embarrassme...
Merde Happens
In the third volume of his escapades, Paul West is driving across the US in a Mini, and feeling just as foreign as he ever did in France. He has accepted a job promoting the UK as a tourist destination. His tiny car is supposed to symbolize Britain's image - self-deprecating, fun, stylish but not snobbi...
Reclaiming Epicurus: How an Ancient Philosophy of Happiness Could Save the World (Penguin Specials)
Epicureanism has been diluted into a byword for gourmet dining, but does the original ancient Greek 'philosophy of the Garden' contain insight that could save the world? Luke Slattery argues that reading Epicurus could help us rethink our materialist ways and challenge the inevitability of man-made clim...
Country Wife
When she is five, Anne Gorman's family disintegrates. After thirteen pregnancies and the death of two children, her devout Catholic mother has a breakdown and Anne and her sisters are placed in a convent. Struggling to survive a childhood marred by fear and uncertainty, Anne sees education as her lifeli...
Playing Big: For Women Who Want to Speak Up, Stand Out and Lead
'For anyone who feels they're being held back in their career, this is the book for you.' Marie Claire WHEN WOMEN PLAY BIG, WE MAKE THINGS HAPPEN Five years ago, Tara Mohr began to see a pattern in her work as an expert in leadership- women with tremendous talent, ideas and aspiration were not recogni...
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