Status Anxiety
Author: Alain de Botton
THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLERFrom one of our greatest voices in modern philosophy, author of The Course of Love, The Consolations of Philosophy, Religion for Atheists and The School of Life – Alain de Botton sets out to understand our universal fear of failure – and how we might change it’De Botton’s gift is to prompt us to think about how we live and how we might ch….Read More
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