Культурология

The Spaniards are a passionate, active and very noisy people, but the so-called “machismo” (from the Spanish word “macho”, translated as “male”) is not a Spa...

Acclaim for Alain de Botton'sTHE ART OF TRAVEL“[Refreshing and profoundly readable. … Thanks to de Botton's detailed and thoughtful writing, coupled with ...

Essays in Love is a novel about two young people, who meet on an airplane between London and Paris and rapidly fall in love. The structure of the story is...

We all spend longer than we would like waiting around in airports, but we rarely discover anything about our fellow travellers or those who work there.In ...

The starting point of How Proust can change your Life is that a great novel can be nothing less than life-transforming. This is an unusual claim: our educ...

In Ancient Greece or Rome, philosophers were seen as natural authorities on the most pressing questions. However, since then, the idea of finding wisdom f...

The amazing variety of “incredible phenomena” in the USSR is a characteristic feature of the era of stagnation. Ideas about the hidden reserves of the body a...

This book is the only detailed description of the social life of the legendary Vikings. The most famous are the so-called Viking campaigns - their piracy, ro...

What if religions are neither all true or all nonsense? The boring debate between fundamentalist believers and non-believers is finally moved on by Alain'...

One of the great, but often unmentioned, causes of both happiness and misery is the quality of our environment: the kind of walls, chairs, buildings and s...

We spend much of our lives at work – but surprisingly little gets written about what makes work both one of the most exciting and most painful of all our ...

This is a book about an almost universal anxiety that rarely gets mentioned directly: an anxiety about what others think of us; about whether we're judged...