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The Art of Travel
2024 || Paperback || Alain de Botton || Van Ditmar Boeken B.V.
Provides an insight into everything from holiday romance to hotel mini-bars, airports to sight-seeing. This book suggests how we might be happier on our journeys.
The Architecture of Happiness
2024 || Paperback || Alain de Botton || Van Ditmar Boeken B.V.
What makes a house truly beautiful? Why are many new houses so ugly? Why do we argue so bitterly about sofas and pictures - and can differences of taste ever be satisfactorily resolved? This book explores one of our most intense but often hidden love affairs: with our houses and their furnishings.
The Little Book of Philosophy
2024 || Paperback || DK || Van Ditmar Boeken B.V.
The True Believer
Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements
2024 || Paperback || Eric Hoffer || Van Ditmar Boeken B.V.
"Its theme is political fanaticism, with which it deals severely and brilliantly." --New Yorker
The famous bestseller with "concise insight into what drives the mind of the fanatic and the dynamics of a mass movement" (Wall St. Journal) by the legendary San Francisco longshoreman.
A stevedore on the San Francisco docks in the 1940s, Eric Hoffer wrote philosophical treatises in his spare time while living in the railroad yards. The True Believer--the first and most famous of his books--was mad...
The Courage to be Happy
True Contentment Is Within Your Power
2024 || Paperback || Ichiro Kishimi e.a. || Van Ditmar Boeken B.V.
The sequel to the global bestseller The Courage To Be Disliked, the Japanese phenomenon in applying twentieth-century psychology to contemporary dilemmas continues with life-changing advice on finding happiness.
Why? The Purpose of the Universe
2024 || Hardcover || Philip (Professor of Philosophy Goff || Van Ditmar Boeken B.V.
Why are we here? What's the point of existence? For those who are unsatisfied by the answers of traditional religion, and equally by the lack of answers from atheism, Philip Goff opens up a path between the two. He argues for cosmic purpose: the idea that the universe is directed towards certain goals, such as the emergence of intelligent life.
Mythologies
2024 || Paperback || Roland Barthes || Van Ditmar Boeken B.V.
'Barthes' purpose is to tear away masks and demystify the signs, signals and symbols of the language of mass culture' The TimesIn this magnificent and often surprising collection of essays Barthes explores the myths of mass culture.
I've Been Thinking
2024 || Hardcover || Daniel C. Dennett || Van Ditmar Boeken B.V.
Praise for Daniel C. Dennett"Dennett is the mild-mannered super wizard of philosophical brainstorms."
-- 3: AM Magazine"There seems to be no stopping Daniel Dennett. In academic circles, he has long been recognized as a leading figure. He has played a major role in integrating philosophy of mind with cognitive science, and his ideas have been widely discussed for decades...It is no accident that [he] has gained such a wide readership. He is always fun to read. He has few equals at explaining c...
Essays and Aphorisms
2024 || Hardcover || Arthur Schopenhauer || Van Ditmar Boeken B.V.
One of the philosophers of the nineteenth century, believed that human action is determined not by reason but by 'will' - the blind and irrational desire for physical existence. This title includes his writings on religion, ethics, politics, women, suicide, books and many other themes.