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AS HEARD ON THE DIARY OF A CEO PODCAST WITH STEVEN BARTLETT From the Sunday Times bestselling author of The School of Life This is a book about how to optimise your mental health. Written with kindness and sympathy, it is a practical guide to emotional well-being, calm and psychological maturity. Alain de Botton explores how we can cope with a variety of mental challenges, from the mild to the severe. It considers how and why we can get overly anxious or low; how we can best understand our pasts and how they shape us; and how we can build resilience, so as to live wisely alongside certain difficulties. At heart this is a book about psychological happiness - about discovering equilibrium and meaning, and finding our way to connection and joy. 'This book does a wonderful job of making you realise that the thing you're going through, and the way that you are, isn't evidence of your inadequacy. It's actually evidence that you are perfectly human' Steven Bartlett, author and host of The Diary of a CEO 'One of our most consistently illuminating writers on contemporary culture' John Gray, New Statesman

Der in England lebende Kulturphilosoph (geboren 1969) veröffentlicht zu vielen Themen, die ein breiteres Publikum ansprechen, zuletzt "Airport" (BA 8/10). Hier sind es 10 reportageähnliche Beiträge mit aussagestarken Schwarz-Weiss-Fotos (einen nennt er Fotoessay). Aus der vielfältigen modernen Arbeitswelt wurden Firmen oder Tätigkeitsfelder ausgewählt und Arbeitsgänge, -bedingungen, technische Ausstattung u.v.m. hinterfragt und beobachtet. Um die Befindlichkeiten der Arbeitenden geht es kaum, aber Leistung und Verantwortung sind klar, obwohl de Botton sich einer Wertung enthält, Betrachtungen und Gedanken - manchmal recht abschweifend - anschliesst. Ob Keksproduktion, Thunfischfang, Berufsberatung oder Wanderung entlang schottischer Strommasten oder Beobachtungen auf einer Luftfahrtmesse und einem Friedhof für Flugzeugwracks - zusammen mit einem guten Fotografen und einem kongenialen Übersetzer ergibt sich anspruchsvolle, informative Unterhaltung. (3)

In the summer of 2009, Alain de Botton will be invited by the owners of Heathrow airport to become their first ever Writer in Residence. He will be installed in the middle of Terminal 5 on a raised platform with a laptop connected to screens, enabling passengers to see what he is writing and to come and share their stories. He will meet travellers from around the world, and will be given unprecedented access to wander the airport and speak with everyone from window cleaners and baggage handlers to air traffic controllers and cabin crew. Working with the renowned documentary photographer Richar

In the developed economies, the news now occupies a position of power at least equal to that formerly enjoyed by the faiths. Matins has been transubstantiated into the breakfast bulletin, vespers into the evening report. It also demands that we approach it with some of the same deferential expectations we would once have harboured for the faiths. Here, too, we hope to receive revelations, learn who is good and bad, fathom suffering and understand the unfolding logic of existence. And here too, if we refuse to take part in the rituals, there could be imputations of heresy. Adapted from the source document.