Alain de Botton

John Armstrong

" What is art’s purpose? In this engaging, lively, and controversial new book, bestselling philosopher Alain de Botton and art historian John Armstrong propose a new way of looking at familiar masterpieces, suggesting that they can be useful, relevant, and – above all else – therapeutic for their viewers. De Botton argues that certain great works offer clues on managing the tensions and confusions of everyday life. Chapters on Love, Nature, Money, and Politics outline how art can help with these common difficulties – for example, Vermeer’s Girl Reading a Letter helps us focus on what we want to be loved for; Serra’s Fernando Pessoa reminds us of the importance of dignity in suffering; and Manet’s Bunch of Asparagus teaches us how to preserve and value our long&hyphen;term partners. Art as Therapy offers an unconventional perspective, demonstrating how art can guide us, console us, and help us better understand ourselves. "

Art as Therapy

Break free of your destructive relationship with money, and learn how money can make you happy. Our relationship with money is one that lasts a lifetime, yet traditionally books on the subject tend to take one of two routes: a) how to get more, or b) how to deal with less. John Armstrong turns these approaches upside down, and looks not at money itself, but at how we relate to it and the meaning we attach to it. How does it drive us and frighten us? Can it change the world for the better? And how much do we actually need? Offering surprising and helpful new insights, this book will encourage you to redefine your feelings about money, and ultimately enable you to discover what is really important to you in life.

How to Worry Less about Money

A philosophical treatise on the essential nature of love reflects on the process of falling in love, the frequently awkward transition from romantic passion to mature love, and the yearnings for a lasting, long-term love.

The Philosophy of Intimacy

Conditions of Love

Friedrich Nietzsche was a German philosopher, poet and cultural critic. He is best known for his controversial idea of "life affirmation" that challenged traditional morality and all doctrines. Born in 1844 outside Leipzig, Germany, his teachings inspired people in all walks of life, from dancers and poets to psychologists and social revolutionaries. Here you will find extracts from his greatest works. The Life Lessons series from The School of Life takes a great thinker and highlights those ideas most relevant to ordinary everyday dilemmas. These books emphasise ways in which wise voices from the past have urgently important and inspiring things to tell us. This book is introduced and edited by John Armstrong, philosopher and author of In Search of Civilization and The School of Life book How to Worry Less About Money.

Life Lessons from Nietzsche

What is beauty? Does it exist in the proportions of a perfect face or a graceful melody, or is it in the eye of the beholder? Why does someone find beauty in an object that leaves others unmoved? The notion of beauty is elusive: we love and seek out the things we find beautiful, yet it seems impossible to describe their essence. John Armstrong takes us on a lucid and lyrical exploration of beauty's power, tracing the various ways in which we have interpreted its secrets through art, literature and philosophy. In doing so, he helps us to deepen our own responses to beauty, showing how it is intimately connected to the pursuit of happiness.

The Secret Power of Beauty

Wie Kunst Ihr Leben verändern kann

Apprenez à vivre comme un philosophe ! Il n'est jamais trop tard pour apprendre à vivre comme un philosophe ! Vous l'ignoriez peut-être, mais la pensée de Nietzsche est immédiatement et facilement applicable à nos vies quotidiennes. En s'inspirant de l'œuvre autant que de l'existence du penseur allemand, l'auteur a extrait pour nous la substantifique moelle de son raisonnement et nous invite à nous en servir pour mieux vivre. Enrichi de nombreuses citations, accessible à tous, cet ouvrage sera sans nul doute un précieux compagnon sur la route de la sagesse. INÉDIT

Petits préceptes de vie selon Nietzsche

Alain De Botton

Art Is Therapy

I soldi non sono il problema. The school of life

Terapi Olarak Sanat Ciltli

Nietzsche'den Hayat Dersleri

1978: a non–stop carnival of debauchery begins as the first shock of punk hits Vancouver, with John Armstrong at the centre of it all. As Buck Cherry, lead singer/guitarist for the Modernettes, Armstrong tours us pell–mell through his misspent youth when he met and made music with I Braineater, Joey Shithead, Dimwit, Chuck Biscuits, Mary Jo Kopechne, Art Bergmann and other punk luminaries. He resurrects Vancouver’s punk glory scene with a drug–addled, booze–soaked account with Los Popularos, DOA, the Subhumans, and the Modernettes. Armstrong's account of his years as a reporter, Wages, is also published by New Star Books. Guilty of Everything is number 8 in the Transmontanus series.

Guilty of Everything

How many of us have stopped before a famous painting or building only to realise, with quiet disappointment, that we can't quite see what the fuss is about? What do we have to do - beyond just staring - to get the most out of art? How do we come to develop an attachment to individual works and find them deeply fascinating? How do they come to matter to us?

The Intimate Philosophy of Art

L'arte come terapia. The school of life

Examines the major themes of the work of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe in terms of his own life story and explains how his poetry resonates in the present with its depictions of the human yearning for happiness, friendship, and family.

Lessons of the Imagination from the Great German Poet

Love, Life, Goethe

Matthew Green

George Gilfillan

John Dyer

With Memoirs, and Critical Dissertations

The Poetical Works of Armstrong, Dyer, and Green

A General View of the Pathology and Treatment of Chronic Diseases: with Illustrations of the Utility of Sulphureous Waters, and Observations on the Efficacy of the Balsam of Copaiva ...

Facts, Observations and Practical Illustrations, Relative to Puerperal Fever, Scarlet Fever, Pulmonary Consumption, and Measles

In memory of the rev. John Armstrong

At seventeen, Dot Pickett is young to be taking on the role of trail boss on a cattle drive. But Dot's life has been hard, and he has learnt to be brave, resourceful - and occasionally ruthless. Now he has successfully led a cattle drive from Texas to Kansas and is setting off for home with the bag of gold owed to the Texan ranchers. But Dot has fallen foul of a notorious outlaw family and he knows that they will try to ambush him. Then when Dot goes to the aid of a young woman, the gold disappears and he embarks upon a quest to retrieve it. Dot's search takes him on a long trail of danger, deception and intrigue, leading him from Abilene deep into the bayous of Louisiana, where his courage and determination are pushed to the extreme in order to survive and reclaim the cattlemen's gold.

The Long Trail

Joseph Goldstein

David B. Williams

Charles E. Lyman

Dale E. Newbury

Patrick Echlin

Eric Lifshin

David C. Joy

Charles Fiori

Alton D. Romig Jr.

Klaus-Rüdiger Peters

During the last four decades remarkable developments have taken place in instrumentation and techniques for characterizing the microstructure and microcomposition of materials. Some of the most important of these instruments involve the use of electron beams because of the wealth of information that can be obtained from the interaction of electron beams with matter. The principal instruments include the scanning electron microscope, electron probe x-ray microanalyzer, and the analytical transmission electron microscope. The training of students to use these instruments and to apply the new techniques that are possible with them is an important function, which. has been carried out by formal classes in universities and colleges and by special summer courses such as the ones offered for the past 19 years at Lehigh University. Laboratory work, which should be an integral part of such courses, is often hindered by the lack of a suitable laboratory workbook. While laboratory workbooks for transmission electron microscopy have-been in existence for many years, the broad range of topics that must be dealt with in scanning electron microscopy and microanalysis has made it difficult for instructors to devise meaningful experiments. The present workbook provides a series of fundamental experiments to aid in "hands-on" learning of the use of the instrumentation and the techniques. It is written by a group of eminently qualified scientists and educators. The importance of hands-on learning cannot be overemphasized.

John Armstrong

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