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Ce livre parle de ces histoires-là — celles qu’on croyait terminées, mais qui, peut-être, n’ont pas encore dit leur dernier mot. Avec tendresse, humour et lucidité, Alain Samson explore le chemin de la reconquête : non pas celle qui supplie, mais celle qui se reconstruit. Revenir vers l’autre, oui, mais en ayant d’abord retrouvé le meilleur de soi-même. Parce que l’amour véritable ne s’impose pas : il se redonne.

Voici le jardin du philosophe. On y cueillera des fruits mûris sur le tronc de la sagesse commune et dorés à cette autre lumiére des idées. Ils en reprennent leur saveur d'origine, qui est le goût de l'existence. Saveur oubliée en nos pensées ; car on voudrait s'assurer que l'existence est bonne et on ne le peut ; on en décoit donc l'espérance par précaution, prononcant qu'elle est mauvaise.

We all worry about what others think of us. We all long to succeed and fear failure. We all suffer, to a greater or lesser degree, usually privately and with embarrassment, from status anxiety. For the first time, Alain de Botton gives a name to this universal condition and sets out to investigate both its origins and possible solutions. He looks at history, philosophy, economics, art, and politics, and reveals the many ingenious ways that great minds have overcome their worries.

We spend vast amounts of time acquiring confidence in narrow technical fields: quadratic equations or bioengineering; economics or pole vaulting. But we overlook the primordial need to acquire a more free-ranging variety of confidence - one that can serve us across a range of tasks: speaking to strangers at parties, asking someone to marry us, suggesting a fellow passenger turn down their music, changing the world. This is a guidebook to confidence, why we lack it and how we can acquire more of it in our lives.

This is an audiobook about everything you were never taught at school. It's about how to understand your emotions, find and sustain love, succeed in your career, fail well and overcome shame and guilt. It's also about letting go of the myth of a perfect life in order to achieve genuine emotional maturity. Written in a hugely accessible, warm and humane style, The School of Life is the ultimate guide to the emotionally fulfilled lives we all long for - and deserve.

Le Grand Meaulnes is one of the great classics of French literature, a mysterious, even impressionistic tale of adolescence in the French countryside in the dying years of the 19th century. A teenager, Agustin Meaulnes, arrives in a country school, and his strong personality immediately affects its rural atmosphere, especially in the eyes of his younger school companion, the 15 year old François.

Here, Alain de Botton follows the arc of a mental health journey, from crisis to recuperation; the moments we realize we cannot cope; the acts of selfcare or therapy in which we find respite; and the days we finally reclaim a sense of stability. Written with understanding and kindness, it is both a source of companionship in our loneliest moments - whether it's a relationship breakdown, a career setback or anxiety around the everyday - and a practical guide that will help us find reasons for hope.

Il faut vouloir être heureux et y mettre du sien. Si l'on reste dans la position du spectateur impartial, laissant seulement entrée au bonheur et portes ouvertes, c'est la tristesse qui entrera. (...) La tristesse est comme un poison ; on peut l'aimer, mais non s'en trouver bien ; et c'est toujours le plus profond sentiment qui a raison à la fin.

Alain de Botton has performed a stunning feat: He has transformed arcane philosophy into something accessible and entertaining, useful and kind. Drawing on the work of six of the world's most brilliant thinkers, de Botton has arranged a panoply of wisdom to guide us through our most common problems.

Essays in Love is a stunningly original love story. Taking in Aristotle, Wittgenstein, history, religion and Groucho Marx, Alain de Botton charts the progress of a love affair from the first kiss to argument and reconciliation, from intimacy and tenderness to the onset of anxiety and heartbreak.

In this book, which is both inspiring and deeply practical, Alain Samson and Marc Éthier invite us to rethink our relationship to work through the principles of play and gamification. They show us how the state of flow, the feeling of competence, immediate feedback, stimulating challenges and freedom of action can radically transform our everyday working life. Based on solid research, real-life anecdotes and concrete tools, Don't Work Anymore... Play! offers an innovative approach: bringing fun, creativity and energy back to where we only saw tasks to be accomplished.

Ambientado en la gris vida de provincias, donde sus personajes están a solas con sus sueños de evasión y aventura, El gran Meaulnes dibuja el difícil y apasionado ingreso de la adolescencia en los primeros rigores de la madurez.

Byung-Chul Han is one of the most widely read philosophers in Europe today, a member of the new generation of German thinkers that includes Markus Gabriel and Armen Avanessian. In The Agony of Eros, a bestseller in Germany, Han considers the threat to love and desire in today's society. For Han, love requires the courage to accept self-negation for the sake of discovering the Other. In a world of fetishized individualism and technologically mediated social interaction, it is the Other that is eradicated, not the self.

At dinner parties and over coffee, Rabih and Kirsten's friends always ask them the same question: how did you meet? The answer comes easily - it's a happy story, one they both love to tell. But there is a second part to this story, the answer to a question their friends never ask: what happened next? Rabih and Kirsten find each other, fall in love, get married. Society tells us this is the end of the story. In fact it is only the beginning.

Avec leur style irrévérencieux et plein d’humour, Alain Samson et Marc Éthier t’accompagnent dans une exploration inattendue : comment transformer le stress en allié. Un livre qui fait sourire autant qu’il fait réfléchir, inspiré de la chanson Mes emmerdes de Charles Aznavour : parce qu’au fond, ce sont elles qui nous rappellent qu’on est bien vivant. Alors, prêt à dire toi aussi : Chouette, des emmerdes!

Transform your daily walk with God from a routine into an intimate dance of divine union. Are you tired of devotionals that barely scratch the surface? Ready to move beyond religious performance into an authentic relationship with God? *Starting Your Days with Jesus* is a 365-day journey designed to deepen your experience of God's presence in daily life.

The world you live in is not your parents'. Diplomas no longer guarantee a job, rents cost a kidney, inflation eats away at your purchasing power, and loans set traps for you much faster than a bank smiles at you. So, are you screwed? Not at all.

In Your Brain Deserves Better, Alain Samson invites you on a fascinating journey into the hidden mechanisms of thought. With clarity and practical examples, he reveals how our mental autopilot shapes the way we perceive the world—and how we can gently take back control.

Tu crois que ton job en service à la clientèle, c’est juste sourire, passer des commandes et répondre à des questions bizarres?

Avec Work & Fun: bâtir des équipes qui déchirent, Alain Samson propose une nouvelle manière de collaborer. Un modèle moderne, inspirant et ludique, qui transforme le travail en une expérience collective stimulante.