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Books like The Architecture of Happiness
The Architecture of Happiness by Alain de Botton is about architecture, aesthetics, identity. If that's what drew you in, here are 6 books that share its DNA — each summarized on Superbook, and ready to chat with in the app.
- The Death and Life of Great American Cities
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The Death and Life of Great American Cities
Jane Jacobs · Economics
The Death and Life of Great American Cities is Jane Jacobs's 1961 argument against the dominant urban planning orthodoxy of her era, and one of the most influential works of urban theory ever written.
Read the summary → - Status Anxiety
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Alain de Botton · Philosophy
Status Anxiety is Alain de Botton's 2004 examination of why modern people are so consumed with their standing in others' eyes, and what philosophy, art, and history can offer as remedies.
Read the summary → - The Art of Travel
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Alain de Botton · Philosophy
The Art of Travel is Alain de Botton's philosophical meditation on why we travel, what we hope to find, and the gap between anticipation and experience.
Read the summary → - Seeing Is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees
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Seeing Is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees
Lawrence Weschler · Biography
Seeing Is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees is Lawrence Weschler's extended portrait of Robert Irwin, the California artist who began his career as an abstract expressionist painter and progressively dismantled every element of conventional art-making — frame, canvas, pigment, discrete object — until he was working with pure perception itself.
Read the summary → - 1984
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George Orwell · Philosophy
Nineteen Eighty-Four is George Orwell's 1949 novel about a future England called Airstrip One, governed by the totalitarian Party under the figurehead Big Brother.
Read the summary → - 21 Lessons for the 21st Century
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21 Lessons for the 21st Century
Yuval Noah Harari · Philosophy
Where Sapiens traced humanity's past and Homo Deus speculated about its future, 21 Lessons for the 21st Century plants itself in the present.
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