Skip to main content
Search Button
Canada Kobo store Gift Cards Help

Rakuten Kobo

Wishlist

Shopping Cart

You're getting the VIP treatment!

Item(s) unavailable for purchase
Please review your cart. You can remove the unavailable item(s) now or we'll automatically remove it at Checkout.
itemsitem
itemsitem

Recommended For You

Loading...


Showing 1 - 12 of 1282 results for “alain minc”
Skip side bar filters

  • Black Moses

    A Novel

    by Alain Mabanckou ...
    Translated by Helen Stevenson ...
    The "heart-breaking" (New York Times Book Review), rollicking, award-winning novel that has been described as "Oliver Twist in 1970s Africa" (Les Inrockuptibles)"One of the most compelling books you'll read in any language this year." —Rolling StoneWinner of the Hurston-Wright Legacy AwardLonglisted for the Man Booker International PrizeShortlisted for the ... ... Read more

    $16.79 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The School of Life Dictionary

    by The School of Life, Alain de Botton ...
    The School of Life's dictionary of emotional intelligence brings us the vocabulary we need in order to understand ourselves, others, and the world around us.A dictionary is a guide to a language. This one is a guide to the language of emotions and a tool to help us express our truest selves.Through an alphabetical selection of over 200 words and phrases (FOMO, existential angst, unrequited love, ... Read more

    $33.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Order without Design

    How Markets Shape Cities

    by Alain Bertaud ...
    An argument that operational urban planning can be improved by the application of the tools of urban economics to the design of regulations and infrastructure.Urban planning is a craft learned through practice. Planners make rapid decisions that have an immediate impact on the ground—the width of streets, the minimum size of land parcels, the heights of buildings. The language they use to describe ... Read more

    $47.99 CAD

  • Living in Victory

    The Journey from Where I Am to Where He Wants Me to Be

    by Alain Walljee ...
    Many Christians are frustrated because their respective realities do not seem to be consistent with the promises of the Word of God. In Living in Victory, we go to where Christians currently stand, and show them the way to victorious living.One consistent truth about God reflected throughout the Bible is that wherever God is present, He changes the situation for the better. We see evidence of this ... Read more

    $13.73 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Name of the Game is Murder

    A Clarissa Spencer Cozy Mystery, #6

    by Alaine Allister ...
    Series Book 6 - A Clarissa Spencer Cozy Mystery
    Sun, fun, family...and a bingo hall murder?Clarissa Spencer’s love life is heating up. And that means it’s time to introduce her boyfriend to her parents. Will they approve of him? Will their special brand of crazy scare him away? Poor Clarissa is a bundle of nerves.A suspicious death provides the perfect distraction. Who killed Bobby the bingo caller? The list of suspects is long but if anyone ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Course of Love

    by Alain De Botton ...
    In Edinburgh, a couple, Rabih and Kirsten, fall in love. They get married, they have children -- but no relationship is as simple as "happily ever after." The Course of Love is a novel that explores what happens after the birth of love, what it takes to maintain love, and what happens to our original ideals under the pressures of an average existence. With philosophical insight and psychological ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

  • The Consolations of Philosophy

    by Alain De Botton ...
    Series series Vintage International
    From the author of How Proust Can Change Your Life, a delightful, truly consoling work that proves that philosophy can be a supreme source of help for our most painful everyday problems.Perhaps only Alain de Botton could uncover practical wisdom in the writings of some of the greatest thinkers of all time. But uncover he does, and the result is an unexpected book of both solace and humor. Dividing ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • A Therapeutic Journey: Lessons from The School of Life

    by Alain de Botton ...
    Alain de Botton's redemptive volume charts a course from collapse to recovery with kindness, compassion and wisdom.AS FEATURED ON THE DIARY OF A CEO PODCAST WITH STEVEN BARTLETT**"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 ... Read more

    $19.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Le Grand Meaulnes, in the originial French

    by Alain-Fournier ...
    According to Wikipedia: "Le Grand Meaulnes is the only novel by French author Alain-Fournier. Fifteen-year-old François Seurel narrates the story of his relationship with seventeen-year-old Augustin Meaulnes as Meaulnes searches for his lost love. Impulsive, reckless and heroic, Meaulnes embodies the romantic ideal, the search for the unobtainable, and the mysterious world between childhood and ... Read more

    $1.36 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Architecture of Happiness

    by Alain De Botton ...
    Bestselling author Alain de Botton considers how our private homes and public edifices influence how we feel, and how we could build dwellings in which we would stand a better chance of happiness.In this witty, erudite look at how we shape, and are shaped by, our surroundings, Alain de Botton applies Stendhal’s motto that “Beauty is the promise of happiness” to the spaces we inhabit daily. Why ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobooks

    Also available as: Audiobooks

  • The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work

    by Alain De Botton ...
    From the international bestselling author of The Architecture of Happiness and How Proust Can Change Your Life comes this lyrical, erudite look at our world of work.We spend most of our time at work, but what we do there rarely gets discussed in the sort of lyrical and descriptive prose our efforts surely deserve. Determined to correct this lapse, armed with a poetic perspective and his trademark ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Arguments

    by The School of Life, Alain de Botton ...
    Series series The School of Life Love Series
    The definitive guide to arguments-and how to argue, betterSex, money, in-laws, finances, the laundry on the floor…Every couple argues. In fact, arguments-whether trivial or significant-are woven into the very fabric of romantic relationships. Most arguments stem from the disconnect between the message we want to send ("I need you to love me, know me, agree with me") and the manner in which we ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus