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Emotional intelligence affects every aspect of the way we live, from romantic to professional relationships, from our inner resilience to our social success. It is arguably the single most important skill for surviving the twenty-first century. But what does it really mean? One decade ago, Alain de Botton founded The School of Life, an institute dedicated to understanding and improving our emotional intelligence. Now he presents the gathered wisdom of those ten years in a wide-ranging and innovative compendium of emotional intelligence that forms an introduction to The School of Life.

Ce qu’il faut savoir sur le cœur pour mieux le comprendre, bien le soigner et prévenir la maladie!

Nous voulons tous vivre longtemps et en santé. Chaque jour, des experts, réels ou autoproclamés, nous prescrivent une nouvelle recette pour y parvenir. Mais comment les croire alors que leurs recommandations ne cessent de changer ? Surtout quand ces conseils s'appuient sur des études incompréhensibles pour la plupart d'entre nous, quand elles ne reposent pas sur du vent. Pourtant, la santé est l'affaire de tous et chacun devrait pouvoir faire des choix éclairés en ce domaine. C'est dans ce but que le docteur Vadeboncœur a conçu ce livre audio.

Alain Caron wanted to pass on what he had learned while serving God: the values, principles and lessons gleaned in over thirty years of ministry, which he calls his spiritual DNA. He took this responsibility seriously: the preparation of a legacy for his spiritual sons and daughters–those who followed him–and the preparation for the succession of his Apostolic Center.

Une vieille Tsigane en communication avec des esprits, condamnée à une fin tragique pour avoir découvert la vérité au sujet de sa fille. Une enfant retrouvée dans les bois, devenue plus tard une séductrice avide de vengeance. Un groupe d’hommes aux moeurs vicieuses, semant l’horreur sur leur passage. Un sergent de police acharné, tentant d’endiguer une série de meurtres barbares à caractère sexuel. Un loup rôdant dans la nuit, à la recherche d’une proie délectable.

A Therapeutic Journey follows the arc from mental crisis and collapse, to convalescence and recovery. Written with kindness, knowledge and sympathy, it is both a practical guide and a source of consolation and companionship in what might be some of our loneliest, most anguished moments.

Ainsi donc, vous pensez que c'est normal. Vous vous dites qu'avec l'âge, les érections diminuent et que ça fait partie de la vie. Vous êtes même prêt à tirer un trait sur votre vie sexuelle... Wow ! Cette façon de penser était peut-être vraie à une époque où le sexe ne servait qu'à procréer et que l'espérance de vie était de 62 ans, mais maintenant que le sexe est devenu récréatif, pourquoi vous en priveriez-vous ? Sans égard à votre âge.

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.

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.

Avez-vous des pensées de nature sexuelle au travail ? Votre coeur bat-il la chamade quand vous savez que vous devrez travailler avec une personne que vous trouvez très désirable ? Croyez-vous qu'une aventure vous ferait du bien ? Et finalement, est-il possible de rencontrer l'âme soeur au boulot ? Dans l'affirmative, attention ! Découvrez les dessous de ce type de relation. Après, vous saurez si vous devez dire « Non, merci ! » ou « Pourquoi pas ? »

Hawks MC member Maddox "Beast" Lawson had a difficult time growing up. Tired of being ridiculed because of his effed-up brain-to-mouth connection, it was easier to say nothing at all. Living in silence worked out just fine until that b*tch called Fate took his hearing, not only that, but she also threw him into the arms of the man who refuses to acknowledge that one hot night they shared.

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 their objectives is qualitative - “sustainable,” “livable,” “resilient” - often with no link to measurable outcomes. Urban economics, on the other hand, is a quantitative science, based on theories, models, and empirical evidence largely developed in academic settings.

Australian country girl Nina Pellegrini runs a program for city kids to experience a taste of rural life at Banksia Farm. But when a child is hurt and a lawsuit threatens, Nina is determined to find the best legal assistance to help her save the farm. Enter high-flying lawyer Leigh Willoughby, whose city world is far from the farm's chaotic mix of kids and animals. She certainly doesn't have time for small cases that don't pay or farm visits that wreck her cool - and her clothes. Still, the warm-hearted Nina and her challenging, 12-year-old daughter are awfully hard to say no to.

For anyone who ever wondered what Marcel Proust had in mind when he wrote the one-and-a-quarter-million words of In Search of Lost Time (while bedridden no less), Alain de Botton has the answer. For, in this stylish, erudite and frequently hilarious book, de Botton dips deeply into Proust’s life and work - his fiction, letter, and conversations – and distils from them that rare self-help manual: one that is actually helpful.

LA-based English indie filmmaker Alex Levitin reluctantly takes a job in New Zealand to save the "worst movie ever", Shezan: Mistress of the Forest. Things might go easier for her if she didn't almost run over the standoffish, beautiful local cop on her first day in town. And it'd really help if her film set wasn't being mysteriously sabotaged. When Ika Whenu's Senior Constable Sam Keegan isn't trying to stamp out a motorcycle gang drug problem afflicting her town, she's publicly slamming everything about the exploitative film and the Hollywood blow-ins making it.

Il y a des cauchemars dont on en se réveille jamais! Comment se protéger d'un ennemi qui nous traque jusque dans nos rêves? Samuel Swartz ne s'en doute pas encore, mais son bonheur tranquille s'achève. Ce voyageur de la nuit ignore sa capacité à s'infiltrer dans les rêves des gens. Doués de ce pouvoir. le Dreamwalkers peuvent agir sur les autres à leur insu.

C'est maintnant vivant... et hors de contrôle! Samuel Swartz n’est plus seul… mais est-il toujours humain? L’alliance conclue avec la chose lui confère une mémoire et une intelligence phénoménales, et lui permet de découvrir un monde jamais exploré auparavant. Il perçoit désormais l’univers d’un point de vue unique, grâce à la créature en lui qui a assisté au début et à la fin de milliers de civilisations.

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Aside from love, few actvities seem to promise us as much happiness as going traveling: taking off for somewhere else, somewhere far from home, a place with more interesting weather, customs, and landscapes. But although we are inundated with advice on where to travel, few people seem to talk about why we should go and how we can become more fulfilled by doing so.

One of the great, but often unmentioned, causes of both happiness and misery is the quality of our environment: the kind of walls, chairs, buildings, and streets we’re surrounded by. And yet a concern for architecture and design is too often described as frivolous, even self-indulgent. The Architecture of Happiness starts from the idea that where we are heavily influences who we can be - and argues that it is architecture’s task to stand as an eloquent reminder of our full potential.