{"product_id":"9780771026034","title":"The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work","description":"From the international bestselling author of \u003cb\u003eThe Architecture of Happiness\u003c\/b\u003e and \u003cb\u003eHow Proust Can Change Your Life\u003c\/b\u003e comes this lyrical, erudite look at our world of work.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWe 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 philosophical sharpness, Alain de Botton heads out into the world of offices and factories, ready to take in the beauty, interest, and sheer strangeness of the modern workplace.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDe Botton spends time in and around some less familiar work environments, including warehouses, container ports, rocket launch pads, and power stations, and follows scientists, landscape painters, accountants, cookie manufacturers, therapists, entrepreneurs, and aircraft salesmen as they do their jobs.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAlong the way, de Botton tries to answer some of the most urgent questions we can pose about work: Why do we do it? What makes it pleasurable? What is its meaning? To what end do we daily exhaust not only ourselves but also our planet?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEqually intrigued by work’s pleasures and its pains, Alain de Botton offers a characteristically lucid and witty tour of the working day and night, in a book sure to inspire a range of life-changing and wise thoughts.","brand":"De Botton, Alain","offers":[{"title":"Hardback (Philosophy)","offer_id":44761666912480,"sku":"","price":19.8,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0330\/3125\/8248\/files\/BNCImageAPI_328a1769-7268-4e5a-9251-8b525f9f1b30.jpg?v=1707504104","url":"https:\/\/agricola-street-books.myshopify.com\/products\/9780771026034","provider":"Agricola Street Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}