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.
Explains how the author overcame his one-hundred-a-day habit and quit smoking for good. After many failed attempts and a lot of perseverance, he discovered the Easyway and it changed his life. He had a vision of the future in which smoking was something we used to do, and he was sure that Easyway would play a large part in this achievement.
Written by one of the discoverers of the structure of DNA, a second revised edition of a personal account of the race by the author and Francis Crick to make this breakthrough in biochemistry before Linus Pauling. The achievement of the pair is re-examined in the light of scientific discoveries, before and since their work on the double helix.
This collection of Feynman's best short works includes uproarious tales of Feynman's student experiments, his famous report on the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster, his experiences on the Manhattan Project at Los Alamos during World War II, and stories of the physicist as a child.
One night the author notices that the few items she's grabbed from the Korean grocery store are the very ingredients for Potage Parmentier, as described in Julia Childs' legendary cookbook, "Mastering the Art of French Cooking". She begins to cook - every one of the 524 recipes in the book, in the space of just one year. This is her story.
