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Author De Botton, Alain.

Title The pleasures and sorrows of work / Alain de Botton.

Publication Info. New York : Pantheon Books, [2009]
©2009

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Location Call No. Status OPAC Message Public Note Gift Note
 Moore Stacks  HD4901 .D35 2009    Available  ---
Description 326 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Summary Alain De Botton explores the world of offices and factories, convention halls, outdoor installations and transportation routes. He spends time in and around some less familiar work environments and discloses both the sheer strangeness and beauty of the places where people spend their working lives. Along the way, De Botton uncovers some of the most compelling questions that we rarely make time to consider: Why do we do it?
Contents Cargo ship spotting -- Logistics -- Biscuit manufacture -- Career counselling -- Rocket science -- Painting -- Transmission engineering -- Accountancy -- Entrepreneurship -- Aviation.
Subject Work -- Miscellanea.
Work.
Genre/Form Trivia and miscellanea.
Trivia and miscellanea.
ISBN 9780375424441
037542444X