The pleasures and sorrows of work /
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....
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c2009.
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| 100 | 1 | |a De Botton, Alain. | |
| 245 | 1 | 4 | |a The pleasures and sorrows of work / |c Alain de Botton ; photographs Richard Baker. |
| 260 | |a New York : |b Pantheon Books, |c c2009. | ||
| 300 | |a 326 p. : |b il. ; |c 22 cm. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a Cargo ship spotting -- Logistics -- Biscuit manufacture -- Career counselling -- Rocket science -- Painting -- Transmission engineering -- Accountancy -- Entrepreneurship -- Aviation. | |
| 520 | |a 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? | ||
| 520 | |a "I was inspired by the men at the pier to attempt a hymn to the intelligence, peculiarity, beauty and horror of the modern workplace and, not least, its extraordinary claim to be able to provide us, alongside love, with the principal source of life's meaning."--P. 30. | ||
| 520 | |a "This project was designed as much as a photo reportage as an essay."--P. [328]. | ||
| 650 | 0 | |a Work |v Miscellanea. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Work |v Pictorial works. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Work |x Social aspects. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Occupations |v Miscellanea. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Conduct of life |v Miscellanea. | |
| 650 | 7 | |a Trabajo como esfuerzo físico o mental |v Miscelánea. |2 UDESA | |
| 650 | 7 | |a Trabajo como esfuerzo físico o mental |v Libros de láminas. |2 UDESA | |
| 650 | 7 | |a Trabajo como esfuerzo físico o mental |x Aspectos sociales. |2 UDESA | |
| 650 | 7 | |a Empleos |v Miscelánea. |2 UDESA | |
| 650 | 7 | |a Conducta (Ética) |v Miscelánea. |2 UDESA | |
| 700 | 1 | |a Baker, Richard, |d 1959 September 28- | |