The pleasures and sorrows of work

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?

Record details

ISBN: 9780307378309 (electronic bk. : Adobe Digital Editions)
ISBN: 0307378306 (electronic bk. : Adobe Digital Editions)
ISBN: 9780771026324 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 0771026323 (electronic bk.)
Physical Description: electronic resource
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1 online resource (326 p.) : ill.
Publisher: New York : Pantheon Books, c2009.

Content descriptions

General Note:	Description based on print version record.
Formatted Contents Note:	Cargo ship spotting -- Logistics -- Biscuit manufacture -- Career counselling -- Rocket science -- Painting -- Transmission engineering -- Accountancy -- Entrepreneurship -- Aviation.