The News: A User'S Manual [Audiobook] download free by Alain De Botton
- Listen audiobook: The News: A User'S Manual
- Author: Alain De Botton
- Release date: 2015/2/14
- Publisher: PENGUIN BOOKS LTD
- Language: English
- Genre or Collection: Society and Social Sciences
- ISBN: 9780241972694
- Rating: 7.14 of 10
- Votes: 209
- Review by: Hadlee Martz
- Review rating: 9.3 of 10
- Review Date: 2018/10/29
- Duration: 3H26M50S in 256 kbps (54.4 MB)
- Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-07-23
- You can listen to this audiobook in formats: WAV, AU, MPEG4, MP3, WMA Lossless, FLAC, WMA (compression BZ2, ZIP, RAR, ACE)
- Total pages original book: 272
- Includes a PDF summary of 31 pages
- Duration of the summary (audio): 23M46S (6.2 MB)
- Description or summary of the audiobook: The News is Alain de Botton's witty and insightful exploration of our twenty-first century obsession with media.Why do we keep checking the news?Today, the news occupies the same dominant position in our lives as religion once did. But rarely do we consider how it touches us. Here, Alain de Botton examines a number of archetypal news stories - a plane crash, a murder, a political scandal, a celebrity interview - from a fresh perspective to ask intriguing questions: why do disaster stories titillate? why obsess over love lives of the famous? why smile when a politician falls from grace? In so doing, he brings clear sight and understanding to a force which, above all others, informs our view of reality.'Like all classic de Botton, there are plenty of insightful observations here, peppered with some psychology, a dash of philosophy, a big dollop of commonsense' Scotsman'De Botton's gift is to prompt us to think about how we live and how we might change things' The Times'De Botton analyses modern society with great charm, learning and humour. His remedies come as a welcome relief when most books offering solutions to the stresses of life recommend the lotus position' Daily Mail
- Other categories, genre or collection: Popular Philosophy, Media Studies
- Download servers: FileServe, BitShare, Nextcloud, Torrent, Uploaded, Wuala, 4Shared, Dropbox, FileTransfer.io. Compressed in BZ2, ZIP, RAR, ACE
- Format: Paperback
- Approximate value: 13.49 USD
- Dimensions: 132x198x21mm
- Weight: 300g
- Printed by: Not Available
- Published in: London, United Kingdom
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