- Psicologia social, Social status, Psychological aspects, Social psychology
This is a book about an almost universal anxiety that rarely gets mentioned directly: an anxiety about what others think of us; about whether we’re judged a success or a failure, a winner or a loser.
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Spare, character-led, contemporary and classical in form.
- sparerichly built
- character-ledplot-driven
- contemporarynostalgic
- classical in formformally daring
- contemplativerelentless
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About the book
- Author
- Alain De Botton
- First published
- 2005
- Pages
- 306
- Publisher
- Vintage International
- Editions
- 1
- ISBN
- 9780375725357
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