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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
 Avon Free Public Library - Adult Department  306.36 DE BOTTON    Check Shelf
 Bloomfield, Prosser Library - Adult Department  331 DEB    Storage
 Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - Adult Department  306.36 DE BOTTON    Check Shelf
 West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Non Fiction  331 DE BOTTON    Check Shelf
Edition First U.S. edition.
Description 326 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Contents Cargo ship spotting -- Logistics -- Biscuit manufacture -- Career counselling -- Rocket science -- Painting -- Transmission engineering -- Accountancy -- Entrepreneurship -- Aviation.
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?
Subject Work -- Miscellanea.
ISBN 9780375424441
037542444X
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