* Botton, Alain De ( 2004 ), Status Anxiety, Hamish Hamilton

De Botton has written books of essays in which his own experiences and ideas are interwoven with those of artists, philosophers and thinkers.

De Botton then returned to a more lyrical, personal style of writing.

De Botton was duly appointed to the position.

De Botton writes regular articles for several English newspapers, and from 1998 to 2000, wrote a regular column for The Independent on Sunday.

De Botton has given lectures at TED conferences.

De Botton lives in London.

Acclaimed novelists Blake Morrison, Chris Whyte, Lionel Shriver, Colm Tóibín, Jennifer Johnston, John McGahern, Joseph O ’ Neill, Sebastian Barry, Joseph O ’ Connor, Hugo Hamilton, Edna O ’ Brien, Douglas Kennedy, Patrick McGrath, William Trevor, Colum McCann, Gerard Donovan, Frank McCourt, Joris Duytschaever, Irvine Welsh, Dr. Robyn Rowland, Andrew Lindsay, Michael Cunningham, Jane Urquhart, Anatoly Kudryavitsky, Cees Nooteboom, Michael Dibdin, Clyde Rose, Abdel Bari Atwan, Clive James, Melvyn Bragg, Alain De Botton, Lloyd Jones, Eric P Kaufman, Robert Fisk, Jung Chang, Terry Jones, Gabriel Byrne, Christine Dwyer-Hickey and many more.

De Botton claims that chronic anxiety about status is an inevitable side effect of any democratic, ostensibly egalitarian society.

De Botton lays out the causes of and solutions to status anxiety as follows:

So with four complete Push-Pull Super-Sets No. 1, four of No. 2, four of No. 3 and four to six sets of the Incline Bench Press, you can see that Henri De Courcy has had a terrific mass-building, muscle-shaping, torso-defining workout that cannot be improved upon.

Bravado has been alternately described as `` a symbol of the new grandeur of France and myself '' ( De Gaulle ) and `` a decadent, disgusting slob ''!!

De Jager ( 1955 ) has calculated the times required for these particles to reach the atmosphere under the influence of the Poynting-Robertson effect, which in this case causes the orbits to become more and more eccentric without changing the semi-major axis.

The poor uneducated newlywed, a certain Gontran De Boismassif, has his problems in getting the necessary information.

" is attributed to his son William De Morgan, but a family friend John Thomas Graves was prolific, and a manuscript with over 2, 800 has been preserved.

Several of Alexander's works were published in the Aldine edition of Aristotle, Venice, 1495 – 1498 ; his De Fato and De Anima were printed along with the works of Themistius at Venice ( 1534 ); the former work, which has been translated into Latin by Grotius and also by Schulthess, was edited by J. C. Orelli, Zürich, 1824 ; and his commentaries on the Metaphysica by H. Bonitz, Berlin, 1847.

It has been claimed that De Amore codifies the social and sexual life of Eleanor's court at Poitiers between 1170 and 1174, though it was evidently written at least ten years later and, apparently, at Troyes.

He sought to adapt it on numerous occasions, though the project would carry a substantial price tag, and has yet to appear onscreen ( Steven Spielberg's adaptation of Philip K. Dick's Minority Report bears striking similarities to De Palma's visual style and some of the themes of The Demolished Man ).

He has often produced " De Palma " films one after the other before going on to direct a different genre, but would always return to his familiar territory.

To emphasize the dramatic impact of a certain scene De Palma has employed a 360-degree camera pan.

De Palma has collaborated with many of the same actors and crew members throughout his career.

Other actors that De Palma has worked with on more than one occasion include Jennifer Salt ( The Wedding Party, Hi, Mom !, and Sisters ), Charles Durning ( Hi, Mom !, Sisters, and The Fury ), Al Pacino ( Scarface and Carlito's Way ), John Lithgow ( Obsession, Blow Out and Raising Cain ), Sean Penn ( Casualties of War and Carlito's Way ), Amy Irving ( Carrie, The Fury and Casualties of War ( uncredited voice-over )), and John Travolta ( Carrie, Blow Out ).

De Palma has consistently worked with a group of screenwriters, cinematographers, editors and composers throughout his career.

De Palma has also worked with composers Pino Donaggio ( Carrie, Home Movies, Dressed to Kill, Blow Out, Body Double, Raising Cain ), Ennio Morricone ( The Untouchables, Casualties of War, and Mission to Mars ) and Ryuichi Sakamoto ( Snake Eyes, Femme Fatale ).

Furthermore, De Palma has used editors Bill Pankow ( Body Double, The Untouchables, Casualties of War, The Bonfire of the Vanities, Carlito's Way, Snake Eyes, The Black Dahlia, Redacted ) and Paul Hirsch ( Phantom of the Paradise, Carrie, Raising Cain, Mission to Mars ).

He has one daughter from his marriage to Gale Anne Hurd, Lolita de Palma, born in 1991, and one daughter from his marriage to Darnell Gregorio, Piper De Palma, born in 1996.

De Palma has encouraged and fostered the filmmaking careers of directors such as Quentin Tarantino, Mark Romanek and Keith Gordon.

Kael wrote in her review of Blow Out, " At forty, Brian De Palma has more than twenty years of moviemaking behind him, and he has been growing better and better.

Legend has it that, following Ward's stage performance, he, Mark Twain, and Dan De Quille were taking a drunken rooftop tour of Virginia City until a town constable threatened to blast all three of them with a shotgun loaded with rock salt.

De Vries has been " twisted " — made into an amoral sadist by his Tleilaxu creators.

The character Miss Marple, for instance, dealt with an estimated two murders a year ; De Andrea has described Marple's home town, the quiet little village of St. Mary Mead as having " put on a pageant of human depravity rivaled only by that of Sodom and Gomorrah ".

* A work on indulgences, which has often been criticized by Protestant writers, De Origine, Progressu, Valore, et Fructu Indulgentiorum ( Augsburg, 1735 )

Armstrong and De Forest fought a protracted legal battle over the rights to the " regenerative " oscillator circuit which has been called " the most complicated patent litigation in the history of radio ".

In an interview with Gelmis from 1969, De Palma described the film as " very good and very successful.

Tacitus ( De origine et situ Germanorum XXIX ) described the Batavi as the bravest of the tribes of the area, hardened in the Germanic wars, with cohorts under their own commanders transferred to Britannia.

It was in this context, as the imperial mathematician and astrologer to the emperor, that Kepler described the new star two years later in his De Stella Nova.

In 1357, the shroud was first publicly displayed by a nobleman known as Geoffrey of Charney, described by some sources as being a member of the family of the grandson of Geoffroi de Charney, who was burned at the stake with De Molay.

There are a number of uncommon psychiatric syndromes, which are often named after the person who first described them, such as Capgras syndrome, De Clerambault syndrome, Othello syndrome, Ganser syndrome, Cotard delusion, and Ekbom syndrome, and additional disorders such as the Couvade syndrome and Geschwind syndrome.

Marcus Apicius's ancient cookbook De Re Coquinaria described polus, a Roman soup dating back to 30 AD made up of farro, chickpeas, and fava beans, with onions, garlic, lard, and greens thrown in.

The astronomer Tycho Brahe observed the supernova SN 1572 in the constellation Cassiopeia, and described it in his book De stella nova ( Latin for " concerning the new star "), giving rise to the name nova.

Dioscorides ' five-volume De Materia Medica, the precursor of pharmacopoeias, remained in use ( with some improvements in Arabic versions ) from the 1st to 16th centuries and described opium and the wide range of uses prevalent in the ancient world.

The ceremonies of her formal reception in Constantinople were minutely described by Emperor Constantine VII in his book De Ceremoniis.

* De Plantis Aegypti liber described by an antiquarian bookseller

His magnum opus De Plantis came out in 1583, and described over 1500 plant species.

In Italy, " viola " was first applied to a braccio precursor to the modern violin, as described by Tinctoris ( De inventione et usu musice, c. 1481 – 3 ), and then was later used to describe the first Italian viols as well.

William Conybeare named it Plesiosaurus ( near lizard ) because he thought it more like modern reptiles than the ichthyosaur had been, and he described it in the same 1821 paper he co-authored with Henry De la Beche on ichthyosaur anatomy.

By 51BC, the Belgae were overrun by the armies of Julius Caesar, as described in his chronicle De Bello Gallico.

De Camp wrote a number of lesser-known but nonetheless significant works that explored such topics as racism, which he considered to be more accurately described as ethnocentrism.

In 1546, Girolamo Fracastoro, a Florentine physician, described typhus in his famous treatise on viruses and contagion, De Contagione et Contagiosis Morbis.

De Montfort's banner described as the ' Arms of Honour of Hinckley ', shown in the stained glass image in Chartres Cathedral, is used by the town of Hinckley, part of his Earldom in Leicestershire, in their town coat of arms.

Most of these developments are described by Vitruvius writing in the first century AD in his work De Architectura.

Perhaps the most important and popular work was that of Andreas Capellanus's De Amore which described the ars amandi (" the art of loving ") in twelfth century Provence.

* Hero described construction of the aeolipile ( a version of which is known as Hero's engine ) which was a rocket-like reaction engine and the first-recorded steam engine ( although Vitruvius mentioned the aeolipile in De Architectura some 100 years earlier than Hero ).

In Cato's De Agricultura an offering to Mars Silvanus is described, to ensure the health of cattle ; it is stated there that his connection with agriculture referred only to the labour performed by men, and that females were excluded from his worship.

This signum is described in the surviving epitome of Vegetius De Re Militari 379 CE —" The first sign of the entire legion is the eagle, which the eagle-bearer carries.

In De Administrando Imperio ( c. 950 ) he described Smolensk as a key station on the trade route from the Varangians to the Greeks.