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On Failure: How to succeed at defeat (The School of Life) by The School of Life
$32.99 AUD
Category: Mind Body Spirit
This is a hopeful, consoling, gentle book about failure. Our societies talk a lot about success, but the reality is that no one gets through life without failing - in small and usually also in large ways. Sometimes our failures are very obvious, at other times, we feel we have to conceal them out of sha ...Show more
Philosophy in 40 Ideas (The School of Life) by The School The School of Life
$22.99 AUD
Category: Mind Body Spirit
Philosophy is a discipline committed to helping us live wiser and less sorrowful lives. This book artfully draws together 40 of the greatest and most useful ideas found in philosophy, taking us on a journey around key concepts from both Eastern and Western cultures.We are invited to sample the distincti ...Show more
Relationships: Learning to love (The School of Life) by The School of Life
$24.99 AUD
Category: Mind Body Spirit
Few things promise us greater happiness than our relationships - yet few things more reliably deliver misery and frustration. Our error is to suppose that we are born knowing how to love and that managing a relationship might therefore be intuitive and easy. This book starts from a different premise: th ...Show more
Relationships - The School of Life by The School of Life
$32.99 AUD
Category: Essays, Language & Writing | Series: The\School of Life Library
Few things promise us greater happiness than our relationships - yet few things more reliably deliver misery and frustration. Our error is to suppose that we are born knowing how to love and that managing a relationship might therefore be intuitive and easy. This book starts from a different premise: th ...Show more
School of Life Guide to Modern Manners by The School The School of Life
$26.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs, Culture & Society
Modern life is full of minor but acute dilemmas: we get stuck at a gathering with someone unusually boring and wonder how to move on without causing offence; in the course of introducing one friend to another, we realize that we have forgotten one of the party's names; we run into an ex while on an earl ...Show more
School of Life Quotes To Live By: Quotes To Inspire and Enlighten by The School of Life
$32.99 AUD
Category: Mind Body Spirit
This is a selection of the very best and most psychologically acute quotations from The School of Life, covering such large and diverse topics as relationships, regret, anxiety, work, friends, family, travel and, not least, the meaning of life. Some of these quotations elicit an immediate nod of recogni ...Show more
Self-Knowledge in 40 Images
$32.99 AUD
Category: Mind Body Spirit
A visual journey to inspire and guide you through the inward exploration of the self. When Socrates, apparently the wisest man of antiquity, was asked to define our highest purpose as humans, he responded, 'To know ourselves.' The advice has never been bettered. Without self-knowledge, all other efforts ...Show more
Sex: The School of Life by School of Life (Business Enterprise) Staff; Alain de Botton (Series edited by)
$32.99 AUD
Category: Theory | Series: The\School of Life Library
Shame means that many couples still find it difficult to be honest with one another about who they are and what they need to feel sexually satisfied. We shouldn't suppose that we can always and invariably share our every sexual proclivity with others, but there's a lot we could feel more confident about ...Show more
Small Pleasures - The School of Life by The School of Life
$32.99 AUD
Category: Mind Body Spirit | Series: The\School of Life Library
So often, we exhaust ourselves and the planet in a search for very large pleasures - while all around us lies a wealth of small pleasures, which - if only we paid more attention - could daily bring us solace and joy at little cost and effort. But we need some encouragement to focus our gaze. This is a b ...Show more
Stay or Leave: How to remain in, or end, your relationship by The School of Life
$22.99 AUD
Category: Mind Body Spirit
A book to offer clarity and guidance when facing the difficult decision of whether your relationship has a future. Whether we should stay in or leave a relationship is one of the most consequential and painful decisions we are ever likely to confront. What makes the issue so hard is that there are no fi ...Show more
Varieties of Melancholy by The School of Life
$29.99 AUD
Category: Mind Body Spirit
This is a book that celebrates the most neglected but valuable emotion we can feel: melancholy. Melancholy isn't depression or anger or bitterness, it's a serene, accepting, gentle, wise and kindly response to the difficulties and occasional misery of being alive. It steers an ideal mid-way course betwe ...Show more
What Are You Feeling? (HB) by The School of Life; Daniel Gray-Barnett (Illustrator)
$29.99 AUD
Category: 2 to 6 Years Old
An illustrated guide helping children to identify and articulate how they are really feeling. What Are You Feeling? is the first of a series of books that aim todevelop emotional literacy for children. This book helps the readerto identify and articulate their emotions as they discuss 20 diffe ...Show more