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Reasons to be Hopeful: What remains consoling, inspiring and beautiful by The School of Life
$39.99 AUD
Category: Better Living, Self Help & Personal development
An exploration of the many reasons to remain hopeful in the face of life's disappointments and challenges.In a world that isn't short of darkness, there could be few more urgent priorities than to spend time rehearsing for ourselves why life - despite all its challenges - still has so much to offer us; ...Show more
Relationships - The School of Life by The School of Life
$32.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy | 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 Quotes To Live By: Quotes To Inspire and Enlighten by THE SCHOOL OF LIFE
$32.99 AUD
Category: Gift & Humour
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 (The School of Life) by School of Life Staff; Alain de Botton (Series edited by)
$22.99 AUD
Category: Better Living, Self Help & Personal development | Series: Essay Bks.
In Ancient Greece, when the philosopher Socrates was asked to sum up what all philosophical commandments could be reduced to, he replied: 'Know yourself'. Self-knowledge matters so much because it is only on the basis of an accurate sense of who we are that we can make reliable decisions - particularly ...Show more
Sex: The School of Life by School of Life (Business Enterprise) Staff; Alain de Botton (Series edited by)
$32.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy | 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: Philosophy | Series: The\School of Life Library | Reading Level: very good
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 by The School of Life
$32.99 AUD
Category: Relationships
Whether we should stay in or leave a relationship is one of the most consequential and painful decisions we are ever likely to confront: few other issues will have such power to trouble us.What makes the issue so hard is that there are no fixed rules for judgement. How can we tell whether a relationship ...Show more
The Calm Workbook (The School of Life) by The School Of Life
$29.99 AUD
Category: Better Living, Self Help & Personal development
Most of us long to be a little calmer: too many of our days are lost to agitation and worry, stress and discord. Yet we know that we are at our best when we can manage not to panic and take challenges in our stride.Fortunately, a calm state of mind is not a divine gift. Even those of us starting from a ...Show more
The Career Workbook by The School of Life
$36.99 AUD
Category: Better Living, Self Help & Personal development
There are few questions harder or lonelier than, 'What should I do with the rest of my working life?' We are often simply meant to know the answer - and a lot of people might be invested in us continuing along the safe and predictable path.But in private, some of us are acutely aware that we aren't happ ...Show more
The Meaning of Life (The School of Life) by The School of Life
$26.99 AUD
Category: Better Living, Self Help & Personal development
To wonder too openly or intensely about the meaning of life can seem a peculiar, ill-fated and faintly ridiculous pastime. It can seem like a topic on which ordinary mortals cannot make much progress. In truth, it is for all of us to wonder about, define and work towards a more meaningful existence. Thi ...Show more
The School of Life #2 by School of Life
$34.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy
A series of intelligent, rigorous, well-written self-help books, put together by some of the leading minds in the field. This bindup includes the following titles: 9781447202301 - How To Stay Sane; 9781447202288 - How To Find Fulfilling Work; 9781447202325 - How To Change The World. Founded in 2008, The ...Show more
The School of Life: An Emotional Education by Alain de Botton, The School of Life
$24.99 AUD
Category: Better Living, Self Help & Personal development | Reading Level: good-very good
What does it mean to live wisely and well in the twenty-first century? And how should we go about doing it? These are the most important questions to ask ourselves and the ones we most often avoid dealing with. This insightful, witty and generous book reveals one simple answer to the question of a good ...Show more