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The School of Life: Collected Essays by The School of Life
$55.00 AUD
Category: Essays
A 15th anniversary collection of The School of Life's most popular andessential essays on self-knowledge, relationships, work and culture. The School of Life is an organisation with a focused mission at its heart: to help foster calm, self-understanding and greater emotional maturity. Over 15 years, we ...Show more
The School of Life Dictionary (The School of Life) by The School of Life; Alain de Botton (Contribution by)
$45.00 AUD
Category: Cultural, Ideas, Political & Issues
A dictionary is a guide to language. This dictionary is for the distinctive language that The School of Life 'speaks': that of emotions. It is a selection of over 160 words and phrases that shed light on our feelings about ourselves, other people, and the workings of the modern world. Too often, we stru ...Show more
The Sorrows of Work by School of Life Staff; Alain de Botton (Series edited by)
$22.99 AUD
Category: Cultural, Ideas, Political & Issues | Series: Essay Bks.
Work can be a route to creativity, excitement and purpose. Nevertheless, many of us end up confused, discouraged and beaten by our working lives. The temptation is often just to blame ourselves, and to feel privately ashamed and guilty. However, as this book lucidly explains, there is a range of well-em ...Show more
Thinking and Eating by The School The School of Life
$45.00 AUD
Category: Writing/Reference/Essays
Examining the psychological impact of the way we prepare and eat food, this thought provoking book explores nutrition for the mind and body.
What Adults Don't Know about Art by The School The School of Life
$32.99 AUD
Category: Art, music, language, craft and humanities
Everyone tells kids that art matters - but the truth is that very often it's hard to know why it really does. Museum visits can feel like a chore as does having to learn the names of the big artists we're all meant to love (but perhaps don't quite in the way we're supposed to). This is a huge pit ...Show more
What Are You Feeling? (HB) by The School of Life; Daniel Gray-Barnett (Illustrator)
$29.99 AUD
Category: Issues and feelings
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
What Can I Do When I Grow Up?: A Children's Career Guide (The School of Life) by The School of Life; Alain de Botton
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biographies & Memoir
It's impossible for a child to spend too long around adults without one of them coming up and asking, as if it were the most normal thing in the world, "What do you want to do when you grow up?" They mean for this to be a relatively simple question; the idea is that you'll quite easily be able to say so ...Show more
What is Culture For? (The School of Life) by The School of Life; Alain de Botton (Series edited by)
$26.99 AUD
Category: Gift & Humour | Series: Essay Bks.
Our societies frequently proclaim their enormous esteem for culture. Music, film, literature and the visual arts enjoy high prestige and are viewed by many as getting close to the meaning of life. But what is culture really for?This book proposes that works of culture were all made, in one way or anothe ...Show more
What is Psychotherapy? (The School of Life) by The School of Life; Alain de Botton (Series edited by)
$22.99 AUD
Category: Gift & Humour | Series: Essay Bks.
Psychotherapy is one of the most valuable inventions of the last hundred years, with an exceptional power to raise our levels of emotional well-being, improve our relationships, redeem the atmosphere in our families and assist us in mining our professional potential. But it is also profoundly misunderst ...Show more
Why We Hate Cheap Things and Other Money-Related Essays by The School of Life
$22.99 AUD
Category: Better Living, Self Help & Personal development | Series: Essay Bks.
We don't think we hate cheap things, of course, but we rather behave as if we do, in the sense that we rarely properly appreciate what is always around us and doesn't appear to cost very much, for example, the night sky, pencils, fried eggs, zips and the holding of hands. This volume explores the way we ...Show more