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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: 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
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
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