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How to Think More About Sex by Alain de Botton
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Category: Philosophy | Series: The School of Life | Reading Level: very good
In this rigorous and supremely honest book Alain de Botton helps us navigate the intimate and exciting yet often confusing and difficult experience that is sex. Few of us tend to feel we're entirely normal when it comes to sex, and what we're supposed to be feeling rarely matches up with the reality. Th ...Show more
How to Thrive in the Digital Age (The School of Life series) by Tom Chatfield
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Category: Computers | Series: The School of Life | Reading Level: 16
Our world is, increasingly, a digital one. Over half of the planet's adult population now spend more of their waking hours 'plugged in' than not, whether to the internet, mobile telephony, or other digital media. To email, text, tweet and blog our way through our careers, relationships and even our fami ...Show more
How to Worry Less About Money (The School of Life series) by John Armstrong
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Category: Economics | Series: The School of Life | Reading Level: 16
Our relationship with money is one that lasts a lifetime. It can be as important as family life, as competitive as work, and as exciting and secretive as love. Yet books about money tend to take one of two routes: a) how to get more, or b) how to deal with less. This book turns these questions upside do ...Show more
Life Lessons From Nietzsche by John Armstrong; School of Life (Business enterprise) Staff (Contribution by)
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Category: Philosophy | Series: The\School of Life Ser.
Friedrich Nietzsche was a German philosopher, poet and cultural critic. He is best known for his controversial idea of "life affirmation" that challenged traditional morality and all doctrines. Born in 1844 outside Leipzig, Germany, his teachings inspired people in all walks of life, from dancers and po ...Show more
Life Lessons from Bergson - The School of Life by Michael Foley
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Category: Philosophy | Series: The\School of Life Ser.
'The School of Life offers radical ways to help us raid the treasure trove of human knowledge' Independent on Sunday Henri Bergson was a French professor and philosopher. Born in Paris in 1859 to a Polish composer and Yorkshire woman of Irish descent, his revelatory ideas of life as ceaseless becoming a ...Show more
On Being Nice (The School of Life) by The School of Life
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Category: Philosophy | Series: The\School of Life Library | Reading Level: near fine
Most books that want to change us seek to make us richer or thinner. This book wants to help us to be nicer, that is: less irritable, more patient, readier to listen, warmer, less prickly ...Niceness may not have the immediate allure of money or fame, but it is a hugely important quality nevertheless an ...Show more
Relationships - The School of Life by The School of Life
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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
Sex: The School of Life by School of Life (Business Enterprise) Staff; Alain de Botton (Series edited by)
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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
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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