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School of Life Guide to Modern Manners by The School The School of Life
$26.99 AUD
Category: Psychology and Personal Development
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
Stay or Leave: How to remain in, or end, your relationship by The School of Life
$22.99 AUD
Category: Psychology and Personal Development
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
The Good Enough Parent (The School of Life) by The School of Life
$32.99 AUD
Category: Parenting
A parenting guide providing compassionate instruction and insight into raising a resilient, well-balanced child. Bringing up a child to be an authentic and mentally robust adult is one of life's great challenges. It is also, fortunately, not a matter of luck. The Good Enough Parent is a compendium of ...Show more
The School of Life: A Job to Love: How to Find a Fulfilling Career by The School of Life
$24.99 AUD
Category: Psychology and Personal Development
"The idea that work might be fulfilling rather than just necessary is a recent invention. These days, in prosperous areas of the world, we don't only expect to get paid, we also expect to find meaning and satisfaction. It's a big ask and explains why so many people have an identity crisis in their work ...Show more
The School of Life: An Emotional Education by Alain de Botton, The School of Life
$24.99 AUD
Category: Psychology and Personal Development
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: Psychology and Personal Development
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
Thinking and Eating by The School The School of Life
$45.00 AUD
Category: Cooking
Examining the psychological impact of the way we prepare and eat food, this thought provoking book explores nutrition for the mind and body.
Varieties of Melancholy by The School of Life
$29.99 AUD
Category: Psychology and Personal Development
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: Childrens Picture Books
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: Childrens Non-Fiction
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 They Forgot to Teach You At School by The School of Life
$32.99 AUD
Category: Psychology and Personal Development
We probably went to school for what felt like a very long time. We probably took care with our homework. Along the way we surely learnt intriguing things about equations, the erosion of glaciers, the history of the Middle Ages, and the tenses of foreign languages.But why, despite all the lessons we sat ...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: Psychology and Personal Development | 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