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Small Pleasures - The School of Life by The School of Life
$32.99 AUD
Category: Personal Development | 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
The Couple's Workbook: Homework to help love last (The School of Life) by The School of Life
$32.99 AUD
Category: Personal Development
Love is a skill, not just an emotion -- and in order for us to get good at it, we have to practice, as we would in any other area we want to shine in. Many of us expect our romantic relationships to be like fairy tale romances; but realistically, after a heady and passion-filled start, we end up in uni ...Show more
The School of Life: An Emotional Education by Alain de Botton, The School of Life
$24.99 AUD
Category: 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: An Emotional Education by Alain de Botton and The School of Life
$32.99 AUD
Category: Personal Development | Reading Level: 4 Non Fiction
Emotional intelligence affects every aspect of the way we live, from romantic to professional relationships, from our inner resilience to our social success. It is the ultimate soft skill of the twenty-first century. Drawing on his work in the hugely successful School of Life organisation, Alain de Bott ...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: Personal Development
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 School of Life - Digital Connections by The School Of Life
$34.95 AUD
Category: Stationery & Gifts
Connecting with someone is not a question of being in the same space as them; it depends on sharing the right parts of each other's imaginations and deeper selves. The best kinds of conversations can make people on opposite sides of the world feel closer than ever before. Digital Connections contains ex ...Show more
Things Never to Tell Children (School of Life) by The School of Life
$19.99 AUD
Category: Gift Books
This is a book that should never fall into the hands of children - for it is filled with the darkest truths about life that might unbearably depress the young. However, for the older ones among us, this is a book full of solace, humour and relief. In a charming, naively illustrated tale, we follow the a ...Show more
What Adults Don't Know about Architecture by The School of Life
$32.99 AUD
Category: CH Non-Fiction
Children are rarely introduced properly to architecture, but there are in fact few subjects more important - because the quality of the architecture that surrounds us has such an impact on our mood and sense of well-being. The bitter truth is that in modern times, we've built a world that's far too ofte ...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: CH 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 Do I Really Want To Achieve? - Box Set includes160 cards & 20 page booklet by The School of Life
$44.95 AUD
Category: Stationery & Gifts
Reconsider the things that really matter to you with a priority-reset courtesy of the School of Life's What Do I Really Want To Achieve? Asking the big questions is why we so often turn to the School of Life, and What Do I Really Want To Achieve? Goes right for some of the most challenging quandaries w ...Show more
What They Forgot to Teach You At School by The School of Life
$32.99 AUD
Category: 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: Cultural Studies | 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