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How to Survive the Modern World (The School of Life) by The School of Life
39.99 AUD
Category: Mind Body Spirit
A guide to modern times that explores the challenges living in the 21st century can pose to our mental wellbeing. The modern world has brought us a range of extraordinary benefits and joys, including technology, medicine, and transport. But it can also feel as though modern times have plunged us ever d ...Show more
How to Think More Effectively (The School of Life) by The School The School of Life
24.99 AUD
Category: Business Finance Management
A guide to identifying, nurturing and growing our insight and creativity for more effective thinking.
Insomnia by The School of Life
22.99 AUD
Category: Health
A book to offer guidance, companionship and consolation to the restless insomniac; analysis and philosophy combine to provide comfort on even the longest of sleepless nights. Not being able to sleep is deeply frightening. We panic about our ability to cope with the demands of the next day; we panic that ...Show more
Joys and Sorrows Of Parenting by The School of Life; Alain de Botton (Series edited by); Bronia Stewart (Photographer)
26.99 AUD
Category: Parenting Pregnancy Childbirth
Being a parent can be one of the sources of our greatest joys. It is also intermittently the cause of some of our deepest sorrows. It is likely that we will spend at least some of the time in despair and confusion, wondering whether it really has to be so hard. Philosophy has, over the last 2,000 years, ...Show more
Mind and Body (The School of Life) by The School of Life
32.99 AUD
Category: Mind Body Spirit
A practical and playful guide to balancing and maintaining physical and mental harmony.The modern world can present the body as a machine that just needs to be regularly exercised. However, it is a remarkably sensitive organ in which a lot of our pain and hope is stored and that we need to interpret and ...Show more
More Loving World: How to Increase compassion, kindness and joy by The School of Life
26.99 AUD
Category: Mind Body Spirit
An empowering guide to creating a kinder, more loving world. The modern world is richer, safer and more connected than ever. But it is also a far less loving world than we need or want: impatience, self-righteousness, moralism and viciousness run rampant, while forgiveness, tolerance and empathy seem in ...Show more
Nature and Me - What We Can Learn From the World Around Us by The School of Life
32.99 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction
Children are used to hearing about how important it is to protect nature, but they may not fully understand how the natural world can positively impact their emotional wellbeing. With that in mind, this book looks to show children how nature can be fun, uplifting, consoling and even offer companionship ...Show more
On Being Nice: A guide to friendship and connection (The School of Life) by The School of Life
24.99 AUD
Category: Mind Body Spirit
Many books seek to make us richer or thinner. This book wants to help us to be nicer: less irritable, more patient, readier to listen, warmer and less prickly. Niceness may not have the immediate allure of money or fame, but it is a hugely important quality nevertheless, and one that we neglect at our ...Show more
On Being Nice (The School of Life) by The School of Life
32.99 AUD
Category: Mind Body Spirit | 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
On Divorce: An Illustrated Guide to the Challenges and Joys of Separation by The School of Life; Harry Borden (By (photographer))
39.99 AUD
Category: Mind Body Spirit
An illustrated guide tothe challenges and joys of separation Few of us are without some relationship to divorce: we may be the children, parents or grandparents of divorcees, the colleagues or friends; this may be what we went through a decade ago or what lies ahead of us for the 2030s or 40s; it might ...Show more
On Failure: How to succeed at defeat (The School of Life) by The School of Life
39.99 AUD
Category: Mind Body Spirit
This is a hopeful, consoling, gentle book about failure. Our societies talk a lot about success, but the reality is that no one gets through life without failing - in small and usually also in large ways. Sometimes our failures are very obvious, at other times, we feel we have to conceal them out of sha ...Show more
On Family: The joys and challenges of family life; a photographic project by The School of Life
39.99 AUD
Category: Photography
An intimate look at the complexities of family life told through evocative photography and authentic interviews. Families are a mystery. Is everyone's as complicated as ours? Is there such a thing as a 'normal' one? We generally only get to see the polished exteriors and are left to imagine what might b ...Show more