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The School of Life Guide to Modern Manners: Navigating the anxieties of social life by The School of Life
24.99 AUD
Category: Mind Body Spirit
A guide to confronting modern social situations with confidence and grace. 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 realise that we ...Show more
The School of Life: On Mental Illness: What can calm, reassure and console (The School of Life) by The School of Life
32.99 AUD
Category: Mind Body Spirit
A compassionate guide to normalizing mental illness and achieving emotional wellbeing. This is a guide to coping with a wide variety of mental unwellness, from the very mild to the severe. It explains how and why we become mentally ill, how we can explain our experiences to friends and family, and ...Show more
The Secrets of Successful Relationships by The School of Life
39.99 AUD
Category: Mind Body Spirit | Series: The\Secrets Ser.
The first book in a new series offering advice on the emotional skills required to maintain successful relationships. It can sometimes seem a mystery why some couples stay together and thrive - while many more split up or drag on scratchily. Fortunately, though we might ascribe happy love to chance, the ...Show more
Things Never to Tell Children (School of Life) by The School of Life
19.99 AUD
Category: Parenting Pregnancy Childbirth
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
Thinking and Eating by The School The School of Life
45.00 AUD
Category: Food Cooking Wine
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: Mind Body Spirit
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 Adults Don't Know about Art by The School The School of Life
32.99 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction
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 They Feeling?: The adventures of an empathy detective by The School of Life
29.99 AUD
Category: Childrens
An illustrated guide to the feelings of others, helping children to recognise and understand empathy. It's important to think about what others might be feeling, so we can understand the people around us better and be a good friend. But sometimes it can be difficult to guess what someone else might be f ...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: 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: Mind Body Spirit
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: Culture Ideas Politics | 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
What is Psychotherapy? (The School of Life) by The School of Life; Alain de Botton (Series edited by)
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics | Series: Essay Bks.
Psychotherapy is one of the most valuable inventions of the last hundred years, with an exceptional power to raise our levels of emotional well-being, improve our relationships, redeem the atmosphere in our families and assist us in mining our professional potential. But it is also profoundly misunderst ...Show more