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How to Find the Right Words (The School of Life) by The School The School of Life
$20.00 AUD
Category: Gifts & Humour
Life constantly requires us to give other people some hugely awkward messages: that we don't love them anymore; that we do love them (though we're not meant to); that they smell a bit; that they're fired; that we're furious with them (though we adore them) or that their music is too loud...Often, out of ...Show more
How to Reform Capitalism by The School of Life
$19.99 AUD
Category: Self-Help | Series: Essay Bks.
It is quite normal to feel frustrated and sorrowful about aspects of modern capitalism, but realistic hope of change can seem either utopian or demented. In fact, the way that capitalism works is inherently open to alteration and improvement. This is because the problems of capitalism are, in their esse ...Show more
How to Stay Sane by Philippa Perry, The School of Life
$23.00 AUD
Category: Words & Ideas | Series: The\School of Life Ser.
There is no simple set of instructions that can guarantee sanity, but if you want to overcome emotional difficulties and become happier, psychotherapist Philippa Perry, author of The Book You Wish Your Parents Had Read, argues that there are four cornerstones to sanity you can influence to bring about c ...Show more
On Being Nice: A guide to friendship and connection (The School of Life) by The School of Life
$25.00 AUD
Category: Self-Help
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
$33.00 AUD
Category: Philosophy | Series: The\School of Life Library
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))
$40.00 AUD
Category: Self-Help
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
Relationships - The School of Life by The School of Life
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Category: Contemporary Thought | 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
School of Life Guide to Modern Manners by The School The School of Life
$27.00 AUD
Category: Self-Help
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
School of Life: How to Get Married by The School of Life
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Category: Self-Help
"Many of us are attracted to the idea of marriage and yet feel a bit uncomfortable with some of the rituals that are traditionally associated with the big day. Perhaps the old ceremonies place too much emphasis on religion or else seem out of step with some of the complex realities of contemporary relat ...Show more
School of Life Quotes To Live By: Quotes To Inspire and Enlighten by THE SCHOOL OF LIFE
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Category: Gifts & Humour
This is a selection of the very best and most psychologically acute quotations from The School of Life, covering such large and diverse topics as relationships, regret, anxiety, work, friends, family, travel and, not least, the meaning of life. Some of these quotations elicit an immediate nod of recogni ...Show more
Small Pleasures - The School of Life by The School of Life
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Category: Contemporary Thought | Series: The\School of Life Library
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
Small Pleasures (The School of Life) by The School of Life, The School of Life
$25.00 AUD
Category: Self-Help
The School of Life is a global organisation helping people lead more fulfilled lives. Through our range of books, gifts and stationery, we aim to prompt more thoughtful natures and help everyone to find fulfilment. The School of Life Press brings together the thinking and ideas of the School of Life cre ...Show more