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How to Live in the City (The School of Life series) by Hugo Macdonald
$20.00 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought | Series: The School of Life
A handbook for mastering the art of living in a city. Building a relationship with a city is a lot like building a relationship with another person - just as cities can be intoxicating, generous and inspiring, so they can also be dangerous, fickle and impenetrable. How to Live in the City is a book for ...Show more
How to Make A Home (The School of Life series) by Edward Hollis
$20.00 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought | Series: The School of Life
A thoughtful look at what it means to build a homeAt a time when work and home life is becoming increasingly blurred, and modern technology brings the realm of the public into what used to be a personal and private space, Ed Hollis looks at what it means to make a home in today's modern world. Explorin ...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
How to Stay Sane by Philippa Perry
$19.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy | Series: The School of Life
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 argues that there are four cornerstones to sanity you can influence to bring about change. By developing your self-observation skills, e ...Show more
How to Think About Exercise (School of Life) by Damon Young
$19.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy | Series: School of Life Ser.
We tend to regard exercise as pure physical exertion, a working of the muscles to develop (or show) bodily strength and vitality. We do not exercise to improve our minds or to learn something new; we commonly make this division of the body and mind. But this was not always so; the ancient Greeks rarely ...Show more
How to Think Like an Entrepreneur (The School of Life series) by Philip Delves Broughton
$19.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought | Series: The School of Life
Explore how entrepreneurial thinking can dramatically improve your work, your life and your relationshipsHaving the drive, ambition and inspiration to start a new business takes a particular mindset - no wonder we regard successful entrepreneurs as modern-day magic-makers. But what if that spirit and dr ...Show more
How to Think More About Sex by Alain de Botton
$19.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy | Series: The School of Life
In this rigorous and supremely honest book Alain de Botton helps us navigate the intimate and exciting yet often confusing and difficult experience that is sex. Few of us tend to feel we're entirely normal when it comes to sex, and what we're supposed to be feeling rarely matches up with the reality. Th ...Show more
How to Thrive in the Digital Age (The School of Life series) by Tom Chatfield
$19.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy | Series: The School of Life
Our world is, increasingly, a digital one. Over half of the planet's adult population now spend more of their waking hours 'plugged in' than not, whether to the internet, mobile telephony, or other digital media. To email, text, tweet and blog our way through our careers, relationships and even our fami ...Show more
How to Worry Less About Money (The School of Life series) by John Armstrong
$19.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy | Series: The School of Life
Our relationship with money is one that lasts a lifetime. It can be as important as family life, as competitive as work, and as exciting and secretive as love. Yet books about money tend to take one of two routes: a) how to get more, or b) how to deal with less. This book turns these questions upside do ...Show more
Life Lessons From Nietzsche by John Armstrong; School of Life (Business enterprise) Staff (Contribution by)
$19.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy | Series: The\School of Life Ser.
Friedrich Nietzsche was a German philosopher, poet and cultural critic. He is best known for his controversial idea of "life affirmation" that challenged traditional morality and all doctrines. Born in 1844 outside Leipzig, Germany, his teachings inspired people in all walks of life, from dancers and po ...Show more
Life Lessons from Bergson - The School of Life by Michael Foley
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Category: Philosophy | Series: The\School of Life Ser.
'The School of Life offers radical ways to help us raid the treasure trove of human knowledge' Independent on Sunday Henri Bergson was a French professor and philosopher. Born in Paris in 1859 to a Polish composer and Yorkshire woman of Irish descent, his revelatory ideas of life as ceaseless becoming a ...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