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Emotionally Intelligent Office (The School of Life) by Alain de Botton
$29.99 NZD
Category: Culture & Life
Stress and mental ill health currently costs the United States economy $300 billion a year. Modern businesses continue to place huge emphasis on technical training, yet a lot of what determines the success or failure of organisations has nothing to do with the sort of hard skills taught at business scho ...Show more
Joys and Sorrows Of Parenting by The School of Life; Alain de Botton (Series edited by); Bronia Stewart (Photographer)
$0.00 NZD
Category: Culture & Life
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
On Confidence (The School of Life) by School of Life (Business Enterprise) Staff; Alain de Botton (Series edited by)
$27.99 NZD
Category: Psychology | Series: Essay Bks.
We spend vast amounts of time acquiring confidence in narrow technical fields: quadratic equations or bioengineering; economics or pole vaulting. But we overlook the primordial need to acquire a more free ranging variety of confidence - one that can serve us across a range of tasks: speaking to stranger ...Show more
Self-Knowledge (The School of Life) by School of Life Staff; Alain de Botton (Series edited by)
$27.99 NZD
Category: Culture & Life | Series: Essay Bks.
In Ancient Greece, when the philosopher Socrates was asked to sum up what all philosophical commandments could be reduced to, he replied: 'Know yourself'. Self-knowledge matters so much because it is only on the basis of an accurate sense of who we are that we can make reliable decisions - particularly ...Show more
The Consolations of Philosophy: Popular Penguins by Alain de Botton
$15.99 NZD
Category: History, Philosophy, Religion | Series: Popular Penguins
Alain de Botton has performed a stunning feat: he has transformed arcane philosophy into something accessible and entertaining, useful and kind. Drawing on the work of six of the world's most brilliant thinkers, de Botton has arranged a panoply of wisdom to guide us through our most common problems. Fro ...Show more
The Course of Love: An unforgettable story of love and marriage from the author of bestselling novel Essays in Love by Alain de Botton
$26.00 NZD
Category: Modern
A brilliant new novel about love and marriage in the modern world - from the author the bestselling novel Essays in Love. Modern love is never easy. Society is obsessed with stories of romance, but what comes after happily ever after? This is a love story with a difference. From dating to marriage, from ...Show more
The School of Life: An Emotional Education by Alain de Botton, The School of Life
$30.00 NZD
Category: Personal Development
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
What is Culture For? (The School of Life) by The School of Life; Alain de Botton (Series edited by)
$29.99 NZD
Category: Culture & Life | 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
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