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Anxiety by The School of Life
$38.00 NZD
Category: Personal Development
Far more than we tend to realize, we're all--in private--deeply anxious. There is so much that worries us across our days and nights: whether our hopes will come true, whether others will like us, whether the people we care about will be OK, whether we can escape humiliation and grief ... Too often, we ...Show more
Great Thinkers School of Life (The School of Life) by The School of Life
$50.00 NZD
Category: History, Philosophy, Religion | Series: The\School of Life Library
Typically, great thinkers have been included in encyclopedic works on the basis of reputation and historic influence. The School of Life takes a different approach, focusing instead on the thinkers whose ideas are the most helpful to our lives now. This is a collection of sixty of the most important and ...Show more
Heartbreak by The School The School of Life
$27.99 NZD
Category: Culture & Life | Series: The\School of Life Love Ser.
Almost no one gets through life without, at some point, having their heart broken. Advice at such a dark moment tends to focus on letting time do the healing. But there is also a vital role for understanding and perspective. We sometimes make our situation far worse than it needs to be through certain i ...Show more
How to Overcome Your Childhood by The School The School of Life
$25.00 NZD
Category: Psychology | Series: THE SCHOOL OF LIFE
When trying to deal with our current troubles and anxieties, it can be deeply irritating to be asked to consider our childhoods. They happened so long ago; we can probably barely remember, let alone relate to, the little person we once were. But one of the most powerful explanations for why we may, as a ...Show more
How to Reform Capitalism by The School of Life
$27.99 NZD
Category: Culture & Life | 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
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
Philosophy in 40 Ideas (The School of Life) by The School The School of Life
$27.99 NZD
Category: History, Philosophy, Religion
Philosophy is a discipline committed to helping us live wiser and less sorrowful lives. This book artfully draws together 40 of the greatest and most useful ideas found in philosophy, taking us on a journey around key concepts from both Eastern and Western cultures.We are invited to sample the distincti ...Show more
School of Life Quotes To Live By: Quotes To Inspire and Enlighten by The School of Life
$37.99 NZD
Category: Culture & Life
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
The Meaning of Life (The School of Life) by The School of Life
$29.99 NZD
Category: Culture & Life
To wonder too openly or intensely about the meaning of life can seem a peculiar, ill-fated and faintly ridiculous pastime. It can seem like a topic on which ordinary mortals cannot make much progress. In truth, it is for all of us to wonder about, define and work towards a more meaningful existence. Thi ...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
Things Never to Tell Children (School of Life) by The School of Life
$24.99 NZD
Category: Culture & Life
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
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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