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How to Get along with Your Colleagues by The School The School of Life
Category: Business
An essential guide to navigating the complexities of professional relationships in the office.
How to Overcome Your Childhood by The School The School of Life
Category: Personal Development | 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
Category: Personal Development | 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
Category: Philosophy and Religion | 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 Survive the Modern World (The School of Life) by The School of Life
Category: Personal Development
A guide to modern times that explores the challenges living in the 21st century can pose to our mental wellbeing. The modern world has brought us a range of extraordinary benefits and joys, including technology, medicine, and transport. But it can also feel as though modern times have plunged us ever d ...Show more
How to Think More Effectively (The School of Life) by The School The School of Life
Category: Personal Development
A guide to identifying, nurturing and growing our insight and creativity for more effective thinking.
Insomnia by The School of Life
Category: Health and Wellbeing
A book to offer guidance, companionship and consolation to the restless insomniac; analysis and philosophy combine to provide comfort on even the longest of sleepless nights. Not being able to sleep is deeply frightening. We panic about our ability to cope with the demands of the next day; we panic that ...Show more
Joys and Sorrows Of Parenting by The School of Life; Alain de Botton (Series edited by); Bronia Stewart (Photographer)
Category: Pregnancy
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
Know Yourself Prompt Cards - Cards for Self Exploration by The School of Life
Category: Self
60 prompt cards designed to help lead you through the important task of knowing yourself a little better It's hard to understand who we really are: what we want, how we feel and why we react as we do. This lack of self-knowledge can cause trouble. It makes us get into the wrong relationships, pick jobs ...Show more
Mind and Body (The School of Life) by The School of Life
Category: Personal Development
A practical and playful guide to balancing and maintaining physical and mental harmony.The modern world can present the body as a machine that just needs to be regularly exercised. However, it is a remarkably sensitive organ in which a lot of our pain and hope is stored and that we need to interpret and ...Show more
More Loving World: How to Increase compassion, kindness and joy by The School of Life
Category: Personal Development
An empowering guide to creating a kinder, more loving world. The modern world is richer, safer and more connected than ever. But it is also a far less loving world than we need or want: impatience, self-righteousness, moralism and viciousness run rampant, while forgiveness, tolerance and empathy seem in ...Show more
Nature and Me - What We Can Learn From the World Around Us by The School of Life
Category: Animals & Nature
Children are used to hearing about how important it is to protect nature, but they may not fully understand how the natural world can positively impact their emotional wellbeing. With that in mind, this book looks to show children how nature can be fun, uplifting, consoling and even offer companionship ...Show more