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What Adults Don't Know about Art by The School The School of Life
Category: Children's Educational
Everyone tells kids that art matters - but the truth is that very often it's hard to know why it really does. Museum visits can feel like a chore as does having to learn the names of the big artists we're all meant to love (but perhaps don't quite in the way we're supposed to). This is a huge pit ...Show more
What Are You Feeling? (HB) by The School of Life; Daniel Gray-Barnett (Illustrator)
Category: Picture Books
An illustrated guide helping children to identify and articulate how they are really feeling. What Are You Feeling? is the first of a series of books that aim todevelop emotional literacy for children. This book helps the readerto identify and articulate their emotions as they discuss 20 diffe ...Show more
What Can I Do When I Grow Up?: A Children's Career Guide (The School of Life) by The School of Life; Alain de Botton
Category: Children's Non Fiction
It's impossible for a child to spend too long around adults without one of them coming up and asking, as if it were the most normal thing in the world, "What do you want to do when you grow up?" They mean for this to be a relatively simple question; the idea is that you'll quite easily be able to say so ...Show more
What Do I Really Want To Achieve? - Box Set includes160 cards & 20 page booklet by The School of Life
Category: Personal Development
Reconsider the things that really matter to you with a priority-reset courtesy of the School of Life's What Do I Really Want To Achieve? Asking the big questions is why we so often turn to the School of Life, and What Do I Really Want To Achieve? Goes right for some of the most challenging quandaries w ...Show more
What They Forgot to Teach You At School by The School of Life
Category: Personal Development
We probably went to school for what felt like a very long time. We probably took care with our homework. Along the way we surely learnt intriguing things about equations, the erosion of glaciers, the history of the Middle Ages, and the tenses of foreign languages.But why, despite all the lessons we sat ...Show more
What is Culture For? (The School of Life) by The School of Life; Alain de Botton (Series edited by)
Category: Philosophy and Religion | 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
What is Psychotherapy? (The School of Life) by The School of Life; Alain de Botton (Series edited by)
Category: Gifts | Series: Essay Bks.
Psychotherapy is one of the most valuable inventions of the last hundred years, with an exceptional power to raise our levels of emotional well-being, improve our relationships, redeem the atmosphere in our families and assist us in mining our professional potential. But it is also profoundly misunderst ...Show more
Who Am I? (The School of Life) by The School The School of Life
Category: Personal Development
One of the trickiest tasks we ever face is that of working out who we really are. If we're asked directly to describe ourselves, our minds tend to go blank. We can't just sum ourselves up. We need prompts and suggestions and more detailed enquiries that help tease out and organize our picture of ourselv ...Show more
Why We Hate Cheap Things and Other Money-Related Essays by The School of Life
Category: Personal Development | Series: Essay Bks.
We don't think we hate cheap things, of course, but we rather behave as if we do, in the sense that we rarely properly appreciate what is always around us and doesn't appear to cost very much, for example, the night sky, pencils, fried eggs, zips and the holding of hands. This volume explores the way we ...Show more
Why You Will Marry the Wrong Person by The School of Life
Category: Personal Development | Series: Essay Bks.
We are all desperate, of course, to marry the right person. But none of us ever quite does. The fault isn't entirely our own; it has to do with the devilish truth that anyone we're liable to meet is going to be rather wrong, in some fascinating way or another, because this is simply what all humans happ ...Show more
Writing As Therapy Journal: Journeys - A Linen-Bound Notebook Designed to Accommodate Ideas, Aspirations and Worries by The School of Life
Category: Journals
A linen-bound notebook designed to accommodate ideas, aspirations and worries in the therapeutic activity of your thoughts. We have so many vague feelings of hurt, envy, anxiety, and regret, but for the most part we never stop to make sense of them. It's too uncomfortable and especially difficult becaus ...Show more