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The School of Life: An Emotional Education by Alain de Botton, The School of Life
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
The School of Life: Collected Essays by The School of Life
Category: Mind Body Spirit
A 15th anniversary collection of The School of Life's most popular andessential essays on self-knowledge, relationships, work and culture. The School of Life is an organisation with a focused mission at its heart: to help foster calm, self-understanding and greater emotional maturity. Over 15 years, we ...Show more
The School of Life Dictionary (The School of Life) by The School of Life; Alain de Botton (Contribution by)
Category: Languages and Reference
A dictionary is a guide to language. This dictionary is for the distinctive language that The School of Life 'speaks': that of emotions. It is a selection of over 160 words and phrases that shed light on our feelings about ourselves, other people, and the workings of the modern world. Too often, we stru ...Show more
The School of Life - Digital Connections by The School Of Life
Category: Personal Development
Connecting with someone is not a question of being in the same space as them; it depends on sharing the right parts of each other's imaginations and deeper selves. The best kinds of conversations can make people on opposite sides of the world feel closer than ever before. Digital Connections contains ex ...Show more
The School of Life - Meeting Friends (Pack of 52 Cards) by The School Of Life
Category: Personal Development
The School of Life: On Mental Illness: What can calm, reassure and console (The School of Life) by The School of Life
Category: Personal Development
A compassionate guide to normalizing mental illness and achieving emotional wellbeing. This is a guide to coping with a wide variety of mental unwellness, from the very mild to the severe. It explains how and why we become mentally ill, how we can explain our experiences to friends and family, and ...Show more
The School of Life - The Compatibility Game by The School of Life
Category: Family Games
Focusing on areas like Work, Sex, Money and Family, The School of Life's Compatibility Game is full of provocative statements like "I want to go out less" and "It's OK to eat standing up, maybe from a jar". Designed to evoke a strong reaction, the 160 cards of this set will help you and your partner get ...Show more
Things Never to Tell Children (School of Life) by The School of Life
Category: Gifts
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
Thinking and Eating by The School The School of Life
Category: Cook Books
Examining the psychological impact of the way we prepare and eat food, this thought provoking book explores nutrition for the mind and body.
Varieties of Melancholy by The School of Life
Category: Philosophy and Religion
This is a book that celebrates the most neglected but valuable emotion we can feel: melancholy. Melancholy isn't depression or anger or bitterness, it's a serene, accepting, gentle, wise and kindly response to the difficulties and occasional misery of being alive. It steers an ideal mid-way course betwe ...Show more
What Adults Don't Know about Architecture by The School of Life
Category: Children's Educational
Children are rarely introduced properly to architecture, but there are in fact few subjects more important - because the quality of the architecture that surrounds us has such an impact on our mood and sense of well-being. The bitter truth is that in modern times, we've built a world that's far too ofte ...Show more