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How to Worry Less About Money (The School of Life series) by John Armstrong
Category: Philosophy and Religion | Series: The School of Life
Our relationship with money is one that lasts a lifetime. It can be as important as family life, as competitive as work, and as exciting and secretive as love. Yet books about money tend to take one of two routes: a) how to get more, or b) how to deal with less. This book turns these questions upside do ...Show more
Life Lessons From Nietzsche by John Armstrong; School of Life (Business enterprise) Staff (Contribution by)
Category: Philosophy and Religion | Series: The\School of Life Ser.
Friedrich Nietzsche was a German philosopher, poet and cultural critic. He is best known for his controversial idea of "life affirmation" that challenged traditional morality and all doctrines. Born in 1844 outside Leipzig, Germany, his teachings inspired people in all walks of life, from dancers and po ...Show more
Life Lessons from Bergson - The School of Life by Michael Foley
Category: Philosophy and Religion | Series: The\School of Life Ser.
'The School of Life offers radical ways to help us raid the treasure trove of human knowledge' Independent on Sunday Henri Bergson was a French professor and philosopher. Born in Paris in 1859 to a Polish composer and Yorkshire woman of Irish descent, his revelatory ideas of life as ceaseless becoming a ...Show more
On Being Nice (The School of Life) by The School of Life
Category: Philosophy and Religion | Series: The\School of Life Library
Most books that want to change us seek to make us richer or thinner. This book wants to help us to be nicer, that is: less irritable, more patient, readier to listen, warmer, less prickly ...Niceness may not have the immediate allure of money or fame, but it is a hugely important quality nevertheless an ...Show more
Relationships - The School of Life by The School of Life
Category: Philosophy and Religion | Series: The\School of Life Library
Few things promise us greater happiness than our relationships - yet few things more reliably deliver misery and frustration. Our error is to suppose that we are born knowing how to love and that managing a relationship might therefore be intuitive and easy. This book starts from a different premise: th ...Show more
Sex: The School of Life by School of Life (Business Enterprise) Staff; Alain de Botton (Series edited by)
Category: Philosophy and Religion | Series: The\School of Life Library
Shame means that many couples still find it difficult to be honest with one another about who they are and what they need to feel sexually satisfied. We shouldn't suppose that we can always and invariably share our every sexual proclivity with others, but there's a lot we could feel more confident about ...Show more
Small Pleasures - The School of Life by The School of Life
Category: Philosophy and Religion | Series: The\School of Life Library
So often, we exhaust ourselves and the planet in a search for very large pleasures - while all around us lies a wealth of small pleasures, which - if only we paid more attention - could daily bring us solace and joy at little cost and effort. But we need some encouragement to focus our gaze. This is a b ...Show more