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A Job to Love - The School of Life by The School of Life
$32.99 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: The\School of Life Library
Alongside a satisfying relationship, a career we love is one of the foremost requirements for a fulfilled life. Unfortunately, it is devilishly hard to understand oneself well enough to know quite where one's energies should be directed. A Job To Love is designed to help us out of some of these impasses ...Show more
Affairs by The School The School of Life
$19.99 AUD
Category: Culture & Society | Series: The\School of Life Love Ser.
Our societies are remarkably confident on the matter: Affairs are terrible things and only fools, monsters and knaves would ever be involved in them. Those who are their victims deserve unending sympathy and access to a good lawyer. This stance may be clear, but it is not especially helpful or productiv ...Show more
Arguments by The School The School of Life
$19.99 AUD
Category: Culture & Society | Series: The\School of Life Love Ser.
An average couple will have between thirty and fifty significant arguments a year--and yet we're seldom taught very much about why they happen and how they could grow a little less intense. This is a guide to arguments in love: it teaches us why they might occur, what their symptoms are, how we could le ...Show more
Big Ideas for Curious Minds: An Introduction to Philosophy by The School of Life; Alain de Botton (Series edited by); Anna Doherty (Illustrator)
$39.99 AUD
Category: 9 – 12 years old | Series: School of Life
Children are, in many ways, born philosophers. Without prompting, they ask some of the largest questions: about time, mortality, happiness and the meaning of it all. Yet sadly, too often, this inborn curiosity is not developed and with age the questions fall away. This is a book designed to harness chil ...Show more
Dating by The School The School of Life
$19.99 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: The\School of Life Love Ser.
Dating might seem a trivial and relatively inconsequential part of love, but it is in fact key to getting into the kind of relationship that can last and help us flourish. The process we call dating sits on top of some of the largest themes of love: how to know whether or not someone is right for us; ho ...Show more
Great Thinkers School of Life (The School of Life) by The School of Life
$45.00 AUD
Category: Essays, Language & Writing | 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
How to Be Bored by Eva Hoffman
$19.99 AUD
Category: FORTHCOMING | Series: The School of Life
How to embrace boredom and find meaning in doing nothing. Lethargic inactivity can be debilitating and depressing; but for those living in the modern world, the pendulum has swung far in the other direction. We live in a hectic, hyperactive, over-stimulated age. Excessive busyness and overfilled schedul ...Show more
How to Be a Leader (The School of Life series) by School of Life Staff (Compiled by); Martin Bjergegaard; Cosmina Popa
$19.99 AUD
Category: FORTHCOMING | Series: The\School of Life Ser.
No one is born to lead. This is the idea at the heart of this thoughtful book on leadership. Popular culture feeds us images of the square-jawed, strong-armed leader - charismatic, powerful, decisive - but the truth is, with the right amount of self-knowledge and authenticity, anyone can be a good leade ...Show more
How to Change the World by John-Paul Flintoff
$19.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy | Series: The School of Life
We all want to live in a better world, but sometimes it feels that we lack the ability or influence to make a difference. John-Paul Flintoff offers a powerful reminder that through the generations, society has been transformed by the actions of individuals who understood that if they didn't like somethi ...Show more
How to Think Like an Entrepreneur (The School of Life series) by Philip Delves Broughton
$19.99 AUD
Category: FORTHCOMING | Series: The School of Life
Explore how entrepreneurial thinking can dramatically improve your work, your life and your relationshipsHaving the drive, ambition and inspiration to start a new business takes a particular mindset - no wonder we regard successful entrepreneurs as modern-day magic-makers. But what if that spirit and dr ...Show more
On Being Nice (The School of Life) by The School of Life
$32.99 AUD
Category: No Category | 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
$32.99 AUD
Category: No Category | 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