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A History of Ideas: The most intriguing, relevant and helpful concepts from the story of humanity by The School of Life
50.00 NZD
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"This is an unusual sort of history book: a history of ideas - and not just any old ideas, ideas from across time and space that are best suited to healing, enchanting and reviving us. It's a collection of humanity's very best thoughts on how to approach the challenges and joys of being alive. Along the ...Show more
A More Exciting Life by The School of Life
38.00 NZD
Category: Psychology/Self Help/Philosophy
A guide to achieving the more joyful and interesting life that we know is within our grasp.One of the things we all deeply crave is a more exciting life. We know that many things have to be routine, hard and a little boring. But we also sense that, if only we could find a way, our lives could be rendere ...Show more
A Therapeutic Library: 100 Essential Books That Teach Fulfilment, Calm and Wellbeing by The School of Life
60.00 NZD
Category: Psychology/Self-Help
Recommended reading from The School of Life, featuring 100 books that offer therapeutic insight and enlightenment. Books, however familiar, are amongst the strangest objects on the planet: little portals that open directly into the ideas, feelings, loves and sorrows of writers from all times and places. ...Show more
Calm: The Harmony and Serenity we Crave (The School of Life) by The School of Life
30.00 NZD
Category: Psychology/Self Help/Philosophy
Nowadays almost all of us wish we could be calmer; it is one of the distinctive longings of the modern age. Across history people have sought adventure and excitement, however a new priority for many of us is a desire to be more tranquil. This is a book designed to support us in our endeavours to remain ...Show more
How Ready Are You for Love? by The School of Life
35.00 NZD
Category: Psychology/Self Help/Philosophy
A guided questionnaire to help understand ourselves and our romantic relationships more clearly. Most questionnaires are happy to be a bit of fun; this one sets out to be both entertaining and, more importantly, useful - offering us nothing less than a guide to the comforting and supportive relationshi ...Show more
How To Think More About Sex by Alain De Botton, The School of Life
28.00 NZD
Category: Sex | Series: The\School of Life Ser.
In this rigorous and supremely honest book Alain de Botton helps us navigate the intimate and exciting - yet often confusing and difficult - experience that is sex.Few of us tend to feel we're entirely normal when it comes to sex, and what we think we're supposed to be feeling rarely matches up with the ...Show more
How to Be Alone by Sara Maitland, The School of Life
28.00 NZD
Category: Psychology/Self Help/Philosophy | Series: The\School of Life Ser.
By indulging in the experience of being alone, we can be inspired to find our own rewards and ultimately lead richer, fuller lives.Our fast-paced society does not approve of solitude; being alone is so often considered anti-social and some even find it sinister. Why is this so when autonomy, personal fr ...Show more
On Failure: How to succeed at defeat (The School of Life) by The School of Life
38.00 NZD
Category: Psychology/Self Help/Philosophy
This is a hopeful, consoling, gentle book about failure. Our societies talk a lot about success, but the reality is that no one gets through life without failing - in small and usually also in large ways. Sometimes our failures are very obvious, at other times, we feel we have to conceal them out of sha ...Show more
Relationships: Learning to love (The School of Life) by The School of Life
30.00 NZD
Category: Psychology/Self Help/Philosophy
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
School of Life Quotes To Live By: Quotes To Inspire and Enlighten by The School of Life
38.00 NZD
Category: Psychology/Self Help/Philosophy
This is a selection of the very best and most psychologically acute quotations from The School of Life, covering such large and diverse topics as relationships, regret, anxiety, work, friends, family, travel and, not least, the meaning of life. Some of these quotations elicit an immediate nod of recogni ...Show more
The School of Life: An Emotional Education by Alain de Botton, The School of Life
30.00 NZD
Category: Psychology/Self-Help | Reading Level: good-very good
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: On Mental Illness: What can calm, reassure and console (The School of Life) by The School of Life
38.00 NZD
Category: Psychology/Self-Help
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
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