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How Modern Media Destroys Our Minds by The School of Life
$32.99 AUD
Category: Self Development
A guide to navigating modern media and staying sane in a world that does not turn off. Navigating the onslaught of media is overwhelming, to say the least. We are so used to living in a media-saturated world that we are numb to the onslaught of news, images, and posts that batter us daily. As we scrol ...Show more
How Ready Are You for Love? by The School of Life
$27.99 AUD
Category: Self Development
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 Find Love by The School of Life
$22.99 AUD
Category: Self Development | Series: Essay Bks.
Choosing a partner is one of the most consequential and tricky decisions we will ever make. The cost of repeated failure is immense. And yet we are often so alone with the search. Partners used to be found for us by parents and society. Now we are expected to follow our feelings - and so locate people b ...Show more
How to Find the Right Words (The School of Life) by The School The School of Life
$19.99 AUD
Category: Self Development
Life constantly requires us to give other people some hugely awkward messages: that we don't love them anymore; that we do love them (though we're not meant to); that they smell a bit; that they're fired; that we're furious with them (though we adore them) or that their music is too loud...Often, out of ...Show more
How to Get along with Your Colleagues by The School The School of Life
$24.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
An essential guide to navigating the complexities of professional relationships in the office.
How to Overcome Your Childhood by The School The School of Life
$19.99 AUD
Category: Self Development | Series: THE SCHOOL OF LIFE
When trying to deal with our current troubles and anxieties, it can be deeply irritating to be asked to consider our childhoods. They happened so long ago; we can probably barely remember, let alone relate to, the little person we once were. But one of the most powerful explanations for why we may, as a ...Show more
How to Think More Effectively (The School of Life) by The School The School of Life
$24.99 AUD
Category: Self Development
A guide to identifying, nurturing and growing our insight and creativity for more effective thinking.
Joys and Sorrows Of Parenting by The School of Life; Alain de Botton (Series edited by); Bronia Stewart (Photographer)
$26.99 AUD
Category: Parenting & Pregnancy
Being a parent can be one of the sources of our greatest joys. It is also intermittently the cause of some of our deepest sorrows. It is likely that we will spend at least some of the time in despair and confusion, wondering whether it really has to be so hard. Philosophy has, over the last 2,000 years, ...Show more
More Loving World: How to Increase compassion, kindness and joy by The School of Life
$26.99 AUD
Category: Self Development
An empowering guide to creating a kinder, more loving world. The modern world is richer, safer and more connected than ever. But it is also a far less loving world than we need or want: impatience, self-righteousness, moralism and viciousness run rampant, while forgiveness, tolerance and empathy seem in ...Show more
On Being Nice: A guide to friendship and connection (The School of Life) by The School of Life
$24.99 AUD
Category: Self Development
Many books seek to make us richer or thinner. This book wants to help us to be nicer: less irritable, more patient, readier to listen, warmer and less prickly. Niceness may not have the immediate allure of money or fame, but it is a hugely important quality nevertheless, and one that we neglect at our ...Show more
On Divorce: An Illustrated Guide to the Challenges and Joys of Separation by The School of Life; Harry Borden (By (photographer))
$39.99 AUD
Category: Self Development
An illustrated guide tothe challenges and joys of separation Few of us are without some relationship to divorce: we may be the children, parents or grandparents of divorcees, the colleagues or friends; this may be what we went through a decade ago or what lies ahead of us for the 2030s or 40s; it might ...Show more
On Family: The joys and challenges of family life; a photographic project by The School of Life
$39.99 AUD
Category: Self Development
An intimate look at the complexities of family life told through evocative photography and authentic interviews. Families are a mystery. Is everyone's as complicated as ours? Is there such a thing as a 'normal' one? We generally only get to see the polished exteriors and are left to imagine what might b ...Show more