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How to Survive the Modern World (The School of Life) by The School of Life
$39.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy / Psychology
A guide to modern times that explores the challenges living in the 21st century can pose to our mental wellbeing. The modern world has brought us a range of extraordinary benefits and joys, including technology, medicine, and transport. But it can also feel as though modern times have plunged us ever d ...Show more
Mind and Body (The School of Life) by The School of Life
$32.99 AUD
Category: Self Development
A practical and playful guide to balancing and maintaining physical and mental harmony.The modern world can present the body as a machine that just needs to be regularly exercised. However, it is a remarkably sensitive organ in which a lot of our pain and hope is stored and that we need to interpret and ...Show more
More Loving World: How to Increase compassion, kindness and joy by The School of Life
$26.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy / Psychology
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: Philosophy / Psychology
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: Philosophy / Psychology
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 Failure: How to succeed at defeat (The School of Life) by The School of Life
$32.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy / Psychology
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
On Family: The joys and challenges of family life; a photographic project by The School of Life
$39.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy / Psychology
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
On Self-Hatred: Learning to like oneself (The School of Life) by The School of Life
$29.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy / Psychology
Behind many of our problems lies an often ignored factor: we don't like ourselves very much. We are sufferers of self-hatred. We tell ourselves the meanest things. It's because of self-hatred that we tend to neglect our potential at work and get entangled in unfulfilling relationships, that we lack conf ...Show more
Philosophy in 40 Ideas (The School of Life) by The School The School of Life
$22.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy / Psychology
Philosophy is a discipline committed to helping us live wiser and less sorrowful lives. This book artfully draws together 40 of the greatest and most useful ideas found in philosophy, taking us on a journey around key concepts from both Eastern and Western cultures.We are invited to sample the distincti ...Show more
Reasons to be Hopeful: What remains consoling, inspiring and beautiful by The School of Life
$39.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy / Psychology
An exploration of the many reasons to remain hopeful in the face of life's disappointments and challenges.In a world that isn't short of darkness, there could be few more urgent priorities than to spend time rehearsing for ourselves why life - despite all its challenges - still has so much to offer us; ...Show more
Relationships: Learning to love (The School of Life) by The School of Life
$24.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy / Psychology
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
Replacement for Religion by The School The School of Life
$24.99 AUD
Category: Self Development
Many of us find ourselves in the odd situation of not believing in religion - but nevertheless being interested in it, moved by it and sympathetic to some of its aims. We may enjoy religious art and architecture, music and community, and even some of the rituals - while being unable to believe in divine ...Show more