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The Meaning of Life (The School of Life) by The School of Life
$27.00 AUD
Category: Culture and Ideas
To wonder too openly or intensely about the meaning of life can seem a peculiar, ill-fated and faintly ridiculous pastime. It can seem like a topic on which ordinary mortals cannot make much progress. In truth, it is for all of us to wonder about, define and work towards a more meaningful existence. Thi ...Show more
The School of Life: A Job to Love: How to Find a Fulfilling Career by The School of Life
$24.99 AUD
Category: Culture and Ideas
"The idea that work might be fulfilling rather than just necessary is a recent invention. These days, in prosperous areas of the world, we don't only expect to get paid, we also expect to find meaning and satisfaction. It's a big ask and explains why so many people have an identity crisis in their work ...Show more
The School of Life: An Emotional Education by Alain de Botton, The School of Life
$25.00 AUD
Category: Personal Development | 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: Collected Essays by The School of Life
$55.00 AUD
Category: Anthologies
A 15th anniversary collection of The School of Life's most popular andessential essays on self-knowledge, relationships, work and culture. The School of Life is an organisation with a focused mission at its heart: to help foster calm, self-understanding and greater emotional maturity. Over 15 years, we ...Show more
The School of Life: On Mental Illness: What can calm, reassure and console (The School of Life) by The School of Life
$32.99 AUD
Category: Personal Development
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
Things Never to Tell Children (School of Life) by The School of Life
$19.95 AUD
Category: Culture and Ideas
This is a book that should never fall into the hands of children - for it is filled with the darkest truths about life that might unbearably depress the young. However, for the older ones among us, this is a book full of solace, humour and relief. In a charming, naively illustrated tale, we follow the a ...Show more
Thinking and Eating by The School The School of Life
$40.90 AUD
Category: Food and Beverage
Examining the psychological impact of the way we prepare and eat food, this thought provoking book explores nutrition for the mind and body.
What Adults Don't Know about Art by The School The School of Life
$32.99 AUD
Category: Activity
Everyone tells kids that art matters - but the truth is that very often it's hard to know why it really does. Museum visits can feel like a chore as does having to learn the names of the big artists we're all meant to love (but perhaps don't quite in the way we're supposed to). This is a huge pit ...Show more
What Can I Do When I Grow Up?: A Children's Career Guide (The School of Life) by The School of Life; Alain de Botton
$33.00 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction
It's impossible for a child to spend too long around adults without one of them coming up and asking, as if it were the most normal thing in the world, "What do you want to do when you grow up?" They mean for this to be a relatively simple question; the idea is that you'll quite easily be able to say so ...Show more
What They Forgot to Teach You At School by The School of Life
$32.99 AUD
Category: Culture and Ideas
We probably went to school for what felt like a very long time. We probably took care with our homework. Along the way we surely learnt intriguing things about equations, the erosion of glaciers, the history of the Middle Ages, and the tenses of foreign languages.But why, despite all the lessons we sat ...Show more
What is Culture For? (The School of Life) by The School of Life; Alain de Botton (Series edited by)
$25.95 AUD
Category: Culture and Ideas | Series: Essay Bks.
Our societies frequently proclaim their enormous esteem for culture. Music, film, literature and the visual arts enjoy high prestige and are viewed by many as getting close to the meaning of life. But what is culture really for?This book proposes that works of culture were all made, in one way or anothe ...Show more