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The School of Life: On Relationships: learning how to love by The School of Life
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.29A book to inspire closeness and connection, helping people not only to find love but to make it last. Few things promise us greater happiness than our relationships - yet few things more reliably... -
Dating by The School of Life
RRP: $16.80Booksplease Price: $13.40Dating 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... -
On Confidence by The School of Life
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $16.70The difference between success and failure often hangs on a fascinatingly small and elusive concept that our standard education system never touches: confidence. This is a guidebook to what... -
The School of Life: On Calm: The harmony and serenity we crave by The School of Life
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.35A guide to developing the art of finding serenity by understanding the sources of our anxiety and frustrations. Almost all of us wish we could be calmer; it is one of the distinctive longings of... -
Affairs by The School of Life
RRP: $16.80Booksplease Price: $12.68Our 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... -
The School of Life: A Job to Love: how to find a fulfilling career by The School of Life
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.35A practical guide to finding fulfilling work by understanding yourself. The idea that work might be fulfilling rather than just necessary is a recent invention. These days, in prosperous areas of... -
The School of Life: Collected Essays: 15th Anniversary Edition by The School of Life 9781915087102
RRP: $52.50Booksplease Price: $37.61A 15th anniversary collection of The School of Life's most popular and essential essays on self-knowledge, relationships, work and culture. The School of Life is an organisation with a focused... -
Self-Knowledge by The School of Life
RRP: $21.00Booksplease Price: $15.31In Ancient Greece, when the philosopher Socrates was asked to sum up what all philosophical commandments could be reduced to, he replied: 'Know yourself'. Self-knowledge matters so much because it is... -
What is Psychotherapy? by The School of Life
RRP: $21.00Booksplease Price: $13.25Psychotherapy is one of the most valuable inventions of the last hundred years, with an exceptional power to raise our levels of emotional well-being, improve our relationships, redeem the atmosphere... -
How to Travel by The School of Life
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $22.07An original and comprehensive look at what it is we seek when we set off on an adventure abroad - and at how we can travel better, so that our experiences overseas become truly transformative and... -
A Replacement for Religion by The School of Life
RRP: $25.20Booksplease Price: $19.13Many 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... -
The School of Life: On Mental Illness: what can calm, reassure and console by The School of Life
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $25.18We accept without shame that most organs in our bodies might at some point develop problems - and could need a bit of help. We should not make an exception of our minds. Our lives are so complicated... -
The School of Life: Small Pleasures - what makes life truly valuable by The School of Life
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.35Explores and appreciates the small pleasures found in everyday life. So often we exhaust ourselves and the planet in a search for very large pleasures, while all around us lies a wealth of small... -
Varieties of Melancholy by The School of Life
RRP: $31.50Booksplease Price: $22.11This is a book that celebrates the most neglected but valuable emotion we can feel: melancholy. Melancholy isn't depression or anger or bitterness, it's a serene, accepting, gentle, wise and kindly... -
A Therapeutic Journey: Lessons from the School of Life by Alain de Botton 9781915087478
RRP: $52.48Booksplease Price: $36.75Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915087478Author Alain de BottonFormat HardbackPage Count 384Imprint School of LifePublisher School... -
The School of Life: An Emotional Education: An Emotional Education by Alain de Botton
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $26.44Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912891450Author Alain de BottonFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint School of LifePublisher... -
The School of Life - Stay or Leave: How to remain in, or end, your relationship by The School of Life 9781915087508
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.12Whether we should stay in or leave a relationship is one of the most consequential and painful decisions we are ever likely to confront. What makes the issue so hard is that there are no fixed... -
How to Find Love by The School of Life
RRP: $21.00Booksplease Price: $14.49Choosing 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... -
The Joys and Sorrows of Parenting by The School of Life
RRP: $25.20Booksplease Price: $19.13Being 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... -
The Good Enough Parent by The School of Life
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $25.18Raising a child to be an authentic and mentally robust adult is one of life's great challenges. It is also, fortunately, not a matter of luck. There are many things to understand about how children's... -
The School of Life Guide to Modern Manners: how to navigate the dilemmas of social life The School of Life 9781916753044
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.35Modern life is full of minor but acute dilemmas: we get stuck at a gathering with someone unusually boring and wonder how to move on without causing offence; in the course of introducing one friend... -
What Are They Feeling?: The adventures of an empathy detective Daniel Gray-Barnett 9781916753167
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.35It's important to think about what others might be feeling, so we can understand the people around us better and be a good friend. But sometimes it can be difficult to guess what someone else might... -
Calm in 40 Images: The art of finding serenity The School of Life 9781916753006
RRP: $33.58Booksplease Price: $24.74Knowing how to be calm is one of life’s greatest skills, for even if we have every other possible advantage, so long as our mind is frantic, we will never taste the happiness we seek. The third title... -
Schooled for Life by Alexis Lykiard 9781910323410
RRP: $18.90Booksplease Price: $16.59Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
On Family: the joys and challenges of family life; a photographic project by The School of Life 9781915087416
RRP: $37.80Booksplease Price: $23.08Families 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 be going... -
The Secrets of Successful Relationships The School of Life 9781916753013
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $26.10It can sometimes seem a mystery why some couples stay together and thrive – while many more split up or drag on scratchily. While we might think happy love is left to chance, there are some... -
Self-Knowledge in 40 Images by The School of Life 9781915087423
RRP: $31.50Booksplease Price: $21.00When Socrates, apparently the wisest man of antiquity, was asked to define our highest purpose as humans, he responded, ‘To know ourselves.’ The advice has never been bettered. Without... -
How to Survive the Modern World by The School of Life
RRP: $48.28Booksplease Price: $35.34A 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,... -
Anxiety: Meditations on the Anxious Mind by The School of Life
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $25.18A guide to our anxious minds; offering a route to calm, self-compassion and mental well-being. Far more than we tend to realise, we're all - in private - deeply anxious. There is so much that... -
How to Overcome Your Childhood by The School of Life
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $20.98When 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... -
On Failure: How to Succeed at Defeat by The School of Life
RRP: $33.60Booksplease Price: $24.32A reassuring guide on how to overcome failure, teaching us that we can learn to fail well This is a hopeful, consoling, gentle book about failure. Our societies talk a lot about success, but the... -
The Secrets of Successful Friendships The School of Life 9781916753235
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $26.10Few things promise as much potential happiness as friendship, yet the challenge of finding and maintaining meaningful connections remains one of life's great struggles. Drawing on psychology,... -
Art Against Despair: pictures to battle sorrow and restore hope by The School of Life
RRP: $46.20Booksplease Price: $32.91One of the most unexpectedly useful things we can do when we're feeling glum or out of sorts is to look at pictures. The best works of art can lift our spirits, remind us of what we love and return... -
A More Loving World: how to increase compassion, kindness and joy by The School of Life
RRP: $25.20Booksplease Price: $18.06The modern world is richer, safer and more connected than ever before but it is - arguably - also a far less loving world than we need or want: impatience, self-righteousness, moralism and... -
Essential Ideas 1: Love The School of Life 9781916753037
RRP: $14.68Booksplease Price: $11.32In the first of a series of pocket books, The School of Life has distilled its most essential ideas on love in order to produce a bitesize manual that is both useful and entertaining. We learn -... -
The School of Life: An Emotional Education by Alain de Botton
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $16.70THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER Give the gift of inspiration: an essential guide to living wisely and well, no matter what challenges the world throws at you - from Alain de Botton, the bestselling... -
On Self-hatred: learning to like oneself by The School of Life
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $20.98A guide to emotional healing and living a more self-accepting life by learning to love oneself. Behind many of our problems lies an often ignored factor: we don't like ourselves very much. We are... -
Tudor School Boy Life by Juan Luis Vives
RRP: $50.38Booksplease Price: $47.65First available in 1908, this is an account of the school days of Juan Luis Vives (1492 to 1540) who was a Spanish scholar of the Renaissance and was a contemporary of Erasmus and Greek scholar Bude... -
What They Forgot to Teach You in School by The School of Life
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $25.18We 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... -
Why You Will Marry the Wrong Person by The School of Life
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $16.70It's one of the things we are most afraid might happen to us. We go to great lengths to avoid it. And yet we do it all the same. We marry the wrong person. Anyone we might marry could, of course, be...