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How to Survive the Modern World (The School of Life) by The School of Life
44.99 NZD
Category: Self Improvement
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
Joys and Sorrows Of Parenting by The School of Life; Alain de Botton (Series edited by); Bronia Stewart (Photographer)
29.99 NZD
Category: Parenting
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
Mind and Body (The School of Life) by The School of Life
34.99 NZD
Category: Mind/Body/Spirit
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
On Being Nice: A guide to friendship and connection (The School of Life) by The School of Life
29.99 NZD
Category: Self Improvement
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 Failure: How to succeed at defeat (The School of Life) by The School of Life
37.99 NZD
Category: Self Improvement
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
29.99 NZD
Category: Psychology / Sociology:
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
Relationships - The School of Life by The School of Life
37.99 NZD
Category: Self Improvement | Series: The\School of Life Library
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: How to Get Married by The School of Life
29.99 NZD
Category: Family
"Many of us are attracted to the idea of marriage and yet feel a bit uncomfortable with some of the rituals that are traditionally associated with the big day. Perhaps the old ceremonies place too much emphasis on religion or else seem out of step with some of the complex realities of contemporary relat ...Show more
School of Life Quotes To Live By: Quotes To Inspire and Enlighten by THE SCHOOL OF LIFE
37.99 NZD
Category: Mind/Body/Spirit
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
Small Pleasures (The School of Life) by The School of Life, The School of Life
29.99 NZD
Category: Self Improvement
The School of Life is a global organisation helping people lead more fulfilled lives. Through our range of books, gifts and stationery, we aim to prompt more thoughtful natures and help everyone to find fulfilment. The School of Life Press brings together the thinking and ideas of the School of Life cre ...Show more
The Good Enough Parent (The School of Life) by The School of Life
37.99 NZD
Category: Parenting
A parenting guide providing compassionate instruction and insight into raising a resilient, well-balanced child. Bringing up 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. The Good Enough Parent is a compendium of ...Show more
The Meaning of Life (The School of Life) by The School of Life
29.99 NZD
Category: Mind/Body/Spirit
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