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On Confidence (The School of Life) by School of Life (Business Enterprise) Staff; Alain de Botton (Series edited by)
$22.99 AUD
Category: Mind, Body, Spirit | Series: Essay Bks.
We spend vast amounts of time acquiring confidence in narrow technical fields: quadratic equations or bioengineering; economics or pole vaulting. But we overlook the primordial need to acquire a more free ranging variety of confidence - one that can serve us across a range of tasks: speaking to stranger ...Show more
On Family: The joys and challenges of family life; a photographic project by The School of Life
$39.99 AUD
Category: Health and Wellbeing
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
Pillow Talk Cards School of Life by School Of Life
$34.99 AUD
Category: Gift and Humour
Although the pleasures of sex are well known, what is less emphasised are the pleasures of talking about sex: what feels nice, what we like to daydream about, what we long for, where our fantasies have come from. There is scarcely anything more interesting. Yet too often, we find ourselves not having as ...Show more
School of Life Guide to Modern Manners by The School The School of Life
$26.99 AUD
Category: Mind, Body, Spirit
Modern 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 to another, we realize that we have forgotten one of the party's names; we run into an ex while on an earl ...Show more
School of Life: How to Get Married by The School of Life
$24.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy
"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
Stay or Leave: How to remain in, or end, your relationship by The School of Life
$22.99 AUD
Category: Mind, Body, Spirit
A book to offer clarity and guidance when facing the difficult decision of whether your relationship has a future. Whether 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 fi ...Show more
Table Talk The School of Life by School Of Life
$27.95 AUD
Category: Gift and Humour
A meal with friends is only ever as good as the questions we ask one another. Too often, we fall back on polite but not so inspired staples: ‘Have you got anything special planned for the week-end’ ‘What do you do?’, and so on. But there are questions that work like magic keys that open up o ...Show more
The Friendship Game by The School Of Life
$49.99 AUD
Category: Gift and Humour
Go a little deeper, and get to know your mates that little bit better with the playful challenges of The School of Life's Friendship Game. Chosen by the roll of the dice, the Friendship Game tosses you and your mates a series of questions ranging from playful to meditative, designed to get past the "ho ...Show more
The Good Enough Parent (The School of Life) by The School of Life
$32.99 AUD
Category: Family and 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