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A Therapeutic Journey: Lessons from the School of Life by Alain de Botton
$36.99 AUD
Category: Self Development
The essential guide to mental health from the bestselling author of The School of Life: A Therapeutic Journey follows the arc from mental crisis and collapse to convalescence and recovery. Written with kindness, knowledge and sympathy, it is both a practical guide and a source of consolation and compani ...Show more
Art as Therapy by Alain de Botton; John Armstrong
$24.95 AUD
Category: Painting and Crafts | Reading Level: very good
" What is art's purpose? In this engaging, lively, and controversial new book, bestselling philosopher Alain de Botton and art historian John Armstrong propose a new way of looking at familiar masterpieces, suggesting that they can be useful, relevant, and - above all else - therapeutic for their viewer ...Show more
Big Ideas for Curious Minds: An Introduction to Philosophy by The School of Life; Alain de Botton (Series edited by); Anna Doherty (Illustrator)
$35.00 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction | Series: School of Life
Children are, in many ways, born philosophers. Without prompting, they ask some of the largest questions: about time, mortality, happiness and the meaning of it all. Yet sadly, too often, this inborn curiosity is not developed and with age the questions fall away. This is a book designed to harness chil ...Show more
Joys and Sorrows Of Parenting by The School of Life; Alain de Botton (Series edited by); Bronia Stewart (Photographer)
$26.99 AUD
Category: Health and Wellbeing
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
On Confidence (The School of Life) by School of Life (Business Enterprise) Staff; Alain de Botton (Series edited by)
$22.99 AUD
Category: Lifestyle | 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
Sex: The School of Life by School of Life (Business Enterprise) Staff; Alain de Botton (Series edited by)
$32.99 AUD
Category: Lifestyle | Series: The\School of Life Library
Shame means that many couples still find it difficult to be honest with one another about who they are and what they need to feel sexually satisfied. We shouldn't suppose that we can always and invariably share our every sexual proclivity with others, but there's a lot we could feel more confident about ...Show more
The Art of Travel by Alain de Botton
$26.99 AUD
Category: Classic Fiction
Any Baedeker will tell us where we ought to travel, but only Alain de Botton will tell us how and why. With the same intelligence and insouciant charm he brought to How Proust Can Save Your Life, de Botton considers the pleasures of anticipation; the allure of the exotic, and the value of noticing every ...Show more
The Consolations of Philosophy by Alain de Botton
$27.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy and Religion | Reading Level: very good
The "Consolations of Philosophy" is Alain de Botton's internationally bestselling guide to life. It is the inspiration for the TV series "Philsophy: A Guide to Happiness. Alain de Botton, bestselling author of "How Proust Can Change Your Life", has set six of the finest minds in the history of philosoph ...Show more
The Course of Love: An unforgettable story of love and marriage from the author of bestselling novel Essays in Love by Alain de Botton
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
A brilliant new novel about love and marriage in the modern world - from the author the bestselling novel Essays in Love. Modern love is never easy. Society is obsessed with stories of romance, but what comes after happily ever after? This is a love story with a difference. From dating to marriage, from ...Show more
The School of Life: An Emotional Education by Alain de Botton, The School of Life
$24.99 AUD
Category: Lifestyle | 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 Dictionary (The School of Life) by The School of Life; Alain de Botton (Contribution by)
$45.00 AUD
Category: Lifestyle
A dictionary is a guide to language. This dictionary is for the distinctive language that The School of Life 'speaks': that of emotions. It is a selection of over 160 words and phrases that shed light on our feelings about ourselves, other people, and the workings of the modern world. Too often, we stru ...Show more
The Sorrows of Work by School of Life Staff; Alain de Botton (Series edited by)
$25.95 AUD
Category: Lifestyle | Series: Essay Bks.
Work can be a route to creativity, excitement and purpose. Nevertheless, many of us end up confused, discouraged and beaten by our working lives. The temptation is often just to blame ourselves, and to feel privately ashamed and guilty. However, as this book lucidly explains, there is a range of well-em ...Show more