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The School of Life
Great stories are often universal: our very souls shine with new ideas when we read them. This book is an exploration of the ideas found in books, that teach children…
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Recommended reading from The School of Life, featuring 100 books that offer therapeutic insight and enlightenment.
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A book to offer comfort and guidance to those dealing with the sorrows of heartbreak.
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This is a book that patiently unpacks the causes of our greatest stresses and gives us a succession of highly persuasive, beautiful and sometimes dryly comic arguments with which to…
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This pack of cards is designed to spark the best kind of pillow talk: the sort where we explore sex with intimacy, playfulness and intellectual curiosity. Here are sixty questions…
A guide to modern times that explores the challenges living in the 21st century can pose to our mental wellbeing.
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Explores and appreciates the small pleasures found in everyday life.
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A guide to emotional healing and living a more self-accepting life by learning to love oneself.
Exploring ideas around minimalism, simplicity and how to live comfortably with less.
A thought-provoking and practical guide to one of the greatest questions we will ever face - what is the meaning of life?
The difference between success and failure often hangs on a concept that our standard education system never touches: confidence. Discover how confidence is based on ideas about our place in…
A fresh approach to modern working life, giving advice for how we may face the many challenges of work.
Twenty scenarios explaining how to gently deliver a range of life’s most difficult messages while causing minimal harm.
A 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.
An essential guide to navigating the complexities of professional relationships in the office.
A book to offer guidance, companionship and consolation to the restless insomniac; analysis and philosophy combine to provide comfort on even the longest of sleepless nights.
This volume explores the way we can easily pine for what is costly and out of reach - and it gently returns us to ourselves, full of new found wonder…
This is a guidebook to the uncharted landscape of niceness, gently leading us around the key themes of this forgotten quality. We learn that niceness is compatible with strength and…
A guided questionnaire to help understand ourselves and our romantic relationships more clearly.
A thought-provoking and practical workbook with exercises to help you discover a career that is truly fulfilling.
A selection of unique and beautiful destinations around the world, which offer powerful new perspectives on life.
This collection of essays proposes that we don’t need perfection to be happy. So long as we enter our relationships in the right spirit, we have every chance of coping…
A practical guide that explores the roots of procrastination and offers the reader thoughtful advice on the art of managing it.
Learn the Language of Emotional Intelligence.
This pack collects together 80 questions to ensure that a meal together can be at once meaningful, entertaining and touching
Alain de Botton, The School of Life
How to live wisely and well in the twenty-first century–an introduction to the modern art of emotional intelligence.
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Digital Connections contains exercises, questions and prompts designed to coax people into the richest sorts of interactions.
60 prompt cards designed to help lead you through the important task of knowing yourself a little better in life.
The School of Life's Everyday Adventures invites you to explore new things in familiar places.
Featuring 50 insights, the Stoicism set features powerful thoughts from icons like Marcus Aurelius and Roman philosopher Seneca, with some consideration for how those ideas might apply to our lives…
Get to know your friends in a whole new way thanks to the School of Life's insightful Meeting Friends card set.
An outline for a new kind of wedding ceremony free from theology, with new rituals designed to prepare us for modern marriage.
Focus on how to improve your instincts and overcome all obstacles to finding that special someone.
A guide to a more consoling, humane and in its own way joyful perspective on the complexities of love.
People who want to express admiration for culture often say it’s valuable ‘for its own sake’. The School of Life disagrees, believing that the world has, up to now, not…
A book to help us navigate the dating process and guide us through the joys and anxieties of finding a partner.
A thoughtful exploration of the complex motivations and emotions behind affairs.
A practical and definitive guide to arguments in love, teaching us how to argue more effectively.
A unique, illustrated guide to the world of work, bringing clarity to children’s essential questions on potential future careers.
A guide to greater freedom, spontaneity and enjoyment.
This essential guide to philosophy reminds us of the wit, humanity and relevance from great philosophers including Nietzsche, Heidegger, Confucius, Lao Tzu and Buddha on thoughts about love, work, anxiety…
A collection of 80 imaginative games and activities designed to engage and entertain without a screen.
This is a book that celebrates the most neglected but valuable emotion we can feel: melancholy. This book carefully collects and interprets a selection of the most universally recognisable melancholy…
A compassionate and hopeful guide to achieving emotional wellbeing.
A book to encourage compassion and forgiveness, showing us how we can work towards a better and kinder world.
A reassuring guide to navigating the challenges of modern media and staying sane in a world that does not turn off.
An illustrated guide to the feelings of others, helping children to recognise and understand empathy.
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