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Simpler Life
a guide to greater serenity, ease, and clarity
Av The School of Life, Alain de Botton m. fl.
Inbunden, 2022
183 kr
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Exploring ideas around minimalism, simplicity and how to live comfortably with less.The modern world can be a complicated, frenzied and noisy place, filled with too many options, products, ideas and opinions. That explains why what many of us long for is simplicity: a life that can be more pared …
What They Forgot to Teach You at School
Essential emotional lessons needed to thrive
Av The School of Life, Alain de Botton m. fl.
Inbunden, 2021
186 kr
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We 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 history of the Middle Ages, and the tenses of foreign languages. But why, despite all the lessons …
School of Life: Calm
the harmony and serenity we crave
Av The School of Life, The School
Häftad, 2022
113 kr
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A 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 the modern age.Across history people have sought adventure and excitement, however a new priority for …
School of Life - Stay or Leave
How to remain in, or end, your relationship
Av The School of Life, The School
Häftad, 2024
141 kr
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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 fixed rules for judgement. How can we tell whether a relationship is ‘good enough’ or plain wrong? How do we draw …
More Exciting Life
A Guide to Greater Freedom, Spontaneity and Enjoyment
Av The School of Life, Alain De Botton m. fl.
Inbunden, 2020
164 kr
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One of the things we all deeply crave, and all richly deserve, is a more exciting life. We know well enough that many things have to be routine, hard and a little bit boring. But we also rightly sense that, if only we can find a way, our lives could be rendered intermittently more joyful, intense, …
Confessions Game
Av The School of Life, The School
2023
286 kr
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From adolescence onwards, one of the great struggles we face is how to reconcile our own desires with those we find socially acceptable. The best encounters with friends are those where we can talk honestly about what’s going on in our lives, sharing triumphs, joys, fears and longings - without the …
How to Overcome Your Childhood
Av The School of Life, Alain de Botton m. fl.
Inbunden, 2019
166 kr
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When 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 relate to, the little person we once were. But one of the most powerful explanations for why we may, …
School of Life: Relationships
learning to love
Av The School of Life, The School
Häftad, 2022
122 kr
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A 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 deliver misery and frustration.Our error is to suppose that we are born knowing how to love and that …
Small Pleasures
What makes life truly valuable
Av The School of Life, The School
Häftad, 2022
113 kr
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So often, we exhaust ourselves and the planet in a search for very large pleasures - while all around us lies a wealth of small pleasures, which - if only we paid more attention - could daily bring us solace and joy at little cost and effort.But we need some encouragement to focus our gaze. This is …
School of Life: A Job to Love
how to find a fulfilling career
Av The School of Life, The School
Häftad, 2023
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
113 kr
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A 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 world, we don’t only expect to get paid, we also expect to find meaning and satisfaction.A Job to …
Big Ideas for Curious Minds
An Introduction to Philosophy
Av The School of Life, Alain de Botton m. fl.
Inbunden, 2018
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
278 kr
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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 too often this inborn curiosity is not developed and, with age, the questions fall away. This is a book designed to harness …
Art Against Despair
pictures to restore hope
Av The School of Life, The School
Inbunden, 2022
247 kr
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One 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 perspective to our situation. A few moments in front of the right picture can rescue us.This is a …
Emotional Menagerie
Feelings from A-Z
Av The School of Life, Alain De Botton m. fl.
Häftad, 2023
125 kr
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Emotions are like animals: No two are quite the same. Some are quiet; some are fierce; And all are hard to tame. An Emotional Menagerie is an emotional glossary for children. A book of 26 rhyming poems, arranged alphabetically, that bring our feelings to life – Anger, Boredom, Curiosity, …
Untranslatable Words
Av The School of Life, The School
2023
235 kr
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We’re hugely dependent on language to express how we really feel, and yet words often feel curiously vague or frustratingly inaccurate. There are lots of moods, needs and feelings that our own language has not yet properly pinned down. The perfect word - even if it comes from abroad - helps us …
History of Ideas
The most intriguing, relevant and helpful concepts from the story of humanity
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Inbunden, 2023
242 kr
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A collection of humanity’s most inspiring ideas throughout time, bringing perspective to the challenges and wonders of being alive.This is an unusual sort of history book: a history of ideas – and not just any old ideas, ideas from across time and space that are best suited to healing, enchanting …
On Confidence
Av The School of Life, Alain de Botton m. fl.
Inbunden, 2017
123 kr
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The 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 confidence consists of, why we lack it - and how we can acquire more of it in our lives. On Confidence walks …
Self-Knowledge
Av The School of Life, Alain de Botton m. fl.
Inbunden, 2017
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
110 kr
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In 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 only on the basis of an accurate sense of who we are that we can make reliable decisions – …
How to Think More Effectively
a guide to greater productivity, insight and creativity
Av The School of Life, Alain de Botton m. fl.
Häftad, 2020
145 kr
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A guide to identifying, nurturing and growing our insight and creativity for more effective thinking.We know that our minds are capable of great things because, every now and then, they come out with a very brilliant idea or two. However, our minds are also tantalisingly unpredictable, spending …
Big Ideas from History: a history of the world for You
Av The School of Life, The School
Inbunden, 2022, 9-12 år
267 kr
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An engaging, alternative history of the world for children, which helps to make sense of today.The present can loom very large in a child’s mind: all the crises and challenges of the modern world can feel overwhelming and at times dispiriting. This book is a big history of the world, from the …
On Self-hatred
learning to like oneself
Av The School of Life, The School
Inbunden, 2022
175 kr
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A 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 sufferers of self-hatred. We tell ourselves the meanest things. It’s because of self-hatred that we tend …
Therapeutic Atlas
Destinations to inspire and enchant
Av The School of Life, The School
Inbunden, 2022
240 kr
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The world is full of places that inspire and bring us joy: they might be exceptionally beautiful, resonant with history, untouched by civilisation or rich in memory.This is an atlas that gathers together some of the most enchanting and reinvigorating places around the world in order to heal and …
100 Questions
Av The School of Life, The School
2023
313 kr
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It isn’t easy to get into a good conversation. Many of our best ones seem to have happened by chance. Far from it - we believe a great conversation always starts with someone asking a great question.In this set of beautiful cards, you’ll find laid out 100 of the very best questions around, …
Everyday Adventures
re-discover wonder and excitement
Av The School of Life, The School
2023
169 kr
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As grown-ups, one of our deepest urges is for life to be more adventurous: a little more excitement, novelty, interest and passion. Unfortunately, many adventures, especially the ‘big’ kinds, are too expensive, threaten to upturn everything and can upset those who rely on us. What we therefore …
Teamwork
exercises to build better team dynamics
Av The School of Life, The School
2019
280 kr
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In order to work well together, people need more than just technical skills; they need to get to know and understand each other. We suspect this intuitively; which is why fortunes are spent on team-building exercises. But because costly excursions aren’t always possible, we’ve designed a game that …
How to Travel
Av The School of Life, Alain de Botton m. fl.
Inbunden, 2018
166 kr
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An 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 memorable.Going travelling is one of the few things we undertake in a direct attempt to make ourselves …
School of Life: On Being Nice
a guide to friendship and connection
Av The School of Life, The School
Häftad, 2022
104 kr
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A guide to rediscovering niceness as one of the highest of all human achievements.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 …
Emotionally Intelligent Office
20 Key Emotional Skills for the Workplace
Av The School of Life, Alain de Botton m. fl.
Häftad, 2018
120 kr
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Stress and mental ill health currently costs the UK economy upwards of £30 billion a year. Modern businesses continue to place huge emphasis on technical training, yet a lot of what determines the success or failure of organisations has nothing to do with the sort of hard skills taught at business …
Philosophy in 40 ideas
lessons for life
Av The School of Life, Alain De Botton m. fl.
Inbunden, 2020
104 kr
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Philosophy is a discipline committed to helping us live wiser and less sorrowful lives. This book artfully draws together forty of the greatest and most useful ideas found in philosophy, taking us on a journey around key concepts from both Eastern and Western cultures. We are invited to sample the …
Reasons to be Hopeful
what remains consoling, inspiring and beautiful
Av The School of Life, The School
Inbunden, 2023
201 kr
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An honest and accessible guide to finding light in the darkest of times.In a world that isn’t short of darkness, there could be few more urgent priorities than to spend time rehearsing for ourselves why life – despite all its challenges – still has so much to offer us; why there are still so many …
