The School of Life – författare
Visar alla böcker från författaren The School of Life. Handla med fri frakt och snabb leverans.
178 produkter
Simpler Life
a guide to greater serenity, ease, and clarity
Av The School of Life, Alain de Botton m. fl.
Inbunden, 2022
183 kr
Lägg i varukorg
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 …
Good Enough Parent
how to raise contented, interesting and resilient children
Av The School of Life, Alain de Botton
Inbunden, 2021
180 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Raising 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. There are many things to understand about how children’s minds operate and what they need from those who look after them so they can develop into the best …
Marriage Box
the secrets to a successful long-term union
2023
433 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Our society typically devotes huge attention to the start of a marriage – and particularly to the actual wedding ceremony. But the real challenge lies beyond the wedding, with the long years ahead – and here we are too often left on our own.This box is The School of Life’s guide to the rest of a …
Who Am I?
Psychological exercises to develop self-understanding
Av The School of Life, Alain de Botton
Inbunden, 2019
214 kr
Lägg i varukorg
One of the trickiest tasks we ever face is that of working out who we really are. If we’re asked directly to describe ourselves, our minds tend to go blank. We can’t just sum ourselves up. We need prompts and suggestions and more detailed enquiries that help tease out and organise our picture of …
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
Lägg i varukorg
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 …
How to Understand Yourself
Psychological tests and questionnaires to develop emotional intelligence
Inbunden, 2026
205 kr
Lägg i varukorg
We spend our lives inside ourselves and yet understanding our inner world remains one of our most complex challenges. This enlightening and practical book offers a collection of transformative psychological tests designed to illuminate the hidden dimensions of our psyches.Through a curated …
Career Workbook
Fulfilment at Work
Inbunden, 2023
189 kr
Lägg i varukorg
A thought-provoking and practical workbook with exercises to help you discover a career that is truly fulfilling.There are few questions harder or lonelier than, ‘What should I do with the rest of my working life?’ We are often simply meant to know the answer. But in private, some of us are acutely …
From Trauma to Healing
How to locate, process and recover from psychological wounds
Inbunden, 2025
180 kr
Lägg i varukorg
All of us have – to a greater or lesser extent – suffered from traumas in our lives, often at a young age. The less we address these traumas, the more they have a habit of causing us difficulties in the form of broken relationships, nagging anxieties, depression, or physical symptoms like insomnia, …
Simplicity Cards
focus on life's essentials
2024
261 kr
Lägg i varukorg
In an overcomplicated world, what many of us crave deep down is greater simplicity: less clutter, fewer commitments, less static and chaos. This ingenious set of cards asks us a range of deceptively simple questions – which we can answer by ourselves or with friends – that focus our minds on what …
Self-Reflection Journal
Inbunden, 2024
208 kr
Lägg i varukorg
This is a journal to help us process our lives; to think more clearly about what we really want, what we are actually feeling and what might be holding us back from our goals, by asking a series of repeated questions so we can embark on this journey of self-reflection.We’re given the space to …
Therapeutic Library
100 essential books that teach fulfilment, calm and well-being
Av The School of Life, The School of Life
Inbunden, 2023
235 kr
Lägg i varukorg
There are about 130 million books in the world – and they are being added to at a rate of 4 million a year or so. Which ones, therefore, should we really read? What are the books that count? Which ones are going to make a real difference to us in the limited time we have?This is The School of …
School of Life: Calm
the harmony and serenity we crave
Av The School of Life, The School
Häftad, 2022
113 kr
Lägg i varukorg
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 …
How to Survive the Modern World
making sense of, and finding calm in, unsteady times
Av The School of Life, Alain de Botton
Inbunden, 2021
247 kr
Lägg i varukorg
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 …
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
Lägg i varukorg
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 …
Pillow Talk
cards for intimate conversations
2023
339 kr
Lägg i varukorg
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 …
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
Lägg i varukorg
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
Lägg i varukorg
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 …
Meaning of Life
cards for profound and playful chat
2022
261 kr
Lägg i varukorg
We sometimes playfully wonder what the meaning of life might be - but it can be hard to kick start a conversation with ourselves (let alone with anyone else) around such a daunting subject.Here are 52 cards that directly and elegantly lead us to some of the largest questions about life and its …
How to Overcome Your Childhood
Av The School of Life, Alain de Botton m. fl.
Inbunden, 2019
166 kr
Lägg i varukorg
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, …
Varieties of Melancholy
a hopeful guide to our sombre moods
Av The School of Life, Alain de Botton
Inbunden, 2021
166 kr
Lägg i varukorg
This is a book that celebrates the most neglected but valuable emotion we can feel: melancholy. Melancholy isn’t depression or anger or bitterness, it’s a serene, accepting, gentle, wise and kindly response to the difficulties and occasional misery of being alive. It steers an ideal mid-way course …
Table Talk
spark meaningful and revealing conversations
2023
261 kr
Lägg i varukorg
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 weekend?’ ‘What do you do?’, and so on.But there are better kinds of questions - questions that work like magic …
School of Life: Relationships
learning to love
Av The School of Life, The School
Häftad, 2022
122 kr
Lägg i varukorg
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
Lägg i varukorg
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 …
Know Yourself
cards for self-exploration
Av The School of Life, The School
2023
261 kr
Lägg i varukorg
It’s hard to understand who we really are: what we want, how we feel and why we react as we do. This lack of self-knowledge can be trouble, for it makes us get into the wrong relationships, pick unsatisfactory jobs or spend money unwisely. No wonder Socrates summed up all the counsel of philosophy …
Emotional Conversations
discussions to keep love true
2020
222 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Talking properly is the glue that keeps every relationship alive. By regularly checking in with one another, covering how we feel, what we’ve learnt, and how we see the world, we have a chance to build the satisfying, intimate and lively relationships we all deserve.However, in the busy conditions …
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
Lägg i varukorg
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 …
How Modern Media Destroys Our Minds
calming the chaos
Inbunden, 2022
176 kr
Lägg i varukorg
We are so used to living in a media-saturated world that we do not notice just how much damage is being done to us daily by the images we see and the articles and posts we read. If you are often anxious or find it hard to sleep, or you regularly want to give up on your fellow human beings, the …
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
Lägg i varukorg
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 …
Know Yourself
A path to self-knowledge
Inbunden, 2026
184 kr
Lägg i varukorg
We may spend years mastering the external world – acquiring degrees, advancing careers, building families – without ever turning inwards to make sense of the person orchestrating it all: ourselves.This book is a guide to the elusive, essential task of self-knowledge. With clarity, gentleness and …
What Do I Really Want to Achieve?
a tool to focus your life’s goals and priorities
2023
339 kr
Lägg i varukorg
It can be hard to decide what we really want to achieve in our lives; our ambitions are often scattered, diverse and difficult to pin down. This is a tool for helping us focus on what we need to be fulfilled so that we can direct our energies and thoughts most effectively.It contains 160 cards …
