The School of Life

The School of Life is an organisation with a focused mission at its heart: to help foster calm, self-understanding and greater emotional maturity. Over 15 years, they have produced landmark essays on key topics, now gathered together for the first time.

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Calm: The Harmony and Serenity We Crave

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A guide to developing the art of finding serenity by understanding the sources of our anxiety and frustrations.

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How to Get Married: The Foundations for a Lasting Relationship

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An outline for a new kind of wedding ceremony free from theology, with new rituals designed to prepare us for modern marriage.

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A Job to Love: How to Find a Fulfilling Career

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A practical guide to finding fulfilling work by understanding yourself.

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On Being Nice: A Guide to Friendship and Connection

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A guide to rediscovering niceness as one of the highest of all human achievements.

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Relationships: Learning to Love

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A book to inspire closeness and connection, helping people not only to find love but to make it last.

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Small Pleasures: What Makes Life Truly Valuable

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Explores and appreciates the small pleasures found in everyday life.

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Relationships

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Relationships calmly and charmingly takes us around the key issues of relationships, from arguments to sex, forgiveness to communication, making sure that success in love need never again be just…

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On Being Nice

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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…

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Calm

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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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The Book of Me: A Children’s Journal of Self-Discovery

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The Book of Me is a guided journal of self-discovery. It takes readers on a journey inside themselves, helping them explore their mind, their moods, their imagination, their conscience, and…

$39.99

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Art Against Despair: Pictures to Restore Hope

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An inspiring selection of 100 images offering us hope and comfort, reminding us that we are not alone in our sorrow.

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Big Ideas for Curious Minds: An Introduction to Philosophy

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Accessible philosophy for children; a collection of important concepts from 25 famous thinkers, contextualised in relatable everyday scenarios.

$42.99

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Big Ideas from History: A History of the World for You

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An engaging, alternative history of the world for children, which helps to make sense of today.

$45.00

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Drawing as Therapy: Know Yourself Through Art

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A practical guide outlining the benefits of drawing as a therapeutic practice followed by 80 guided drawing exercises as an aid to self-understanding and fulfilment.

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Happy, Healthy Minds: A Children’s Guide to Emotional Wellbeing

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An essential guide to help children become more aware of their emotional needs, this book examines a range of everyday topics that might give children’s minds difficulties.

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A History of Ideas

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A collection of humanity's most inspiring ideas throughout time, bringing perspective to the challenges and wonders of being alive.

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A Therapeutic Atlas: Destinations to inspire and enchant

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A selection of unique and beautiful destinations around the world, which offer powerful new perspectives on life.

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A Therapeutic Library

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Recommended reading from The School of Life, featuring 100 books that offer therapeutic insight and enlightenment.

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The School of Life: Collected Essays

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A 15th anniversary collection of The School of Life's most popular andessential essays on self-knowledge, relationships, work and culture.

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The Calm Workbook: A Guide to Greater Serenity

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A therapeutic and consoling workbook with exercises to soothe anxiety and create a state of calm.

$39.99

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The Career Workbook: Happiness at Work

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A thought-provoking and practical workbook with exercises to help you discover a career that is truly fulfilling.

$36.99

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The Couple’s Workbook: Homework to Help Love Last

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Therapeutic exercises to help couples nurture patience, forgiveness and humour.

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How to Get Married

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A bold rethinking of one of humankind’s most important and popular rituals.

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How to Survive the Modern World

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A guide to modern times that explores the challenges living in the 21st century can pose to our mental wellbeing.

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How to Find Love

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Focus on how to improve your instincts and overcome all obstacles to finding that special someone.

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How to Find the Right Words

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Twenty scenarios explaining how to gently deliver a range of life’s most difficult messages while causing minimal harm.

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How to Overcome Your Childhood

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This book is a guide to better understanding our younger selves in order to shape who we wish to be in the future. It explores to what extent we can…

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A More Loving World

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A book to encourage compassion and forgiveness, showing us how we can work towards a better and kinder world.

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On Confidence

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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…

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On Self-Hatred: Learning to Like Oneself

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A guide to emotional healing and living a more self-accepting life by learning to love oneself.

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A Replacement for Religion

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A thought-provoking book that explores how the best aspects of religion can have a place in our modern day lives.

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Self-Knowledge

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This book takes us on a journey into our deepest, most elusive selves and arms us with a set of tools to understand our characters properly.

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The Sorrows of Love

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A guide to a more consoling, humane and in its own way joyful perspective on the complexities of love.

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The Sorrows of Work

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A fresh approach to modern working life, giving advice for how we may face the many challenges of work.

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What Is Culture For?

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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…

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What is Psychotherapy?

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This book examines psychotherapy: what the needs are in all of us to which it caters; the methods by which it addresses these needs - and what the outcome of…

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Why We Hate Cheap Things

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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…

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Why You Will Marry the Wrong Person

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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…

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How to Travel

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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…

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Who Am I?: Psychological Exercises to Develop Self-Understanding

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This journal is a tool for self-knowledge; a mirror with which we can study the most elusive and interesting parts of our complex inner selves. n.

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What Can I Do When I Grow Up?

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A unique, illustrated guide to the world of work, bringing clarity to children’s essential questions on potential future careers.

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How Modern Media Destroys Our Minds: Calming the Chaos

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A reassuring guide to navigating the challenges of modern media and staying sane in a world that does not turn off.

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Mind & Body

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A practical guide to balancing and maintaining physical and mental harmony

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On Failure: How to Succeed at Defeat

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A reassuring guide on how to overcome failure, teaching us that we can learn to fail well.

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The School of Life Guide to Modern Manners

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This essential guide explores how etiquette is defined by consideration and respect, while putting good manners back at the centre of our priorities.

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Varieties of Melancholy: A Hopeful Guide to Our Sombre Moods

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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…

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On Divorce

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An illustrated guide tothe challenges and joys of separation

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A Voice of One’s Own

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A beautifully photographed therapeutic novel which teaches us about our own emotions through a young woman's journey of self-discovery.

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