The, School Of Life

Alongside a satisfying relationship, a career we love is one of the foremost requirements for a fulfilled life. Unfortunately, it is devilishly hard to understand oneself well enough to know...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

We accept without shame that most organs in our bodies might at some point develop problems - and could need a bit of help. We should not make an exception...

A collection of enlightening quotes, delivering some of the most important lessons The School of Life has to offer.This is a selection of the very best and most psychologically acute...

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 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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

A reassuring guide on how to overcome failure, teaching us that we can learn to fail wellThis is a hopeful, consoling, gentle book about failure. Our societies talk a lot...

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...

Explores and appreciates the small pleasures found in everyday life.So often we exhaust ourselves and the planet in a search for very large pleasures, while all around us lies a...