School of Life

  • Big Ideas from Science: How Scientific Discoveries Shape Our Lives

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    From the team that created Big Ideas For Curious Minds, an introduction to the history of science and its impact on the world today

    Science is all around us, helping to explain the ideas that matter in… [more below]

    • Series: Big Ideas #4
    • Author: School of Life, The
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 168
    • Publish Date: October 14 2025
    • ISBN10: 1916753124
    • Language: English
  • On Loneliness: How to Overcome Isolation and Enjoy Solitude

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    50 heartfelt photographs and interviews, reflecting on the universal experience of loneliness.

    It’s easy to feel that we are alone in feeling alone. Not only do we suffer, but we also destroy our self-

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    • Series: Photography #3
    • Author: School of Life, The
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 128
    • Publish Date: November 11 2025
    • ISBN10: 1916753213
    • Language: English
  • A Therapeutic Journey: Lessons from the School of Life

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    Alain de Botton’s redemptive volume – now in paperback – charts a course from collapse to recovery with kindness, compassion and wisdom.

    “Alain de Botton, one of our era’s most uncommonly perceptive, l

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    • Author: de Botton, Alain
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 384
    • Publish Date: October 08 2024
    • ISBN10: 1916753132
    • Language: English
  • The Secrets of Successful Relationships

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    The key ingredients to contented love–quintessential advice on relationships from The School of Life, with an approachable tone

    It can sometimes seem a mystery why some couples stay together and thriv

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    • Series: Secrets #1
    • Author: Life, The School of
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 192
    • Publish Date: October 08 2024
    • ISBN10: 1916753019
    • Language: English
  • On Confidence

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    Confidence is a skill that anyone can learn.


    Despite the confidence we build over time in our field of work, we tend to overlook the primordial need for a more free ranging variety of confidence – one

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    • Series: Essay Books
    • Author: The School of Life
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 96
    • Publish Date: April 03 2018
    • ISBN10: 0995573670
    • Language: English
  • Great Thinkers: Simple Tools from Sixty Great Thinkers to Improve Your Life Today.

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    A collection of simple – and surprisingly relevant – tools from great thinkers throughout history.


    Focusing on important ideas from Western and Eastern philosophy, sociology, psychotherapy, art, archi

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    • Series: School of Life Library
    • Author: The School of Life
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 480
    • Publish Date: January 30 2018
    • ISBN10: 0993538703
    • Language: English
  • The Good Enough Parent: How to Raise Contented, Interesting, and Resilient Children

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    A parenting guide providing compassionate instruction and insight into raising a resilient, well-balanced child.

    Bringing up a child to be an authentic and mentally robust adult is one of life’s great

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    • Author: Life of School the
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 192
    • Publish Date: April 19 2022
    • ISBN10: 1912891549
    • Language: English
  • Getting Over Your Parents: Untangling Your Childhood

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    Our parents are a huge deal: and no matter our relationship to them, who we are today (our love stories, our attitudes, our self-esteem) is crucially connected to our relationships with our origin fam[more below]

    • Author: Life, The School of
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 232
    • Publish Date: September 10 2024
    • ISBN10: 191508752X
    • Language: English
  • Nature and Me: A Guide to the Joys and Excitements of the Outdoors

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    An essential guide to encourage children to explore, enjoy and benefit from the natural world around them.

    Children are used to hearing about how important it is to protect nature, but they may not fu

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    • Author: Life of School the
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 72
    • Publish Date: February 08 2022
    • ISBN10: 191289131X
    • Language: English
  • Screen-Free Fun: 80 Amazing Activities from Sock Sliding to Raindrop Racing

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    A collection of 80 imaginative games and activities designed to engage and entertain without a screen.

    Whether we’re big or small, it can be hard to get away from our screens. Most children spend be

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    • Author: The School of Life
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 144
    • Publish Date: September 21 2021
    • ISBN10: 1912891573
    • Language: English
  • Big Ideas from History: A History of the World for You

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    An engaging, inclusive history of the world for children, where feelings, curiosity, and facts blend together

    Big Ideas from History is the story of what has happened through time – in a voice that sp

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    • Author: Life, The School of
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 320
    • Publish Date: March 28 2023
    • ISBN10: 1915087341
    • Language: English
  • An Emotional Menagerie: Feelings from A to Z

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    An imaginative and engaging exploration of childhood emotions through poetry and evocative illustration.


    Emotions are like animals:

    No two are quite the same.

    Some are quiet; some are fierce;

    And all

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    • Author: The School of Life
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 60
    • Publish Date: April 06 2021
    • ISBN10: 1912891247
    • Language: English
  • What Are You Feeling?: A Picture Book of Your Emotions

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    Eureka Honors Award Winner

    “This is a book for sharing. The grown-up who reads this book with you is saying that they really do want to listen and understand. They’re saying that it’s good to take time[more below]

    • Author: Life of School, The
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 60
    • Publish Date: February 06 2024
    • ISBN10: 1915087279
    • Language: English
  • How Modern Media Destroys Our Minds: Calming the Chaos

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

    Navigating the onslaught of media is overwhelming, to say the least. We are so used to living in a media-saturate

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    • Author: The School of Life
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 160
    • Publish Date: November 08 2022
    • ISBN10: 1912891883
    • Language: English
  • The School of Life: Relationships: Learning to Love

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    A fresh approach to matters of the heart, Relationships inspires closeness and connection to help you not only find love–but to make your love last

    Since around 1750, we have been living in the era of

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    • Series: Lessons for Life
    • Author: The School of Life
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 144
    • Publish Date: September 06 2022
    • ISBN10: 1915087139
    • Language: English
  • The School of Life: On Mental Illness: What Can Calm, Reassure and Console

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    A compassionate guide to normalizing mental illness and achieving emotional wellbeing.

    This is a guide to coping with a wide variety of mental unwellness, from the very mild to the severe. It explains … [more below]

    • Author: The School of Life
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 176
    • Publish Date: February 28 2023
    • ISBN10: 1912891816
    • Language: English
  • How to Stay Sane

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    An Economist Best Book of the Year

    Everyone accepts the importance of physical health; isn’t it just as important to aim for the mental equivalent? Philippa Perry has come to the rescue with How to S

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    • Series: School of Life
    • Author: Perry, Philippa
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 192
    • Publish Date: December 24 2012
    • ISBN10: 1250030633
    • Language: English
  • How to Find Love

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    A practical guide to making wiser, more informed choices in love.

    Finding and choosing a partner is one of the most consequential decisions we will ever make. This guide explains everything from why w

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    • Series: Essay Books
    • Author: The School of Life
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 96
    • Publish Date: December 04 2018
    • ISBN10: 0995573697
    • Language: English
  • How to Travel

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    A philosophical guide to the joys of travel and adventure.

    In this compact collection of twenty essays, The School of Life applies their signature mix of philosophy, practicality, and wit to the act o

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    • Author: Life of School the
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 132
    • Publish Date: October 08 2019
    • ISBN10: 1999917960
    • Language: English
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