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The School of Life

HOW MUSIC, FILM, LITERATURE AND VISUAL ART • operate in our society and lives. 
EXPLORES CULTURAL MASTERPIECES • and how they relate to our everyday lives. 
ILLUSTRATED • with full color images throughout. 
THOUGHT-PROVOKING CONCEPTS • that enhance any future visit to a gallery, theater or cinema. 
BEAUTIFULLY PRODUCED • premium gift format.

Essay Books

What Is Culture For?

A REVOLUTIONARY APPROACH TO CAPITALISMROOTED IN HUMAN PSYCHOLOGYFULL COLOR ILLUSTRATIONS THROUGHOUT

How to Reform Capitalism

PSYCHOTHERAPY EXPLAINED • a demystifying guide to the purpose and meaning of psychotherapy.

UNLOCK THE POWER OF THERAPY • to improve self love, communication, trust, and honesty.

EXPLORES POTENTIAL THERAPEUTIC OUTCOMES • using case studies as examples.

DEBUNKS COMMON MISCONCEPTIONS • about the science of psychotherapy.

What Is Psychotherapy?

An examination of the importance of self-knowledge, providing practical exercises to aid self-discovery.

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—particularly around love and work. 

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. We come away with a newly clarified sense of who we are, what we need to watch out for when making decisions, and what our priorities and potential might be.

Fiona Buckland

Self-Knowledge

A thought-provoking essay that teaches us that confidence is not a gift from the gods, but a skill that can be learned.

We spend vast amounts of time acquiring confidence in narrow technical fields: quadratic equations or bioengineering; economics or pole vaulting. But we overlook the primordial need to acquire a more free ranging variety of confidence—one that can serve us across a range of tasks: speaking to strangers at parties, asking someone to marry us, suggesting a fellow passenger turn down their music, changing the world.

This is a guidebook to confidence, why we lack it and how we can acquire more of it in our lives. On Confidence walks us gently and wryly around the key issues that stop us from making more of our potential.

Alain de Botton

On Confidence

A pessimist's guide to marriage.

Anyone we might marry could be wrong for us - even just a little bit. We know that perfection is not in the cards. And yet, errors of deep-seated incompatibility in married couples seem to occur regularly. 

This informative (and funny) book examines the reasons why - and then suggests a new approach to marriage. The time has come to bury the Romantic intuition-based view of marriage and learn to practice and rehearse marriage as one would ice-skating or violin playing, activities no more deserving of systematic periods of institution.

BASED ON THE NEW YORK TIMES MOST-READ ARTICLE OF 2016A THOUGHT-PROVOKING ESSAY COLLECTION • about relationships and marriage. 
A PESSIMIST'S GUIDE TO MARRIAGE • offering insight, practical advice, and consolation.

Why You Will Marry the Wrong Person: A pessimist’s guide to marriage, offering insight, practical advice, and consolation

A UNIQUE MEDITATION ON THE COMPLEXITIES OF LOVEA CONSOLING TOOLKIT • for navigating the despair and heartbreak that come hand in hand with love.
ILLUSTRATED WITH FULL COLOR IMAGES THROUGHOUTPART OF THE SCHOOL OF LIFE'S GIFTABLE ESSAYS SERIES • other titles include 
Why You Will Marry the Wrong Person • , 
Why We Hate Cheap Things • , and 
Self-Knowledge • .

The Sorrows of Love

A GUIDE TO MAKING BETTER DECISIONS IN LOVE: • and how to choose the "right" partner.
PRESENTS THE TOOLS WE NEED: • to break unhealthy relationship habits.
PART OF THE SCHOOL OF LIFE'S GIFTABLE ESSAYS SERIES: • other titles include 
Why You Will Marry the Wrong Person • , 
Why We Hate Cheap Things • , and 
Self-Knowledge • .
DRAWS FROM THE SCHOOL OF LIFE'S CORE CURRICULUM

How to Find Love

AN INVIGORATING GUIDE • to the professional challenges we all face.
ILLUSTRATED • with full color images throughout.
FRESH CAREER PERSPECTIVES • from The School of Life
BUILD THE SKILLS • you need to thrive in your career.

The Sorrows of Work

A COMMON SENSE APPROACH TO ECONOMICSEXPLORES IDEAS ABOUT MONEY, WORTH, AND WEALTH • through a philosophical lens.
A REFRESHING REMINDER TO APPRECIATING WHAT WE HAVE • rather than coveting what we don't.
ILLUSTRATED • with full color images throughout.