You can learn how to thrive in the digital age, worry less about money and think more intelligently about sex with these three books from "The School of Life". This intelligent compilation from "The School of Life" is designed to help you navigate some of modern life's big issues. "How to Think More[...]
Our world is, increasingly, a digital one. Over half of the planet's adult population now spend more of their waking hours 'plugged in' than not, whether to the internet, mobile telephony, or other digital media. To email, text, tweet and blog our way through our careers, relationships and even our [...]
We all want to live in a better world, but sometimes it feels that we lack the ability or influence to make a difference. John-Paul Flintoff offers a powerful reminder that through the generations, society has been transformed by the actions of individuals who understood that if they didn't like som[...]
A deep and thoughtful look at what it means to age, how to do it well and why we care at all
It can often seem as though existence is split in two: body and mind, flesh and spirit, moving and thinking. In the office or at study we are 'mind workers', with superfluous bodies. In the gym we stretch, run and lift, but our minds are idle. Damon Young challenges this idea, revealing how fitness [...]
Alain de Botton considers how to live wisely and well in the twenty-first centuryFrom the bestselling author of The Consolations of Philosophy, The Art of Travel and The Course of Love - a comprehensive guide to the modern art of emotional intelligenceEmotional intelligence affects every aspect of t[...]
In this rigorous and supremely honest book Alain de Botton helps us navigate the intimate and exciting -- yet often confusing and difficult -- experience that is sex. Few of us tend to feel we're entirely normal when it comes to sex, and what we're supposed to be feeling rarely matches up with the r[...]
This is a book about how to take working life in new directions how to negotiate the labyrinth of choices, how to think about personal ambitions and motivations, and ultimately how to take concrete steps to finding a fulfilling career. It is a self-help book with a difference. Standard career guides[...]
Our relationship with money is one that lasts a lifetime. It can be as important as family life, as competitive as work, and as exciting and secretive as love. Yet books about money tend to take one of two routes: a) how to get more, or b) how to deal with less. This book turns these questions upsid[...]
There is no simple set of instructions that can guarantee sanity, but if you want to overcome emotional difficulties and become happier, psychotherapist Philippa Perry argues that there are four cornerstones to sanity you can influence to bring about change. By developing your self-observation skill[...]
What Were The Secrets Behind The Prayer Life Of Jesus? In "With Christ In The School Of Prayer," Pastor Andrew Murray probes scripture and the life of Christ in order to teach us how to pray effectively and powerfully. This book offers a structured series of thirty-one short and concise, practical a[...]
"Class Dismissed "takes us inside California's Berkeley High, one of the most ethnically diverse high schools in the country. For one year, author and journalist Meredith Maran reported on the lives of three different but representative students from the Class of 2000: a troubled yet well-meaning yo[...]
New insights and practical solutions for overworked and stressed-out girls and their parents.
In today's achievement culture, many girls seem to be doing remarkably well excelling in honors and sports and attending top colleges in ever greater numbers but beneath the surface, girls are stressed [...]
A passionate plea to preserve and renew public education, "The Death and Life of the Great American School System" is a radical change of heart from one of America s best-known education experts.
Diane Ravitchformer assistant secretary of education and a leader in the drive to create a national [...]
This audiobook focuses on issues specific to high school age kids, ages fourteen to eighteen. Teens in high school have mainly moved past worrying about puberty and cliques, so stories in this book cover topics of interest to older teens such as sports and clubs, religion and faith, driving, curfews[...]
Kids around the world get to school in unique ways. Take a peek inside this book and see how they reach their destinations Children all around the world go to school. Whether they're from Japan, Ukraine, Ethiopia, or the United States, all students have the desire to learn about the world and shape[...]