{"product_id":"the-school-of-life-an-emotional-education","title":"The School of Life: An Emotional Education","description":"THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER\n\nGive the gift of inspiration: an essential guide to living wisely and well, no matter what challenges the world throws at you - from Alain de Botton, the bestselling author of The Consolations of Philosophy, The Art of Travel and The Course of Love\n\nThis is a book about everything you were never taught at school. It's about how to understand your emotions, find and sustain love, succeed in your career, fail well and overcome shame and guilt. It's also about letting go of the myth of a perfect life in order to achieve genuine emotional maturity. Written in a hugely accessible, warm and humane style, The School of Life is the ultimate guide to the emotionally fulfilled lives we all long for - and deserve.\n\nThis book brings together ten years of essential and transformative research on emotional intelligence, with practical topics including:\n\n- how to understand yourself\n- how to master the dilemmas of relationships\n- how to become more effective at work\n- how to endure failure\n- how to grow more serene and resilient\n\nPraise for Alain de Botton:\n\n'What he has managed to do is remarkable: to help us think better so that we may live better lives' Irish Times\n\n'A serious and optimistic set of practical ideas that could improve and alter the way we live' Jeanette Winterson, The Times\n\n'Alain de Botton likes to take big, complex subjects and write about them with thoughtful and deceptive innocence' Observer\u003cbr\u003eASIN: 0241985838\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: BVV.0241985838.A\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Acceptable\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:de Botton, Alain|The School of Life (PUK Rights)\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Notes\u003c\/b\u003e: The item is very worn but is perfectly usable. Signs of wear can include aesthetic issues such as scratches, dents, worn and creased covers, folded page corners and minor liquid stains. All pages and the cover are intact, but the dust cover may be missing. Pages may include moderate to heavy amount of notes and highlighting, but the text is not obscured or unreadable. Page edges may have foxing  age related spots and browning . May NOT include discs, access code or other supplemental materials.  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Blue Vase Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43714693890109,"sku":"BVV.0241985838.A","price":9.37,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0589\/4225\/9261\/files\/0241985838-0.jpg?v=1790287531","url":"https:\/\/www.bluevasebooks.com\/products\/the-school-of-life-an-emotional-education","provider":"Blue Vase Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}