Life and How to Survive It

by Bud Handelsman (Illustrator), John Cleese (Author), A. C. Robin Skynner (Author)

• Used

  Hardcover
  1995

  $4.22

• Used

  Hardcover
  1993

  $4.51

  The follow-on of the authors' Families and How to Survive Them , this book develops the ideas put forward in the earlier book. Beginning by looking at exceptionally healthy families and their comparison with ordinary and disordered families, they examine organizations outside families - businesses, schools, hospitals. Are some healthier than others? Is the American way better than the Japanese? How can individuality be retained while co-operating in joint endeavours? The book also looks at value systems and religions; and at change, looking along the way at humour in relation to health, at competition and sportmanship, at death - the prototype of all change.

• New

  Paperback
  1996

  $16.32

  Brilliantly entertaining, enlightening and inspiring, Robin Skynner and John Cleese take on the big issue: life, and the challenge of living, in all its myriad forms. This book is an essential guide to surviving life's ups and downs - at home or in the workplace, as a member of a family or society. Presented in the same lively style as the best-selling Families and How to Survive Them, Life extends Skynner's and Cleese's study beyond the family to relationships and group interaction in life outside it. The book deals with such pithy issues as: -Why life gives you all the lessons you need, -How grief can be good for you, -Why work is essential to our psychological health, -What mid-life crisis means for you. We are all searching for healthier, happier, more satisfying lives, but it's the journey that matters, not the destination. Skynner and Cleese are the perfect travelling companions.