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We are all going to die, so how should we live?
A traumatised journalist is given a dream assignment - track down the mayor of a ...
Wisdom depends on curiosity. It demands humility. It requires a willingness to learn from the past in order to overcome the obstacles of the present ...
An entertaining and enlightening collection of ancient Roman writings about home design and decoration.
The idea that our homes can communicate professional as well as ...
Lively new translations of two classical works that offer wise advice about how to resist temptation.
How to Have Willpower brings together two profound ancient ...
A new edition of this acclaimed book for our Era of Argument. At a time when every disagreement turns toxic, world champion debater Bo Seo ...
Have you read (or stumbled into) one too many irrational online debates? Ali Almossawi certainly had, so he wrote An Illustrated Book of Bad Arguments ...
'The book of you is dominated by night-black seas, sprinkled with shining island sentences: tiny islets of remembrance, glimmering in the night.'
Memory isn't ...
Leaving a place we call home is an experience that we carry with us throughout our lives. Featuring influential essays and anecdotes by a range ...
The search for happiness is without a doubt one of our greatest preoccupations. In this volume of inspiring essays, letters and anecdotes, classic writers and ...
"You're not a painter if you haven't painted gray", declared Paul Cezanne. The same could be said of philosophers: you're not a ...
In today's turbulent world, it's harder and harder to find a place of calm and to avoid conflict. Focusing on perceptive and influential ...
'An inspiring story of a life well lived.' MICHAEL R. BLOOMBERG, Founder of Bloomberg LP and Bloomberg Philanthropies
The Stoic ideal of a well lived ...
What do you do when you use a metaphor? Or a simile or analogy? Can you tell the difference between a synecdoche and a metonymy ...
What is a good life, and how is it related to a happy one? What are virtues, and how do they affect the nature of ...
"Lively . . . excoriating, eloquent . . . We are all Faustians now." - James Wood, The New Yorker
A devilishly fascinating tour of the Faustian bargain through the ages, from ...
