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Timeless wisdom on controlling anger in personal life and politics from the Roman Stoic philosopher and statesman Seneca In his essay ?On Anger? (De Ira), the Roman Stoic thinker Seneca (c. 4 BC?65...

An enriching collection of classical writings about how ancient Romans made?nd thought about?oney Ancient Romans liked money. But how did they make a living and sometimes even become rich? The Roman...

Collects the Roman statesman's thoughts on leadership, the balance of power, and other topical political issues that maintain relevance today, in a work featuring new translations and organized by...

An entertaining and enlightening collection of ancient writings about the philosophers who advocated simple living and rejected unthinking conformity The Cynics were ancient Greek philosophers who...

Author: George P??LyaPublisher: Princeton University PressPublication Date: Oct 27, 2014Number of Pages: 288 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 069116407XISBN-13: 9780691164076

An energetic new translation of an ancient Roman masterpiece about a failed coup led by a corrupt and charismatic politician In 63 BC, frustrated by his failure to be elected leader of the Roman...

Everyone knows that Marcus Tullius Cicero was one of the great statesmen, lawyers, and effective orators in the history of Rome. But did you also know he was regarded as one of the funniest people in...

Aaron Sorkin, the Oscar-winning director and screenwriter of such hits as The Social Network and The West Wing, recently urged aspiring writers to become students and evangelists for Aristotle's...

The majority of Romans were a deeply religious people, though their religion took on forms most of us in the modern world would find unfamiliar. One of the most popular systems of belief among Roman...

This book offers a short, spirited defense of rhetoric and the liberal arts as catalysts for precision, invention, and empathy in today's world. The author, a professor of Shakespeare studies at a...

This book offers a short, spirited defense of rhetoric and the liberal arts as catalysts for precision, invention, and empathy in today's world. The author, a professor of Shakespeare studies at a...

Discovering the secrets of animal movement and what they can teach us Insects walk on water, snakes slither, and fish swim. Animals move with astounding grace, speed, and versatility: how do they do...

All of us are faced countless times with the challenge of persuading others, whether we're trying to win a trivial argument with a friend or convince our coworkers about an important decision...

Writings on human life and the refugee crisis by the most important political artist of our time Ai Weiwei (b. 1957) is widely known as an artist across media: sculpture, installation, photography,...

A leading neuroscientist explains why your personal traits are more innate than you think What makes you the way you are?and what makes each of us different from everyone else? In Innate, leading...

Author: Justin E. H. SmithPublisher: Princeton University PressPublication Date: Dec 08, 2020Number of Pages: 344 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 0691210519ISBN-13: 9780691210513

The definitive account of the life and thought of the medieval Arab genius who wrote the Muqaddima Ibn Khaldun (1332?1406) is generally regarded as the greatest intellectual ever to have appeared in...

A passionate eyewitness account of the mysteries and looming demise of glaciers?and what their fate means for our shared future The ice sheets and glaciers that cover one-tenth of Earth's land...

In the history of human societies, images have not only been destined for contemplation. They have also been eaten or drunk. But what purposes and what structures of the imagination can explain such...

A groundbreaking two-volume illustrated reference book covering all of Europe?s birds Would you like to be able to identify any bird species in Europe, in all plumages, in every season? ID Handbook...

One of the most important works of the Enlightenment?in the first new, unabridged English translation in more than two centuries Published in four volumes between 1784 and 1791, Herder?s Ideas for...

How Victorian authors engaged the imaginations of their readers and elevated the novel to new heights As novel publication exploded in nineteenth-century Britain, writers such as Jane Austen, Charles...

A major new history of the century-long debate over what a Jewish state should be Many Zionists who advocated for the creation of a Jewish state envisioned a nation like any other. Yet for Israel's...

Books, even obscure ones, are readily available online in the age of digital retail. As bookstores attempt to find their identity in a new era, some have survived by selling everything from toys to...

How our beliefs about the soul have developed through the ages, and why an understanding of it still matters today The concept of the soul has been a recurring area of exploration since ancient times...

Taking readers into the homes of middle-class families to reveal the hidden consequences of student debt and the ways that financing college has transformed family life, the author describes the...

A paperback spinoff from Information: A Historical Companion that presents an accessible introductory history of information from premodern practices to twenty-first-century information...

A fun and fact-filled A?Z treasury for the insect lover in all of us Insectpedia introduces you to the wonders of the insect world while inviting you to make discoveries of your own. Featuring dozens...

First publication of an index-card diary in which Nabokov recorded sixty-four dreams and subsequent daytime episodes, allowing the reader a glimpse of his innermost life.Author: Vladimir...

An essential companion to M. Vishik's groundbreaking work in fluid mechanics The incompressible Euler equations are a system of partial differential equations introduced by Leonhard Euler more than...