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A TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR
What is the nature of things? Must I think my own way through the world? What is justice? How ...
What Socrates's greatest failure says about a 2,000-year-old question: is it possible to teach ourselves and others to become better people?
Can we ...
How ought we to live? What is it to flourish as a human being? How should we best approach death? We all think about these ...
Marcus Aurelius's timeless insights into human behaviour show that 2000 years on, not much has changed in the workplace and we could all do ...
'A delightful compendium of the kind of facts you immediately want to share with anyone you encounter' New York Times
'An ebullient, irrepressible spirit invests ...
'A beautifully turned, calmly persuasive but urgent book' IAN MCEWAN
'A landmark book that could help to build a much brighter future' DAVID ROBSON
A ...
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
'In story after page-turning story, Lives of the Stoics brings ancient philosophers to life.' - David Epstein, bestselling author of Range ...
A. C. Grayling's lucid and stimulating books, based on the idea that philosophy should engage with the world and make itself useful, are immensely ...
We give up too easily. With a simple change of attitude, what seem like insurmountable obstacles become once-in-a-lifetime opportunities. Ryan Holiday, who dropped out of ...
'This is easily the most impressive of the present crop of atheistic and anti-theistic books: clever, broad, witty and brilliantly argued.' - Sydney Morning Herald .
Christopher ...
'Stunning . . . Das shows how a word - civilisation - became a lie. She traces how that lie was repeated and transformed in universities and museums, and how ...
'Powerful and brilliant ... Straw Dogs challenges all our assumptions about what it is to be human, and convincingly shows that most of them are delusions ...
Ryan Holiday has led the popular revival of stoicism since 2014, with his acclaimed bestsellers The Obstacle is the Way, Ego is the Enemy, and ...
This volume contains several other essays, including lyrical evocations of the sunlit cities of Algiers and Oran.
In this profound and moving philosophical statement, Camus ...