10 Top psychology books like The Socratic Method: A Practitioner's Handbook by Ward Farnsworth

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The Socratic Method: A Practitioner's Handbook

By: Ward Farnsworth

4.27

Format: 243 pages, Hardcover

A thinking person's guide to a better life. Ward Farnsworth explains what the Socratic method is, h…

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1. Rome's Last Citizen: The Life and Legacy of Cato, Mortal Enemy of Caesar

By: Rob Goodman , Jimmy Soni

4.16

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

The first biography of the final man to stand against Caesar—whose principles and defiance became … read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • history
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2. What I Believe

By: Bertrand Russell

3.99

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

Along with Why I Am Not a Christian, this essay must rank as the most articulate example of Russell… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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3. Discourses and Selected Writings

By: Epictetus , Robert F. Dobbin , Robert Dobbin

3.84

Format: 135 pages, Paperback

A new translation of the influential teachings of the great Stoic philosopher DESPITE BEING BORN in… read more

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  • history
  • psychology
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • self help
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4. Theaetetus

By: Plato , Robin Waterfield

4.20

Format: 228 pages, Paperback

Set immediately prior to the trial and execution of Socrates in 399 BC, Theaetetus shows the great … read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • history
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5. Meditations

By: Marcus Aurelius , Martin Hammond , Diskin Clay

3.75

Format: 148 pages,

Written in Greek, without any intention of publication, by the only Roman emperor who was also a ph… read more

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  • personal development
  • history
  • psychology
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • self help
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6. How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading

By: Mortimer J. Adler , Charles van Doren

3.98

Format: 426 pages, Paperback

How to Read a Book, originally published in 1940, has become a rare phenomenon, a living classic. I… read more

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  • personal development
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • education
  • self help
"In short, we can only learn from our "betters"."

-Mortimer J. Adler, How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading

"A good rule always describes the ideal performance."

-Mortimer J. Adler, How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading

"The mind can atrophy, like the muscles, if it is not used."

-Mortimer J. Adler, How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading

"True freedom is impossible without a mind made free by discipline."

-Mortimer J. Adler, How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading

7. The Greatest Minds and Ideas of All Time

By: Will Durant , John Little

5.00

Format: 64 pages,

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8. The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements

By: Eric Hoffer

3.27

Format: None pages, Paperback

A stevedore on the San Francisco docks in the 1940s, Eric Hoffer wrote philosophical treatises in h… read more

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9. Writing Tools: 50 Essential Strategies for Every Writer

By: Roy Peter Clark

4.54

Format: 253 pages, Hardcover

One of America's most influential writing teachers offers a toolbox from which writers of all kinds… read more

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10. The Republic

By: Plato , Desmond Lee

3.96

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

Presented in the form of a dialogue between Socrates and three different interlocutors, this classi… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • history
"Appearance tyrannizes over truth."

-Plato, The Republic

"The comprehensive mind is always dialectical."

-Plato, The Republic

"Those who don't know must learn from those who do."

-Plato, The Republic

"Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance"

-Plato, The Republic

11. The Book that Made Your World: How the Bible Created the Soul of Western Civilization

By: Vishal Mangalwadi , None

4.34

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Understand where we came from. Whether you're an avid student of the Bible or a skeptic of its rele… read more

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12. Think like a Stoic: Ancient Wisdom for Today’s World

By: Massimo Pigliucci

3.98

Format: 12 pages, Audible Audio

Distilled to its essence, the ancient Greco-Roman philosophy known as Stoicism is a philosophy of p… read more

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  • self help
  • history
  • psychology
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • education
  • audiobook
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13. A Quiet Life in 7 Steps

By: Susan Cain

3.69

Format: 5 pages, Audible Audio

In a world of distraction, overcommitment, and often overwhelming social expectations, are you crav… read more

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  • audiobook
  • personal development
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • self help
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14. The Warrior Poet Way: A Guide to Living Free and Dying Well

By: John Lovell

4.41

Format: 287 pages, Kindle Edition

An instant Wall Street Journal Bestseller! From the founder of the Warrior Poet Society, a daring m… read more

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  • audiobook
  • personal development
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • self help
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15. How to Be Free: An Ancient Guide to the Stoic Life (Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers)

By: Epictetus

4.11

Format: 173 pages, Hardcover

A superb new edition of Epictetus's famed handbook on Stoicism--translated by one of the world's le… read more

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  • self help
  • personal development
  • history
  • psychology
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"A companion's crudeness is bound to rub off on the one he is with, no matter how refined that person may be."

-Epictetus, How to Be Free: An Ancient Guide to the Stoic Life (Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers)

"Don't we recall that no one does injury or benefit to another, but that the cause of each of these things is a judgement."

-Epictetus, How to Be Free: An Ancient Guide to the Stoic Life (Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers)

"Don't ask for things to happen as you would like them to, but wish them to happen as they actually do, and you will be all right."

-Epictetus, How to Be Free: An Ancient Guide to the Stoic Life (Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers)

"But to myself all predictions are favorable if I wish them to be, since it is up to me to benefit from the outcome, whatever it may be."

-Epictetus, How to Be Free: An Ancient Guide to the Stoic Life (Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers)

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16. The Socratic Method: A Practitioner's Handbook

By: Ward Farnsworth

4.27

Format: 243 pages, Hardcover

A thinking person's guide to a better life. Ward Farnsworth explains what the Socratic method is, h… read more

Similar categories in Ward Farnsworth's The Socratic Method: A Practitioner's Handbook book and Ward Farnsworth's The Socratic Method: A Practitioner's Handbook

  • self help
  • personal development
  • biography
  • history
  • teaching
  • psychology
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • education
  • audiobook
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17. How to Think Like a Roman Emperor: The Stoic Philosophy of Marcus Aurelius

By: Donald J. Robertson

4.36

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

The life-changing principles of Stoicism taught through the story of its most famous proponent.Roma… read more

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  • self help
  • personal development
  • biography
  • history
  • psychology
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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18. That One Should Disdain Hardships: The Teachings of a Roman Stoic

By: Musonius Rufus

3.98

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

Perennial wisdom from one of history’s most important but lesser-known Stoic teachers  “He knew tha… read more

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  • biography
  • history
  • psychology
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • self help
"If one accomplishes some good though with toil, the toil passes, but the good remains; if one does something dishonourable with pleasure, the pleasure passes, but the dishonour remains."

-Musonius Rufus, That One Should Disdain Hardships: The Teachings of a Roman Stoic

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19. Breakfast with Seneca: A Stoic Guide to the Art of Living

By: David Fideler

4.28

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

The first clear and faithful guide to the timeless, practical teachings of the Stoic philosopher Se… read more

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  • self help
  • personal development
  • history
  • psychology
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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20. Introduction to Internal Family Systems

By: Richard C. Schwartz

4.28

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

A highly accessible introduction to a therapeutic approach that brings our inner “parts” into harmo… read more

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  • audiobook
  • personal development
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • self help
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21. Stoicism: A Very Short Introduction

By: Brad Inwood

3.58

Format: 118 pages, Paperback

- Provides an introductory account of Stoic philosophy - Addresses ancient Stoicism, its endurin… read more

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  • philosophy
  • personal development
  • history
  • nonfiction

9 must-read audiobook books like The Socratic Method: A Practitioner's Handbook by Ward Farnsworth

Transform Your Habits

What I Believe

Bertrand Russell

3.99

Transform Your Habits

Think like a Stoic: Ancient Wisdom for Today’s World

Massimo Pigliucci

3.98

Transform Your Habits

A Quiet Life in 7 Steps

Susan Cain

3.69

Transform Your Habits

The Warrior Poet Way: A Guide to Living Free and Dying Well

John Lovell

4.41

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14 Top audiobook books like Think like a Stoic: Ancient Wisdom for Today’s World by Massimo Pigliucci

Transform Your Habits

The Art of War (The Great Courses, #9456)

Andrew R. Wilson

3.93

Transform Your Habits

The Other Side of History : Daily Life in the Ancient World

Robert Garland

4.30

Transform Your Habits

Think like a Stoic: Ancient Wisdom for Today’s World

Massimo Pigliucci

3.98

Transform Your Habits

Lives of the Stoics: The Art of Living from Zeno to Marcus Aurelius

Ryan Holiday

4.04

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