How to Do the Right Thing: An Ancient Guide to Treating People Fairly (Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers)
By: Seneca
3.75
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
How ancient Stoicism can help teach us to treat others--and ourselves--more fairly and mercifully …
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1. Mastery
By: Robert Greene
4.26
Format: 318 pages, Hardcover
In this book, Robert Greene demonstrates that the ultimate form of power is mastery itself. By anal… read more
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"Creative Endeavors are by their nature uncertain."-Robert Greene, Mastery
"The problem is that we humans are deep conformists."-Robert Greene, Mastery
"The time that leads to mastery is dependent on the intensity of our focus."-Robert Greene, Mastery
"Read more books than those who have a formal education, developing this into a lifelong habit."-Robert Greene, Mastery
2. The Lessons of History
By: Will Durant , Ariel Durant
4.07
Format: 119 pages, Hardcover
In this illuminating and thoughtful book, Will and Ariel Durant have succeeded in distilling for th… read more
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"We must operate with partial knowledge, and be provisionally content with probabilities."-Will Durant, The Lessons of History
"The present is the past rolled up for action, and the past is the present unrolled for understanding."-Will Durant, The Lessons of History
"Democracy is the most difficult of all forms of government, since it requires the widest spread of intelligence, and we forgot to make ourselves intelligent when we made ourselves sovereign."-Will Durant, The Lessons of History
"We conclude that the concentration of wealth is natural and inevitable, and is periodically alleviated by violent or peaceable partial redistribution. In this view all economic history is the slow he…"-Will Durant, The Lessons of History
3. The Mission, the Men, and Me: Lessons from a Former Delta Force Commander
By: Pete Blaber
4.33
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
As a commander in Delta Force-the most elite counter-terrorist organization in the world-Pete Blabe… read more
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"The ultimate goal of this book is to share what I consider to be life-saving and life-changing lessons that I was fortunate enough to learn as a key participant in many of recent history’s most impac…"-Pete Blaber, The Mission, the Men, and Me: Lessons from a Former Delta Force Commander
4. Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design
By: Charles Montgomery
4.12
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Charles Montgomery's Happy Citywill revolutionize the way we think about urban life. After decades … read more
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5. The Book on the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are
By: Alan W. Watts
3.00
Format: 508 pages, Mass Market Paperback
At the root of human conflict is our fundamental misunderstanding of who we are. The illusion that … read more
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6. 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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- classics
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7. The Consolation of Philosophy
By: Boethius , None
4.27
Format: 24 pages, Paperback
Boethius was an eminent public figure under the Gothic emperor Theodoric, and an exceptional Greek … read more
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8. The Tin Drum
By: Günter Grass
3.75
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
On his third birthday Oskar decides to stop growing. Haunted by the deaths of his parents and wield… read more
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9. The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine
By: Ilan Pappé
3.98
Format: 296 pages, Hardcover
Since the Holocaust, it has been almost impossible to hide large-scale crimes against humanity. In … read more
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10. What Got You Here Won't Get You There: How Successful People Become Even More Successful
By: Marshall Goldsmith , Mark Reiter
3.51
Format: 235 pages, Hardcover
America's most sought-after executive coach shows how to climb the last few rungs of the ladderThe … read more
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11. How to Be a Stoic: Using Ancient Philosophy to Live a Modern Life
By: Massimo Pigliucci
3.85
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
In the tradition of How to Liveand How Proust Can Change Your Life, a philosopher asks how ancient … read more
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12. 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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"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
"The beginning is the most important part of the work."-Plato, The Republic
13. Clear Thinking: Turning Ordinary Moments into Extraordinary Results
By: Shane Parrish
4.21
Format: 284 pages, Kindle Edition
AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERFew things will change your trajectory in life or business as m… read more
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"Our desire to feel right overpowers our desire to be right."-Shane Parrish, Clear Thinking: Turning Ordinary Moments into Extraordinary Results
"The social rewards for going with the crowd are felt long before the benefits of going against it are gained."-Shane Parrish, Clear Thinking: Turning Ordinary Moments into Extraordinary Results
"Most people go through life assuming that we’re right about everything all the time and that people who don’t see things our way are wrong. We mistake how we want the world to be with how it actually…"-Shane Parrish, Clear Thinking: Turning Ordinary Moments into Extraordinary Results
14. The Stoic Challenge: A Philosopher's Guide to Becoming Tougher, Calmer, and More Resilient
By: William B. Irvine
3.74
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
Ancient Stoic insights combined with modern psychological research help us overcome—and even benefi… read more
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15. The Cat Who Taught Zen
By: James Norbury
4.32
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
From the author and illustrator of the international bestseller Big Panda and Tiny Dragon comes a b… read more
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"What we want is seldom what we need. And what we need is almost never what we want."-James Norbury, The Cat Who Taught Zen
"I once heard someone say, it was not the journey or the destination that mattered most, but the company."-James Norbury, The Cat Who Taught Zen
"If something isn’t right, just telling your friend can make it seem better, even though they might not know how to fix it."-James Norbury, The Cat Who Taught Zen
"It is better to begin the journey, make some mistakes and correct your course, than to wait until everything is perfect and never even start"-James Norbury, The Cat Who Taught Zen
16. Lives of the Stoics: The Art of Living from Zeno to Marcus Aurelius
By: Ryan Holiday
4.04
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling authors of The Daily Stoic comes an inspiring guide to the lives of the Stoics… read more
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"When good men come to bad ends,"-Ryan Holiday, Lives of the Stoics: The Art of Living from Zeno to Marcus Aurelius
"No parent should outlive their children. To lose eight of them? So young? It staggers the mind. “Unfair"-Ryan Holiday, Lives of the Stoics: The Art of Living from Zeno to Marcus Aurelius
"You owe it to yourself and to the world to actively engage with the brief moment you have with this planet. You cannot retreat exclusively into ideas. You must contribute."-Ryan Holiday, Lives of the Stoics: The Art of Living from Zeno to Marcus Aurelius
"It is a striking contrast, an emperor and a slave sharing and loving the same philosophy, the latter figure greatly influencing the former, but it is not a contradiction—nor would it have seemed odd …"-Ryan Holiday, Lives of the Stoics: The Art of Living from Zeno to Marcus Aurelius
17. 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
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19. Right Thing, Right Now: Justice in an Unjust World
By: Ryan Holiday
4.21
Format: 365 pages, Kindle Edition
In his New York Times bestselling book, Discipline Is Destiny, Ryan Holiday made the Stoic case for… read more
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20. The Pursuit of Happiness: How Classical Writers on Virtue Inspired the Lives of the Founders and Defined America
By: Jeffrey Rosen
4.36
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
A fascinating examination of what “the pursuit of happiness” meant to our nation’s Founders and how… read more
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"If you had to sum it up in one sentence, the classical definition of the pursuit of happiness meant being a lifelong learner, with a commitment to practicing the daily habits that lead to character i…"-Jeffrey Rosen, The Pursuit of Happiness: How Classical Writers on Virtue Inspired the Lives of the Founders and Defined America
21. How to Do the Right Thing: An Ancient Guide to Treating People Fairly (Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers)
By: Seneca
3.75
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
How ancient Stoicism can help teach us to treat others--and ourselves--more fairly and mercifully … read more
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