Any Person Is the Only Self - Essays by Elisa Gabbert
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Category: Culture & Ideas
Contagiously curious essays on reading, art, and the life of the mind, from the acclaimed author of The Unreality of Memory. Who are we when we read? When we journal? Are we more ourselves alone or with friends? Right now or in memory? How does time transform us and the art we love? In sixteen dazzling ...Show more
Ten Trips - The New Reality of Psychedelics by Andy Mitchell
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Category: Culture & Ideas
'An original and thrilling investigation into psychedelics and the claims that currently surround them, achieving profound insights into their essential qualities' Mike Jay, author of Psychonauts Psychedelics have made a comeback, but the truth is they remain a mystery. In this daring, profound and wild ...Show more
The Coming Storm - A Journey into the Heart of the Conspiracy Machine by Gabriel Gatehouse
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Category: Culture & Ideas
Is this how democracy dies? Based on his smash hit podcast, The Coming Storm is Gabriel Gatehouse's brilliant exploration of the roots of Q Anon and the rise of the extreme right in the US. It's a story that reaches back decades, showing how a dark fantasy embedded itself in the American consciousness, ...Show more
On Freedom by Timothy Snyder
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Category: Culture & Ideas
A brilliant exploration of freedom--what it is, how it's been misunderstood, and why it's our only chance for survival--by the acclaimed Yale historian and author of the #1 New York Times bestseller On Tyranny Timothy Snyder has been called "the leading interpreter of our dark times." As a historian, he ...Show more
Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI by Yuval Noah Harari
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Category: Culture & Ideas
From renowned historian and #1 Sunday Times bestselling author Yuval Noah Harari comes the story of how information networks have made, and unmade, our world From renowned historian and #1 Sunday Times bestselling author Yuval Noah Harari comes the story of how information networks have made, and unmade ...Show more
How to Do the Right Thing by Seneca
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Category: Culture & Ideas | Series: Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers Ser.
How ancient Stoicism can help teach us to treat others-and ourselves-more fairly and mercifully There are times when we’ve all felt that we haven’t been treated as we deserve-that we’ve been misjudged, short-changed, or given a raw deal. And, at one time or another, other people have probably felt that ...Show more
Letters from a Stoic: The Ancient Classic by Seneca, Donald Robertson
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Category: Culture & Ideas | Series: Capstone Classics Ser.
Throughout the centuries, Seneca has been admired as one of the greatest writers of antiquity. He has a way of expressing Stoic philosophy that makes it seem just as relevant to life today as it was two thousand years ago. Seneca taught that we should remain grounded in the present moment by being fully ...Show more
Meditations (Collins Classics) by Marcus Aurelius
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Category: Culture & Ideas | Series: Collins Classics Ser.
Our life is what our thoughts make it The extraordinary writings of Marcus Aurelius (AD 121-180), the only Roman emperor to have also been a stoic philosopher, have for centuries been praised for their wisdom, insight and guidance by leaders and great thinkers alike. Never intended for publication, Med ...Show more
Meditations (Chartwell Classics) by Marcus Aurelius
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Category: Culture & Ideas | Series: Chartwell Classics Ser.
The classic collection of writings by second-century Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius, now distinctively packaged with a beautifully designed jacket by noted illustrator Malika Favre. A compendium of ruminations and reflections by the second-century Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius, a staunch adherent to th ...Show more
Meditations - Signature Classics (PB) by Marcus Aurelius
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Category: Culture & Ideas | Series: Signature Classics Ser.
When we sit alone, thinking, and journaling, we must be brutally honest with ourselves. The result is often the peak of our wisdom, written only to ourselves, in sacred, private reflection.When Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, the Emperor of Rome, penned the words in these pages, that's what he was doing.It w ...Show more
Liberalism as a Way of Life by Alexandre Lefebvre
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Category: Culture & Ideas
Why liberalism is all you need to lead a good, fun, worthy, and rewarding life—and how you can become a better and happier person by taking your liberal beliefs more seriously Where do you get your values and sensibilities from? If you grew up in a Western democracy, the answer is probably liberalism. C ...Show more
The Captive Imagination - Addiction, Reality and Our Search for Meaning by Elias Dakwar
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Category: Culture & Ideas
'In rich and arresting prose, and with radical originality, Dakwar expands initial, pragmatic insights about addiction into a far-reaching examination of authenticity, exploring how we define a happy life, a good life, a valid life.' - Andrew Solomon, author of The Noonday Demon A deeply humane and rev ...Show more