Master your emotions. Embrace calm. Live with purpose. Written nearly two thousand years ago, The Enchiridion (or Handbook) of Epictetus offers timeless Stoic teachings that are more relevant today than ever. In a world filled with chaos, distraction, and noise, this compact guide offers clarity, calm, and the wisdo...

What does it signify when a Shakespearean character forgets something or when Hamlet determines to 'wipe away all trivial fond records'? How might forgetting be an act to be performed, or be linked to forgiveness, such as when in The Winter's Tale Cleomenes encourages Leontes to 'forget your evil. / With them, forgi...

Enter the sacred depths of the soul and discover the divine presence within. Written by Saint Teresa of Ávila, one of the most revered Christian mystics, The Interior Castle is a profound spiritual guide that has inspired seekers for centuries. First published in 1577, this masterpiece reveals the soul's inner journ...

This Element recounts the tumultuous history of the Unification Church Movement, deriving from the messianic ministry of MOON Sun Myung (1920–2012). It begins with the UCM's origins in Korea and traces its development into a global conglomerate of churches, related nonprofit organizations, and for-profit businesses....

Equality is the endangered species of political ideals. Even left-of-center politicians reject equality as an ideal: government must combat poverty, they say, but need not strive that its citizens be equal in any dimension. In his new book Ronald Dworkin insists, to the contrary, that equality is the indispensable v...

Your Field Guide to the Realms of the Unseen Whispers from beyond the veil haunt and beguile us. Are they from ancestors trying to help or monsters hoping to deceive? Drawing on thirty years of research and experience, Rob and Nonie Douglas present paranormal investigation from the perspective of medieval magic. The...

Iris Murdoch is well-known for her moral philosophy, especially for the light it sheds on the inner life. This Element focuses on the political significance and contours of Murdoch's ethics. Its chief aim is to illuminate the affinities between Murdoch's concept of the individual and the Enlightenment ideal of a soc...

★第12屆吳大猷科學普及著作獎創作類銀籤獎★ ★桃園市社會教育貢獻獎得主作品★ 人氣哲學史podcast〈冰的哲學〉首度成書 沒有亞里斯多徳就沒有自然科學？古代科學家不相信實驗？ 沒有笛卡兒談「我思故我在」，就沒有牛頓的物理成就！ 其實，科學演進的背後都經過一次哲學論戰的推動！ 如何以極為有限的篇幅介紹這些知名哲學家的思想，對作者而言...

Nothing is more distressing to the modern person than the experience of an unsurpassable limit of the calculable. Nothing disturbs us more deeply than incalculable time, unpredictable time--the time of the advent of the unpredictably new. In a series of interventions into contemporary political crises, McGrath react...

"Workers of the world, unite!" ー A bold declaration that changed history. The Communist Manifesto, co-authored by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, is one of the most influential political documents ever written. Originally published in 1848, this concise yet powerful text outlines the principles of communism, critiq...

Dieser Band enthält jene Daten zur Ereignis- und Kulturgeschichte der letzten 5000 Jahre, die man gerne stets präsent hätte - ein Vademecum der Geschichte. Es bietet anhand einer verantwortungsvoll getroffenen Auswahl wichtigster, knapp kommentierter Fakten einen raschen Überblick über die Menschheitsgeschichte seit...

Become a better husband, father, and leader when you learn to express your emotions in a healthy way. In a culture that tells men to suppress instead of express, join bestselling author, speaker, and leader Jason Wilson (featured in the award-winning ESPN documentary The Cave of Adullam) as he calls you to unlearn s...

New York Times Readers’ Pick: Top 100 Books of the 21**st** Century The tenth anniversary edition of the internationally bestselling phenomenon that cemented Yuval Noah Harari as one of the most prominent historians of our timeーfeaturing a new afterword from the author. One hundred thousand years ago, at least six ...

Chris Fraser presents a rich and broad-ranging study of the culminating period of classical Chinese philosophy, the third century BC. He offers novel and informative perspectives on Confucianism, Daoism, Mohism, Legalism, and other movements in early Chinese thought while also delving into neglected texts such as th...

Now revised and updated for our modern world, the “complaint free” philosophy teaches you how to stop complaining, become more positive, and live the life you’ve always dreamed about. It all started more than fifteen years ago with a simple purple bracelet. Will Bowen passed out bracelets and offered people a challe...

Once there were princes and peasants and very few between. The extremes of wealth and poverty are still with us, but that shouldn't blind us to the fact our societies have been utterly transformed for the better over the past century. As Daniel Waldenström makes clear in this authoritative account of wealth accumula...