Is your life becoming shaped by your mistakes and bad habits? Do you feel shackled down, unable to let go of overwhelming emotions and painful thoughts? Then you need to keep reading...The school of Stoicism was a Hellenistic philosophy founded in the 3rd Century BC. Throughout history, it has been a source of inspiration for some of the world’s greatest leaders, shaping some of the most brilliant minds ever known. Its teachings have been studied by American presid...

Do you frequently feel like you’re a slave to your emotions? Do you feel like you’ve lost sight of your goals, distracted by bad habits that have taken you off-path from the life you truly want? Then keep reading…This bundle includes:● Stoicism in Modern Life: Discover How to Develop Your Self-Awareness, Improve Your Mental Toughness and Self-Discipline in Today's World (Beginner's Guide)● Stoicism Collection: The M...

Do you often feel like you’re a slave to your emotions? Do you feel like you’ve lost sight of your goals, distracted by bad habits that have taken you off-path from your ideal life? Then you need to keep reading...The Ancient Greco-Roman philosophy of Stoicism, hailing from 300 B.C, believes that the path to happiness lies in the freedom from our emotions. To not be controlled by each thought and feeling, and accept each moment with self-awareness is to align ourselves with the natu...

Is your life becoming shaped by your mistakes and bad habits? Do you feel shackled down, unable to let go of overwhelming emotions and painful thoughts? Then you need to keep reading...The school of Stoicism was a Hellenistic philosophy founded in the 3rd Century BC. Throughout history, it has been a source of inspiration for some of the world’s greatest leaders, shaping some of the most brilliant minds ever known. Its teachings have been studied by American presidents, best-selling...

"I love all their cakes. They're bloody delicious." — Diana HenryBake It Easy is a celebration of good, honest baking, with 50 seriously impressive one-pan bakes.The boys behind The Exploding Bakery are back with a bang. This time, they’re here to show you that low-cost, low-effort baking doesn’t have to be boring. From no-weigh cakes to make-ahead bakes, through storecupboard heroes and seasonal stars, Bake It...

Tom Sawyer does not like school. He does not like work, and he never wants to get out of bed in the morning. But he likes swimming and fishing, and having adventures with his friends. And he has a lot of adventures. One night, he and his friend Huck Finn go to the graveyard to look for ghosts. They don't see any ghosts that night. They see something worse than a ghost - much, much worse ...

Building on his enormously successful first edition, Tom Nichols confirms his thesis that events, such as the COVID pandemic, prove that the assault on expertise has only intensified. Fully updated chapters continue to address how technology and increasing levels of education have exposed people to more information than ever before. These societal gains, however, have also helped fuel a surge in narcissistic and misguided intellectual egalitarianism that has crippled infor...

Tom Jones is rightly regarded as Fielding's greatest work, and one of the first and most influential of English novels. Attacked at the time as `A motley history of bastardism, fornication, and adultery', it overflows with a marvellous assortment of prudes, whores, libertines, bumpkins, misanthropes, hypocrites, scoundrels, virgins, and all too fallible humanitarians. This carefully modernized edition is based on Fielding's emended fourth edition text and offers the most thorough notes, ma...

Technology and increasing levels of education have exposed people to more information than ever before. These societal gains, however, have also helped fuel a surge in narcissistic and misguided intellectual egalitarianism that has crippled informed debates on any number of issues. Today, everyone knows everything: with only a quick trip through WebMD or Wikipedia, average citizens believe themselves to be on an equal intellectual footing with doctors and diplomats. All voices, even the mo...

With their distinctive and other-worldly appearance, runes--an ancient alphabet used to write Germanic languages--provide our only first-hand record of the customs and beliefs of peoples living on the northern fringe of the Roman Empire during a period of mass migration and momentous social upheaval. Emerging from obscure origins early in the first millennium, the runic script found new roles in Early Medieval England and Viking-Age Scandinavia, bearing witness to changing faiths, document...

A richly detailed collection of transcripts of Henry Kissinger's secretly recorded phone conversations from his time in the Nixon administration that touch on every important issue of Kissinger's day and provide a sweeping view of his era. Henry Kissinger is unquestionably one of the most consequential foreign policy makers in American history. A remarkably influential academic during his long tenure at Harvard, Kissinger became Richard Nixon's National Security Advisor in...

A contrarian yet highly engaging account of the spread of illiberal and anti-democratic sentiment throughout our culture that places responsibility on the citizens themselves. Over the past three decades, citizens of democracies who claim to value freedom, tolerance, and the rule of law have increasingly embraced illiberal politicians and platforms. Democracy is in trouble--but who is really to blame? In Our Own Worst Enemy, Tom Nichols challenges the current depi...