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    How to Listen

    An Ancient Guide to Learning from Others

    by Plutarch, Jeffrey Beneker ...
    Narrated by Pun Bandhu ...

    Unabridged

    1 hour 10 min

    A lively new translation of Plutarch’s charming and timeless essay on how to be a good listener—and why listening is essential to learning and living wellListening is a skill—even an art—and it’s essential to learning and to life. Indeed, as Plutarch writes in How to Listen, “listening well is the foundation for living well.” In this volume, Jeffrey Beneker presents a vivid and accessible new ... Read more

    $13.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • How to Be a Leader

    An Ancient Guide to Wise Leadership

    by Plutarch, Jeffrey Beneker ...
    Series series Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers
    Timeless advice on how to be a successful leader in any fieldThe ancient biographer and essayist Plutarch thought deeply about the leadership qualities of the eminent Greeks and Romans he profiled in his famous—and massive—Lives, including politicians and generals such as Pericles, Alexander the Great, Julius Caesar, and Mark Antony. Luckily for us, Plutarch distilled what he learned about wise ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • How to Listen

    An Ancient Guide to Learning from Others

    by Plutarch, Jeffrey Beneker ...
    Series series Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers
    A lively new translation of Plutarch’s charming and timeless essay on how to be a good listener—and why listening is essential to learning and living wellListening is a skill—even an art—and it’s essential to learning and to life. Indeed, as Plutarch writes in How to Listen, “listening well is the foundation for living well.” In this volume, Jeffrey Beneker presents a vivid and accessible new ... Read more

    $13.69 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Audiobook

    How to Be a Leader

    An Ancient Guide to Wise Leadership

    by Plutarch ...
    Narrated by Matthew Waterson ...

    Unabridged

    2 hours 30 min

    The ancient biographer and essayist Plutarch thought deeply about the leadership qualities of the eminent Greeks and Romans he profiled in his famous—and massive—Lives, including politicians and generals such as Pericles, Alexander the Great, Julius Caesar, and Mark Antony. Luckily for us, Plutarch distilled what he learned about wise leadership in a handful of essays, which are filled with ... Read more

    Was $19.99 USD Now $13.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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    How to Think Like Socrates

    Ancient Philosophy as a Way of Life in the Modern World

    by Donald J. Robertson ...
    Narrated by Donald J. Robertson ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 25 min

    How can we apply the teachings of the greatest ancient philosopher to modern life?Socrates is the quintessential Athenian philosopher, the source of the entire Western philosophical tradition, and Godfather to the Stoics. He spent his life teaching practical philosophy to ordinary people in the streets of Athens, yet few people today are familiar with the wisdom he has to offer us.How to Think ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

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  • A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy

    The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy

    by William B. Irvine ...
    One of the great fears many of us face is that despite all our effort and striving, we will discover at the end that we have wasted our life. In A Guide to the Good Life, William B. Irvine plumbs the wisdom of Stoic philosophy, one of the most popular and successful schools of thought in ancient Rome, and shows how its insight and advice are still remarkably applicable to modern lives. In A Guide ... Read more

    $15.19 USD

  • How to Be a Stoic

    Using Ancient Philosophy to Live a Modern Life

    by Massimo Pigliucci ...
    **An engaging guide to how Stoicism—the ancient philosophy of Epictetus and Marcus Aurelius—can help us flourish today.“One of the best explorations of Stoic philosophy that I’ve read.” —Timothy Ferriss, author of The 4-Hour Workweek**Whenever we worry about what to eat, how to love, or simply how to be happy, we are worrying about how to lead a good life. No goal is more elusive.In this ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • The Practicing Stoic

    A Philosophical User's Manual

    by Ward Farnsworth ...
    “Farnsworth beautifully integrates his own observations with scores of quotations from Epictetus, Seneca, Marcus Aurelius, Montaigne and others. This isn’t just a book to read—it’s a book to return to, a book that will provide perspective and consolation at times of heartbreak or calamity.”—The Washington PostSee more clearly, live more wisely, and bear the burdens of this life with greater ease ... Read more

    $13.09 USD

  • The Complete Works

    Handbook, Discourses, & Fragments

    by Epictetus ...
    "This is now the best English translation of Epictetus available . . . a reliable and up-to-date guide to the most influential Stoic in today's world." —Brad Inwood, author of Stoicism: A Very Short Introduction"Some things are up to us and some are not."Epictetus was born into slavery around the year 50 CE, and, upon being granted his freedom, he set himself up as a philosophy teacher. After ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Ryan Holiday 4 Books Collection Set

    Lives of the Stoics, The Obstacle is the Way, Ego is the Enemy, Stillness is the Key

    by Ryan Holiday ...
    Lives of the Stoics :In this book, Ryan Holiday and Stephen Hanselman offer a fresh approach to understanding Stoicism through the lives of the people who practiced it - from Cicero to Zeno, Cato to Seneca, Diogenes to Marcus Aurelius. Through short biographies of all the famous, and lesser-known, Stoics, this book will show what it means to live stoically, and reveal the lessons to be learned ... Read more

    $19.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Discourses, Fragments, Handbook

    by Epictetus, Christopher Gill ...
    Translated by Robin Hard ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    'About things that are within our power and those that are not.' Epictetus's Discourses have been the most widely read and influential of all writings of Stoic philosophy, from antiquity onwards. They set out the core ethical principles of Stoicism in a form designed to help people put them into practice and to use them as a basis for leading a good human life. Epictetus was a teacher, and a freed ... Read more

    $11.39 USD

  • Meditations: A New Translation

    by Marcus Aurelius, Gregory Hays ...
    Meditations is a series of personal writings by Marcus Aurelius, Roman Emperor from AD 161 to 180, recording his private notes to himself and ideas on Stoic philosophy. Marcus Aurelius wrote the 12 books of the Meditations in Koine Greek as a source for his own guidance and self-improvement. It is possible that large portions of the work were written at Sirmium, where he spent much time planning ... Read more

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