Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers
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How to Listen: An Ancient Guide to Learning from Others
$18.95 Add to cartA 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 well
Listening is a skill–even an art–and it’s- Series: Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers
- Author: Plutarch
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: February 24 2026
- ISBN10: 0691265585
- Language: English
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How to Find Happiness: An Ancient Guide to the Good Life
$18.95 Add to cartDoes happiness come from the pursuit of pleasure or moral virtue? A vivid new translation of Cicero’s exploration of a timeless question
“Of course, we all want to be happy.” So wrote the Roman states- Series: Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers
- Author: Volk, Katharina
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: February 24 2026
- ISBN10: 0691263396
- Language: English
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How to Be Grateful: An Aztec Guide to the Art of Gratitude
$17.95 Add to cartA delightful Aztec work that has much to teach us about the value of giving thanks–to our contemporaries, our elders, and our ancestors
Centuries before anyone ever thought of keeping a gratitude jou- Series: Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers
- Author: Texcoco, Pablo Of
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: November 18 2025
- ISBN10: 0691274118
- Language: English
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How to Feel: An Ancient Guide to Minding Our Emotions
$17.95 Add to cartA new translation of the Buddha’s teachings on mindfulness–and how it can help us to be less controlled by our emotions
To feel is to suffer. But do we have to suffer as much as we do? Twenty-five hu- Series: Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers
- Author: Buddha, The
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: November 18 2025
- ISBN10: 0691267391
- Language: English
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How to Be Caring: An Ancient Guide to a Compassionate Life
$17.95 Add to cartA vivid new translation of selections from an inspiring guide to self-transformation through kindness by an eighth-century Buddhist monk
Written by the medieval Indian Buddhist monk Shantideva, The Bo- Series: Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers
- Author: Shantideva
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: September 30 2025
- ISBN10: 069127407X
- Language: English
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How to Cope: An Ancient Guide to Enduring Hardship
$17.95 Add to cartA vivid and accessible new translation of essential selections from Boethius’s Consolation of Philosophy–a moving classic about facing life’s worst events with courage and hope
What do you do when yo- Series: Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers
- Author: Boethius
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 30 2025
- ISBN10: 069125916X
- Language: English
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How to Make a Home: An Ancient Guide to Style and Comfort
$17.95 Add to cartAn entertaining and enlightening collection of ancient Roman writings about home design and decoration
The idea that our homes can communicate professional as well as personal identities may seem as n- Series: Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers
- Author: Vitruvius
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: August 12 2025
- ISBN10: 0691249121
- Language: English
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How to Have Willpower: An Ancient Guide to Not Giving in
$17.95 Add to cartLively new translations of two classical works that offer wise advice about how to resist temptation
How to Have Willpower brings together two profound ancient meditations on how to overcome pressures- Series: Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers
- Author: Prudentius
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: August 12 2025
- ISBN10: 0691220344
- Language: English
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How to Eat: An Ancient Guide for Healthy Living
$17.95 Read moreA delicious feast of ancient Greek and Roman writings on living well by eating well
Today, we’re stuffed with dietary recommendations from every direction. Social media, advertising, food packaging,- Series: Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers
- Author: Bubb, Claire
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: January 28 2025
- ISBN10: 0691256993
- Language: English
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How to Talk about Love: An Ancient Guide for Modern Lovers
$17.95 Add to cartExplore the nature of love in this charming new translation of selections from Plato’s great dramatic work, the Symposium
What is love? In poetry, songs, fiction, movies, psychology, and philosophy, l- Series: Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers
- Author: Plato
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: January 28 2025
- ISBN10: 0691256888
- Language: English
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How to Lose Yourself: An Ancient Guide to Letting Go
$17.95 Add to cartInviting new translations of classical Buddhist texts about why the self is an illusion–and why giving it up can free us from suffering
From self-realization and self-promotion to self-help and the s- Series: Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers
- Author: Garfield, Jay L.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: January 28 2025
- ISBN10: 0691252637
- Language: English
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How to Be Queer: An Ancient Guide to Sexuality
$17.95 Add to cartAn irresistible anthology of ancient Greek writings that explore queer desire and love
Eros, limb-loosening, whirls me about again,
that bittersweet, implacable creature.
—Sappho The idea of sexual fl- Series: Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers
- Author: Nooter, Sarah
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: June 04 2024
- ISBN10: 0691248613
- Language: English
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How to Make Money: An Ancient Guide to Wealth Management
$17.95 Add to cartAn enriching collection of classical writings about how ancient Romans made–and thought about–money
Ancient Romans liked money. But how did they make a living and sometimes even become rich? The Rom- Series: Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers
- Author: Grillo, Luca
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: June 04 2024
- ISBN10: 0691239126
- Language: English
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How to Get Over a Breakup: An Ancient Guide to Moving on
$18.95 Add to cartA modern translation of the ancient Roman poet Ovid’s Remedies for Love–a witty and irreverent work about how to fall out of love
Breakups are the worst. On one scale devised by psychiatrists, only a- Series: Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers
- Author: Ovid
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: June 04 2024
- ISBN10: 0691220301
- Language: English
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How to Be a Bad Emperor: An Ancient Guide to Truly Terrible Leaders
$16.95 Add to cartWhat would Caligula do? What the worst Roman emperors can teach us about how not to lead
If recent history has taught us anything, it’s that sometimes the best guide to leadership is the negative exam- Series: Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers
- Author: Suetonius
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: February 04 2020
- ISBN10: 0691193991
- Language: English
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How to Give: An Ancient Guide to Giving and Receiving
$16.95 Add to cartTimeless wisdom on generosity and gratitude from the great Stoic philosopher Seneca
To give and receive well may be the most human thing you can do–but it is also the closest you can come to divinity- Series: Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers
- Author: Seneca
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: October 20 2020
- ISBN10: 069119209X
- Language: English
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How to Think about God: An Ancient Guide for Believers and Nonbelievers
$18.95 Add to cartA vivid and accessible new translation of Cicero’s influential writings on the Stoic idea of the divine
Most ancient Romans were deeply religious and their world was overflowing with gods–from Jupite- Series: Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers
- Author: Cicero, Marcus Tullius
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: November 05 2019
- ISBN10: 0691183651
- Language: English
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How to Be a Farmer: An Ancient Guide to Life on the Land
$16.95 Add to cartA delightful anthology of classical Greek and Roman writings celebrating country living–ranging from a philosophy of compost to hymns to the gods of agriculture
Whether you farm or garden, live in th- Series: Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers
- Author: Usher, M. D.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: November 02 2021
- ISBN10: 0691211744
- Language: English
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How to Think about War: An Ancient Guide to Foreign Policy
$16.95 Add to cartAn accessible modern translation of essential speeches from Thucydides’s History that takes readers to the heart of his profound insights on diplomacy, foreign policy, and war
Why do nations go to war- Series: Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers
- Author: Thucydides
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: February 05 2019
- ISBN10: 0691190151
- Language: English
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How to Stop a Conspiracy: An Ancient Guide to Saving a Republic
$16.95 Add to cartAn energetic new translation of an ancient Roman masterpiece about a failed coup led by a corrupt and charismatic politician
In 63 BC, frustrated by his failure to be elected leader of the Roman Repub- Series: Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers
- Author: Sallust
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: May 10 2022
- ISBN10: 0691212368
- Language: English
