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Ancient Wisdom eBook Series

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  • Stoic Stories: Stoicism by Its Best Stories

    Ancient Wisdom, #3

    by Neel Burton ...
    Series Book 3 - Ancient Wisdom
    Stoicism through its best storiesReaders' Favorite Book Award WinnerBooks can be entertaining, or informative, or useful, but this one is all three at the same time. —Charles Mauleverer, composerZeno's shipwreck. Cato's final act. Cicero's murder… Stoicism has always been a philosophy of vivid lives and decisive moments. This book introduces the ideas of Stoicism through the people who lived them ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Gang of Three: Socrates, Plato, Aristotle

    Ancient Wisdom, #2

    by Neel Burton ...
    Series Book 2 - Ancient Wisdom
    The thinkers who built the Western mind—and still shape your own.This is the best book on philosophy I have ever read. —Philip van Heusen for Readers' FavoriteThree men. Three rival visions of reality. And together, the hidden framework behind how you think about truth, morality, happiness, and meaning.Much of Western philosophy can be traced back to Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle—figures whose ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Indian Mythology and Philosophy: The Vedas, Upanishads, Bhagavad Gita, Kama Sutra… And How They Fit Together

    Ancient Wisdom, #4

    by Neel Burton ...
    Series Book 4 - Ancient Wisdom
    A cultural and intellectual history of Ancient India that brings together its major philosophical traditions—Hindu, Buddhist, and Jain—into a single, accessible narrative.Winner Best Indie Book AwardNever before has the history and substance of Indian thought been laid out as clearly as in Burton's book. —Prof Nicolas Martin, Institute of Asian and Oriental Studies, University of ZürichAt sixteen, ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Meaning of Myth: With 12 Greek Myths Retold and Interpreted by a Psychiatrist

    Ancient Wisdom, #1

    by Neel Burton ...
    Series Book 1 - Ancient Wisdom
    Not just ancient stories—but a code for how we think, desire, fear, and believe.Readers' Favorite Book Award WinnerA profound psychological approach… Fascinating stuff. —James Sale, author of Gods, Heroes, and UsMyths have never been merely entertainment. For thousands of years, they have shaped religion, philosophy, psychology, politics, and art. But what are they really—primitive... ... Read more

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  • Augustus: Invitation to Philosophy

    Ancient Wisdom, #5

    by Neel Burton ...
    Series Book 5 - Ancient Wisdom
    What if the most powerful man in the ancient world could teach you how to live?Enter the mind of Augustus—the first emperor of Rome—and discover what truly makes a life worth living.According to the historian Suetonius, Augustus wrote a personal invitation to philosophy, inspired by the famous exhortations of Aristotle and Cicero. Like those earlier works, it was lost for nearly two thousand years ... Read more

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  • How to Think Like Plato and Speak Like Cicero

    Ancient Wisdom, #6

    by Neel Burton ...
    Series Book 6 - Ancient Wisdom
    Think clearly. Speak persuasively. Make better arguments.Finalist, The Independent Author Network 2025 Book AwardsWhy do intelligent people lose arguments? Why do bad ideas spread faster than good ones? And why is it that being right is often not enough?The ancient Greeks and Romans wrestled with these same questions more than two thousand years ago. Their answers remain as relevant today as ever ... Read more

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  • The German Greeks: German Philosophy and the German Philosophers: Leibniz, Kant, Hegel, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche

    Ancient Wisdom, #7

    by Neel Burton ...
    Series Book 7 - Ancient Wisdom
    What if the standard story of Western philosophy is backwards?A book that makes you stop and rethink how you've been taught philosophy. —Jamie Michele for Readers' FavoriteWe are taught that philosophy moves forward—from myth to reason; from the Greeks to modern science; from Plato to progress. But The German Greeks argues the opposite: that modern German philosophy is not a break from ancient ... Read more

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  • For the Love of Life

    by Erich Fromm ...
    This poignant philosophy about the human capacity for love in the face of tragedy from the New York Times–bestselling author is as relevant today as it was when it was first broadcast.Transcribed from a series of recorded conversations streamed over German public radio in 1970, the profound ideas and thoughts collected in this volume represent a lifetime of the renowned psychoanalyst and social ... Read more

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  • The Wolves of Paris

    A Novel

    by Daniel P. Mannix ...
    The award-winning author of The Way of the Gladiator brings to life medieval Paris and the wolves who held it hostage, in this novel based on real events.Praised as "nature writing at its best," The Wolves of Paris takes readers to fifteenth-century France, a country so decimated by the Hundred Years' War that its people became prey for marauding wolf packs ( Hartford Courant). With France split ... Read more

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  • Seven Deadly Sins

    The Biology of Being Human

    by Dr. Guy Leschziner ...
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    Exploring the Craft of Science Fiction

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