Epicurus in Lycia is the first full-length study of this eccentric second-century C.E. philosopher from Oenoanda, a small city in the mountains of Lycia (now Turkey). Toward ...

Menopause. Every woman goes through it, but most of us are not prepared for the event itself or aware that decades of vital womanhood lie ahead. With candor, warmth, and wisdom ...

When it comes to believing that business can be profitable and environmentally sensitive, cynics abound on both sides. But in Lean and Green, Pamela Gordon proves that ...

Explores six icons of masculine behaviour and examines the realities behind them. Accompanies a BBC TV series.

Tying in with a BBC2 television series, this book presents the true-life stories of ordinary British people, to identify the origins of some of the major social issues of today.

This edition collects all the epigrams attributed to Epicurean philosopher and poet Philodemos of Gadara (ca. 110-40 BC). In editing these epigrams, Sider has reexamined ...

Socrates is an flusive figure, Sarah Kofman asserts, and he is necessarily so since he did not write or directly state his beliefs. Kofman suggests that Socrates' avowal of ...