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"i humbly beg your speedy answer"
A fascinating collection of questions and answers—about courtship, marriage, love, and sex—from a seventeenth-century periodical The Athenian Mercury—a one-page, two-sided periodical published in 1690s London—included the world’s first personal advice column. Acclaimed historian and Pulitzer Priz...
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Anxiety
How philosophy can teach us to be less anxious about being anxious by understanding that it’s an essential part of being humanToday, anxiety is usually thought of as a pathology, the most diagnosed and medicated of all psychological disorders. But anxiety isn’t always or only a medical condition....
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Are you making love or just having sex?
Complete with self-improvement exercises and video lectures, this innovative book shows how you can identify your unlovable ways of relating, counter them with lovable goals, embrace philosophies of love that promote these goals, and create action plans to attain enduring love and sexual intimacy.
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Boost
This book explores how to effectively recharge from life’s relentless demands. Drawing on cutting-edge research, it explains why typical downtime fails to restore energy and introduces a powerful alternative—uptime—a method for truly replenishing motivation, improving well-being, and enhancing re...
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Educational leadership program coordinators
This book explores how program coordinators form partnerships with K-12 schools, higher education institutions, and agencies. It emphasizes social connectedness in fostering relationships and program stability. The book targets higher education faculty and administrators, offering insights into p...
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Effective alternative assessment practices in higher education
This book explores how higher education institutions can improve learning and equity through alternative assessment practices. It shares faculty experiences with non-traditional grading methods to enhance student success and belonging.
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Expanding the vision of faculty learning communities in higher education
This book on Faculty Learning Communities (FLCs) examines their expansion across platforms while maintaining core values. It covers FLCs' support for faculty retention, responsive teaching, online FLCs, fostering faculty belonging, and long-term impact.
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Faculty learning communities
This book explores Faculty Learning Communities (FLCs) as impactful professional learning for higher education faculty. It covers FLC initiatives across various fields, their impact on teaching and student learning, and potential for institutional change. The foreword by Milton D. Cox discusses r...
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Failures of forgiveness
Philosopher Myisha Cherry teaches us the right ways to deal with wrongdoing in our lives and the worldSages from Cicero to Oprah have told us that forgiveness requires us to let go of negative emotions and that it has a unique power to heal our wounds. In Failures of Forgiveness, Myisha Cherry ar...
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Gumbo for the soul iii
This book for, about, and by Males of Color, amplifies triumphs and successes while documenting trials and tribulations that are instructive, inspiring, and praiseworthy. This book will be a must-read for every Male of Color.
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How to be caring
A vivid new translation of selections from an inspiring guide to self-transformation through kindness by an eighth-century Buddhist monkWritten by the medieval Indian Buddhist monk Shantideva, The Bodhicaryavatara is one of the most beloved and frequently taught works in Buddhism and a favorite o...
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How to be grateful
A delightful Aztec work that has much to teach us about the value of giving thanks—to our contemporaries, our elders, and our ancestorsCenturies before anyone ever thought of keeping a gratitude journal, the Aztecs understood the profound value of being grateful. For generations, specially traine...
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How to be healthy
Timeless wisdom about how to be healthy in body and mind from one of the greatest physicians of the ancient worldThe second-century Greek physician Galen—the most famous doctor in antiquity after Hippocrates—is a central figure in Western medicine. A talented doctor, surgeon, writer, philosopher,...
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How to be persuasive
A new translation of essential selections from Aristotle’s Rhetoric, which teaches how to recognize—and resist—persuasive techniques that can be used to mislead and manipulateToday, the word “rhetoric” is typically used to criticize language that is empty or misleading. But the study of rhetoric ...
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How to cope
A 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 hopeWhat do you do when your life has fallen apart? Fifteen hundred years ago, a Roman nobleman named Boethius (ca. 480–524 C...
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How to eat
A 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, diet books, doctors—all have advice on what, how much, and when to eat. This would have been no su...
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How to feel
A new translation of the Buddha’s teachings on mindfulness—and how it can help us to be less controlled by our emotionsTo feel is to suffer. But do we have to suffer as much as we do? Twenty-five hundred years ago, the Buddha discovered that practices of mindfully observing our feelings and emoti...
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How to find happiness
Does 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 statesman, orator, and philosopher Marcus Tullius Cicero. He and his fellow Greek and Roman philosophers...
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How to flourish
Aristotle’s essential guide to human flourishing—the Nicomachean Ethics—in a lively new abridged translationAristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics is one of the greatest guides to human flourishing ever written, but its length and style have left many readers languishing. How to Flourish is a carefully a...
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How to focus
How you can learn to focus like a monk without living like oneDistraction isn’t a new problem. We’re also not the first to complain about how hard it is to concentrate. Early Christian monks beat us to it. They had given up everything to focus on God, yet they still struggled to keep the demons o...
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How to get over a breakup
A modern translation of the ancient Roman poet Ovid’s Remedies for Love—a witty and irreverent work about how to fall out of loveBreakups are the worst. On one scale devised by psychiatrists, only a spouse’s death was ranked as more stressful than a marital split. Is there any treatment for a bre...
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How to have a life
A vibrant new translation of Seneca’s “On the Shortness of Life,” a pointed reminder to make the most of our timeWho doesn’t worry sometimes that smart phones, the Internet, and TV are robbing us of time and preventing us from having a life? How can we make the most of our time on earth? In the f...
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How to have willpower
Lively new translations of two classical works that offer wise advice about how to resist temptationHow to Have Willpower brings together two profound ancient meditations on how to overcome pressures that encourage us to act against our own best interests—Plutarch’s essay On Dysopia or How to Res...
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How to keep an open mind
How ancient skepticism can help you attain tranquility by learning to suspend judgmentAlong with Stoicism and Epicureanism, Skepticism is one of the three major schools of ancient Greek philosophy that claim to offer a way of living as well as thinking. How to Keep an Open Mind provides an unmatc...
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How to keep your cool
Timeless wisdom on controlling anger in personal life and politics from the Roman Stoic philosopher and statesman SenecaIn his essay “On Anger” (De Ira), the Roman Stoic thinker Seneca (c. 4 BC–65 AD) argues that anger is the most destructive passion: “No plague has cost the human race more dear....
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How to lead when men fail
A lively new translation of Plutarch’s The Excellence of Women, a remarkable collection of stories about brave and clever female leaders in ancient Greece, Rome, Persia, and North AfricaIn times of peace, the women of the ancient Mediterranean had few chances to exercise leadership. But when fail...
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How to listen
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 th...
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How to live
A vivid new translation in which the Stoic philosopher argues that virtue is the only path to contentmentWhy are so many people unhappy when happiness can be attained by anyone who simply lives virtuously? That question prompted Seneca, the great Stoic philosopher of the early Roman Empire, to wr...
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How to lose yourself
Inviting new translations of classical Buddhist texts about why the self is an illusion—and why giving it up can free us from sufferingFrom self-realization and self-promotion to self-help and the selfie, the modern world encourages us to be self-obsessed. We are even told that finding ourselves ...
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How to make money
An enriching collection of classical writings about how ancient Romans made—and thought about—moneyAncient Romans liked money. But how did they make a living and sometimes even become rich? The Roman economy was dominated by agriculture, but it was surprisingly modern in many ways: the Romans had...
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How to say no
An entertaining and enlightening collection of ancient writings about the philosophers who advocated simple living and rejected unthinking conformityThe Cynics were ancient Greek philosophers who stood athwart the flood of society’s material excess, unexamined conventions, and even norms of polit...
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How to speak freely
A vivid and timely new translation of Plato’s Apology, in which Socrates defends his pursuit of truth, no matter the consequencesFree speech is back at the center of political and cultural debate, amid intense arguments over censorship on campus, in government, and in everyday life. How to Speak ...
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How to stop a conspiracy
An energetic new translation of an ancient Roman masterpiece about a failed coup led by a corrupt and charismatic politicianIn 63 BC, frustrated by his failure to be elected leader of the Roman Republic, the aristocrat Catiline tried to topple its elected government. Backed by corrupt elites and ...
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How to talk about love
Explore the nature of love in this charming new translation of selections from Plato’s great dramatic work, the SymposiumWhat is love? In poetry, songs, fiction, movies, psychology, and philosophy, love has been described, admired, lamented, and dissected in endless ways. Is love based on physica...
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How to travel
A transporting anthology of ancient Greek and Roman travel writings that capture the thrill of exploration and discovery—from Europe to the Holy Land and Egypt to IndiaAt long last, a travel guide to the ancient world for the modern tourist—written by the ancients themselves. How to Travel gather...
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How to truly love
An engaging new translation of a timeless fifth-century Buddhist meditation guide that teaches practices for becoming happier and freer by learning how to love everyoneSages and religious teachers the world over have taught us to love one another, extending our love and kindness beyond our immedi...
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How to write a letter
An inviting collection of Greek and Roman advice on letter writing—plus a gathering of illuminating and intimate letters from Cicero, Seneca, and PlinyEmail, texting, and AI appear to be sending the ancient art of letter writing to the verge of extinction. But this valuable skill doesn’t have to ...
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Institutional diversity in american postsecondary education
This text critiques the higher education marketplace, focusing on the limitations of rankings and the Carnegie Classification system. It highlights the diversity of institutional types and the need for a deeper understanding of their roles and impacts.
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Life is short
Why life’s shortness—more than anything else—is what makes it meaningfulDeath might seem to render pointless all our attempts to create a meaningful life. Doesn’t meaning require transcending death through an afterlife or in some other way? On the contrary, Dean Rickles argues, life without death...
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Losing ourselves
Why you don’t have a self—and why that’s a good thingIn Losing Ourselves, Jay Garfield, a leading expert on Buddhist philosophy, offers a brief and radically clear account of an idea that at first might seem frightening but that promises to liberate us and improve our lives, our relationships, an...
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Night vision
A philosopher’s personal meditation on how painful emotions can reveal truths about what it means to be truly humanUnder the light of ancient Western philosophies, our darker moods like grief, anguish, and depression can seem irrational. When viewed through the lens of modern psychology, they can...
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Note book
A moving and original literary approach to self-understanding through social media"The hunger for a feeling of connection that informs most everything I've written flows from a common break in a common heart, one I share with everyone I’ve ever really known."—Note BookEvery single morning since e...
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Our great purpose
Invaluable wisdom on living a good life from the founder of modern economicsAdam Smith is best known today as the founder of modern economics, but he was also an uncommonly brilliant philosopher who was especially interested in the perennial question of how to live a good life. Our Great Purpose ...
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Resilient leadership
Schechter and Halevi answer questions such as what promotes the development of resilience among school principals? What hinders it? What are the characteristics and practices of school principals’ resilience?
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Sin•a•gogue
This volume presents the concepts of sin and failure in Jewish thought, weaving together biblical and rabbinic studies to reveal a holistic portrait of the notion of sin and failure within Jewish thought.
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Teacher, take care
Teaching can be a highly satisfying profession, but it can also be overwhelming. Stress management. Self-care. Mental well-being. Mindfulness. These words have become all too familiar, but what do they actually mean for you? And how can they help without adding to your to-do list?All teachers hav...
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