Step into the private reflections of a Roman emperor and discover one of the most influential works of philosophy ever written.Meditations is a collection of personal writings and spiritual reflections by the Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius, translated by eminent Classical scholar George Long. His thoughts on how to lead a virtuous life, the importance of tranquillity and his ideas on how to reconcile the challenges of public and private life have become one...

Joining the fierce debates every obsessive fan loves to have, acclaimed sports journalist Marcus Thompson II presents a series of bold cases for who he thinks are the unique players who changed basketball forever.Michael Jordan. Dirk Nowitzki. Candace Parker. Steph Curry. These players from the modern era are among a handful of basketball's elite who have earned the rare title of Game Changer. Their contributions go beyond statistics and accolades, beyond wins and ...

Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Augustus was the model of what we call a philosopher-king. Though his rule was troubled by war and conflict, he remained a thoughtful and even-handed ruler.Meditations isn't a complete book, but rather a collection of his personal diary entries written over a ten-year campaign in Greece. The entries were never meant to be published; instead, they were a reminder to himself of how to remain calm, tranquil, and kind, even in the worst ...

Ten foundational works arranged from inner discipline and ethical reflection to leadership, strategy and modern self-mastery—a practical reading path through Stoic, Greek, Chinese, Japanese and European wisdom. Included works: Meditations (Marcus Aurelius) — Moral Letters to Lucilius (Seneca) — The Enchiridion (Epictetus) — Tao Te Ching (Laozi) — The Republic (Plato) — The Art of War (Sun Tzu) — The Book of Five Rings (Musashi Miyamoto) — The Prince (Niccolò Machiavelli) — Beyond Good and ...

At the edge of the millennium, an unauthorized broadcast hijacks Channel 6 in Harlow Creek, Oregon. Soon, the entire town shares the same waking nightmare.Former investigative journalist Dana Reyes returns to her Pacific Northwest hometown to care for her deteriorating mother. Instead of quiet solace, she finds a community gripped by acute insomnia, mass fugue states, and uncanny visions tracing directly back to an abandoned public access studio.As Dana investigates the ori...

Atlanta raised them. The trenches bonded them. Time separated them. And the debts brought them back together.When Ms. Phylliss—the woman who helped raise them—is found dead, eight childhood friends are pulled back into each other’s lives by a set of mysterious envelopes she left behind.Each message points toward secrets they thought were buried decades ago: a shooting near Greenbriar, a car they all remember differently, old betrayals, broken relationships,...

"I warned the Romans about their aqueducts. They called me a madman. They flooded. I warned the Mesopotamians about their grain. They called me a fool. They starved."John has been alive for five millennia. He isn't a hero, a villain, or a god. He’s just the only one in the room who knows how the math works.After five thousand years of being thrown out of the best rooms in history, John finally finds a generation that will listen: The 1940s. From fixing the Manhattan Project...

Jay Cantrell will find his daughter…or die trying.He had the perfect life as a small-town librarian: married just over a year to a beautiful airline pilot and with an daughter in college studying to be an astrophysicist. He's ready to celebrate his first anniversary as he adjusts to the empty nest.But the sun had other plans.Awakened before dawn by northern lights—in Illinois— that covered the entire sky, Jay's entire world changes in the blink of a...

It was a time of contracts, of rights and duties, payment and punishment…A queen keeps the desperate promise she makes to the godmother of her unborn child. A duke’s son is destined to cut himself on a sword and die before he grows up. An entire economy is derailed when the king forbids spinning throughout the land. A young princess recounts how she finds herself in a foreign court more than a century after her birth. A good fairy and an evil enchantress bicker over blessi...

Ten years after the worst pandemic in human history, people are falling sick in the western United States with symptoms frighteningly similar to dreaded Blue Flu, but all is not as it appears. When the President's motorcade falls under attack in Los Angeles, suspicions grow that the mystery illness is a bio-weapon version of the pandemic that killed hundreds of millions a decade earlier. One man holds the key to stopping the bio-weapon in its tracks, but he's being hunted by every power in...

From the author of Maybe the Saddest Thing and Silencer comes a playful yet profound poetry collection that orbits the intersections of public loss, private grief, (dis)connection, capitalism, and identity.In Dear Mothership, Marcus Wicker channels the lyrical dexterity of Outkast and the speculative vision of poet Robert Hayden to chart a course through personal and political upheaval.The collection’s centerpiece is the “Break Be...

Four experts with the National Preparedness Leadership Initiative at Harvard University provide the essential—and now newly updated—guide to becoming a more effective crisis leader while equipping yourself with the tools for everyday transformative leadershipToday, every leader must be ready to lead through a crisis. In You’re It, the faculty from the National Preparedness Leadership Initiative at Harvard University draws on their expansive field research ...