A city the Roman historian Livy called “memorable not for the magnificence of its buildings, but for its discipline”; protected by what the mythical founder of its military described as a “wall of men…
Shelve The Spartan Way: What Modern Men Can Learn from Ancient Warriors
The corporate "yes man," the wife-beater, the hot-shot male junior executive and the emotionally distant father are all boys pretending to be men, observe the authors of this liberating guide to self-…
Shelve King, Warrior, Magician, Lover: Rediscovering the Archetypes of the Mature Masculine
"Economic hit men,” John Perkins writes, “are highly paid professionals who cheat countries around the globe out of trillions of dollars. Their tools include fraudulent financial reports, rigged elect…
The Phaedo is acknowledged to be one of Plato's masterpieces, showing him both as a philosopher and as a dramatist at the height of his powers. For its moving account of the execution of Socrates, the…
لولا الطلليُّ لما حدث الشعرُ فلابد لكي تفتح عينيها الواسعتين قصيدة أن يحترق الأزرق في الأفق وأن تنتقل بيوتٌ للريح وأن يكتظ القلب خسارات وهو يرى الأحباب تطيش بهم في السفر الوحشيّ مسافات عمياء بعيدة
Epictetus, a Greek Stoic and freed slave, ran a thriving philosophy school in Nicopolis in the early second century AD. His animated discussions were celebrated for their rhetorical wizardry and were …
God designed men to be dangerous, says John Eldredge. Simply look at the dreams and desires written in the heart of every boy: To be a hero, to be a warrior, to live a life of adventure and risk. Sadl…
Shelve Wild at Heart: Discovering the Secret of a Man's Soul
WARS CHANGE, WARRIORS DON'T We are all warriors. Each of us struggles every day to define and defend our sense of purpose and integrity, to justify our existence on the planet and to understand, if on…
TOO LOUD A SOLITUDE is a tender and funny story of Haňťa - a man who has lived in a Czech police state - for 35 years, working as compactor of wastepaper and books. In the process of compacting, he ha…
Just about everyone knows who Mike Tyson is. Undisputed heavyweight champion of the world. Prodigious, powerful boxer who won 50 of his 58 fights -- 44 by knockout.
Lesser known is how Tyson became o…
Shelve The Warrior Monk Philosophy of Trainer Cus D'Amato: The 5 Strategies That Turned Mike Tyson Into a World Champion
"هذا الكتاب مكتبة مفهرسة، دون أي نظام منطقي، لعديد المكتبات التي تواطأتُ مع أصحابها على بنائها أو إبرازها أو حتى نقضها وهدمها... لن أتحدث عن التشابهات التي قد يلفيها القارئ بين ماهو مكتوب هنا وما قد ي…
إذا كان للأمم الحية أن تزدهي بعباقرتها وأن تباهي بفلاسفتها وشعرائها وكتابها فقد حق لنا نحن أبناء الأمة العربية أن نضع ميخائيل نعيمه في رأس مفاخرنا الروحية والأدبية في هذا العصر. ميخائيل نعيمه مدرسة إن…
From 1979 to 1989 a million Soviet troops engaged in a devastating war in Afghanistan that claimed 50,000 casualties—and the youth and humanity of many tens of thousands more. Creating controversy and…
Shelve Zinky Boys: Soviet Voices from the Afghanistan War
In this illuminating and thoughtful book, Will and Ariel Durant have succeeded in distilling for the reader the accumulated store of knowledge and experience from their four decades of work on the ten…
