Enhanced Media Publishing: 127 books
Stoic Six Pack 8 - The Peripatetics (Illustrated)
Lyco of Troas, Aristotelian Proportion, Strato of Lampsacus, Life of Aristotle, Theophrastus and Post-Aristotle: The Stoics
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2016
“Happiness depends upon ourselves.”
- Aristotle.
Just as the Stoics were named for the stoa or porch in Athens where they congregated, the Peripatetic school - known in its day simply as the Peripatos - took its moniker from the peripatoi or covered walkways of the Lyceum where its members...
Strategy Six Pack
Six Essential Texts
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2016
“War is merely the continuation of politics by other means.” - Clausewitz.
Strategy Six Pack brings together six essential texts for military theorists:
Machiavelli’s The Prince
The Art of War by Sun Tzu
Battle Studies by Ardant du Picq
Einhard’s Life of Charlemagne
Julius Caesar’s...
Christian Devotionals
Five Christian Classics
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2016
Five Classic Christian Devotionals in one book: The Imitation of Christ by Thomas A Kempis, Confessions by Saint Augustine, Jesus the Christ by James E. Talmage, The Book of Ruth from the Douay Rheims Bible and *How To Become Like Christ *by Marcus Dods.
Each work has been newly revised, formatted...
Strategy Six Pack 14 (Illustrated)
Mark Antony, Two Years Before the Mast, Daniel Boone, David Crockett, A Ride to Khiva and Six Years With the Texas Rangers 1875-1881
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2017
* “All you need for happiness is a good gun, a good horse, and a good wife.”*
Daniel Boone.
Strategy Six Pack 14 is a 1,000 page plus digital trove of historical nuggets, featuring two biographies of early American legends, Daniel Boone: The Pioneer of Kentucky and David Crockett,...
by Various Artists
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2017
The Book of Revelation, often known simply as Revelation or the Apocalypse, is the final book of the Bible and is the only purely apocalyptic book in the New Testament. The author of the work identifies himself in the text as "John" and says that he was on Patmos, an island in the Aegean,...
by Various Artists
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2016
“Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.”
― Abraham Lincoln.
Recollections of life on a plantation, a thrilling slave escape story, Fifty Years in Chains by Charles Ball, a famous essay on Slavery and Abolitionism, a survey...
Stoic Six Pack 5 - The Cynics (Illustrated)
An Introduction to Cynic Philosophy, The Moral Sayings of Publius Syrus, Life of Antisthenes, The Symposium (Book IV), Life of Diogenes and Life of Crates
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2016
"I would rather go mad than feel pleasure."
- Antisthenes.
For Cynics the secret to happiness was living a life of virtue in harmony with Nature with only the bare essentials necessary for survival. They rejected materialism and were free of belongings. Many were homeless and proud...
by Plato
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2017
Plato’s Allegory of the Cave is one of the most elegant and important metaphors in Western philosophy. It is a dialogue between Plato's brother Glaucon and his mentor Socrates, narrated by the latter, in which Plato elucidates his Theory of Forms.
This new digital edition of The Allegory of the Cave includes an image gallery.
by Epictetus
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2017
The Enchiridion or Manual of Epictetus is a short manual of Stoic ethical advice from the 2nd-century Greek Stoic philosopher Epictetus. The focus is on applying philosophy in daily life. The primary theme is that one should accept what happens. The Enchiridion, along with the Meditations of Marcus...
by Hierocles
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2017
2nd century Greek Stoic philosopher Hierocles was famous for his Elements of Ethics, a book which was thought to be lost until part of it was discovered in a papyrus fragment at Hermopolis in 1901. These fragments and others have been collected, translated and revised in Ethical Fragments, the most complete collection of Hierocles available in print.
Stoic Six Pack 9 - The Presocratics (Illustrated)
Anaximander, The School of Miletus, Zeno, Parmenides, Pre-Socratic Philosophy and The Eleatics
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2016
The philosophers who preceded Socrates (469 - 399 BC), the PreSocratics, were the first recorded individuals to reject mythological explanations for the unknown. Aristotle called the PreSocratics physikoi meaning physicists, after physis, nature, because they sought natural explanations for phenomena,...
Plato Six Pack (Illustrated)
Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Phaedo, The Allegory of the Cave and Symposium
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2017
Plato Six Pack represents the full-range of Plato’s philosophy. Included are six of his original works - Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Phaedo, The Allegory of the Cave and Symposium - and an image gallery featuring portraits of Plato, Socrates and influential Victorian translator Benjamin Jowett.
Seneca Six Pack 2
Six More Essential Texts
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2017
“We suffer more often in imagination than in reality.” - Seneca.
Seneca Six Pack 2 presents six more primary and secondary texts for students of Stoicism and fans of Lucius Annaeus Seneca. There are three Seneca originals, a study of Seneca’s poetry, a biographical essay by Elbert Hubbard...
Travels Into Bokhara
A Voyage up the Indus to Lahore and a Journey to Cabool, Tartary & Persia
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2016
‘The Great Game’ (also referred to as the Tournament of Shadows) is a term used to describe the political and diplomatic confrontation that existed during most of the 19th Century between the British Empire and the Russian Empire centered around Afghanistan and its surrounding regions. The classic...