Modern Wisdom

A 1981 book by paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould that critiques the statistical methods and cultural ...

A set of twelve biographies of Julius Caesar and the first eleven emperors of the Roman Empire, writ...

A podcast hosted by Alex Petkas that explores the lives of the great Greek and Roman figures through...

A partially fictionalized biography of Cyrus the Great, written by the Athenian gentleman-soldier Xe...

A classic series of biographies of famous Greeks and Romans, written by the ancient philosopher and ...

Julius Caesar's firsthand account of his military campaigns in Gaul, documenting the eight-year conq...

A major work of political philosophy by John Locke which outlines his ideas for a more civilized soc...

Rutger Bregman's book explores the idea that humans are fundamentally decent and cooperative, discus...

Tom Wolfe's classic 1979 book documenting the early days of the U.S. space program and the test pilo...

A guide to what never changes in a changing world. Housel explores the constant human behaviors and ...

A sweeping historical novel that tracks the history of New York City through the lives of several fa...

The definitive account of Ernest Shackleton's 1914 Antarctic expedition. After their ship, the Endur...

A memoir by Alistair Urquhart, a Scottish soldier who survived three and a half years as a Japanese ...

A profound memoir and psychological exploration by psychiatrist Viktor Frankl, detailing his experie...

The biography of Louis Zamperini, an Olympic runner turned WWII bombardier who survived a plane cras...

A historical philosophical work by Chrysippus, the third head of the Stoic school. While the origina...

Blitzed by Norman Ohler is a historical investigation into the pervasive use of drugs in Nazi German...

Cocaine & Rhinestones is a highly acclaimed podcast that explores the history of 20th-century countr...

Chaos is a non-fiction book by Tom O'Neill that re-examines the Manson murders and the official narr...

Nicolaus Copernicus's groundbreaking work, 'De revolutionibus orbium coelestium' (On the Revolutions...