A new translation of Seneca’s ‘On The Shortness of Life’, with the Latin on facing pages and an introduction. One of three niftily pocket-sized classical guides to life.
How to Have a Life: An Ancient Guide to Using Our Time Wisely
£14.99
Edition:Hardback978069121912718/10/2022From a Bookshelf nearby
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The author is a medical doctor and a poet: this book is both a meditation on art and life and a collection of snippets about the history of medicine. Written over twenty years, it moves effo... read more
Scattered Limbs: A Medical Dreambook
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Slim but far-reaching memoir of the author's brush with suicide, framed as the consequence of familial trauma and isolation. Superbly written, this bears honourable comparison with William S... read more
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SB-C argues that the secrets of humanity's cognitive development - from the invention of agriculture to musical instruments - can be found in the genes for autism.
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The Soul of the White Ant
Paperback £14.95