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  • Stoic Ethics: The Basics

    by Christopher Gill, Brittany Polat ...
    Series series The Basics
    At a time of unprecedented interest in Stoicism, this book offers a comprehensive introduction to Stoic ethics for students and for readers interested in Stoic life-guidance.It combines an explanation of the main philosophical ideas in ancient Stoic ethics by Christopher Gill with discussion of how to put these ideas into practice in our own lives by Brittany Polat.The first seven chapters examine ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • Learning to Live Naturally

    Stoic Ethics and its Modern Significance

    by Christopher Gill ...
    At a time of unprecedented interest in Stoicism among scholars and the general public, this book offers a sustained examination of the core Stoic ethical claims and their significance for modern moral theory. The first part considers the Stoic ideas of happiness as the life according to nature and virtue as expertise in leading a happy life and explores the senses of 'nature' (both human and ... Read more

    $85.99 CAD

  • Discourses, Fragments, Handbook

    by Epictetus, Christopher Gill ...
    Translated by Robin Hard ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    'About things that are within our power and those that are not.' Epictetus's Discourses have been the most widely read and influential of all writings of Stoic philosophy, from antiquity onwards. They set out the core ethical principles of Stoicism in a form designed to help people put them into practice and to use them as a basis for leading a good human life. Epictetus was a teacher, and a freed ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

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    Poetry of the Romantics

    by John Keats ...
    Narrated by Joan Allen, Stephen Fry, Julie Christie, Christopher Cazenove, Jill Eikenberry, Orson Welles ...

    Unabridged

    1 hour 39 min

    The period of English romantic poetry occurred roughly between 1800 and 1850 and was represented by poets such as William Blake, Lord Byron, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, John Keats, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and William Wordsworth. All of these poets are featured in this collection of more than 50 poems read by award-winning actors that include Joan Allen, Julie Christie, Stephen Fry, Glenda Jackson, and ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Audiobook

    Discourses, Fragments, Handbook (Oxford Worlds Classics)

    by Christopher Gill, Epictetus ...
    Narrated by Peter Coates ...

    Unabridged

    13 hours 22 min

    'About things that are within our power and those that are not.'Epictetus' Discourses have been the most widely read and influential of all writings of Stoic philosophy, from antiquity onwards. They set out the core ethical principles of Stoicism in a form designed to help people put them into practice and to use them as a basis for leading a good human life. Epictetus was a teacher, and a freed ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD

  • There's Always Something to Do

    The Peter Cundill Investment Approach

    by Christopher Risso-Gill ...
    In the context of recent financial upheavals and ongoing uncertainty, Peter Cundill's wise and frequently funny reflections are more important than ever. In a seamlessly assembled narrative drawn from interviews, speeches, and exclusive access to the daily journal Cundill kept for forty-five years, Christopher Risso-Gill outlines Cundill's investment approach and provides accounts of his ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

  • Meditations: with selected correspondence

    with selected correspondence

    by Robin Hard ...
    Translated by Christopher Gill ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    'Do not act as if you had ten thousand years to live ... while you have life in you, while you still can, make yourself good.' The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius (AD 121-180) is a private notebook of philosophical reflections, written by a Roman emperor probably on military campaign in Germany. In short, highly charged comments, Marcus draws on Stoic philosophy to confront challenges that he felt ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD

  • Chemical-Mechanical Polishing of Low Dielectric Constant Polymers and Organosilicate Glasses

    Fundamental Mechanisms and Application to IC Interconnect Technology

    by Christopher Lyle Borst, William N. Gill, Ronald J. Gutmann ...
    As semiconductor manufacturers implement copper conductors in advanced interconnect schemes, research and development efforts shift toward the selection of an insulator that can take maximum advantage of the lower power and faster signal propagation allowed by copper interconnects. One of the main challenges to integrating a low-dielectric constant (low-kappa) insulator as a replacement for ... Read more

    $179.99 CAD

  • Routines and Orgies

    The Life of Peter Cundill, Financial Genius, Philosopher, and Philanthropist

    by Christopher Risso-Gill ...
    Peter Cundill (1938-2011) was highly regarded as one of the greatest value investors of his time, but he was also a teacher and mentor who was generous with his knowledge and shared the wealth of his experience with many aspiring investors. He was taken with Aldous Huxley's words that the "rhythm of human life is routine punctuated by orgies," and spent his life shaking off the quotidian tasks ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • The Platonic Art of Philosophy

    Edited by George Boys-Stones, Dimitri El Murr, Christopher Gill ...
    This is a collection of essays written by leading experts in honour of Christopher Rowe, and inspired by his groundbreaking work in the exegesis of Plato. The authors represent scholarly traditions which are sometimes very different in their approaches and interests, and so rarely brought into dialogue with each other. This volume, by contrast, aims to explore synergies between them. Key topics ... Read more

    $48.99 CAD

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    Stoic Ethics

    The Basics

    by Christopher Gill, Brittany Polat ...
    Narrated by Wendy Tremont King ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 55 min

    At a time of unprecedented interest in Stoicism, this book offers a comprehensive introduction to Stoic ethics for students and for listeners interested in Stoic life-guidance.It combines an explanation of the main philosophical ideas in ancient Stoic ethics by Christopher Gill with discussion of how to put these ideas into practice in our own lives by Brittany Polat.The first seven chapters ... Read more

    $26.99 CAD

  • Toward a Theory of Neuroplasticity

    Edited by Christopher A. Shaw, Jill McEachern ...
    This book provides a broad survey of many of the major areas in neuroplasticity research by leading investigators in the field. The topics considered range across all levels of nervous system organization from the molecular to behavioral levels for species ranging from C. elegans to humans. In addition, the effects of development and neuropathological events are discussed. A final summary chapter ... Read more

    $114.04 CAD