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Draws on cutting-edge scientific studies to discuss the U-shaped trajectory of happiness, which declines from the optimism of youth before surging upward again after age fifty, and offers ways to endure the slump during midlife.
Need to seize a country? Have enemies you must destroy? In this handbook for despots and tyrants, the Renaissance statesman Machiavelli sets forth how to accomplish this and more, while avoiding the awkwardness of becoming generally hated and...
"Written circa 1645, 'The Book of Five Rings' is considered a classic treaty on military strategy, much like Sun Tzu's 'The Art of War'. The author was a samurai warrior called Miyamoto Musashi and he wrote the text on his expert teachings of...