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This selection of Seneca's letters shows him upholding the ethical ideals of Stoicism—the wisdom of …
A good collection of Seneca's letters, which were more likely meant as publicly-read essays than letters themselves. Not all of them can be found here; this collection has approximately forty of them. Yet, for a sense of Stoic philosophy, it's well-worth the read.
From the big bang to black holes, from dark matter to dark energy, from the …
This is a cool, experimental work trying to describe the state of the art about what we know about the universe. The twist is that Trotta relies on only the 1,000 (or "ten hundred") most common words in the English language. I think that this book is about the best you can ask for under those parameters, but the vagueness of the language here means that there isn't much to be remembered. It lacks the emotional punch of other popular astronomical/cosmological books.