How to Be: Life Lessons from the Early Greeks Romance_Gift_Guide and Publishers Weekly Bestseller

and Publishers Weekly Bestseller

from relationships to “self-care”—no arena of a woman’s life is safe from the pressure to exceed expectations

The citizens of Gander met the stranded passengers with an overwhelming display of friendship and goodwill

governor-general of the Austrian Netherlands

an imaginative retelling of the Rumpelstiltskin fairy tale from the bestselling author of Uprooted

How to Be: Life Lessons from the Early Greeks Romance_Gift_Guide and Publishers Weekly BestsellerNicolson crafts a geography of the ancient world and a brilliant exploration of our connections to the past. What is the nature of things? What is justice? How can I be myself? How should we treat each other? Before the Greeks, the idea of the world was dominated by god kings and their priests. Twenty five hundred years ago, in a succession of small eastern Mediterranean harbor cities, a few heroic men and women decided to cast off mental subservience