A self-help book of sorts, this distillation of pre-Socratic philosophy succeeds in being both populist and profound There was a wonderful, revelatory moment in Adam Nicolson’s last book, Life Between ...

I’ll let Socrates tell the story: The philosopher Thales “was studying the stars and looking upward, he fell into a pit, and a neat, witty Thracian servant girl jeered at him, they say, because he was ...

Then, around 600 B.C., on the western coast of what is now Turkey, emerged the first in a chain of thinkers who sought to explain the universe in nonmythical terms. Among these “pre-Socratics” or ...

THE SEABIRD’S CRY: THE LIVES AND LOVES OF THE PLANET’S GREAT OCEAN VOYAGERS By Adam Nicolson Henry Holt and Company, $30, 400 pages ’The Seabird’s Cry” is as unmistakable as a frigatebird: Soaring in ...

Anyone who has smiled politely through tales of home improvements knows how absorbing they are to the owners, and how deadly dull to everyone else. But Sissinghurst: An Unfinished History, Adam ...

Funding for Think Tank is provided by: At Pfizer we’re spending over five billion dollars looking for the cures of the future. We have twelve thousand scientists and health experts who firmly believe ...