It’s easy to look down on self-help books, but believe it or not the genre is as old as Athens. The word “therapy” comes from therapeia, the ancient Greek word for “healing.” It treated both the body ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. A statue of Marcus Aurelius at Brown University. Aurelius wrote one of the best books about stoicism. Stoicism books explain this ...

“Some boys just know they’re gay. I don’t know how that happens. And I think other boys don’t know, and then they start discovering that.” According to Benjamin Alire Sáenz, this is the dichotomy at ...

What is life? What is a soul? These are some of the questions Greek philosopher Aristotle asked. And we're still asking them today. Aristotle also could be considered the world's first natural ...

GREEN LAURELS—Donald Culross Peattie—Simon & Schuster ($3.75). Today’s man-in-the-subway thinks of himself as taking a much livelier interest in science than his grandfather-in-the-buggy ever did. And ...