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 Free Download Against Ambition: The Radical Potential of Giving Up by Bill Peel English | 13 May 2025 | ISBN: 1915672031, 9781915672650 | True EPUB | 208 pages | 2 MB Since the 1980s, ambition has become the driving logic of our world. We're told that everyone has always wanted to ascend to the heights of their societies. We're told that we can achieve anything we set our minds to and overcome any obstacle to live out our fantasies. And we're told that if we fail, we have nothing to blame but ourselves.  Free Download Gregson Davis, "Afterlives of the Garden: Receptions of Epicurean Thought in the Early Empire and Late Antiquity " English | ISBN: 3111021920 | 2023 | 190 pages | EPUB | 2 MB The collection of essays in this volume offers fresh insights into varied modalities of reception of Epicurean thought among Roman authors of the late Republican and Imperial eras. 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