Dawkins vs Gould: Survival of the Fittest
10 best books like Dawkins vs Gould: Survival of the Fittest (Kim Sterelny): Ocean Sea, The Path to the Spiders' Nests, Ever Since Darwin: Reflections in Natural History, The Social Contract, Second Treatise of Government, Cyclops, Lacci, Perpetual Peace (Essay), Il cavaliere inesistente, Our Ancestors: The Cloven Viscount, The Baron in the Trees, The Non-Existent Knight
| Author | Alessandro Baricco |
| ISBN | 0375703950 |
This haunting, suspenseful tale of love and vengeance by the author of the international bestseller Silk surges with the hypnotic power of the ocean sea.
In Ocean Sea, Alessandro Baricco presents a hypnotizing postmodern fable of human malady--psychological, existential, erotic--and...
The Path to the Spiders' Nests
| Author | Italo Calvino |
| ISBN | 0060956585 |
Italo Calvino was only twenty-three when he first published this bold and imaginative novel. It tells the story of Pin, a cobbler's apprentice in a town on the Ligurian coast during World War II. He lives with his sister, a prostitute, and spends as much time as he can at a seedy bar where he amuses the adult...
Ever Since Darwin: Reflections in Natural History
| Author | Stephen Jay Gould |
| ISBN | 0393308189 |
More than any other modern scientists, Stephen Jay Gould has opened up to millions the wonders of evolutionary biology. His genius as an essayist lies in his unmatched ability to use his knowledge of the world, including popular culture, to illuminate the realm of science.
Ever Since Darwin,...
| Author | Jean-Jacques Rousseau |
| ISBN | 0143037498 |
"Man is born free; and everywhere he is in chains."
These are the famous opening words of a treatise that has not ceased to stir vigorous debate since its first publication in 1762. Rejecting the view that anyone has a natural right to wield authority over others, Rousseau argues instead for...
Second Treatise of Government
| Author | John Locke |
| ISBN | 0915144867 |
The Second Treatise is one of the most important political treatises ever written and one of the most far-reaching in its influence.
In his provocative 15-page introduction to this edition, the late eminent political theorist C. B. Macpherson examines Locke's arguments for limited, conditional...
| Author | Euripides |
| ISBN | 0195143035 |
Based on the conviction that only translators who write poetry themselves can properly re-create the celebrated and timeless tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, the Greek Tragedy in New Translations series offers new translations that go beyond the literal meaning of the Greek in...
| Author | Domenico Starnone |
| ISBN | 8806194798 |
Che cosa lasciamo, quando lasciamo qualcuno? Una casa, una famiglia, il passato, un'idea di futuro, la nostra peggiore fotografia impressa a fuoco negli occhi di chi abbiamo amato. Passiamo la vita a spaccare vasi e incollare cocci illudendoci di essere nuovi di zecca. E cerchiamo di non guardare...
| Author | Immanuel Kant |
| ISBN | 1596055499 |
I'm only half way through, but a terribly interesting little book. Kant essentially treats nations as persons and then applies his categorical imperitive, particularly its second formation from the Groundwork - treat people as ends, never means - as the basis for creating perpetual peace.
Very...
| Author | Italo Calvino |
| ISBN | 8804370866 |
Suor Teodora narra la storia di Agilulfo, cavaliere senza corpo, di cui vive solo l'armatura. Mentre Carlo Magno assedia Parigi, Agilulfo, dopo essersi coperto di gloria, decide di partire alla ricerca di Sofronia, fanciulla da lui salvata quindici anni prima. Accompagnato dallo scudiero Gurdulù,...
Our Ancestors: The Cloven Viscount, The Baron in the Trees, The Non-Existent Knight
| Author | Italo Calvino |
| ISBN | 0330261568 |
My favourite story in this collection is The Baron in the Trees which is a wonderful fairy tale about a kid who wouldn't finish his dinner, decides to live in a tree, and crosses Europe from Italy to southern Spain without once touching the ground. It is a beautiful, masterful tale that reminds us how man...
