Hobbes: A Very Short Introduction

6 best books like Hobbes: A Very Short Introduction (Richard Tuck): The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays, The Pirate Coast: Thomas Jefferson, the First Marines & the Secret Mission of 1805, The Body Is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love, Joyful: The Surprising Power of Ordinary Things to Create Extraordinary Happiness, The Man Who Knew The Way to the Moon, Destined for War: Can America and China Escape Thucydides’s Trap?

The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays

Author	Oscar Wilde
ISBN	0140436065

Combining epigrammatic brilliance and shrewd social observation, the works collected in Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays are edited with an introduction, commentaries and notes by Richard Allen Cave in Penguin Classics.

'To lose one parent may be regarded...

The Pirate Coast: Thomas Jefferson, the First Marines & the Secret Mission of 1805

Author

Richard Zacks

A real-life thriller, now in paperback--the true story of the unheralded American who brought the Barbary Pirates to their knees In an attempt to stop the legendary Barbary Pirates of North Africa from hijacking American ships, William Eaton set out on a secret mission to overthrow the government...

The Body Is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love

Author	Sonya Renee Taylor
ISBN	1626569762

A global movement guided by love

Humans are a varied and divergent bunch with all manner of beliefs, morals, and bodies. Systems of oppression thrive off our inability to make peace with difference and injure the relationship we have with our own bodies.

The Body Is Not an Apology offers...

Joyful: The Surprising Power of Ordinary Things to Create Extraordinary Happiness

Author	Ingrid Fetell Lee
ISBN	0316399264

Have you ever wondered why we stop to watch the orange glow that arrives before sunset or why we flock to see cherry blossoms bloom in spring? Is there a reason that people--regardless of gender, age, culture, or ethnicity--are mesmerized by baby animals and can't help but smile when they see a burst of...

The Man Who Knew The Way to the Moon

Author

Todd Zwillich

The story of John C. Houbolt, an unsung hero of Apollo 11 and the man who showed NASA how to put America on the moon.

Without John C. Houbolt, a junior engineer at NASA, Apollo 11 would never have made it to the moon.

Top NASA engineers on the project, including Werner Von Braun, strongly...

Destined for War: Can America and China Escape Thucydides’s Trap?

Author	Graham Allison
ISBN	0544935276

CHINA AND THE UNITED STATES ARE HEADING TOWARD A WAR NEITHER WANTS. The reason is Thucydides’s Trap, a deadly pattern of structural stress that results when a rising power challenges a ruling one. This phenomenon is as old as history itself. About the Peloponnesian War that devastated ancient Greece,...