The Ant and the Peacock: Altruism and Sexual Selection from Darwin to Today

7 best books like The Ant and the Peacock: Altruism and Sexual Selection from Darwin to Today (Helena Cronin): The Plague Dogs, City of God, Billy Bathgate, The Sleepwalkers, The Political Writings of St. Augustine, The Ship's Cat, How to Think Like a Roman Emperor: The Stoic Philosophy of Marcus Aurelius

The Plague Dogs

Author	Richard Adams
ISBN	0345494024

Richard Adams, the author of Watership Down, creates a lyrical and engrossing tale, a remarkable journey into the hearts and minds of two canine heroes, Snitter and Rowf.

After being horribly mistreated at a government animal research facility, Snitter and Rowf escape into the isolation,...

City of God

Author	Augustine of Hippo
ISBN	0140448942

This is a truly COLOSSAL book!

You know, there are two ways of getting answers in the world... there’s getting the world’s answers (and that’s sometimes doublethink) and there’s getting TRANSCENDENTAL answers!

Sub specie aeternitatis, transcendental answers are the...

Billy Bathgate

Author	E.L. Doctorow
ISBN	0452280028

In 1930's New York, Billy Bathgate, a fifteen-year-old highschool dropout, has captured the attention of infamous gangster Dutch Schultz, who lures the boy into his world of racketeering. The product of an East Bronx upbringing by his half-crazy Irish Catholic mother, after his Jewish father left...

The Sleepwalkers

Author	Hermann Broch
ISBN	0679764062

With his epic trilogy, The Sleepwalkers, Hermann Broch established himself as one of the great innovators of modern literature, a visionary writer-philosopher the equal of James Joyce, Thomas Mann, or Robert Musil. Even as he grounded his narratives in the intimate daily life of Germany, Broch was...

The Political Writings of St. Augustine

Author	Augustine of Hippo
ISBN	0895267047

Anyone with a better than cursory knowledge of politics knows that a people's deepest values - their religious values - are what determine whether a society will prosper or fail. And anyone with a more than cursory knowledge of history knows that there was once an entity called Christendom - a political...

The Ship's Cat

Author	Richard Adams
ISBN	0224014412

The ship's cat is introduced as a patriotic swashbuckling crew member of the English privateer Alcestis. After attacking a lone Spanish ship, the Alcestis is defeated by Spanish reinforcements and its crew taken as captives to the Panamanian port of Chagres.

The ship's cat is initially imprisoned,...

How to Think Like a Roman Emperor: The Stoic Philosophy of Marcus Aurelius

Author

Donald J. Robertson

The life-changing principles of Stoicism taught through the story of its most famous proponent.

Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius was the final famous Stoic philosopher of the ancient world. The Meditations, his personal journal, survives to this day as one of the most loved self-help and spiritual...