Advantages: Fascinating book Disadvantages: Not sure I'd want to live in Hobbesian society
Thomas Hobbes’ Leviathan is one of the most infamous works of political theory to emerge from the early modern period. Although John Locke can probably claim to have had the greater influence, his own political thoughts are generally confused and or ...
Advantages: Very easy to read, frankly honest, uplifting and inspiring Disadvantages: Not to be read for literary merits!
The Legacy of Luna by Julia Butterfly Hill, as the critics have pointed out, does not have extraordinary literary merit. It is written fairly basically, as a first person autobiography, and it makes very easy reading. What I most liked about this book, th ...
Advantages: Short chapters so easy to digest - Sublimely written Disadvantages: More placid than expected
Publisher: Basic Books Pages: 141 'Contrarian' - Accepting nothing what anyone says: especially an authoritarian figure? Quite recently I had a conversation stipulating the rules of a chosen lifestyle and how it works in a conventional ...
