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Despite sleep’s critical role in maintaining health and cognitive function, humans sleep less than any other primate. “The Sleepless Ape” reveals the reasons for this evolutionary paradox, showing how our unique sleep patterns evolved when our ancestors left the safety of the forest for more dangerous ground, which led them to form more secure, social sleeping arrangements. As a result, early humans developed shorter, deeper, and more flexible sleep patterns that provided survival advantages and freed more time for crucial activities such as toolmaking, social interaction, and migration.

In “Plato’s Second Republic”, Andre Laks argues that the “Laws,” Plato’s last and longest dialogue, is also his most important political work, surpassing the “Republic” in historical relevance.

Laks offers a thorough reappraisal of this less renowned text, and examines how it provides a critical foundation for the principles of lawmaking.

In doing so, he makes clear the tremendous impact the “Laws” had not only on political philosophy, but also on modern political history.

Laks shows how the four central ideas in the “Laws” — the corruptibility of unchecked power, the rule of law, a “middle” constitution.