Macat Library

In 1963's The Feminine Mystique, Betty Friedan challenged the vision 1950s America had of itself as a nation of happy housewives and contented families.Author: Elizabeth WhitakerPublisher: Macat...

Maslow's 1943 essay established his idea of humanistic psychology as a "third force" in the field. While psychoanalysts sought to understand behaviour by uncovering subconscious desires and...

Alasdair MacIntyre's 1981 After Virtue was a ground-breaking contribution to modern moral philosophy. Dissatisfied with the major trends in the moral philosophy of his time, MacIntyre argued that...

Albert Bandura is the most cited living psychologist, and is regularly named as one of the most influential figures ever to have worked in his field. Much of his reputation stems from the theories...

Albert Hourani's A History of the Arab Peoples is unsurpassed as an overview of Arab history from the rise of Islam to the late twentieth century. Going far beyond political history, it provides a...

Crosby's landmark 1972 work argues that environmental factors shape our history just as much as--and sometimes more than--human factors.Author: Joshua Specht, Etienne StocklandPublisher: Macat...

Sen's 1997 work argues that the success or failure of international development cannot be measured by income alone.Author: Janna Miletzki, Nick BrotenPublisher: Macat LibraryPublication Date: Jul 05,...

Amartya Sen's Inequality Re-examined is a seminal text setting out a theory to evaluate social arrangements and inequality. By asking the question, 'equality of what'?, Sen shows that (in)equality...

For decades, social scientists had used a mythical figure to describe how humans make decisions: homo economicus. He was logical and conscientious. To make a decision, he would evaluate all the...

Aristotle, a student of Plato, wrote Nicomachean Ethics in 350 BCE, in a time of extraordinary intellectual development. Over two millennia later, his thorough exploration of virtue, reason, and the...

Modernity at Large is an edited collection of the essays that made Appadurai an influential figure in cultural anthropology. Collectively, these not only present a theory of globalization, but also...

Widely accepted as a philosophical masterpiece, Ethics sets out to explain nothing less than the nature of God, the world, and how we should live. Rejecting some of the most deeply held...

A critical analysis of Burton Malkiel's A Random Walk Down Wall Street (1973), an explosive and indispensable contribution to debates about how to reap a good return on investing in stocks and shares...

The Sociological Imagination provoked hostile reaction when it appeared for its hard-hitting attack on how sociology was practiced, and on several leading sociologists.Author: Ismael Puga, Robert...

Lewis's 1952 Mere Christianity--originally printed in pamphlet form during World War II--documents a complex journey from atheism to faith. Lewis's fresh, lively, and often humorous presentation of...

C.S. Lewis's 1943 The Abolition of Man is subtitled 'Reflections on Education With Special Reference to the Teaching of English in the Upper Forms of Schools.' It is a book about the power of...

Perhaps the most peculiar feature of a financial bubble--one that Charles Kindleberger's classic work Manias, Panics and Crashes draws particular attention to--is the inability of those trapped...

Few works of scholarship have so comprehensively recast an existing debate as Chinua Achebe's essay on Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness. Just because the novel had been accepted into the canon,...

A critical analysis of Argyris's Integrating The Individual and the Organization, in which Chris Argyris used strong, well-structured arguments to make his point. His reasoning has strong...

Up to the mid 20th century, generations of anthropologists had imported their own value systems into their work, regardless of where they were studying.Author: Abena Dadze-ArthurPublisher: Macat...

Daniel Goldhagen's study of the Holocaust offers conclusions that run directly counter to those reached by Christopher Browning, whose book Ordinary Men is also the subject of a Macat analysis. As...

Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman offers a general audience access to over six decades of insight and expertise from a Nobel Laureate in an accessible and interesting way. Kahneman's work...

Slavery had been accepted in Western culture for centuries. So Why did a movement suddenly rise up in the industrial era calling for its abolition? Could it be that people had suddenly become more...

A critical analysis of David C. Kang's China Rising, which is a fine example of an author making use of creative thinking skills to reach a conclusion that flies in the face of traditional thinking...

Born in 1961, US anthropologist and activist David Graeber was weaned on leftist politics, and declared himself an anarchist at age 16.Author: Sulaiman HakemyPublisher: Macat LibraryPublication Date:...

David Hume's 1748 Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding is a modern philosophical classic that helped reshape epistemology - the philosophy of knowledge. It is also a classic of the critical...

Hume's 1779 book on the existence of God remains vastly Influential. Using the conceit of a cleverly crafted fictional conversation, Dialogues argues on the one hand that a universe that looks...

With the ending of World War II in 1945, the Soviet Union and the United States began the decades-long confrontation known as the Cold War. American foreign policy focused on...

Erwin Panofsky's Meaning in the Visual Arts has been a core text in the study of art and art history since its publication.--Provided by publisher.Author: Emmanouil KalkanisPublisher: Macat...

In this book, Sedgwick examines texts from Europe and America such as Wilde, Nietzsche and Proust and considers the historical moment when sexual orientation came to be as important a signifier of...