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Edited and produced from the lecture notes of his students at the University of Geneva, the Course in General Linguistics was first published in 1916, three years after its author's death. The book...

Frantz Fanon's explosive Black Skin, White Masks is a merciless exposE of the psychological damage done by colonial rule across the world. It is both a crucial text in post-colonial theory, and a...

Frantz Fanon's 1961 masterpiece is both a powerful analysis of the psychological effects of colonization and a rallying cry for violent uprising and independence. Rejecting the assumption that the...

No philosopher could be a better example of creative thinking in action than Friedrich Nietzsche: a German iconoclast who systematically attacked the traditionally accepted views of academic...

Hegel's 1807 Phenomenology of Spirit is renowned for being one of the most challenging and important books in Western philosophy. Above all, it is famous for laying out a new approach to reasoning...

A critical analysis of Spivak's classic 1988 postcolonial studies essay, in which she argues that the poorest and most marginalized in society (the subalterns) have no platform or voice to affect...

Geoffrey Parker spent 15 years writing this ambitious history of the tumultuous 17th century, a period in the grip of what historians term the General Crisis (2013).Author: Ian JacksonPublisher:...

Vision and Difference, published in 1988, is one of the most significant works in feminist visual culture arguing that feminist art history of is a political as well as academic endeavour. Pollock...

GutiErrez's 1971 book provides an inspiring argument as to how Christians and the Roman Catholic Church should support the poor. The Catholic Church had traditionally seen itself as politically...

Ever since the nineteenth century, people have claimed that the prosperity enjoyed by the First World was the result of its devotion to unconstrained economic freedoms. Chang claims that, in fact,...

Written amid the political fallout and 'war on terror' following the 9/11 terrorist attacks on New York--Dabashi's adopted city--in 2001, Iran: A People Interrupted offers an insider's insight into...

Hamid Dabashi suggests that the Iranian Revolution of 1978-9 would not have taken place had it not been for the influential ideas set out by eight Iranian Islamic thinkers in the decades before it...

First published in 1978, Batatu's extraordinarily detailed text is considered the definitive social history of twentieth century Iraq. It uses both unique primary sources and detailed oral histories...

One of America's foremost statesmen, Henry Kissinger was interested in how different countries, in different periods, in all parts of the globe have attempted to impose order on an often chaotic...

Homi K. Bhabha's 1994 The Location of Culture is one of the founding texts of the branch of literary theory called postcolonialism. While postcolonialism has many strands, at its heart lies the...

This book outlines the creation of organisational knowledge through the constant conversion of the two types of knowledge, tacit and explicit, which Nonaka believes has the potential to guide...

Immanuel Kant's Critique of Pure Reason is one of the most influential works in the history of philosophy - not to mention one of the most challenging. Its topic is the nature of human knowledge, and...

Delivered at a conference on structuralism at Johns Hopkins, Jacques Derrida's Structure, Sign, and Play took aim at the critical and philosophical fashions of the time and radically proposing a...

Lovelock wrote Gaia for the general public, not for scientists. But there is a lot of science in this 1979 work.Author: Mohammad ShamsudduhaPublisher: Macat LibraryPublication Date: Jul 04,...

The Anti-Politics Machine (1990) examines how international development project are conceived, researched, and put into practice. It also looks at what these project actually achieve. Ferguson...

Exploration and Exploitation is a key text for scholars and business practitioners interested in promoting economic well-being and sustainable growth. March's work promotes the preservation of...

In Wisdom of Crowds, New Yorker columnist, Surowiecki, explores the question of whether the many are better than an elite few - no matter their qualifications - at solving problems, promotion...

In the century before the Black Death swept across the world, economic relations flourished between Europe, the Middle East, and Asia, three interdependent regions interacting on essentially equal...

Winner of the 1998 Pulitzer, Guns, Germs, and Steel attempts to answer why human history unfolded differently on different continents.Author: Riley QuinnPublisher: Macat LibraryPublication Date: Jul...

In Collapse, Diamond identifies five factors he believes determine the success or failure of all human societies throughout history.Author: Rodolfo MaggioPublisher: Macat LibraryPublication Date: Jul...

MacLeod's 1987 work, ground-breaking for the way it combines field research with theory, follows the lives of two groups of young men from a low-income housing project in the Boston area to show how...

In Situated Learning, Lave and Wenger argued that learning is 'situated' because it is largely a product of the environment in which it occurs and takes place most effectively through participation...

Few people can claim to have had minds as fertile and creative as the French philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau. One of the most influential political theorists of the modern age, he was also a...

Why has gender inequality persisted for so long without causing revolutionary change? That's the central question Scott poses in this 1998 collection of essays that examine how thoughts and...

Hobson's 1902 book presents an original and controversial interpretation of the forces that motivated Britain to conquer foreign lands in the eighteenth century. He proposes that ultra-wealthy...