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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...

Ways of Seeing is a key art-historical work that continues to provoke widespread debate. Berger first examines how our assumptions affect how we see a painting, then he moves on to the role of women...

Nineteenth century American politician John C. Calhoun was unashamedly pro-slavery. So it may seem strange that his 1850 text, intended to defend that practice, is so respected today and Calhoun's...

Published anonymously by Locke in 1689, Two Treatises claims that a monarch's right to rule does not come from God, but from the people he rules.Author: Jeremy Kleidosty, Ian JacksonPublisher: Macat...

Managing change in a rapidly shifting economy and an era of increased globalization requires strong leadership--and a practical step-by-step approach. Distilling wisdom from years of coaching...

Butler's 1990 work shook the foundations of feminist theory and changed the conversation about gender. While many thinkers already accepted that "gender" was a category constructed by society defined...

Marx's Capital is without question one of the most influential books to be published in the course of the past two centuries. Controversial in its politics, and arriving at conclusions that are...

Theory of International Politics created a "scientific revolution" in international relations, starting two major debates. It defined the 1980s controversy between the 'neorealists, ' who believed...

Why do we attempt to justify decisions that are clearly irrational? The answer lies in "cognitive dissonance," the feeling of mental discomfort we experience when we hold two contradictory beliefs at...

What is the past and what can we really know about it? Relying on his groundbreaking technique championing 'problem-based history, ' Febvre explores whether 16th-century French writer François...

In this book, the author's familiarity with the historical literature on banking and credit allows him to present a coherent theoretical structure that links private exchange between individuals,...

In Philosophical Investigations, Ludwig Wittgenstein presents a radical approach to the philosophy of language and the mind, setting out a startlingly fresh conception of philosophy itself...

In citizen and subject, Mahmood Mamdani challenges dominant views of the crisis of postcolonial Africa. Many studies emphasize that the Problems the continent faces are home grown-the consequence of...

Wollstonecraft's 1792 work sets out all the chief principles of feminist thought developed by later feminist writers and activists. Wollstonecraft asserts that the differences between the sexes are...

Politics as a Vocation' examines what makes good political leaders and explores the effects of political action on modern societies. On one level, it summarizes the political scholarship of one of...

First published in 1980, Competitive Strategy contradicted the accepted wisdom of the time that said firms should focus on expanding their market share. Instead, Porter claimed, they should analyze...

In their 1990 work, Gottfredson and Hirschi introduce a new, comprehensive theory of crime. At the time, crime researchers tended to focus on environmental factors that led to crime, not on the...

How does a state control its citizens? Michel Foucault's Discipline and Punish answers this question by investigating the prison system. Foucault argues that prison created and merged into a wider...

Like Foucault's earlier works, History of Sexuality (1976) is ground-breaking and controversial. His claim that sexuality is more a social concept than the product of biological instincts challenges...

The United States has the world's largest prison population, with more than two million behind bars. Alexander says this is mainly due to America's 'war on drugs, ' launched in 1982. In The New Jim...

A crititcal analysis of the first work written for the general public by the highly influential American economist Milton Friedman. Capitalism and Freedom argues that economies and societies work...

Written by the great medieval Jewish philosopher Maimonides, The Guide of the Perplexed attempts to explain the perplexities of biblical language--and apparent inconsistencies in the text--in the...

Philip Zimbardo is fascinated by why people can behave in awful ways.Author: Alexander O'ConnorPublisher: Macat LibraryPublication Date: Jul 05, 2017Number of Pages: 102 pagesLanguage:...

A critical analysis of Centuries of Childhood, an important example of the critical thinking skill of interpretation in which the French historian Philippe Aries offers a fundamentally fresh...

Bourdieu questions the preeminent ideas of social anthropologists who stressed the structural principles governing human action rather than the actions themselves and, Bourdieu asserts, doesn't...

The Republic is Plato's most complete and incisive work - a detailed study of the problem of how best to ensure that justice exists in a real society, rather than as merely the product of an...

Carson's 1962 work Silent Spring was one of the first books ever to highlight environmentalist issues.Author: Nikki SpringerPublisher: Macat LibraryPublication Date: Jul 05, 2017Number of Pages: 98...