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When it was published in 2008, Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein's Nudge: Improving Decisions about Health, Wealth, and Happiness quickly became one of the most influential books in modern economics...

Postmodernist thinkers consider history to be not so very far removed from fiction, something based on a historian's own interpretation of the past. Sir Richard Evans, however, insists that we can...

Before the publication of Nature's Metropolis in 1991, historians generally treated urban and rural areas as distinct from one another, following separate lines of development and maturity.Author:...

A game-changer when it was first published in 1961, Who Governs? remains one of the most influential political science books ever written.Author: Astrid Noren Nilsson, Jason XidiasPublisher: Macat...

In one of the most frequently cited social science publications of the last half-century, Robert D. Putnam draws heavily on the critical thinking skill of interpretation to demonstrate that Americans...

After Hegemony has had a huge impact on policy debates over the last three decades. Hegemony means the social, cultural, ideological, or economic influence of one dominant group, and Keohane asks if...

Sheila Fitzpatrick's Everyday Stalinism rejects the simplistic treatment of the Soviet Union as a totalitarian government that tightly controlled its citizens. Taking advantage of vast archives that...

There is arguably no more famous book about the arts of interpretation and analysis than Sigmund Freud's 1899 Interpretation of Dreams. Though Freud's theories have often been criticized, he remains...

Simone de Beauvoir's 1949 book The Second Sex is a masterpiece of feminist criticism and philosophy. An incendiary take on the place of women in post-war French society, it helped define major trends...

The Defence of Poesy is the first major piece of literary criticism in English. Taking aim at classical authors who disparaged poetry, and contemporary critics who saw literature as a corrupting...

What is the nature of our personal relationship with God? That's the core question of Fear and Trembling, published in 1843.Author: Brittany Pheiffer NoblePublisher: Macat LibraryPublication Date:...

Søren Kierkegaard's The Sickness unto Death is widely recognized as one of the most significant and influential works of Christian philosophy written in the nineteenth century. One of the...

St. Augustin©e';s Confessions is one of the most important works in the history of literature and Christian thought. Written around 397, when Augustine was the Christian bishop of Hippo (in...

Stephen Pinker's gloriously optimistic 2011 book argues that, despite humanity's biological tendency toward violence, we are, in fact, less violent today than ever before. To prove his case, Pinker...

Sun Tzu's The Art of War is a series of lessons in the applied art of problem solving. Sun (544 BC-496 BC), an experienced general from the Warring States period of Chinese history, saw war as an...

On Photography brought photographic theory into the university classroom with its staunch defense of the medium as art and inspired a new wave of Marxist Criticism in the field. The book retains its...

The essay for which The Sacred Wood is primarily remembered is one of the most famous pieces of criticism in English: "Tradition and the Individual Talent" helped to re-orientate arguments about the...

The modern world has been marked by social revolutions that have transformed the states where they occurred. Theda Skocpol examines there of these uprisings-the French, Russian, and Chinese...

An Analysis of Thomas Kuhn's The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (The Macat Library)Author: Jo HedesanPublisher: Macat LibraryPublication Date: Jul 15, 2017Number of Pages: 130 pagesLanguage:...

Published in 1776, when America was teetering on the brink of war with Britain, Common Sense galvanized the colonists and George Washington's army, influencing not only the course of the...

A critical analysis of Capital in the Twenty-First Century, in which economist Thomas Piketty provides detailed evaluations of the significance of a vast amount of data explaining why incomes is...

One of the most influential books on economics ever written, Malthus' work remains one of the most controversial, too. Arguing that unchecked population growth will eventually outstrip food...

Published in 2010, Bloodlands argues that accounts of World War II have paid too much attention to the atrocities of Adolf Hitler, and not enough to Joseph Stalin's Snyder believes a definitive...

Woolf's focus on the everyday suppression of women was a turning point in feminism, marking a realization that gaining legal and voting rights was just the first step on the road to true equality...

Competitors have always existed in business, but what if it were possible to render your competition irrelevant? This is the critical question posed in Blue Ocean Strategy, which argues that the path...

William Whyte's core idea in The Organization Man is that the Protestant Ethic that characterized financial and personal success in American history had been replaced in modern times by the Social...

The impact of William James's 1890 The Principles of Psychology is such that he is commonly known as the father of his subject. Though psychology itself is a very different discipline in the...

Tabbaa's Transformation offers an innovative approach to understanding the profound changes undergone by Islamic art and architecture during the often neglected Medieval Islamic period. Tabbaa offers...

A critical analysis of African-American novelist and anthropologist Zora Neale Hurston' 1934 essay Characteristics of Negro Expression: A crushing evaluation of the many racial prejudices of 1930s...

Published in 1651, Leviathan examines where kings get their authority to rule and what they must, in turn, do for their people. Hobbes argues that kings do not have a divine right to hold power; they...