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Gordon W. Allport's 1954 book The Nature of Prejudice not only helped mold the ways in which psychologists investigate prejudice - it also shaped US society as a whole, making a substantial...

Goldstone examines the causes of revolutions and uprisings between 1500 and 1800 in both Europe and Asia. Many thinkers previously believed that Europe's distinctive history--particularly the rise of...

In this original and controversial 2005 book, Mahmood argues that Muslim women can show independence even while assuming traditional Islamic roles. Her research suggests that, in choosing to embrace...

Though written more than 500 years ago, Niccolò Machiavelli's The Prince is still both widely read and very influential. Readers turn to it for its direct advice on the question of how to attain --...

An important Marxist work, Prison Notebooks (1948) argues that we must understand societies both in terms of their economic relationships and their cultural beliefs.Author: Lorenzo Fusaro, Jason...

Focusing on the differences he observed in economic behavior between Catholics and Protestants, Weber's seminal 1905 work examines the role that morality plays in the lives people choose to lead...

The bizarre story of Martin Guerre-a peasant who disappears from a small village in sixteenth-century France and whose place is taken by an imposter-has captivated historians for centuriesAuthor:...

Friedrich Hayek's The Road to Serfdom (1944) analyzes the ways in which excessive government planning can erode democracy. The work draws influential parallels between the totalitarianism of both...

Friedman's 1968 paper changed the course of economic theory, rejecting existing theory and outlined an effective alternate monetary policy designed to secure 'high employment, stable prices and rapid...

The Selfish Gene is that rarest of things: an outstanding work of scholarship that has seeped into popular culture.Author: Nicola DavisPublisher: Macat LibraryPublication Date: Jul 05, 2017Number of...

Turner's much-anthologized 1893 essay argues that the vast western frontier shaped the modern American character--and the course of US history. Interacting with both the wilderness and Native...

W.E.B Du Bois' The Souls of Black Folk is a seminal work in the field of sociology, a classic of American literature - and a solid example of carefully-structured reasoning. One of the most important...

Hoffer began writing The True Believer in the 1940s, as Nazism and fascism spread across Europe. Most analysts studying how these movements became so powerful focused on their leaders and the ideas...

200 years after it was written, Adam Smith published The Wealth of Nations is still debated by governments internationally. Smith argued that 'mercantilism'--the theory that the national economy...

Christopher Hill turned thinking about the English Civil Wars (1642-51) on its head with The World Turned Upside Down.Author: Harman Bhogal, Liam HaydonPublisher: Macat LibraryPublication Date: Jul...

Originally published in 1861, Mill's great work systematically details and defends the doctrine of utilitarianism.Author: Tom Patrick, Sander WerkhovenPublisher: Macat LibraryPublication Date: Jul...

The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproductioncombats traditional art criticism's treatment of artworks as fixed, unchanging mystical objects. For Walter Benjamin, the consequences of...

What really happened when the world's two greatest superpowers went head to head during the Cold War? We Now Know is a major reappraisal of the struggle for political and ideological supremacy...

Because the potential returns appear to be greater in poorer countries than in the developed world, modern economic theory implies that rich countries should continually invest in poor countries...

Why We Can't Wait (1964) is arguably the most vital book by one of the most important men in US history. Martin Luther King Jr. sets out the ideas that fuelled a large part of the 1960s Civil Rights...

Central to the creative process of the Romantic poets that followed him, Wordsworth's Preface to the Lyrical Ballads has been both a gift and a thorn in the side of critics for over a century...

Based on 20 months of fieldwork among the Azande people of the South Sudan, Evans-Pritchard's Work became the founding text in the anthropology of witchcraft, and has been hailed as a classic...

In the 1960s, researchers began to understand memory as operating under two systems: a short-term one handling information for mere seconds, and a long-term one for managing information indefinitely...