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Analysis of Janet L. Abu-Lughod's Before European Hegemony
The World System A.D. 1250-1350
Av William Day
Häftad, 2017
100 kr
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The modern vision of the world as one dominated by one or more superpowers begs the question of how best to understand the world-system that existed before the rise of the first modern powers. Janet Abu-Lughod's solution to this problem, in this highly influential work, is that Before European …
Analysis of Oliver Sacks's The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales
Av Dario Krpan
Häftad, 2017
112 kr
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In The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, neurologist Oliver Sacks looked at the cutting-edge work taking place in his field, and decided that much of it was not fit for purpose. Sacks found it hard to understand why most doctors adopted a mechanical and impersonal approach to their patients, and …
Analysis of Burton G. Malkiel's A Random Walk Down Wall Street
Häftad, 2018
103 kr
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Burton Malkiel’s 1973 A Random Walk Down Wall Street was an explosive contribution to debates about how to reap a good return on investing in stocks and shares. Reissued and updated many times since, Malkiel’s text remains an indispensable contribution to the world of investment strategy – one that …
Analysis of E.E. Evans-Pritchard's Witchcraft, Oracles and Magic Among the Azande
Inbunden, 2017
298 kr
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The history of anthropology is, to a large extent, the history of differing modes of interpretation. As anthropologists have long known, examining, analyzing and recording cultures in the quest to understand humankind as a whole is a vastly complex task, in which nothing can be achieved without …
Analysis of Ernest Gellner's Nations and Nationalism
Av Dale Stahl
Häftad, 2017
100 kr
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To the dismay of many commentators – who had hoped the world was evolving into a more tolerant and multicultural community of nations united under the umbrellas of supranational movements like the European Union – the nationalism that was such a potent force in the history of the 20th-century has …
Analysis of David Riesman's The Lonely Crowd
A Study of the Changing American Character
Av Jarrod Homer
Häftad, 2017
102 kr
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David Riesman’s The Lonely Crowd: A Study in the Changing American Character is one of the best-known books in the history of sociology – holding a mirror up to contemporary America and showing the nation its own character as it had never seen it before. Its success is a testament to Riesman’s …
Analysis of Jean Lave and Etienne Wenger's Situated Learning
Legitimate Peripheral Participation
Av Charmi Patel
Häftad, 2018
99 kr
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Social anthropologist Jean Lave and computer scientist Etienne Wenger’s seminal Situated Learning helped change the fields of cognitive science and pedagogy by approaching learning from a novel angle. Traditionally, theories of learning and education had focused on processes of cognition – the …
Analysis of Rachel Carson's Silent Spring
Häftad, 2017
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Rachel Carson’s 1962 Silent Spring is one of the few books that can claim to be epoch-making. Its closely reasoned attack on the use of pesticides in American agriculture helped thrust environmental consciousness to the fore of modern politics and policy, creating the regulatory landscape we know …
Analysis of Max Weber's Politics as a Vocation
Av Tom McClean
Häftad, 2017
102 kr
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German sociologist Max Weber’s 1919 lecture Politics as a Vocation is widely regarded as a masterpiece of political theory and sociology. Its central strength lies in Weber’s deployment of masterful interpretative skills to power his discussion of modern politics.Interpretation involves …
Analysis of Karl Marx's Capital
Av Macat Team
Häftad, 2017
115 kr
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A critical analysis of Karl Marx’s Capital, which 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 passionately debated to this day, it is nonetheless a fine example of …
Analysis of Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species
Av Kathleen Bryson, Nadezda Josephine Msindai
Häftad, 2017
102 kr
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Charles Darwin called on a broad and unusually powerful combination of critical thinking skills to create his wide-ranging explanation for biological change, On the Origin of Species. It’s one of those rare books that takes a huge problem – the enormous diversity of different species – and seeks to …
Analysis of Pierre Bourdieu's Outline of a Theory of Practice
Häftad, 2018
98 kr
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In Outline of a Theory of Practice, Bourdieu questions the preeminent ideas of social anthropologists such as Levi-Strauss who stressed the structural principles governing human action rather than the actions themselves and, Bourdieu asserts, doesn’t account for all observable nuances of behaviour. …
Analysis of Ludwig Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations
Häftad, 2017
115 kr
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Many still consider Ludwig Wittgenstein’s 1953 Philosophical Investigations to be one of the breakthrough works of twentieth-century philosophy. The book sets out a radically new conception of philosophy itself, and demonstrates all the attributes of a fine analytical mind. Taking an argument from …
Analysis of Burton G. Malkiel's A Random Walk Down Wall Street
Inbunden, 2018
307 kr
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Burton Malkiel’s 1973 A Random Walk Down Wall Street was an explosive contribution to debates about how to reap a good return on investing in stocks and shares. Reissued and updated many times since, Malkiel’s text remains an indispensable contribution to the world of investment strategy – one that …
Hitler's Willing Executioners
Av Simon Taylor
Inbunden, 2017
307 kr
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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 such, the two analyses make possible some interesting critical thinking exercises focused on …
Analysis of Edmund Gettier's Is Justified True Belief Knowledge?
Häftad, 2017
115 kr
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For 2,000 years, the standard philosophical model of knowledge was that it could be defined as a justified true belief. According to this way of thinking, we can know, for example, that we are human because [1] we believe ourselves to be human; [2] that belief is justified (others treat us as …
Analysis of Richard J. Herrnstein and Charles Murray's The Bell Curve
Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life
Av Christine Ma, Michael Schapira
Häftad, 2017
100 kr
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Herrnstein & Murray's The Bell Curve is a deeply controversial text that raises serious issues about the stakes involved in reasoning and interpretation.The authors’ central contention is that intelligence is the primary factor determining social outcomes for individuals – and that it is a better …
Analysis of Benedict Anderson's Imagined Communities
Av Jason Xidias
Häftad, 2017
100 kr
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Benedict Anderson’s 1983 masterpiece Imagined Communities is a ground-breaking analysis of the origins and meanings of “nations” and “nationalism”. A book that helped reshape the field of nationalism studies, Imagined Communities also shows the critical thinking skills of interpretation and …
Analysis of Michel Foucault's The History of Sexuality
Vol. 1: The Will to Knowledge
Av Rachele Dini
Häftad, 2017
97 kr
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Michel Foucault is famous as one of the 20th-century’s most innovative and wide-ranging thinkers. The qualities that made him one of the most-read and influential theorists of the modern age find full expression in History of Sexuality, the last project Foucault was able to complete before his …
Analysis of Baruch Spinoza's Ethics
Av Gary Slater, Andreas Vrahimis
Häftad, 2018
100 kr
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Baruch Spinoza’s Ethics is a dense masterpiece of sustained argumentative reasoning. It earned its place as one of the most important and influential books in Western philosophy by virtue of its uncompromisingly direct arguments about the nature of God, the universe, free will, and human …
Analysis of Amartya Sen's Development as Freedom
Av Janna Miletzki, Nick Broten
Häftad, 2017
98 kr
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Amartya Sen uses his 1999 work Development as Freedom to evaluate the processes and outcomes of economic development. Having come to the conclusion that development is best summed up as the expansion of freedom, Sen examines traditional definitions and understandings of the term. He says people …
Analysis of Henry David Thoraeu's Civil Disobedience
Häftad, 2017
102 kr
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In Civil Disobedience, Henry David Thoreau looks at old issues in new ways, asking: is there ever a time when individuals should actively oppose their government and its justice system?After a thorough review of the evidence, Thoreau comes to the conclusion that opposition is legitimate whenever …
Analysis of Mary Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
Av Ruth Scobie
Häftad, 2017
117 kr
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Mary Wollstonecraft’s 1792 Vindication of the Rights of Women is an incendiary attack on the place of women in 18th-century society. Often considered to be the earliest widely-circulated work of feminism, the book is a powerful example of what can be achieved by creative thinkers – people who …
Analysis of Kenneth Waltz's Theory of International Politics
Av Riley Quinn
Häftad, 2017
100 kr
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Kenneth Waltz’s 1979 Theory of International Politics is credited with bringing about a “scientific revolution” in the study of international relations – bringing the field into a new era of systematic study. The book is also a lesson in reasoning carefully and critically. Good reasoning is …
Analysis of Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations
Av John Collins
Häftad, 2017
103 kr
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Adam Smith’s 1776 Inquiry into The Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations – more often known simply as The Wealth of Nations – is one of the most important books in modern intellectual history.Considered one of the fundamental works of classical economics, it is also a prime example of the …
Analysis of C. Wright Mills's The Sociological Imagination
Av Ismael Puga, Robert Easthope
Häftad, 2017
99 kr
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C. Wright Mills’s 1959 book The Sociological Imagination is widely regarded as one of the most influential works of post-war sociology. At its heart, the work is a closely reasoned argument about the nature and aims of sociology, one that sets out a manifesto and roadmap for the field. Its wide …
Analysis of Jean-Jacques Rousseau's The Social Contract
Av James Hill
Häftad, 2017
100 kr
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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 composer and writer of opera, a novelist, and a memoirist whose Confessions ranks as one of the most …
Analysis of Ernst H. Kantorwicz's The King's Two Bodies
A Study in Medieval Political Theology
Häftad, 2017
102 kr
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Few historians trace grand themes across many centuries and places, but Ernst Kantorowicz's great work on the symbolic powers of kingship is a fine example of what can happen when they do. The King's Two Bodies is at once a superb example of the critical thinking skill of evaluation – assessing …
Analysis of C.K. Prahalad and Gary Hamel's The Core Competence of the Corporation
Häftad, 2017
102 kr
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C.K. Prahalad and Gary Hamel’s 1990 The Core Competence of the Corporation helped redefine traditional ideas of management strategy. It did so by focusing companies on one of the key critical thinking skills: evaluation. In critical thinking, evaluation is all about judging the strengths and …
Analysis of Gilbert Ryle's The Concept of Mind
Häftad, 2017
115 kr
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Gilbert Ryle’s 1949 The Concept of Mind is now famous above all as the origin of the phrase “the ghost in the machine” – a phrase Ryle used to attack the popular idea that our bodies and minds are separate. His own position was that mental acts are not at all distinct from bodily actions. Indeed, …
