Frantz Fanon's 1961 masterpiece is both a powerful analysis of the psychological effects of colon...

Hannah Arendt's 1958 The Human Condition was an impassioned philosophical reconsideration of the ...

Homi K. Bhabha's 1994 The Location of Culture is one of the founding texts of the branch of liter...

A critical analysis of Spivak's classic 1988 postcolonial studies essay, in which she argues that...

Hans Morgenthau's Politics Among Nations is a classic of political science, built on the firm fou...

What makes good people capable of committing bad - even evil - acts? Few psychologists are as wel...

Judith Butler's Gender Trouble is a perfect example of creative thinking. The book redefines femi...

Leon Festinger's 1957 A Theory of Cognitive Dissonance is a key text in the history of psychology...

Many people want to understand what revolutions are and - especially - how they come about, from ...

Thomas Kuhn's The Structure of Scientific Revolutions can be seen, without exaggeration, as a lan...

South Korean economist Ha-Joon Chang used his 2003 work Kicking Away The Ladder to challenge the ...

C.S. Lewis's 1943 The Abolition of Man is a set of three essays that encapsulate some of the most...

American political scientist Robert Putnam wasn't the first person to recognize that social capit...

Michel Foucault is famous as one of the 20th-century's most innovative thinkers - and his work on...

Our Ecological Footprint presents a powerful model for measuring humanity's impact on the Earth t...

German sociologist Max Weber's 1919 lecture Politics as a Vocation is widely regarded as a master...

The modern vision of the world as one dominated by one or more superpowers begs the question of h...

John Maynard Keynes's 1936 General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money is a perfect example ...

Roland Barthes's 1967 essay, 'The Death of the Author,' argues against the traditional practice o...

In this book, Sedgwick examines texts from Europe and America such as Wilde, Nietzsche and Proust...

Debt is one of the great subjects of our day, and understanding the way that it not only fuels ec...

Burton Malkiel's 1973 A Random Walk Down Wall Street was an explosive contribution to debates abo...

Exploration and Exploitation is a key text for scholars and business practitioners interested in ...

Simone de Beauvoir's 1949 book The Second Sex is a masterpiece of feminist criticism and philosop...

Betty Friedan's book The Feminine Mystique is possibly the best-selling of all the titles analyse...

Despite having no formal training in urban planning, Jane Jacobs deftly explores the strengths an...

In his 1997 work Guns, Germs and Steel, Jared Diamond marshals evidence from five continents and ...

Francis Fukuyama's controversial 1992 book The End of History and the Last Man demonstrates an im...

Few historians trace grand themes across many centuries and places, but Ernst Kantorowicz's great...

What makes a good manager? Though we can probably all point to someone we think of as a good mana...

What is a self? Greenblatt argues that the 16th century saw the awakening of modern self-consciou...

Reasoning is the critical thinking skill concerned with the production of arguments: making them ...

Thomas Hobbes is a towering figure in the history of modern thought and political philosophy. He ...

C. Wright Mills's 1959 book The Sociological Imagination is widely regarded as one of the most in...

C.K. Prahalad and Gary Hamel's 1990 The Core Competence of the Corporation helped redefine tradit...

Thomas Piketty is a fine example of an evaluative thinker. In Capital in the Twenty-First Century...

When it was published in 2008, Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein's Nudge: Improving Decisions abou...

Saba Mahmood's 2005 Politics of Piety is an excellent example of evaluation in action.Mahmood's b...

Susan Sontag's 1997 text, On Photography, brought photographic theory into the university classro...

Toni Morrison's Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination is a seminal piece of...

Arjun Appadurai's 1996 collection of essays Modernity At Large: Cultural Dimensions of Globalizat...

In Outline of a Theory of Practice, Bourdieu questions the preeminent ideas of social anthropolog...

Kenneth Waltz's 1979 Theory of International Politics is credited with bringing about a 'scientif...

Edward Said's Orientalism is a masterclass in the art of interpretation wedded to close analysis....

The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction combats traditional art criticism's treatme...

'Reconstruction' is the name given to the period that, beginning shortly before the end of the Am...

In Blue Ocean Strategy, W. Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne tackle the central problem facing all bus...

Stanley Milgram is one of the most influential and widely-cited social psychologists of the twent...