Produkty z tagiem 'MACAT LIBRARY'

Jacques Derrida's Structure, Sign, and Play in the.. [Oprawa Miękka]
Tim Smith-Laing

Jacques Derrida's Structure, Sign, and Play in the Discourse of Human Sciences

Jacques Derrida’s Structure, Sign, and Play is one of the most controversial and influential philosophical texts of the 20th century. Delivered at a conference on structuralism at Johns Hopkins, the

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The Lucifer Effect [Oprawa Miękka]

What makes good people capable of committing bad – even evil – acts? Few psychologists are as well-qualified to answer that question as Philip Zimbardo, a psychology professor who was not only the au

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The Location of Culture [Oprawa Miękka]

Homi K. Bhabha’s 1994 The Location of Culture is one of the founding texts of the branch of literary theory called postcolonialism. While postcolonialism has many strands, at its heart lies the quest

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The Prison Notebooks [Oprawa Miękka]

Antonio Gramsci’s Prison Notebooks is a remarkable work, not only because it was written in jail as the Italian Marxist thinker fell victim to political oppression in his home country, but also becau

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Max Weber's Politics as a Vocation [Oprawa Miękka]

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

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Susan Sontag's On Photography [Oprawa Miękka]

Susan Sontag's On Photography is a seminal and groundbreaking work on the subject. Susan Sontag's groundbreaking critique of photography asks forceful questions about the moral and aesthetic issue

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The New Jim Crow Mass Incarceration in the age of .. [Oprawa Miękka]

Michelle Alexander’s The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness is an unflinching dissection of the racial biases built into the American prison system. Named after the laws th

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A Theory of Cognitive Dissonance [Oprawa Miękka]

Leon Festinger’s 1957 A Theory of Cognitive Dissonance is a key text in the history of psychology – one that made its author one of the most influential social psychologists of his time. It is also a

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Roland Barthes's The Death of the Author [Oprawa Miękka]
Laura Seymour

Roland Barthes’s 1967 essay, "The Death of the Author," argues against the traditional practice of incorporating the intentions and biographical context of an author into textual interpretation becau

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Mary Douglas's Purity and Danger [Oprawa Miękka]

Mary Douglas is an outstanding example of an evaluative thinker at work. In Purity and Danger: An Analysis of Concepts of Pollution and Taboo, she delves in great detail into existing arguments that

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The Second Sex [Oprawa Miękka]

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

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Black Skin, White Masks [Oprawa Miękka]

Frantz Fanon’s explosive Black Skin, White Masks is a merciless exposé of the psychological damage done by colonial rule across the world. Using Fanon’s incisive analytical abilities to expose the co

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The Feminine Mystique [Oprawa Miękka]
Elizabeth Whitaker

Betty Friedan's book The Feminine Mystique is possibly the best-selling of all the titles analysed in the Macat library, and arguably one of the most important. Yet it was the product of an apparentl

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The Sociological Imagination [Oprawa Miękka]

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

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Manias, Panics and Crashes A History of Financial .. [Oprawa Miękka]

Manias, Panics and Crashes A History of Financial Crises

Perhaps the most peculiar feature of a financial bubble – one that Charles Kindleberger's classic work Manias, Panics and Crashes draws particular attention to – is the inability of those trapped ins

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James Surowiecki's The Wisdom of Crowds Why the Ma.. [Oprawa Miękka]
Nikki Springer

James Surowiecki's The Wisdom of Crowds Why the Many are Smarter than the Few and How Collective Wisdom Shapes Business, Economics, Societies, and Nations, 1st Edition

In The Wisdom of Crowds, New Yorker columnist, Surowiecki, explores the question of whether the many are better than an elite few – no matter their qualifications – at solving problems, promoting inn

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Martin Buber's I and Thou [Oprawa Miękka]

Martin Buber’s I and Thou argues that humans engage with the world in two ways. One is with the attitude of an ‘I’ towards an ‘It’, where the self stands apart from objects as items of experience or

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Donna Haraway's A Cyborg Manifesto [Oprawa Miękka]

Haraway’s ‘A Cyborg Manifesto’ is a key postmodern text and is widely taught in many disciplines as one of the first texts to embrace technology from a leftist and feminist perspective using the meta

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Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick's Epistemology of the Closet.. [Oprawa Miękka]

In this book, Sedgwick examines texts from Europe and America such as Wilde, Nietzsche and Proust and considers the historical moment when sexual orientation came to be as important a signifier of pe

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Gender Trouble [Oprawa Miękka]

Judith Butler's Gender Trouble is a perfect example of creative thinking. The book redefines feminism's struggle against patriarchy as part of a much broader issue: the damaging effects of all our as

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The End of History and the Last Man [Oprawa Miękka]

ver since its first publication in 1992, The End of History and the Last Man has provoked controversy and debate. Francis Fukuyama's prescient analysis of religious fundamentalism, politics, scientif

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Michel Foucault's What is an Author? [Oprawa Miękka]

Michel Foucault’s 1969 essay “What is an Author?” sidesteps the stormy arguments surrounding “intentional fallacy” and the “death of the author,” offering an entirely different way of looking at text

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Can the Subaltern Speak? [Oprawa Miękka]
Graham Riach

A key theme of Gayatri Spivak's work is agency: the ability of the individual to make their own decisions. While Spivak's main aim is to consider ways in which "subalterns" – her term for the indigen

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Religion and the Decline of Magic [Oprawa Miękka]
Simon Young , Helen Killick

Keith Thomas's classic study of all forms of popular belief has been influential for so long now that it is difficult to remember how revolutionary it seemed when it first appeared. By publishing

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Politics Among Nations [Oprawa Miękka]
Pardo Ramon Pacheco

Hans Morgenthau’s Politics Among Nations is a classic of political science, built on the firm foundation of Morgenthau’s watertight reasoning skills. The central aim of reasoning is to construct a

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The Return of Martin Guerre [Oprawa Miękka]
Joseph Tendler

Few stories are more captivating than the one told by Natalie Zemon Davis in The Return of Martin Guerre. Basing her research on records of a bizarre court case that occurred in 16th-century France,

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Erwin Panofsky's Meaning in the Visual Arts [Oprawa Miękka]
Emmanouil Kalkanis

Erwin Panofsky’s Meaning in the Visual Arts is considered a key work in art history. Its ideas have provoked widespread debate, and although it was first published more than sixty years ago, it conti

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The Black Swan The Impact of the Highly Improbable.. [Oprawa Miękka]
Eric Lybeck

One of the primary qualities of good creative thinking is an intellectual freedom to think outside of the box. Good creative thinkers resist orthodox ideas, take new lines of enquiry, and generally c

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Nudge Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth and.. [Oprawa Miękka]
Mark Egan

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 a

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Guns, Germs & Steel The Fate of Human Societies [Oprawa Miękka]
Riley Quinn

In his 1997 work Guns, Germs and Steel, Jared Diamond marshals evidence from five continents and across 13,000 years of human history in an attempt to answer the question of why that history unfolded

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Religion and the Decline of Magic [Oprawa Miękka] Simon Young , Helen Killick

Religion and the Decline of Magic [Oprawa Miękka]
Simon Young , Helen Killick