Analysis of Rachel Carson's Silent Spring
Carson’s 1962 work Silent Spring was one of the first books ever to highlight environmentalist...
EAN: 9781912127450
Analysis of Alfred W. Crosby's The Columbian Exchange
Crosby’s landmark 1972 work argues that environmental factors shape our history just as much...
EAN: 9781912127443
Analysis of T.S. Eliot's The Sacred Wood
The essay for which The Sacred Wood is primarily remembered is one of the most famous pieces of...
EAN: 9781912127412
Analysis of Soren Kierkegaard's The Sickness Unto Death
Sren Kierkegaard’s The Sickness unto Death is widely recognized as one of the most significant...
EAN: 9781912127405
Analysis of Robert O. Keohane's After Hegemony
After Hegemony has had a huge impact on policy debates over the last three decades. Hegemony...
EAN: 9781912127382
Analysis of Ferdinand de Saussure's Course in General Linguistics
Edited and produced from the lecture notes of his students at the University of Geneva, the...
EAN: 9781912127375
Analysis of Rene Descartes's Meditations on First Philosophy
René Descartes posed questions about the nature of knowledge and the nature of being that...
EAN: 9781912127320
Analysis of Arjun Appadurai's Modernity at Large
Modernity at Large is an edited collection of the essays that made Appadurai an influential...
EAN: 9781912127313
Analysis of Ernest Gellner's Nations and Nationalism
Ernest Gellner — a Jew who escaped from Czechoslovakia in 1939 after Hitler invaded — knew...
EAN: 9781912127306
Analysis of C.S. Lewis's The Abolition of Man
C.S. Lewis's 1943 The Abolition of Man is subtitled 'Reflections on Education With Special...
EAN: 9781912127290
Analysis of Homi K. Bhabha's The Location of Culture
Homi K. Bhabha's 1994 The Location of Culture is one of the founding texts of the branch of...
EAN: 9781912127276
Analysis of Emile Durkheim's On Suicide
Durkheim’s 1897 work is a powerful evidence-based study of why people take their own lives.
EAN: 9781912127252
Analysis of Stanley Milgram's Obedience to Authority
Milgram's book describes the landmark psychology experiment he conducted as a young researcher at...
EAN: 9781912127245
Analysis of G.E.M. Anscombe's Modern Moral Philosophy
Anscombe’s 1958 paper challenged the very foundations of moral philosophy, the discipline that...
EAN: 9781912127238
Analysis of Friedrich Nietzsche's On the Genealogy of Morality
Written in 1887, when Nietzsche was at the height of his powers as a philosopher and writer, On...
EAN: 9781912127191
Analysis of G.W.F. Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit
Hegel’s 1807 Phenomenology of Spirit is renowned for being one of the most challenging and...
EAN: 9781912127184
Analysis of William James's The Principles of Psychology
The impact of William James’s 1890 The Principles of Psychology is such that he is commonly known...
EAN: 9781912127160
Analysis of Claude Levi-Strauss's Structural Anthropology
Structural Anthropology (1958) not only transformed the discipline of anthropology, it also...
EAN: 9781912127146
Analysis of Gilbert Ryle's The Concept of Mind
In this provocative 1949 work, Ryle proposes that what we think of as the "mind" is little more...
EAN: 9781912127139
Analysis of Jean-Jacques Rousseau's The Social Contract
Few people can claim to have had minds as fertile and creative as the French philosopher...
EAN: 9781912127108
Analysis of C. Wright Mills's The Sociological Imagination
The Sociological Imagination provoked hostile reaction when it appeared for its hard-hitting...
EAN: 9781912127092
Analysis of Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations
200 years after it was written, Adam Smith published The Wealth of Nations is still debated by...
EAN: 9781912127085
Analysis of Mary Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
Wollstonecraft’s 1792 work sets out all the chief principles of feminist thought developed by...
EAN: 9781912127061
Analysis of Henry David Thoraeu's Civil Disobedience
Originally published in 1866, Civil Disobedience asks when – and in what circumstances – an...
EAN: 9781912127054
