Much of what we now know about the influence of early childhood environments on delinquency and anti-social behavior can be traced to Bandura’s ground-breaking 1973 book. He uses the subject of aggression to demonstrate the usefulness of social learning theory.
"In his highly influential 1996 book, Huntington offers a vision of a post-Cold War world in which conflict takes place not between competing ideologies but between cultures.
Sheila Fitzpatrick’s Everyday Stalinism rejects the simplistic treatment of the Soviet Union as a totalitarian government that tightly controlled its citizens.
Classical economics suggests that market economies are self-correcting in times of recession or depression, and... Læs mere
Ways of Seeing is a key art-historical work that continues to provoke widespread debate. Berger first examines how our assumptions affect how we see a... Læs mere
In Situated Learning, Lave and Wenger argued that learning is ‘situated’ because it is largely a product of the environment in which it occurs and takes place most effectively through participation with experts and peers in a ‘community of practice.’
On Photography brought photographic theory into the university classroom with its staunch defense of the medium as art and inspired a new wave of Marxist... Læs mere
Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman offers access to over six decades of insight and expertise from a Nobel Laureate in an accessible and... Læs mere
Born in 1961, US anthropologist and activist David Graeber was weaned on leftist politics, and declared himself an anarchist at age 16. He became... Læs mere
Published in 1938, The Black Jacobins tells the story of the only successful slave revolution in history–an uprising inspired by the ideals of the French... Læs mere
Winner of the 1998 Pulitzer, Guns, Germs, and Steel attempts to answer why human history unfolded differently on different continents.
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 movement.