Recognizing that companies went bust when the market for their products dried up, Levitt set out to learn why. The manifesto he produced aimed to upend... Læs mere
Crosby’s landmark 1972 work argues that environmental factors shape our history just as much as—and sometimes more than—human factors.
Democracy in America, published in 1835 and 1840, challenged conventional thinking about democracy when it first appeared and is still cited today for its in-depth analysis of what makes a successful democracy.
In Philosophical Investigations, Ludwig Wittgenstein presents a radical approach to the philosophy of language and the mind, setting out... Læs mere
Albert Hourani’s A History of the Arab Peoples is unsurpassed as an overview of Arab history from the rise of Islam to the late twentieth century. Going far beyond political history, it provides a deep analysis of social, cultural and economic structures.
Butler's 1990 work shook the foundations of feminist theory and changed the conversation about gender. While many thinkers already accepted that "gender"... Læs mere
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.
Our Ecological Footprint presents a powerful model for measuring humanity’s impact on the Earth to reduce the harm we are causing the planet before it’s too late.
When it was published in 2008, Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein’s Nudge: Improving... Læs mere
Dikötter’s 2010 masterpiece catalogues the tragedy and the cover-up of the hideous famine caused by the Great Leap Forward—Mao Zedong’s disastrous attempt to jumpstart industrialization in China in the late 1950s.
Lovelock wrote Gaia for the general public, not for scientists. But there is a lot of science in this 1979 work.
Lefebvre, renowned as a pioneer of ‘history from below,’ believed that the origins of the revolution had to be sought not just in the maneuvering of the elites, but in the unpredictable actions of the common people.