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The Crusades: Islamic Perspectives by Robert Houghton 9781912128242
Booksplease Price: £6.68For many centuries, the history of the crusades, as written by Western historians, was based solidly on Western sources. Evidence from the Islamic societies that the crusaders attacked was used only... -
Iran: A People Interrupted by Bryan Gibson 9781912128402
Booksplease Price: £6.68Hamid Dabashi's 2007 Iran: A People Interrupted is simultaneously subtle, passionate, polarizing and polemical. A concise account of Iranian history from the early 19th-century onward, Dabashi's book... -
An Analysis of John Lewis Gaddis's We Now Know: Rethinking Cold War History Scott Gilfillan 9781912128136
Booksplease Price: £6.68John Lewis Gaddis had written four previous books on the Cold War by the time he published We Now Know - so the main thrust of his new work was not so much to present new arguments as to re-examine... -
An Analysis of James E. Lovelock's Gaia: A New Look at Life on Earth Mohammad Shamsudduha 9781912128099
Booksplease Price: £6.68Gaia: A New Look At Life on Earth may continue to divide opinion, but nobody can deny that the book offers a powerful insight into the creative thinking of its author, James E. Lovelock. Published... -
An Analysis of Jean-Jacques Rousseau's The Social Contract James Hill 9781912127108
Booksplease Price: £6.68Few people can claim to have had minds as fertile and creative as the French philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau. One of the most influential political theorists of the modern age, he was also a... -
The First Crusade and the Idea of Crusading by Damien Peters
Booksplease Price: £6.50Perhaps no work of history written in the 20th century has done more to undermine an existing consensus and cause its readers to re-evaluate their own preconceptions than has Jonathan Riley-Smith's... -
Kicking Away the Ladder Sulaiman Hakemy 9781912302208
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £18.74South Korean economist Ha-Joon Chang used his 2003 work Kicking Away The Ladder to challenge the central orthodoxies of development economics, using his creative thinking skills to shine new light on... -
The End of History and the Last Man by Ian Jackson
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £18.74Francis Fukuyama's controversial 1992 book The End of History and the Last Man demonstrates an important aspect of creative thinking: the ability to generate hypotheses and create novel explanations... -
An Analysis of Pierre Bourdieu's Outline of a Theory of Practice Rodolfo Maggio 9781912303915
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £18.74In Outline of a Theory of Practice, Bourdieu questions the preeminent ideas of social anthropologists such as Levi-Strauss who stressed the structural principles governing human action rather than... -
An Analysis of Charles P. Kindleberger's Manias, Panics, and Crashes: A History of Financial Crises Nicholas Burton 9781912128051
Booksplease Price: £6.68Perhaps 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... -
The Location of Culture by Stephen Fay 9781912302826
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £18.74Homi 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... -
Beyond Good and Evil by Don Berry 9781912303090
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £18.74No philosopher could be a better example of creative thinking in action than Friedrich Nietzsche: a German iconoclast who systematically attacked the traditionally accepted views of academic... -
An Analysis of Gordon W. Allport's The Nature of Prejudice Alexander O'Connor 9781912127627
Booksplease Price: £6.68With his 1954 book The Nature of Prejudice, American psychologist Gordon Allport displays the crucial skill of reasoning, producing and organizing an argument that was persuasive enough to have a... -
An Analysis of Marcus Aurelius's Meditations James Orr 9781912128396
Booksplease Price: £6.68Despite being written between 170 and 180, Marcus Aurelius' Meditations often resonates with modern readers because of its remarkable resemblance to a self-help book. Written as a series of personal... -
An Essay on the Principle of Population by Nick Broten 9781912302291
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £18.74Thomas Robert Malthus' 1798 Essay on the Principle of Population helped change the direction of economics, politics, and the natural sciences with its reasoning and problem solving. The central... -
Raising Up Good Stewards: God's People Using God's Money for God's Glory by Joseph William Black 9781594527777
RRP: £10.75Booksplease Price: £8.39Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781594527777Author Joseph William BlackFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Macat International... -
A Disquisition on Government by Etienne Stockland 9781912128730
Booksplease Price: £6.68Nineteenth-century American politician John C. Calhoun occupies a paradoxical place in the history of political thought - and of critical thinking. On one hand, he is remembered as a committed... -
An Analysis of Jacques Derrida's Structure, Sign, and Play in the Discourse of the Human Sciences Tim Smith-Laing 9781912453078
Booksplease Price: £6.68Jacques 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... -
Jacques Derrida's Structure, Sign, and Play in the Discourse of Human Sciences by Tim Smith-Laing 9781912453528
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £18.74Jacques 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... -
Moses Maimonides's Guide of the Perplexed by Mark Scarlata 9781912453818
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £18.74Written by the great medieval Jewish philosopher Maimonides, The Guide of the Perplexed attempts to explain the perplexities of biblical language-and apparent inconsistencies in the text-in the light... -
An Analysis of William Wordsworth's Preface to The Lyrical Ballads Alex Latter 9781912453146
Booksplease Price: £6.68Central to the creative process of the Romantic poets that followed him, Wordsworth's Preface to the Lyrical Ballads has been both a gift and a thorn in the side of critics for over a century... -
An Analysis of 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 Nikki Springer 9781912453030
Booksplease Price: £6.68In 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... -
William Wordsworth's Preface to The Lyrical Ballads by Alex Latter 9781912453597
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £18.74Central to the creative process of the Romantic poets that followed him, Wordsworth's Preface to the Lyrical Ballads has been both a gift and a thorn in the side of critics for over a century... -
An Analysis of Martin Buber's I and Thou Simon Ravenscroft 9781912453795
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £18.74Martin 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... -
An Analysis of Ernst H. Kantorwicz's The King's Two Bodies: A Study in Medieval Political Theology Simon Thomson 9781912127115
Booksplease Price: £6.68Few historians trace grand themes across many centuries and places, but Ernst Kantorowicz's great work on the symbolic powers of kingship is a fine example of what can happen when they do. The King's... -
An Analysis of Georges Lefebvre's The Coming of the French Revolution Tom Stammers 9781912128198
Booksplease Price: £6.68Georges Lefebvre was one of the most highly-regarded historians of the 20th century - and a key reason for the high reputation he enjoys can be found in The Coming of the French Revolution... -
An Analysis of Betty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique Elizabeth Whitaker 9781912303571
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £18.74Betty 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... -
The Coming of the French Revolution by Tom Stammers 9781912302710
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £18.74Georges Lefebvre was one of the most highly-regarded historians of the 20th century - and a key reason for the high reputation he enjoys can be found in The Coming of the French Revolution... -
The Prince by Riley Quinn 9781912303366
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £18.74How should rulers rule? What is the nature of power? These questions had already been asked when Niccolo Machiavelli wrote The Prince in 1513. But what made his thinking on the topic different was... -
The Enquiry for Human Understanding by Michael O'Sullivan 9781912303014
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £18.74David Hume's 1748 Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding is a modern philosophical classic that helped reshape epistemology - the philosophy of knowledge. It is also a classic of the critical... -
An Analysis of Joan Wallach Scott's Gender and the Politics of History Pilar Zazueta 9781912128662
Booksplease Price: £6.68Joan Scott's work has influenced several generations of historians and helped make the topic of gender central to the way in which the discipline is taught and studied today. At root a new way of... -
An Analysis of Niccolo Machiavelli's The Prince Riley Quinn 9781912127610
Booksplease Price: £6.68How should rulers rule? What is the nature of power? These questions had already been asked when Niccolo Machiavelli wrote The Prince in 1513. But what made his thinking on the topic different was... -
Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin by Helen Roche
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £18.74A flagbearer for the increasingly fashionable genre of "transnational history," Timothy Snyder's Bloodlands is, first and foremost, a stunning example of the critical thinking skill of evaluation... -
An Analysis of St. Augustine's Confessions Jonathan Teubner 9781912127986
Booksplease Price: £6.68St. Augustine's Confessions is one of the most important works in the history of literature and Christian thought. Written around 397, when Augustine was the Christian bishop of Hippo (in modern-day... -
An Analysis of Joan Wallach Scott's Gender and the Politics of History Pilar Zazueta 9781912302758
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £18.74Joan Scott's work has influenced several generations of historians and helped make the topic of gender central to the way in which the discipline is taught and studied today. At root a new way of... -
An Analysis of Moses Maimonides's Guide for the Perplexed Mark Scarlata 9781912453634
Booksplease Price: £6.25Written by the great medieval Jewish philosopher Maimonides, The Guide of the Perplexed attempts to explain the perplexities of biblical language-and apparent inconsistencies in the text-in the light... -
An Analysis of The Brundtland Commission's Our Common Future Ksenia Gerasimova 9781912128754
Booksplease Price: £6.68Our Common Future is a joint work produced in 1987 by a United Nations commission headed by former Norwegian Prime Minister, Gro Brundtland. Also known as The Brundtland Report, it offers a classic... -
An Analysis of Frederick Jackson Turner's The Significance of the Frontier in American History Joanna Dee Das 9781912127863
Booksplease Price: £6.68Frederick Jackson Turner's 1893 essay on the history of the United States remains one of the most famous and influential works in the American canon. That is a testament to Turner's powers of... -
An Analysis of Marcel Mauss's The Gift: The Form and Reason for Exchange in Archaic Societies The Macat Team 9781912128587
Booksplease Price: £6.68Marcel Mauss's 1925 essay The Gift is an enduring classic of sociological and anthropological analysis by a thinker who is one of the founding fathers of modern anthropology. The Gift exploits... -
AN ANALYSIS OF IAN KERSHAW'S THE HITLER MYTH: Image and Reality in the Third Reich by Helen Roche
Booksplease Price: £6.68Few historical problems are more baffling in retrospect than the conundrum of how Hitler was able to rise to power in Germany and then command the German people - many of whom had only marginal...