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The First Crusade and the Idea of Crusading by Damien Peters
Booksplease Price: $8.39Perhaps 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... -
An Analysis of Charles P. Kindleberger's Manias, Panics, and Crashes: A History of Financial Crises Nicholas Burton 9781912128051
Booksplease Price: $8.62Perhaps 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... -
An Analysis of Gordon W. Allport's The Nature of Prejudice Alexander O'Connor 9781912127627
Booksplease Price: $8.62With 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... -
The Crusades: Islamic Perspectives by Robert Houghton 9781912128242
Booksplease Price: $8.62For 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... -
The Sisterhood Secret: Changing the World Together, One Woman at a Time by Levina Mulandi 9781594527951
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.96Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781594527951Author Levina MulandiFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint -
An Analysis of Betty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique Elizabeth Whitaker 9781912128884
RRP: $8.39Booksplease Price: $7.97Betty 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... -
An Analysis of Ernst H. Kantorwicz's The King's Two Bodies: A Study in Medieval Political Theology Simon Thomson 9781912127115
Booksplease Price: $8.62Few 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... -
The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements by Jonah S. Rubin
RRP: $8.39Booksplease Price: $7.12Eric Hoffer's The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements is one of the most widely read works of social psychology written in the 20th-century. It exemplifies the powers of creative... -
An Analysis of Timothy Snyder's Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin Helen Roche 9781912128976
Booksplease Price: $8.62A 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 Elizabeth F. Loftus's Eyewitness Testimony William Jenkins 9781912128785
Booksplease Price: $8.62Understanding evidence is critical in a court of law - and it is just as important for critical thinking. Elizabeth Loftus, a pioneering psychologist, made a landmark contribution to both these areas... -
An Analysis of Philip Zimbardo's The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil Alexander O'Connor 9781912128556
RRP: $8.39Booksplease Price: $7.97What 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... -
Hitler's Willing Executioners Simon Taylor 9781912302604
RRP: $25.79Booksplease Price: $24.17Daniel Goldhagen's study of the Holocaust offers conclusions that run directly counter to those reached by Christopher Browning, whose book Ordinary Men is also the subject of a Macat analysis. As... -
An Analysis of Martin Buber's I and Thou Simon Ravenscroft 9781912453610
Booksplease Price: $8.62Martin 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 John A. Hobson's Imperialism: A Study Riley Quinn 9781912128655
Booksplease Price: $8.62English economist John Hobson's 1902 Imperialism: A Study was an epoch-making study of the politics and economics of imperialism that shook imperialist beliefs to their core. A committed liberal,... -
An Analysis of Jared Diamond's Guns, Germs & Steel: The Fate of Human Societies Riley Quinn 9781912127979
Booksplease Price: $8.62In 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... -
AN ANALYSIS OF IAN KERSHAW'S THE HITLER MYTH: Image and Reality in the Third Reich by Helen Roche
Booksplease Price: $8.62Few 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... -
An Analysis of Paul Kennedy's The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers: Ecomonic Change and Military Conflict from 1500-2000 Riley Quinn 9781912128150
Booksplease Price: $8.62Paul Kennedy owes a great deal to the editor who persuaded him to add a final chapter to this study of the factors that contributed to the rise and fall of European powers since the age of Spain's... -
An Analysis of C.L.R. James's The Black Jacobins Nick Broten 9781912128891
Booksplease Price: $8.62Today we take it for granted that history is much more than the story of great men and the elites from which they spring. Other forms of history - the histories of gender, class, rebellion and... -
An Analysis of Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak's Can the Subaltern Speak? Graham Riach 9781912127504
Booksplease Price: $8.62A critical analysis of Spivak's classic 1988 postcolonial studies essay, in which she argues that a core problem for the poorest and most marginalized in society (the subalterns) is that they have no... -
An Analysis of Frantz Fanon's The Wretched of the Earth Riley Quinn 9781912128532
RRP: $8.39Booksplease Price: $7.97Frantz Fanon is one of the most important figures in the history of what is now known as postcolonial studies - the field that examines the meaning and impacts of European colonialism across the... -
An Analysis of Karen Z. Ho's Liquidated: An Ethnography of Wall Street Rodolfo Maggio 9781912128068
RRP: $8.39Booksplease Price: $8.04Liquidated is a work of anthropology that treats an unusual, despised subculture - that of the Wall Street banker - much as anthropologists have traditionally treated remote 'savage' tribes. But... -
Capital in the Twenty-First Century by Nick Broten
Booksplease Price: $9.00Thomas Piketty is a fine example of an evaluative thinker. In Capital in the Twenty-First Century, he not only provides detailed and sustained explanations of why he sees existing arguments relating... -
An Analysis of John Rawls's A Theory of Justice Filippo Dionigi 9781912127849
Booksplease Price: $8.62John Rawls's A Theory of Justice is one of the most influential works of legal and political theory published since the Second World War. It provides a memorably well-constructed and sustained... -
The Road to Serfdom by David Linden 9781912302246
RRP: $25.79Booksplease Price: $24.17Friedrich Hayek's 1944 Road to Serfdom is a classic of conservative economic argument. While undeniably a product of a specific time in global politics - which saw the threat of fascism from Nazi... -
An Analysis of Ha-Joon Chang's Kicking Away the Ladder: Development Strategy in Historical Perspective Sulaiman Hakemy 9781912128938
Booksplease Price: $8.62South 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 Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence has declined by Joulia Smortchkova
Booksplease Price: $8.62Reasoning is the critical thinking skill concerned with the production of arguments: making them coherent, consistent, and well-supported; and responding to opposing positions where necessary. The... -
An Analysis of The Brundtland Commission's Our Common Future Ksenia Gerasimova 9781912128754
Booksplease Price: $8.62Our 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 Aristotle's Metaphysics Asiste Celkyte 9781912127214
Booksplease Price: $8.62Aristotle's Metaphysics is a collection of essays on a wide range of topics, almost certainly never put together by Aristotle himself. This helps to explain why the material covers such a very wide... -
An Analysis of Homi K. Bhabha's The Location of Culture Stephen Fay 9781912127276
Booksplease Price: $8.62Homi 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... -
An Analysis of Friedrich Hayek's The Road to Serfdom David Linden 9781912127597
Booksplease Price: $8.62Friedrich Hayek's 1944 Road to Serfdom is a classic of conservative economic argument. While undeniably a product of a specific time in global politics - which saw the threat of fascism from Nazi... -
An Analysis of Michelle Alexander's The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness Ryan Moore 9781912128877
RRP: $8.39Booksplease Price: $7.97Michelle 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... -
An Analysis of Judith Butler's Gender Trouble Tim Smith-Laing 9781912127764
Booksplease Price: $8.62Judith 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... -
An Analysis of Chinua Achebe's An Image of Africa: Racism in Conrad's Heart of Darkness Clare Clarke 9781912127771
Booksplease Price: $8.62Few works of scholarship have so comprehensively recast an existing debate as Chinua Achebe's essay on Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness. Achebe - a highly distinguished Nigerian novelist and... -
An Analysis of Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex Rachele Dini 9781912127580
Booksplease Price: $8.62Simone 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... -
An Analysis of Hans J. Morgenthau's Politics Among Nations Ramon Pacheco Pardo 9781912127177
RRP: $8.39Booksplease Price: $7.97Hans 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... -
An Analysis of Carlo Ginzburg's The Night Battles: Witchcraft and Agrarian Cults in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries Etienne Stockland 9781912128860
Booksplease Price: $8.62In The Night Battles, Carlo Ginzburg does more than introduce his readers to a novel group of supposed witches - the Benandanti, from the northern Italian province of Friulia. He also invents and... -
An Analysis of C.S. Lewis's The Abolition of Man Ruth Jackson 9781912127290
Booksplease Price: $8.62C.S. Lewis's 1943 The Abolition of Man is a set of three essays that encapsulate some of the most important elements of good critical thinking. Lewis considers a weighty topic, moral philosophy - and... -
An Analysis of Michel Foucault's Discipline and Punish Meghan Kallman 9781912127511
Booksplease Price: $8.62Michel Foucault is famous as one of the 20th-century's most innovative thinkers - and his work on Discipline and Punish was so original and offered models so useful to other scholars that the book... -
An Analysis of Saba Mahmood's Politics of Piety: The Islamic Revival and the Feminist Subject Jessica Johnson 9781912128549
Booksplease Price: $8.62Saba Mahmood's 2005 Politics of Piety is an excellent example of evaluation in action. Mahmood's book is a study of women's participation in the Islamic revival across the Middle East. Mahmood - a... -
An Analysis of Michel Foucault's The History of Sexuality: Vol. 1: The Will to Knowledge Rachele Dini 9781912127023
Booksplease Price: $8.62Michel Foucault is famous as one of the 20th-century's most innovative and wide-ranging thinkers. The qualities that made him one of the most-read and influential theorists of the modern age find...