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  • The Anti-Politics Machine (1990) examines how international development projec... The Anti-Politics Machine (1990) examines how international development projects are conceived researched and put into practice. It also looks at what these projects actually achieve. Ferguson criticizes the idea of externally-directed development... more
  • Exploration and Exploitation is a key text for scholars and business practitio... Exploration and Exploitation is a key text for scholars and business practitioners interested in promoting economic well-being and sustainable growth. March s work promotes the preservation of companies competitiveness and sustainability in the... more
  • Gaia: A New Look At Life on Earth may continue to divide opinion but nobody ca... Gaia: 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 in 1979 Gaia offered a radically new hypothesis: the... more
  • The impact of William James s 1890 The Principles of Psychology is such that h... The impact of William James s 1890 The Principles of Psychology is such that he is commonly known as the father of his subject. Though psychology itself is a very different discipline in the 21st-century James s influence continues to be felt - both... more
  • Exploration and Exploitation is a key text for scholars and business practitio... Exploration and Exploitation is a key text for scholars and business practitioners interested in promoting economic well-being and sustainable growth. March s work promotes the preservation of companies competitiveness and sustainability in the... more
  • The 85 essays that maker up The Federalist Papers clearly demonstrate the vita... The 85 essays that maker up The Federalist Papers clearly demonstrate the vital importance of the art of persuasion. Written between 1787 and 1788 by three of the Founding Fathers of the United States the Papers were written with the specific... more
  • In The Wisdom of Crowds New Yorker columnist Surowiecki explores the question ... In 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 innovation and making wise decisions. Surowiecki s text... more
  • Today we take it for granted that history is much more than the story of great... Today 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 nonconformity - add much-needed context and color to our... more
  • Albert Bandura is the most cited living psychologist and is regularly named as... Albert Bandura is the most cited living psychologist and is regularly named as one of the most influential figures ever to have worked in his field. Much of his reputation stems from the theories and experiments described in his 1973 study... more
  • Mary Douglas is an outstanding example of an evaluative thinker at work. In Pu... Mary Douglas is an outstanding example of an evaluative thinker at work. In Purity and Danger: An Analysis of Concepts of Pollution and Taboo she delves in great detail into existing arguments that portray traditional societies as evolving from... more
  • The modern world has been marked by social revolutions that have transformed t... The modern world has been marked by social revolutions that have transformed the states where they occurred. Theda Skocpol examines three of these uprisings-the French Russian and Chinese revolutions-to consider the forces that make such dramatic... more
  • Few people can claim to have had minds as fertile and creative as the French p... Few 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 composer and writer of opera a novelist and a memoirist... more
  • The Republic is Plato s most complete and incisive work - a detailed study of ... The Republic is Plato s most complete and incisive work - a detailed study of the problem of how best to ensure that justice exists in a real society rather than as merely the product of an idealized philosophical construct. The work considers... more
  • Despite being written between 170 and 180 Marcus Aurelius Meditations often re... Despite 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 notes in the last decade of his reign as Roman... more
  • Despite being written between 170 and 180 Marcus Aurelius Meditations often re... Despite 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 notes in the last decade of his reign as Roman... more
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