Literary theory books

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Before the publication of Nature's Metropolis in 1991, historians generally treated urban and rural areas as distinct...  Read More >>

Hoffer began writing The True Believer in the 1940s, as Nazism and fascism spread across Europe. Most analysts studying...  Read More >>

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Elizabeth Loftus' 1979 work explains why people sometimes remember events inaccurately and how this simple fact...  Read More >>

Durkheim's 1897 work is a powerful evidence-based study of why people take their own lives. In the late nineteenth...  Read More >>

Born in Britain in 1737, Thomas Paine had a humble, religious upbringing and very little formal education. The course...  Read More >>

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""In his highly influential 1996 book, Huntington offers a vision of a post-Cold War world in which conflict takes...  Read More >>

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Philip Zimbardo is fascinated by why people can behave in awful ways. uSome psychologists believe those who commit...  Read More >>

First published in 1790, Burke's Reflections rejects the ideas that had inspired radical political change in France...  Read More >>

Advertisements for soap. The image of a lm star. We accept these common objects as a normal part of our life. But...  Read More >>

Hearing across media is the source of innovation in a uniquely African American sphere of art-making and performance,...  Read More >>

Winner of the 1998 Pulitzer, Guns, Germs, and Steel attempts to answer why human history unfolded differently on...  Read More >>

Crosby's landmark 1972 work argues that environmental factors shape our history just as much as-and sometimes more...  Read More >>

The idea of evolution and that earth's species descended from common ancestors had already been around for some...  Read More >>

Considered his most important work, Mahbub ul Haq's Reflections on Human Development appeared at the end of his...  Read More >>

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Gutierrez's 1971 book provides an inspiring argument as to how Christians and the Roman Catholic Church should support...  Read More >>

When Manias, Panics, and Crashes was published (1978), the world was entering a new period of global economic turbulence....  Read More >>

Lovelock wrote Gaia for the general public, not for scientists. But there is a lot of science in this 1979 work....  Read More >>

War Without Mercy examines Japanese-American relations during World War II and investigates links between popular...  Read More >>

Kennedy sought to understand the social, economic, and military forces that shape great powers. While earlier scholars...  Read More >>

Before Bailyn's 1967 work, it was generally accepted that the American Revolution was driven by social conflict...  Read More >>