Literary theory books

Carson's 1962 work Silent Spring was one of the first books ever to highlight environmentalist issues. Focusing...  Read More >>

Lewis's 1952 Mere Christianity-originally printed in pamphlet form during World War II-documents a complex journey...  Read More >>

One of the most reprinted articles in the history of the Harvard Business Review, ""The Core Competence of the Corporation""...  Read More >>

The Anti-Politics Machine (1990) examines how international development projects are conceived, researched, and...  Read More >>

In his best selling book Capital in the Twenty-First Century, economist Thomas Piketty argues that capitalism has...  Read More >>

The Selfish Gene is that rarest of things: an outstanding work of scholarship that has seeped into popular culture....  Read More >>

Because the potential returns appear to be greater in poorer countries than in the developed world, modern economic...  Read More >>

Homi K. Bhabha's 1994 The Location of Culture is one of the founding texts of the branch of literary theory called...  Read More >>

Modernity at Large is an edited collection of the essays that made Appadurai an influential figure in cultural anthropology....  Read More >>

Slavery had been accepted in Western culture for centuries. So why did a movement suddenly rise up in the industrial...  Read More >>

Sigmund Freud, ""the father of psychoanalysis,"" was born in Vienna, Austria, in 1856. He studied medicine at the...  Read More >>

A classic postcolonial studies text, Spivak's 1988 essay argues that a core problem for the poorest and most marginalized...  Read More >>

Politics was one of the first books to investigate the concept of political philosophy and the starting point of...  Read More >>

After Hegemony has had a huge impact on policy debates over the last three decades. Hegemony means the social, cultural,...  Read More >>

One of the most important strategy manuals ever published, Chinese general Sun Tzu's The Art of War has also been...  Read More >>

""Black Skin, White Masks offers a radical analysis of the psychological effects of colonization on the colonized....  Read More >>

Written amid the political fallout and 'war on terror' following the 9/11 terrorist attacks on New York-Dabashi's...  Read More >>

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

The United States has the world's largest prison population, with more than two million behind bars. Alexander says...  Read More >>

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

Our Ecological Footprint presents a powerful model for measuring humanity's impact on the Earth to reduce the harm...  Read More >>