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Cizojazyčná literatura, English literature, Knihy, Nonfiction, Psychology
Many still consider Ludwig Wittgenstein’s 1953 Philosophical Investigations to be one of the breakthrough works of twentieth-century philosophy. The book sets out a radically new conception of philosophy itself, and demonstrates all the attributes of…215 Kč KoupitCizojazyčná literatura, English literature, Knihy, Nonfiction, Psychology
Mahmood Mamdani’s 1996 Citizen and Subject is a powerful work of analysis that lays bare the sources of the problems that plagued, and often still plague, African governments. Analysis is one of the broadest and…215 Kč KoupitCizojazyčná literatura, English literature, Knihy, Nonfiction, Religion and Spirituality
Martin 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…215 Kč KoupitCizojazyčná literatura, English literature, Knihy
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…215 Kč KoupitCizojazyčná literatura, English literature, Knihy, Nonfiction
Our Ecological Footprint presents a powerful model for measuring humanity’s impact on the Earth to reduce the harm we are causing the planet before it’s too late. While some people believe we can find a…215 Kč KoupitCizojazyčná literatura, English literature, Knihy, Nonfiction, Psychology
Michel 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 now…215 Kč KoupitCizojazyčná literatura, English literature, Knihy, Nonfiction
Michel 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 full expression in History…215 Kč KoupitCizojazyčná literatura, Economy, English literature, Knihy, Nonfiction
Milton Friedman was arguably the single most influential economist of the 20th-century. His influence, particularly on conservative politics in America and Great Britain, substantially helped – as both supporters and critics agree – to shape…215 Kč KoupitCizojazyčná literatura, Economy, English literature, Knihy, Nonfiction
One of the primary qualities of good creative thinking is an intellectual freedom to think outside of the box. Good creative thinkers resist orthodox ideas, take new lines of enquiry, and generally come at problems…215 Kč KoupitCizojazyčná literatura, English literature, Knihy, Nonfiction, Psychology
What 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 author of…215 Kč KoupitCizojazyčná literatura, English literature, Knihy, Nonfiction, Psychology
Herrnstein & Murray''s The Bell Curve is a deeply controversial text that raises serious issues about the stakes involved in reasoning and interpretation.The authors’ central contention is that intelligence is the primary factor determining social…215 Kč KoupitCizojazyčná literatura, English literature, Knihy, Nonfiction, Psychology
American political scientist Robert Putnam wasn’t the first person to recognize that social capital – the relationships between people that allow communities to function well – is the grease that oils the wheels of society.…215 Kč KoupitCizojazyčná literatura, English literature, Knihy, Nonfiction, Psychology
The end of the Cold War, which occurred early in the 1990s, brought joy and freedom to millions. But it posed a difficult question to the world''s governments and to the academics who studied them:…215 Kč KoupitCizojazyčná literatura, English literature, Knihy, Literature and Linguistics, Nonfiction
The 1979 publication of Susan Gubar and Sandra M. Gilbert’s ground-breaking study The Madwoman in the Attic marked a founding moment in feminist literary history as much as feminist literary theory. In their extensive study…215 Kč KoupitCizojazyčná literatura, English literature, Knihy, Nonfiction, Psychology
Stanley Milgram is one of the most influential and widely-cited social psychologists of the twentieth century. Recognized as perhaps the most creative figure in his field, he is famous for crafting social-psychological experiments with an…215 Kč Koupit
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