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Analysis of Arjun Appadurai's Modernity at Large
Arjun Appadurai's 1996 collection of essays Modernity At Large: Cultural Dimensions of Globalization helped reshape how anthropologists, geographers and philosophers saw and …
Analysis of Albert Bandura's Aggression
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 …
Analysis of Richard J. Evans's In Defence of History
Richard Evans wrote In Defence of History at a time when the historian's profession was coming under heavy attack as a result of the 'cultural turn' taken by the discipline during …
Analysis of Timothy Snyder's Bloodlands
A flagbearer for the increasingly fashionable genre of "e;transnational history,"e; Timothy Snyder's Bloodlands is, first and foremost, a stunning example of the critical …
Analysis of Nassim Nicholas Taleb's The Black Swan
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 …
Analysis of Richard J. Herrnstein and Charles Murray's The Bell Curve
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 …
Analysis of Kenneth Waltz's Theory of International Politics
Kenneth Waltz's 1979 Theory of International Politics is credited with bringing about a "e;scientific revolution"e; in the study of international relations - bringing the …
Analysis of C.L.R. James's The Black Jacobins
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, …
Analysis of Daniel Kahneman's Thinking, Fast and Slow
Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman offers a general audience access to over six decades of insight and expertise from a Nobel Laureate in an accessible and interesting way. …
Analysis of Gordon W. Allport's The Nature of Prejudice
With 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 …
Analysis of Keith Thomas's Religion and the Decline of Magic
Keith Thomas's classic study of all forms of popular belief has been influential for so long now that it is difficult to remember how revolutionary it seemed when it first …
Analysis of Hamid Dabashi's Iran
Hamid Dabashi's 2007 Iran: A People Interrupted is simultaneously subtle, passionate, polarizing and polemical. A concise account of Iranian history from the early 19th-century …