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Michelle Alexander's The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness is an unflinching dissection of the racial biases built into the American prison system.

Does anything happen for no reason at all?

In The Night Battles, Carlo Ginzburg does more than introduce his readers to a novel group of supposed witches - the Benandanti, from the northern Italian province of Friulia.

Sun Tzu's The Art of War is still one of the world's most influential treatises on strategic thought.

Few works of history make as well-structured a case for the importance of studying continuity, rather than change, than Albert Hourani's A History of the Arab Peoples.

A novel Kabbalistic synthesis on the nature of consciousness

Javier Peteiro Cartelle, un científico que ha hecho un esfuerzo encomiable por devolverle a la ciencia la dignidad que la degradación histórica generalizada ha producido en el registro de la verdad, nos ofrece en este libro una selección de textos que se ocupan de la actualidad en la que vivimos y sobrevivimos, hechos desde la perspectiva de la ciencia, la literatura, la poesía, y la fe.

Judith Butler's Gender Trouble is a perfect example of creative thinking.

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John Lewis Gaddis had written four previous books on the Cold War by the time he published We Now Know - so the main thrust of his new work was not so much to present new arguments as to re-examine old ones in the light of new evidence that began emerging from behind the Iron Curtain after 1990.

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Frederick Jackson Turner's 1893 essay on the history of the United States remains one of the most famous and influential works in the American canon.

Critical thinking is an essential 21st century skill.

How did a devout Catholic girl from a LA mill town become a Mystical Humanist Unitarian Universalist, and what does that mean anyway, at least to her?

The 15 classic essays collected in Kokoro examine the inner spiritual life of Japan.

Frantz Fanon's explosive Black Skin, White Masks is a merciless expose of the psychological damage done by colonial rule across the world.

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Membre du Grand Orient et de la Grande Loge de Belgique, élevé au 33ème degré du Souverain Collège du Rite Ecossais pour la Belgique, l'auteur livre son coeur pour répondre, de façon simple et sincère, aux questions que tous peuvent se poser sur la Franc-Maçonnerie.

Immanuel Kant's Critique of Pure Reason is one of the most influential works in the history of philosophy - not to mention one of the most challenging.

Friedrich Nietzsche's On the Genealogy of Morality is a sustained feat of incisive interpretation.

Countering religion''s simple faith-based answers to life''s biggest questions by using everyday logic and the teachings of non-dual wisdom, this book makes a clear case for God-knowledge instead of God-belief.

German sociologist Max Weber's 1919 lecture Politics as a Vocation is widely regarded as a masterpiece of political theory and sociology.

Few works of history make as well-structured a case for the importance of studying continuity, rather than change, than Albert Hourani's A History of the Arab Peoples.

Benedict Anderson's 1983 masterpiece Imagined Communities is a ground-breaking analysis of the origins and meanings of "e;nations"e; and "e;nationalism"e;.

Saba Mahmood's 2005 Politics of Piety is an excellent example of evaluation in action.

One of the primary qualities of good creative thinking is an intellectual freedom to think outside of the box.

Arjun Appadurai's 1996 collection of essays Modernity At Large: Cultural Dimensions of Globalization helped reshape how anthropologists, geographers and philosophers saw and understood the key topic of our times: globalization.

Gilbert Ryle's 1949 The Concept of Mind is now famous above all as the origin of the phrase "e;the ghost in the machine"e; - a phrase Ryle used to attack the popular idea that our bodies and minds are separate.

The Power of the Creed was a book written in 2000 that explored in depth the Optimist Creed.

When it was published in 2008, Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein's Nudge: Improving Decisions about Health, Wealth, and Happiness quickly became one of the most influential books in modern economics and politics.

Oswald Spengler, in the aftermath of the Great War, gained international repute as a philosopher-historian whose apparently doom-laden forecast on the eclipse of Western Civilisation, The Decline of The West, struck a chord amidst a period of moral, cultural, social and economic decay, around which swirled increasingly violent forces of Left and Right.

MasslosWenn die Menschheit weiterhin masslos die vorhandenen Ressourcen verbraucht, das Klima sich verändert und die Bevölkerung weiter wächst, wird es dem blauen Planeten immer schlechter gehen.

Herrnstein & Murray's The Bell Curve is a deeply controversial text that raises serious issues about the stakes involved in reasoning and interpretation.

Ikujiro Nonaka's A Dynamic Theory of Organisational Knowledge Creation outlines the creation of organisational knowledge through the constant conversion of the two types of knowledge, tacit and explicit, which Nonaka believes has the potential to guide managers' knowledge creation strategies.

Michel Foucault is famous as one of the 20th-century's most innovative and wide-ranging thinkers.

Henry VIII's dissolution of the monasteries, through the never-before-told story of how one priory was saved and become Durham's mighty cathedralWhat happened to the monks, their orders and the communities they served after Henry VIII's break with Rome in 1536?

Few stories are more captivating than the one told by Natalie Zemon Davis in The Return of Martin Guerre.

Amartya Sen's Inequality Re-Examined is a seminal text setting out a theory to evaluate social arrangements and inequality.