Psychological Theory & Schools of Thought

Caring for our family members, friends, and others is a central part of a rewarding life. For those in healing and helping professions such as medi...

David Humes Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion is a philosophical classic that displays a powerful mastery of the critical thinking skills of re...

Franz Boass 1940 Race, Language and Culture is a monumentally important text in the history of its discipline, collecting the articles and essays t...

St. Augustines Confessions is one of the most important works in the history of literature and Christian thought. Written around 397, when Augustin...

Aristotle remains one of the most celebrated thinkers of all time in large part thanks to his incisive critical thinking skills. In Politics, which...

How was it possible for opponents of slavery to be so vocal in opposing the practice, when they were so accepting of the economic exploitation of w...

Frantz Fanons explosive Black Skin, White Masks is a merciless exposé of the psychological damage done by colonial rule across the world. Using Fan...

The 85 essays that maker up The Federalist Papers clearly demonstrate the vital importance of the art of persuasion. Written between 1787 and 1788 ...

In Civil Disobedience, Henry David Thoreau looks at old issues in new ways, asking: is there ever a time when individuals should actively oppose th...

Alexis de Tocquevilles 1838 Democracy in America is a classic of political theory and of the problem-solving skills central to putting forward pol...

Few people can claim to have had minds as fertile and creative as the French philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau. One of the most influential politic...

The eighteenth-century philosopher Immanuel Kant is as daunting as he is influential: widely considered to be not only one of the most challenging ...

The Rule of St Benedict, written around 1500 years ago by the Italian monk St Benedict of Nursia, is a slim handbook for monastic life a subject m...

Adam Smiths 1776 Inquiry into The Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations more often known simply as The Wealth of Nations is one of the most ...

Few stories are more captivating than the one told by Natalie Zemon Davis in The Return of Martin Guerre. Basing her research on records of a bizar...

The Anti-Politics Machine (1990) examines how international development projects are conceived, researched, and put into practice. It also looks at...

For those who lived through the Cold War period, and for many of the historians who study it, it seemed self-evident that the critical incidents th...

Although attachment theory was originally rooted in psychoanalysis, the two areas have since developed quite independently. This incisive book expl...