John Berger "Ways of Seeing": A Macat Analysis

What is the past – and what can we really know about it? This is the big question Febvre explores in this 1942 text. Relying on his groundbreaking technique championing ‘problem-based history,’ Febvre focuses on sixteenth-century...

Tabbaa's The Transformation of Islamic Art offers an innovative approach to understanding the profound changes undergone by Islamic art and architecture during the often neglected Medieval Islamic period.Tabbaa argues that devices such as calligraph...

One of the most widely read books in the social sciences, Purity and Danger established Mary Douglas as one of the twentieth century's leading social scientists. Her career spanned fieldwork in the Congo to wartime service in the British government ...

In Situated Learning, Lave and Wenger rejected the traditional understanding of learning, or cognition, as something that happens inside an individual brain.They argued, instead, that learning is ‘situated’ because it is largely a produc...

First published in 1978, Batatu’s extraordinarily detailed text is considered the definitive social history of twentieth century Iraq. The work is actually three volumes in one.The first discusses the evolution of the social groups existing in...

Vision and Difference, published in 1988, is one of the most significant works in feminist visual culture arguing that feminist art history of is a political as well as academic endeavour.Pollock expresses how images are key to the construction of s...

With 1962’s Centuries of Childhood, Philippe Aries didn’t just produce the first comprehensive history of childhood he also called attention to the consideration ordinary people. Aries argues that the concept of childhood did not even ex...

Culture’s Consequences was the first study took and in depth look at cultural differences using data. Taking advantage of the global span of his employer, IBM, Hofstede gathered survey data in 20 languages and across 70 countries to produce a ...

In his highly influential best seller, first published in 1973, Burton Malkiel demolishes the idea that investment ‘experts’ can predict stock price changes and ‘beat the market.’ Since all information that could affect the v...