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  • An Analysis of William James's The Principles of Psychology

    by The Macat Team ...
    Series series The Macat Library
    The impact of William James’s 1890 The Principles of Psychology is such that he is commonly known as the father of his subject. Though psychology itself is a very different discipline in the 21st-century, James’s influence continues to be felt – both within the field and beyond. At base, Principles was designed to be a textbook for what was then an emerging field: a summary and explanation of what ... Read more

    $8.95 USD

  • An Analysis of C.K. Prahalad and Gary Hamel's The Core Competence of the Corporation

    by The Macat Team ...
    Series series The Macat Library
    C.K. Prahalad and Gary Hamel’s 1990 The Core Competence of the Corporation helped redefine traditional ideas of management strategy. It did so by focusing companies on one of the key critical thinking skills: evaluation. In critical thinking, evaluation is all about judging the strengths and weaknesses of arguments – assessing their reasoning and the relevance or adequateness of the evidence they ... Read more

    $8.95 USD

  • An Analysis of Marcel Mauss's The Gift

    The Form and Reason for Exchange in Archaic Societies

    by The Macat Team ...
    Series series The Macat Library
    Marcel Mauss’s 1925 essay The Gift is an enduring classic of sociological and anthropological analysis by a thinker who is one of the founding fathers of modern anthropology.The Gift exploits Mauss’s high-level analytical and interpretative skills to produce a brilliant investigation of the forms, meanings, and structures of gift-giving across a range of societies. Mauss, along with many others, ... Read more

    $8.95 USD

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    The Macat Analysis of Marcel Mauss's The Gift

    by The Macat Team ...
    Narrated by John Chancer ...

    Unabridged

    2 hours 11 min

    In The Gift (1925), Marcel Mauss elevates a simple gift from the status of innocent object to something that has the capacity to motivate people and define social relationships. The Gift analyzes cultures across the world and across time, examining the ways gifts are given and received to understand the rules and traditions of many different societies. Gifts can be tangible, like jewelry, or ... Read more

    $11.37 USD

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    The Macat Analysis of William James's Principles of Psychology

    by The Macat Team ...
    Narrated by John Chancer ...

    Unabridged

    1 hour 35 min

    William worked on The Principles of Psychology throughout the 1880s, while teaching psychology and philosophy at Harvard University. He drew together various styles of science to create a unified whole and establish psychology as a valid discipline that connects many different areas—including philosophy, biology, and medicine—and helps us understand that the physical and mental are intertwined. He ... Read more

    $11.37 USD

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    Foucault on philosophy, power, and the sociology of knowledge: a concise introduction

    by Paul Oliver ...
    Foucault - The Key Ideas is a concise introduction to the life, works and ideas of this ground-breaking modern philosopher. This book will not only guide you through the events of Foucault's life and help you to understand his most complex ideas with ease; it will also demonstrate the practical impact of those ideas on life today. Covering everything from Foucault's views on the philosophy and ... Read more

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  • Beautiful Risk of Education

    by Gert J. J. Biesta ...
    This is a book about what many teachers know but are increasingly being prevented from talking about: that real education always involves a risk. The risk is there because, as W. B. Yeats has put it, education is not about filling a bucket but about lighting a fire. It is there because students are not to be seen as objects to be moulded and disciplined, but as subjects of action and ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • Credibility

    How Leaders Gain and Lose It, Why People Demand It

    by James M. Kouzes, Barry Z. Posner ...
    Series Book 244 - J-B Leadership Challenge: Kouzes/Posner
    The first true revision of the classic book from the bestselling author of The Leadership ChallengeAs the world falls deeper into economic downturns and warfare, the question of credibility (how leaders gain and lose it) is more important than ever. Building on their research from The Leadership Challenge, James Kouzes and Barry Posner explore in Credibility why leadership is above all a ... Read more

    $18.00 USD

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  • Ideology

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Michael Freeden ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Ideology is one of the most controversial terms in the political vocabulary, exciting both revulsion and inspiration. This book examines the reasons for those views, and explains why ideologies deserve respect as a major form of political thinking. It investigates the centrality of ideology both as a political phenomenon and as an organizing framework of political thought and action. It explores ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • On Human Nature

    by Roger Scruton ...
    A brief, radical defense of human uniqueness from acclaimed philosopher Roger ScrutonIn this short book, acclaimed writer and philosopher Roger Scruton presents an original and radical defense of human uniqueness. Confronting the views of evolutionary psychologists, utilitarian moralists, and philosophical materialists such as Richard Dawkins and Daniel Dennett, Scruton argues that human beings ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Cultivating Communities of Practice

    A Guide to Managing Knowledge

    by Etienne Wenger, William Snyder, Richard A. McDermott ...
    Today's economy is fueled by knowledge. Every leader knows this to be true, yet few have systematic methods for converting organizational knowledge into economic value. This book argues that communities of practice--groups of individuals formed around common interests and expertise--provide the ideal vehicle for driving knowledge-management strategies and building lasting competitive advantage. ... Read more

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  • Moral Relativism

    by Professor Steven Lukes ...
    Series series BIG IDEAS//small books
    Moral relativism attracts and repels. What is defensible in it and what is to be rejected? Do we as human beings have no shared standards by which we can understand one another? Can we abstain from judging one another's practices? Do we truly have divergent views about what constitutes good and evil, virtue and vice, harm and welfare, dignity and humiliation, or is there some underlying ... Read more

    $12.99 USD