An Analysis of Frank Dikotter's Mao's Great Famine: The History of China's Most Devestating Catastrophe 1958-62 (Wagner Givens John)(Paperback)

An Analysis of Frank Dikotter's Mao's Great Famine: The History of China's Most Devestating Catastrophe 1958-62 (Wagner Givens John)(Paperback)

The power of Frank Dik tter's ground-breaking work on the disaster that followed China's attempted 'Great Leap Forward' lies not in the detail of his evidence (though that shows that Mao's fumbled attempt at rapid industrialization probably cost 45 million Chinese lives). It stems from the

Mao's Great Famine: The History of China's Most Devastating Catastrophe, 1958-62 (Diktter Frank)(Paperback)

An Analysis of Frederick Jackson Turner's the Significance of the Frontier in American History (Dee Das Joanna)(Paperback)

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. That is a testament to Turner's powers of creative synthesis; in a few short pages, he succeeded in redefining the way in which whole generations of

An Analysis of Immanuel Kant's Critique of Pure Reason (O'Sullivan Michael)(Paperback)

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. Its topic is the nature of human knowledge, and the question of whether or not it is possible to have knowledge of the world at all. Over two

An Analysis of Frantz Fanon's the Wretched of the Earth (Quinn Riley)(Paperback)

Frantz Fanon is one of the most important figures in the history of what is now known as postcolonial studies - the field that examines the meaning and impacts of European colonialism across the world. Born in the French colony of Martinique, Fanon worked as a psychiatrist in Algeria, another

he - A Novel (Connolly John)(Paperback / softback)

An extraordinary recreation of one of the most enduring and beloved partnerships in cinema history: Laurel & Hardy. Winner of the 2017 Ryan Tubridy Show Listener's Choice Award at the Irish Book

The Great Chain of Being: A Study of the History of an Idea (Lovejoy Arthur O.)(Paperback)

From later antiquity down to the close of the eighteenth century, most philosophers and men of science and, indeed, most educated men, accepted without question a traditional view of the plan and structure of the world. In this volume, which embodies the William James lectures for 1933, Arthur O

An Analysis of Michel Foucault's the History of Sexuality: Vol. 1: The Will to Knowledge (Dini Rachele)(Paperback)

Michel Foucault is famous as one of the 20th-century's most innovative and wide-ranging thinkers. The qualities that made him one of the most-read and influential theorists of the modern age find full expression in History of Sexuality, the last project Foucault was able to complete before his

An Analysis of Charles P. Kindleberger's Manias, Panics, and Crashes: A History of Financial Crises (Burton Nicholas)(Paperback)

Perhaps the most peculiar feature of a financial bubble - one that Charles Kindleberger's classic work Manias, Panics and Crashes draws particular attention to - is the inability of those trapped inside it to grasp the seriousness of their predicament. They know in principle that bubbles exist, and

Judge Dredd: The Complete Case Files 06 (Wagner John)(Paperback / softback)

In Mega-City One, the Judges rule with an iron fist, and the most notorious of these is Judge Dredd. Dredd is judge, jury and executioner. This book collect together all of his early cases from the very first