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Anthropology

Eric O. AYISI An Introduction to the Study of African Culture, 1972, 1979.
Ruth BENEDICT Patterns of Culture, 1935.
Pat CAPLAN (ed.) The Cultural Construction of Sexuality, 1987.
Chr. ENZENSBERGER Grösserer Versuch über den Schmutz, 1968.
J.E. GOLDTHORPE The Sociology of Post-Colonial Societies, 1996.
Eghosa H. OSAGHAE "Ethnicity in Africa or African Ethnicity", 1994.

Development

Robert H. BATES "The Economic Bases of Democratization", 1999.
Jagdish BHAGWATI In Defence of Globalization, 2004.
Paul COLLIER The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries Are Failing and What Can Be Done About It, 2008.
Peter P. EKEH "Colonialism and the Two Publics in Africa", 1975.
Goran HYDEN "Governance and the Reconstitution of Political Order", 1999.
Philip McMICHAEL Development and Social Change: a Global Perspective, 1996.
David NIEMEIJER "The Dynamics of African Agricultural History", 1996.
P.W. PRESTON Development Theory: an Introduction, 1996.
Boaventura de Sousa SANTOS "On Oppositional Postmodernism", 1999.
Amartya SEN Development as Freedom, 1999.
Vincent TUCKER "The Myth of Development: A Critique of a Euro-centric Discourse", 1999.
Martin WOLF Why Globalization Works, 2004.

Economics,
History

Jared DIAMOND Guns, Germs and Steel, 1997.
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Survive, 2005.
Daniel HAUSMAN,
Michael McPHERSON
Economic Analysis and Moral Philosophy, 1996.
Eric HOBSBAWM The Age of Capital, 1848–1875, 1962.
Age of Extremes: The Short Twentieth Century, 1914–1991, 1994.
David M. KREPS Game Theory and Economic Modelling, 1990.
Paul KRUGMAN Peddling Prosperity, 1994.
Steven D. LEVITT,
Stephen J. DUBNER
Freakonomics, 2005.
Martin MEREDITH The State of Africa: a History of Fifty Years of Independence, 2006.
Steven PINKER The Better Angels of Our Nature, 2011.
Mark SAGOFF "At the Shrine of Our Lady of Fatima, or Why Political Questions Are Not All Economic", 1981.
Peter WATSON The German Genius, 2010.

Language

Guy DEUTSCHER Through the Language Glass: Why the World Looks Different in Other Languages, 2010.
Steven PINKER The Language Instinct, 1994.
Words and Rules, 1999.

Philosophy,
Criticism

Harold BLOOM The Western Canon, 1994.
Thomas CATHCART The Trolley Problem, or Would You Throw the Fat Guy Off the Bridge? – A Philosophical Conundrum, 2013.
Richard DAWKINS The God Delusion, 2006.
Terry EAGLETON The Illusions of Postmodernism, 1996.
David EDMONDS Would You Kill the Fat Man? – The Trolley Problem and What Your Answer Tells Us about Right and Wrong, 2014.
Anthony KENNY A New History of Western Philosophy, 2006 – 2008.
Robert NOZICK The Examined Life, 1989.
Steven PINKER The Blank Slate, 2002.
Alexander ROSENBERG Philosophy of Social Science, 1988.
Jean-Paul SARTRE Existentialism and Humanism, 1946.
David Lloyd THOMAS "Is Nationalism Irrational?", 1997.

Psychology, Psychoanalysis

Bruce HOOD The Self Illusion: Why There is No 'You' inside Your Head, 2012.
James HOPKINS "The Interpretation of Dreams", 1992.
Daniel KAHNEMANN Thinking, Fast and Slow, 2012.
Peter D. KRAMER Listening to Prozac, 1993.
Inga-Britt KRAUSE Therapy across Culture, 1998.
Elisabeth KÜBLER-ROSS  On Death and Dying, 1969.
Leonard MLODINOW Subliminal: The Revolution of the New Unconscious and What it Teaches Us about Ourselves, 1992.
Jerome NEU "Freud and Perversion", 1992.
Steven PINKER How the Mind Works, 1997.
Roy SCHAFER "Action: Its Place in Psychoanalytic Interpretation and Theory", 1973.
Sherry TURKLE Life on the Screen, 1995.
Richard WOLLHEIM "Freud and the Understanding of Art", 1992.

Science

James GLEICK Chaos. Making a New Science, 1988.
Stephen W. HAWKING "Time: Real or Imaginary", 1989.
Russell STANNARD The Time and Space of Uncle AlbertBlack Holes and Uncle AlbertUncle Albert and the Quantum Quest, 1989–1994.

Sociology

Eric BERNE, M.D. Games People Play, 1964.
Erving GOFFMAN The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life, 1959.
Asylums. Essays on the Social Situation of Mental Patients and Other Inmates, 1961.
Stigma. Notes on the Management of Spoilt Identity, 1963.
Relations in Public. Microstudies of the Public Order, 1971.
Frame Analysis. An Essay on the Organisation of Experience, 1974.
Forms of Talk, 1981.
Vance PACKARD The Hidden Persuaders, 1957.
Max WEBER "Freiheit und Zwang in der Rechtsgemeinschaft", 1922.

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