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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.
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.
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.
Mark SAGOFF "At the Shrine of Our Lady of Fatima, or Why Political Questions Are Not All Economic", 1981.

Philosophy,
Criticism

Harold BLOOM The Western Canon, 1994.
Richard DAWKINS The God Delusion, 2006.
Terry EAGLETON The Illusions of Postmodernism, 1996.
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

James HOPKINS "The Interpretation of Dreams", 1992.
Peter D. KRAMER Listening to Prozac, 1993.
Inga-Britt KRAUSE Therapy Across Culture, 1998.
Elisabeth KÜBLER-ROSS  On Death and Dying, 1969.
Jerome NEU "Freud and Perversion", 1992.
Steven PINKER The Language Instinct, 1994.
How the Mind Works, 1997.
Words and Rules, 1999.
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.

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.

... and the rest

Chr. ENZENSBERGER Grösserer Versuch über den Schmutz, 1968.
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.

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