Few works of scholarship have so comprehensively recast an existing debate as Chinua Achebe's essay on Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness. Just because the novel had been accepted into the "canon", Achebe says, does not mean we should not question it closely or criticize its author.

A critical analysis of Argyris's Integrating The Individual and the Organization, in which Chris Argyris used strong, well-structured arguments to make his point. His reasoning has strong implications for solving a problem that many organizations experience: disengaged and disloyal employees.

Christopher Hill turned thinking about the English Civil Wars (1642-51) on its head with The World Turned Upside Down.

Before Browning's 1992 book, most Holocaust scholarship focused either on the experience of the victims or on the Nazi political ideology driving the slaughter. Browning investigates something else: the men who carried out acts of extreme violence. Who were they? How could they end up committing such unspeakable acts?

Structural Anthropology (1958) not only transformed the discipline of anthropology, it also energized a movement called structuralism that came to dominate the humanities and social sciences for a generation.

Up to the mid 20th century, generations of anthropologists had imported their own value systems into their work, regardless of where they were studying.

Daniel Goldhagen's study of the Holocaust offers conclusions that run directly counter to those reached by Christopher Browning, whose book Ordinary Men is also the subject of a Macat analysis. As such, the two analyses make possible some interesting critical thinking exercises focused on evaluation of the evidence used by the two historians.

Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman offers access to over six decades of insight and expertise from a Nobel Laureate in an accessible and interesting way. Kahneman's work focuses on the problem of how we think, and warns of the dangers of trusting to intuition - "fast" thinking - rather than engaging in logical, deliberate "slow" thinking.