Addison's life takes an unexpected turn when she meets Mary, challenging her beliefs about friendships and the supernatural. As she navigates a world filled with witches and demons, Addison must confront her preconceived notions and discover the truths hidden beneath her ordinary life. This encounter sparks a journey of self-discovery and transformation, forcing her to reevaluate everything she thought she knew.
Riley Quinn's journey reflects the struggles of women in the 1950s and 1970s, navigating a society that limited their educational and career opportunities. As she strives for independence, she challenges traditional roles that confine women to motherhood and supportive positions. The narrative highlights the societal pressures faced by women, who often measured their worth through the achievements of their husbands and children, while also addressing the exclusion they experienced in various social functions.
Politics was one of the first books to investigate the concept of political philosophy and the starting point of political science studies as we know them. Written in the fourth century B.C.E., it explores how best to create political communities that support, serve, and improve citizens.
Hobson's 1902 book presents a controversial interpretation of Britain's motivations to conquer foreign lands in the nineteenth century. He proposed that ultra-wealthy financiers consciously worked to manipulate political leaders so they could invest money and sell goods in the new outposts of their country's empire.
Kennedy sought to understand the social, economic, and military forces that shape great powers. While earlier scholars of international history had written about 'great men' and their achievements, Kennedy focused on the interdependence of military might and economic growth.
Frantz Fanon's 1961 masterpiece is both a powerful analysis of the psychological effects of colonization and a rallying cry for violent uprising and independence.
Advertisements for soap. The image of a lm star. We accept these common objects as a normal part of our life. But each also carries hidden messages that none of us even suspect - as Barthes demonstrated in his unique analysis of the signs that generate meanings and assumptions we all take for granted.
Though written more than 500 years ago, Niccolo Machiavelli's The Prince is still both widely read and very influential. Readers turn to it for its direct advice on the question of how to attain - and retain - power. Machiavelli's answer, in brief: use any means necessary to make sure the state survives.
The modern world has been marked by social revolutions that have transformed the states where they occurred. Theda Skocpol examines three of these uprisings-the French, Russian, and Chinese revolutions-to consider the forces that make such dramatic upheaval possible.
Sheila Fitzpatrick's Everyday Stalinism rejects the simplistic treatment of the Soviet Union as a totalitarian government that tightly controlled its citizens.