Jon Elster 
Explaining Social Behavior [PDF ebook] 
More Nuts and Bolts for the Social Sciences

In this profound exploration of life’s ultimate questions, Pankaj Tiwari delves deep into the mysteries that often evade our understanding. Through introspection and inquiry, the book challenges …

"An Autobiography or The Story of My Experiments with Truth" by Mahatma Gandhi provides a comprehensive account of his personal and political life, focusing on his experiments with truth …

Philosophical Propositions is a fresh, up to date, and reliable introduction to philosophical problems. It takes seriously the need for philosophy to deal with definitive and statable propositions, s …

Whether or not wrongdoers show remorse and how they show remorse are matters that attract great interest both in law and in popular culture. In capital trials in the United States, it can be a …

Topophobia: A Phenomenology of Anxiety is a vivid second-person inquiry into how anxiety plays a formative part in the constitution of subjectivity. While anxiety has assumed a central role in the …

How and why countries become democracies remain intriguing questions. This innovative volume provides a theoretically informed comparative investigation of the links between revolutions, …

Bridging the contending theories of natural law and international relations, this book proposes a ”relational ontology” as the basis for rethinking our approach to international politics. Amanda …

This book offers a unique reconceptualization of cosmopolitanism. It examines several themes that inform politics in a globalized era, including global governance, international law, citizenship, con …

The problem of determinism arises in all the major areas of philosophy. The first part of this book, first published in 1991, is a critical and historical exposition of the problem and the most impor …

Contributing an impressive historical basis for path dependency analysis and the role of social capital in newly established democracies, this book offers a fascinating and ground-breaking analysis …