Critical Thinking & Study Skills

Blended and online learning is widespread, with students from both campus based and distance universities and colleges facing the prospect of online study either for part or a whole of their course of study. This book provides a practical introduction for students who are contemplating or undertakin..

Published in 1651, Leviathan examines where kings get their authority to rule and what they must, in turn, do for their people. Hobbes argues that kings do not have a divine right to hold power; they must earn it by keeping a “social contract” with those they rule over and protect...

In this book, the author’s familiarity with the historical literature on banking and credit allows him to present a coherent theoretical structure that links private exchange between individuals, business and banks to condition the markets affecting money and credit...

Dikötter’s 2010 masterpiece catalogues the tragedy and the cover-up of the hideous famine caused by the Great Leap Forward—Mao Zedong’s disastrous attempt to jumpstart industrialization in China in the late 1950s...

One of the most widely read books in the social sciences, Purity and Danger established Mary Douglas as one of the twentieth century's leading social scientists. She delves in great detail into existing arguments that portray traditional societies as “evolving” from “savage” beliefs and explains why..

This is a unique and timely assessment of the work of American critical realist Maurice Mandelbaum, and the relation of his thought to contemporary critical realism. Particular attention is paid to how his theories relate to those of Roy Bhaskar. This is essential reading for any student with an int..

Combining theory, research, and applications, this popular text guides college students on how to become self-regulated learners. Pedagogical features include Exercises, Follow-Up Activities, Student Reflections, Chapter-end Reviews, Key Points, and a Glossary...

Ernest Gellner — a Jew who escaped from Czechoslovakia in 1939 after Hitler invaded — knew first-hand the catastrophic effects of excessive nationalism, and he was determined to understand the phenomenon that had shaped so much of 20th century history...

Before the publication of Nature’s Metropolis in 1991, historians generally treated urban and rural areas as distinct from one another, each following separate lines of development and maturity...

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 suc..

Tony Judt was born in London in 1948, but spent most of his career in America. He studied history at Cambridge and then earned his doctorate in France. His first major writings were about France’s historical left-wing movements, particularly the French Socialist Party...

Provides early career researchers with emotional and collegial support that is often not available in academe. This title intends to dispel nepotistic notions of superiority that places Professors and such on a pedestal. It clarifies the difficulty in having written the PhD thesis genre and rewritin..