Study & Learning Skills: General

Milton Friedman was arguably the single most influential economist of the 20th-century. His influence, particularly on conservative politics in Ame...

Keith Thomas's classic study of all forms of popular belief has been influential for so long now that it is difficult to remember how revolutionary...

Charles Darwin called on a broad and unusually powerful combination of critical thinking skills to create his wide-ranging explanation for biologic...

Richard Dawkins provides excellent examples of his reasoning and interpretation skills in The Selfish Gene. His 1976 book is not a work of original...

Amartya Sen uses his 1999 work Development as Freedom to evaluate the processes and outcomes of economic development. Having come to the conclusion...

Friedrich Hayeks 1944 Road to Serfdom is a classic of conservative economic argument. While undeniably a product of a specific time in global polit...

Imagine if a student spent as much time managing information as celebrities doted on dieting? While eating too much food may be the basis of a mor...

Emile Durkheims 1897 On Suicide is widely recognized as one of the foundational classic texts of sociology. It is also one that shows the degree to...

First published in 1933, experienced teachers describe the transition in a large infant school from formal teaching to project work and illustrate ...

The third edition of Academic Writing for International Students of Business and Economics is written to help international students succeed in wri...

Tony Judt decided to write Postwar in 1989, the year the collapse of the Soviet Union provided European history with a rare example of a clearly-si...

Few historians trace grand themes across many centuries and places, but Ernst Kantorowicz's great work on the symbolic powers of kingship is a fine...

Introduction to Problem-based Learning teaches students how to work with the problem-based learning method, which requires mainly self-directed lea...

Study and Communication Skills for the Biosciences is tailored specifically to the needs of bioscience students, both at university, and beyond. Wr...

For those who lived through the Cold War period, and for many of the historians who study it, it seemed self-evident that the critical incidents th...

Fully revised and expanded, this book presents a unique visual approach to academic writing and composition tailored to the needs of students with ...

Thomas Hobbes is a towering figure in the history of modern thought and political philosophy. He remains best remembered for his 1651 treatise on g...

Michel Foucault is famous as one of the 20th-centurys most innovative thinkers and his work on Discipline and Punish was so original and offered m...

Few works of history make as well-structured a case for the importance of studying continuity, rather than change, than Albert Hourani's A History ...