Critical Thinking & Study Skills

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 ..

How does a state control its citizens? Michel Foucault’s Discipline and Punish answers this question by investigating the prison system. Foucault argues that prison created and merged into a wider system of surveillance that extends throughout society. Today power is no longer exerted directly, thro..

One of the major intangible benefits associated with the postgraduate research experience is precisely that: the experience. For many doctoral students that experience is shaped by their relationship with and support from their supervisor. Against a challenging background of growing numbers of stude..

This book examines the powerful anti-eurocentric tendencies of critical realism and marxian critiques of civil society, and evaluates their potential as solutions to this eurocentrist dilemma. Could a more self-consciously anti-eurocentric approach from these fields help us to focus without this his..

Colin Feltham brings a much needed perspective on our perpetual striving towards perfectibility. Time to accept our non-omniscience and to rethink what it means to fail...

In His book Gender and the Politics of History (1998), Scott draws attention to the fact that despite gender equality’s long-term recognition there has been no genuinely revolutionary change unlike economic, social, and class inequalities...

Packed full of tips, quizzes, and self-assessment exercises, this guide offers invaluable and practical advice to 15-18 year old students trying to attain the top grades so they can move on to the university course of their choice...

Filled with tips, quizzes, and self-assessment exercises, this guide offers practical advice to 15-18 year old students trying to attain the top grades so they can move on to the university course of their choice...

Geoffrey Parker spent 15 years writing this ambitious history of the tumultuous 17th century, a period in the grip of what historians term the General Crisis (2013)...

First Published in 2014. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company...

First Published in 2014. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company...

If you've ever wanted a quick and easy guide to verbs and adverbs, commas and apostrophes, clauses and prepositions, then this is a must-have book for you...