Critical Thinking & Study Skills

What is the past and what can we really know about it? Relying on his groundbreaking technique championing ‘problem-based history,’ Febvre explores whether 16th-century French writer François Rabelais was he really one of France’s first atheists. Febvre's thorough research on Rabelais and the times ..

The bizarre story of Martin Guerre–a peasant who disappears from a small village in sixteenth-century France and whose place is taken by an imposter–has captivated historians for centuries..

Turner’s much-anthologized 1893 essay argues that the vast western frontier shaped the modern American character—and the course of US history. Interacting with both the wilderness and Native Americans, settlers on the frontier developed institutions and character traits quite distinct from Europe...

Few people can claim to have had minds as fertile and creative as the French philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau. One of the most influential political theorists of the modern age, he was also a composer, writer of opera, a novelist, and a memoirist...

W.E.B Du Bois’ The Souls of Black Folk is a seminal work in the field of sociology, a classic of American literature – and a solid example of carefully-structured reasoning. _x005F_x000D_  ..

More than a classic work on the history and philosophy of science, Kuhn’s 1962 book is considered by many to be one of the greatest works of the 20th century. Kuhn helped change the way everyone looks at science...

Christopher Hill turned thinking about the English Civil Wars (1642–51) on its head with The World Turned Upside Down...

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In one volume, Understanding Work-Based Learning makes a valuable contribution to current employer engagement and learner demand debates, and provides first hand experiences to guide existing and potential work based learners, employers, educationalists, policy makers, and researchers...

Based on considerable practical experience, this book, originally published in 1980, examines the planning and executing of the collection of feedback from students, on self-instructional learning materials concerned with various subject-matters and presented through various media, both printed and ..

The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction combats traditional art criticism’s treatment of artworks as fixed, unchanging mystical objects. For Walter Benjamin, the consequences of addressing a work of art in this manner have a wider resonance...

War Without Mercy examines Japanese-American relations during World War II and investigates links between popular culture, stereotypes, and extreme violence. Dower argues that the concept of racism—used equally by both sides—underpinned the military conflict and led to a particularly brutal war in t..