Palgrave Study Skills Series

Now in its fourth edition, this indispensable guide helps students to create their own personal development programme and build the skills and capabilities today's employers want.

Exploring the fundamental concepts of psychology, this book delves into various theories and practices that shape human behavior and mental processes. It covers key topics such as cognitive development, emotional intelligence, and social dynamics, providing insights into how psychological principles apply to everyday life. With a focus on both historical perspectives and contemporary research, it aims to equip readers with a solid foundation in psychological concepts, making it a valuable resource for students and anyone interested in understanding the human mind.

Following-on from The Study Skills Handbook, this book enables students to think about personal, academic and career goals and to plan a path to success. Rich in activities that develop valuable career skills, this edition has a new chapter on Understanding your Personal Performance, and updated information on job applications.

Authoring a Ph.D. Thesis involves having creative ideas, working out how to organize them, writing up from plans, upgrading text, and finishing it speedily and to a good standard. It also involves being examined and getting work published. This book provides a huge range of ideas and suggestions to help Ph.D. candidates cope with both the intellectual issues involved and the practical difficulties of organizing their work effectively.

Making Sense of Statistics provides a thorough, but accessible, introduction to statistics and probability, without the distractions of mathematics. The book does not require you to use any algebraic formulae or equations, but it does explain how and why methods work, and exactly what answers mean. Guidance is provided on how to design investigations, analyze data and interpret results. There are exercises and case studies from a variety of areas of application, and an accompanying website from which interactive spreadsheet models and data files can be downloaded.

Deals with essential essay writing skills such as interpreting questions, brainstorming, note-taking, reading and organization in exams. This book is suitable for those who are required to write essays on their course and who are committed to learn about the craft of essay writing.

Now in its fourth edition, this is a comprehensive yet concise introduction to professional writing for different media, which synthesises methods and ideas developed in journalism, public relations, management and marketing.

Revised and updated throughout, this book introduces higher level study skills and helps students develop a deeper understanding of the learning process itself. The third edition includes new chapters on e-learning and numeracy, and remains easy to read, with plenty of practical and interesting activities to complete

This accessible guide to the key concepts in politics now features over 60 additional international relations entries to take account of the increasing influence of globalization upon politics. Each term is fully and clearly defined and its significance for political understanding and debate is explored.

Studying Modern Drama provides students with a careful, step-by-step approach to tackling the entire field of modern plays from Ibsen to Sarah Kane and Patrick Marber. With discussions of the characteristics of modern drama, conventions and language and structure, the book also introduces a workshop method of exploring texts. The book is ideal as both a self-help or as a course book for theatre and drama students and provides practical help on criticism, essay writing and examinations.