When it was time to tackle my essay topic, I assumed that I needed to take the most emotionally gut-wrenching story from my life and work my way into a school by breaking the hearts of the admissions committee. If I couldn’t pull that off, I figured that I should write the most intellectual five hundred words that I could get on paper.

It's a formula that appeals to English as a Second Language instructors and students alike: short, high-interest readings explaining facets of the target culture; bold type highlighting key words and phrases, with copious same-page glossary notes defining them in the learner's language; and a handful of quizzes, grammar points, and study tips. Read & Think English offers 111 articles about life in the United States. Its ten chapters deal with food, culture, traditions, travel, history, geography, power and politics, celebrations, business, and notable people.

This unique hands-on lab manual in child development provides great ideas and resources for teaching research courses involving child subjects. It includes projects in psychomotor/perceptual, cognitive, and social development. Projects are preceded by background essays on the history of that topic, related research, theoretical issues, and controversies. Each project has hypotheses to test, detailed procedures to follow, all stimuli, individual and group data sheets, empty tables, suggested statistics, discussion questions, and an updated bibliography.

Review
'A startlingly clear and thought-provoking introduction to current central debates in history and historiography. It is accessible to history students, students in subjects that draw on historical past and to the general reader. Already, a classic text book.' - Robert Eaglestone, Royal Holloway, University of London

'Far and away the best introduction to the state of the question currently available.' - Hayden White, University of California at Santa Cruz