What's the hardest part of grad school? It's not simply that the workload is heavy and the demands are high. It's that too many students lack efficient methods to let them do their best. Professor Zachary Shore aims to change this. With humorous, lively prose, Professor Shore teaches you to master the five most crucial skills you need to succeed: how to read, write, speak, act, and research at a higher level.

We all make bad decisions. It's part of being human. The resulting mistakes can be valuable, the story goes, because we learn from them. But do we? Historian Zachary Shore says no, not always, and he has a long list of examples to prove his point.

From colonialism to globalization, from gender wars to civil wars, or any circumstance for which our best solutions backfire, Shore demonstrates how rigid thinking can subtly lead us to undermine ourselves. In the process, he identifies seven "cognition traps" to avoid. Read the introduction here: Introduction to Blunder

This is specifically a history of how leaders within governments have tried to think like their enemies. It explores the zig-zag stories when each side in a conflict sought to outmaneuver the other. It is a walk through one of the twentieth-century's most challenging yet crucial quests: reading the enemy mind.

Breeding Bin Ladens asserts that we cannot understand extremism without first understanding how terrorists are bred. That's why this book presents the actual thoughts and feelings of Europe's younger Muslims, most of whom would never commit violence, but some of whom could be tempted to sympathize with terrorist acts.

History is all about solving riddles. As long as questions remain unanswered, or the answers are incomplete, there is a need for more research, especially on the most significant event of the 20th century. This book not only brings us closer to understanding the puzzle of how the Third Reich functioned, but by spotlighting the problem of information flow, it also helps unlock some of the other mysteries that have challenged historians for decades.