Welcome to the StudySpace

This site will launch in November, 2009.  Please visit the demo chapter, Chapter 3: Why are there Wars?.

The structure of this site uses contemporary pedagogical techniques to help you strengthen your study habits. The site is organized into 3 parts: Organize, Learn and Connect.

Organize

This material will help you prepare to tackle the chapter material by getting you to think energetically before you read the chapter.  Then when you do open your book you will engage it more effectively.

1. Chapter Study Plans guide you as you work your way through the online materials.
2. Chapter Outlines give an overview of the issues the chapter will explore.
3. The Chapter Quizzes provide a chance for you to measure your understanding of course content prior to the exam.
   

Learn

These exercises help you master what you've read in the chapter.

1. The World Politics ebook provides a low-cost reading alternative, available online or in downloadable format.
2. Chapter Reviews allow you to quickly review what you have read and help you identify the most important concepts in each chapter.
3. Vocabulary Flashcards test your knowledge of important terms and concepts.
4. Critical Thinking Questions help you solidify your knowledge of core topics from the chapter and build your critical-thinking skills.
5. The Analytical Framework Review boxes help you review the key ideas from the chapter as they relate to interests, interactions, and institutions.
   

Connect

Here you are asked to apply what you learned from the chapter and to make connections between concepts you have mastered.

1. Contemporary Applications provide the opportunity for you to apply what you’ve learned in the chapter to current events in world politics.
2. World Politics Simulations offer hands-on experience in how world politics works through entertaining role-playing games.
3. Ethics Controversies exercises introduce you to key ethics debates in international relations and asks you to analyze opposing viewpoints from leading thinkers in these debates.
4. World Politics News from The New York Times and the BBC keeps you up to date with the latest news and events in world politics.

Links

Norton Website
College Books
Professional Books
Trade Books
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About W. W. Norton

W. W. Norton & Company has been independent since its founding in 1923, when William Warder Norton and Margaret D. Norton first published lectures delivered at the People's Institute, the adult education division of New York City's Cooper Union. The Nortons soon expanded their program beyond the Institute, publishing books by celebrated academics from America and abroad. By mid-century, the two major pillars of Norton's publishing program—trade books and college texts—were firmly established. In the 1950s, the Norton family transferred control of the company to its employees, and today—with a staff of 400 and a comparable number of trade, college, and professional titles published each year—W. W. Norton & Company stands as the largest and oldest publishing house owned wholly by its employees.