Michael Burger – författare

History students read a lot. They read primary sources. They read specialized articles and monographs. They sometimes read popular histories. And they read textbooks. Yet students are beginners, and as beginners they need to learn the differences among various kinds of readings – their natures, their challenges, and the unique expectations one needs to bring to each of them.

Reading History is a practical guide to help students read better. Uniquely designed with the author’s engaging explanations in the margins, the book describes primary sources across various genres, including documents of practice, treatises, and literary works, as well as secondary sources such as textbooks, articles, and monographs. An appendix contains tips and questions for reading primary or secondary sources.

Full of practical advice and hands-on training that allows students to be successful, Reading History will cultivate a wider appreciation for the discipline of history.

History students read a lot. They read primary sources. They read specialized articles and monographs. They sometimes read popular histories. And they read textbooks. Yet students are beginners, and as beginners they need to learn the differences among various kinds of readings – their natures, their challenges, and the unique expectations one needs to bring to each of them.

Reading History is a practical guide to help students read better. Uniquely designed with the author’s engaging explanations in the margins, the book describes primary sources across various genres, including documents of practice, treatises, and literary works, as well as secondary sources such as textbooks, articles, and monographs. An appendix contains tips and questions for reading primary or secondary sources.

Full of practical advice and hands-on training that allows students to be successful, Reading History will cultivate a wider appreciation for the discipline of history.

Sources for the History of Western Civilization is a primary source reader designed specifically to allow undergraduate students to interact with historical documents. Michael Burger provides only the editorial guidance that students truly require, without unnecessary interventions.

The third edition gives special stress to certain genres, including letters and biographical writings, in order to facilitate comparisons across time. Introductions to sources are reticent, encouraging students to make their own assessments and giving instructors the freedom to supplement where desired. Like the companion textbook, The Shaping of Western Civilization, this two-volume sourcebook ranges in space and time from the ancient Near East to twentieth-century Canada and twenty-first-century Central Europe. The third edition features substantive revisions and additional coverage of key topics throughout; in Volume One, students and instructors will find new material on the West’s relations with the wider world c. 1100–1600. 

This collaborative effort reflects the most current thinking on Section 115 and how it relates to the Paris Agreement , the U.S. Supreme Court, and U.S. politics. The contributors dive deep into the key implementation issues EPA, the states and industry would need to address.

Federal policymakers in a new presidential administration could use this book as a foundation for developing a national policy regulating greenhouse gas emissions. The book also provides detailed law and policy analyses for environmental lawyers and policy professionals, key to understanding the practice of climate law and policy in the U.S.

Immer öfter entwickeln Menschen in helfenden Berufen ein Burnout-Syndrom. Zu den schwerwiegendsten Symptomen zählt dabei die emotionale Erschöpfung: Freude, Glück, Interesse und Wohlsein spielen keine Rolle mehr, Mitgefühl und Wertschätzung für andere gehen verloren. Diese Leere kann bis zum Suizid führen. Ärzte, Pflegepersonen und Therapeuten sind von dieser Gefahr besonders betroffen, wenn es ihnen nicht gelingt, die Ursachen des Burnouts zu erkennen und zu bewältigen. An sie richtet sich dieses Buch, das auf unkonventionelle und kreative Weise zur Selbstanalyse einlädt: Eine klinische Psychologin, ein Organisationsberater, ein Gruppendynamiker und ein Arzt geben praktische Anregungen, wie das innere Gleichgewicht und damit auch die Freude an Beruf und Privatleben wiederhergestellt werden können. Sie zeigen Wege auf, die aus dieser schwierigen Lebenssituation herausführen.Das Buch ist ein wertvoller Begleiter für alle, die neben ihrem beruflichen Einsatz für andere auch das eigene Wohlergehen nicht aus den Augen verlieren möchten.