This guide provides a clear, concise handbook for the use of the Internet by politics students as well as offering source of guidance for teachers seeking to use the Internet in their courses. It provides practical advice on the best techniques and aids for searching the Internet and how students can best use material gathered from Internet sources in their work and learning on the Internet. The book also encourages students to reflect on the importance of the Internet in politics and provides an essential annotated guide to useful websites.

The Internet is revolutionizing the way we live and interact with the world and is also changing the way we study. When it comes to politics we are faced with an immense volume of information which is often overwhelming, but properly harnessed can be inspiring and enlightening.

This indispensable new text equips the reader with the key skills needed to cut through the mass of material the web offers and use its real power. Today s students and scholars need new coherent strategies to approach their interests and get the best out of information technology, this superb book...

Rehabilitates Arendt's reputation as a serious political theorist by looking afresh at her work. Hannah Arendt's work has been noted for its unorthodox and eclectic style. Steve Buckler now shows that her unusual approach reflects a consistent and distinctive conception of, and way of doing, political theory. Through close readings of her works, Buckler argues that Arendt's work is an important and challenging alternative to the more orthodox methods characteristic of both analytic and post-analytic political theory.