The Cambridge Companion to Hegel

Hegel is a complex thinker, very relevant to modern political and sociological ideas. This is a valuable but quite demanding critical and evaluative account of his ideas, by various contributors, all of high quality. The study really does require an accompanying Hegel reader to enable you to locate the arguments properly in Hegel's own work. It's also better if you have read a good introductory text first, though the Wikipedia account is probably a good enough start. It's particularly well written, marked by clarity and good organisation of the ideas.