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Books : Civilization Past & Present: Volume I to 1774 |
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 909
EAN: 9780673994301
ISBN: 0673994309
Label: Harpercollins College Div
Manufacturer: Harpercollins College Div
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 528
Publication Date: 1996-07
Publisher: Harpercollins College Div
Sales Rank: 2990288
Studio: Harpercollins College Div
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A textbook surveying the cultural history of the world from prehistory to the present day.
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Is a nut who just keeps posting reviews of things promoting his strange paranoia about Israel and its right to do whatever it wants... read his reviews, they all have the same strange paranoia. So don't trust his review here.
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with so many tiny tidbits of interesting information stuck in here and there it was a learning experience just reading the special highlights throughout the book. There were useful lists of important dates and happenings throughout each chapter and even suggested websites relating to each chapter's material for further information. The way the book was written made for easy understanding of the material and better memory of what was read. Although the book follows a text book formula it was fun to read which is rare. A real find!
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I looked for a long time to find a decent world history; one that was neither 10,000 pages nor painfully dry. This is the best I found. It is a very readable book of reasonable length. The authors make good use of sidebars with thought-provoking bits of literature which are scattered throughout the overall history. They also make a good attempt at discussing underlying causes and patterns behind the historical events. I perfer that to a dry recounting of the facts, even if I may not always agree with them on the interpretation. It was surprisingly neutral on religious topics, given the origin of the book.
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