A History of World Societies: Volume I (Chapters 1-7 v. 1) | 
|  | | | Title: | A History of World Societies: Volume I (Chapters 1-7 v. 1) | | Author: | John P. McKay | | Publisher: | Bedford/St. Martin's | | Type: | Book / Paperback | | Publication Date: | 10 January, 2006 | | ISBN / ISBN-13: | 0618610944 / 9780618610945 | | List Price: | | | Amazon Price: | $93.55 | |
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With unparalleled coverage of social history, A History of World Societies explores the lives of peoples of the world within a political framework. The text is known for its readability, integration of strong scholarship, and new historical interpretations. A range of technology resources, including Houghton Mifflin's Eduspace online learning tool, premium Blackboard and WebCT content, and materials designed for student success, gives A History of World Societies one of the strongest technology programs on the market. Twentieth-century world and African history scholar Roger Beck joins the author team for the Seventh Edition. In addition to completely revising the last four chapters, Dr. Beck contributes his scholarly expertise throughout the text. The entire author team has worked to increase coverage of non-western topics in order to achieve a more balanced, global approach to world history. Several new features, as well as significant structural and content changes, round out this very thorough revision, most importantly, Volumes II and C, along with the complete version of the text, also include a 16-page essay by Roger Beck, titled "The Middle East in Today's World." The essay focuses on a broad examination of the various crises in the Middle East and their global consequences and is illustrated with photos and maps that help students visualize the topics.
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• Horrible Study Guide, Don't Waste Your Money. 17 December, 2008
I had to buy this extremely overpriced book for my world civilizations class. It is a horrible text book, it's impossible to follow for someone who isn't already well versed on world history because it jumps around to a ridiculous extent. One page it will discuss one county in 1780, the next page its talking about another country 200 years later, and the following page its somewhere else, all without any indication to the reader that it is changing topics. The "key words" are in bold, but there is no concrete definition following it, the definition is spread out over many pages, making it extremely difficult to know what is truly important about the topic and what to memorize. Maybe this text book is the perfect thing for a history teacher who wants to buff up their knowledge, but as a student who's background is not world history, opening up this book leads to a mass of frustration, and I can only imagine there are many students who feel the same.
Also, if you're going to put keywords into a book, generally a glossary would also help.
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• Horrible Horrible Book 25 May, 2008
This book is not even worth a penny. Even wikipedia is better than this book. My school uses this book and guess what. It sucks. The author obviously have no clue about what he is talking about. He skips from ancient egypt to Pharoah and not in chronological order. WTF don't waste ur money. go online if u want this freakin book.
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• It's A History Book, What Do You Expect? 09 July, 2008
Upon receiving this text, I was flipping through the pages and impressed with the layout and accessibility of the book. However, reading it has proven to be a nightmare. There are so many factual errors that I'm afraid that the things I may be learning other things incorrectly. Yet this seems to be a common problem in history books. And, like the history books I had throughout high school, this book has some kind of agenda. It seems like every people group that American society tends to view as having "morality" deficiencies, this book works hard to defend. It is a little bizarre to behold at times.
I wish that, just once, I could find a history book that is only a little biased (since nothing can be unbiased - people have views, and no matter how hard they try, they will reflect in their writing), but instead I just get textbook after textbook that will go as far as making incorrect conjectures just to get a certain point across. That isn't right.
So I must give this book a mediocre score because it is the epitome of mediocrity. Just what we love to find in textbooks!
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