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Title: World History: The Human Experience by Karls Farah ISBN: 0-02-823219-4 Publisher: Glencoe/MacMillan McGraw Hill Pub. Date: March, 1997 Format: Hardcover List Price(USD): $89.32 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.33 (6 reviews)
Rating: 2
Summary: Lesser Quality for the Average Reader
Comment: The Human Experience is an experience on how a text can totally lack depth and new ideas. Firstly, the book is good for a standard World History class with a concentration on Europe. The text is also accompanied by a wonderful array of technology from laserdiscs to CD-ROMs that can be implemented as reinforcement for teaching the basic concepts. It's blatantly obvious that where the text is week, the immense multimedia activities were planned to compensate. More time should have been allocated to perfecting the text, rather than tackling the latest technological advance.
This current edition contains text that has not been significantly altered since the 1992 edition, if not earlier. If you are looking for a text with easy to follow chronological format--move on. This book provides the reader with diluted and out of order history which does nothing except grace a classroom with twenty-five confused faces. For students to easily grasp the events of the past and the time periods between them, chronological order is vital. For example, Farah and Karls have created units that overlap significant periods of time where the "Royal Power and Conflict" chapter covers 1500-1750 and then the next chapter "Empires of Asia" covers 1350-1850. The subjects are completely different, yet they cannot be easily compared as being in the same time period because of the arrangement of the text.
Asides from giving a total Eurocentric view (this book is really a basic Western Civilization text that was made for the standard high school student), what is mentioned about Asia is minor with major points of history being left out. If the history of Africa, Asia, or Latin American is part of your lesson plan, I would recommend an outside source.
Finally, this text lacks the depth that I have encountered with others (i.e. West Educational Publishing's World History: The Human Odyssey). It is truly a sad day when students complain about the heaviness of the book and the teacher responds it's all the pictures. When comparing the past editions, one can see that the book was obviously enlarged to have more pictures and the "extra stuff" mentioned above.
Overall, for the average reader, World History: The Human Experience's reading experience is a bearable one. But, if you're looking for depth or enrichment--go elsewhere. I give the work 2 of 5 because it meets the expectations for a standard reader, yet falls far short of its potential.
Rating: 5
Summary: GREAT BOOK ABOUT HISTORY
Comment: I THOUGHT THIS BOOK WAS A STEP ABOVE THE REST OF THE BOOKS THAT WE'VE READ IN WORLD HISTORY OVER THE YEARS, AND I FIND THIS BOOK THE BEST HISTORY BOOK EVER! I LIKE HOW INTERESTING IT CAN BE. SOMETIMES I READ PARTS OF IT JUST FOR FUN. BRAVO!
Rating: 5
Summary: A Great Book for Learning World History
Comment: I ussually a student from ninth grade. I like this book because it focuses in all cultures of the world and is a very interesting. It taughts you how to be a better human being by talking of the decissions of all the leaders and rulers. I recomend it for all schools, teachers and students.
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Title: Biology: Principles and Explorations by Johnson ISBN: 0030519993 Publisher: Holt Rinehart & Winston Pub. Date: 2001 List Price(USD): $82.10 |
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Title: Geometry for Enjoyment & Challenge ISBN: 0866099654 Publisher: McDougal Littell & Co Pub. Date: June, 1991 List Price(USD): $81.20 |
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Title: Understanding Catholic Christianity by Thomas Zanzig, Barbara Allaire ISBN: 0884893723 Publisher: St Marys Pr Pub. Date: May, 1999 List Price(USD): $16.50 |
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Title: Heath Geometry: An Integrated Approach ISBN: 066945530X Publisher: McDougal Littell & Co Pub. Date: January, 1998 List Price(USD): $75.64 |
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Title: Algebra Structure and Method Book 1 by Brown ISBN: 0395977223 Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Co Pub. Date: 2000 List Price(USD): $76.04 |
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