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Summary: Typical ivory tower academic bias
Review: Don't look to this book for a balanced even-handed look at history. It has the unfortunately all-too-typical biases now running rampant on cloistered university campuses. There is a not-so-subtle slant throughout the book against all things "Western," essentially placing the blame for all of the world's ills on people of European ancestry....Find another volume that is able to deal with history more objectively.
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Summary: The Best Single-Volume Resource I have ever Found!
Review: I have eagerly anticipated the publication of the sixth edition. The preceding editions, as anyone who has searched for them knows, are difficult to come by. Thanks at last to the publisher and Peter Stearns for editing this classic text! I have used this book consistently in Bible teaching and in bringing historical setting to my Physics classes. I have never found so comprehensive, yet succint, a single-volume text on world history.
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Summary: The Best Single-Volume Resource I have ever Found!
Review: I have eagerly anticipated the publication of the sixth edition. The preceding editions, as anyone who has searched for them knows, are difficult to come by. Thanks at last to the publisher and Peter Stearns for editing this classic text! I have used this book consistently in Bible teaching and in bringing historical setting to my Physics classes. I have never found so comprehensive, yet succint, a single-volume text on world history.
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Summary: The Best Single-Volume History Reference I have Ever Used
Review: I have eagerly awaited the publication of the sixth edition. It's unique style and flow are what have made it a true classic. Any who have searched for the 5th edition, which went out of print in 1997, know how hard it is to find. I have the fourth edition because I gave my 5th edition away to my brother-in-law. So at last, here it is! I highly recommend this book to arm-cahir and professional historians alike. I have used this book in my physics classes in order to furnish historical setting for the scientific revolution. Further, I have used it as a quick reference for numerous discussions and classes. Buy it!
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Summary: The Best Single-Volume History Reference I have Ever Used
Review: I have eagerly awaited the publication of the sixth edition. It's unique style and flow are what have made it a true classic. Any who have searched for the 5th edition, which went out of print in 1997, know how hard it is to find. I have the fourth edition because I gave my 5th edition away to my brother-in-law. So at last, here it is! I highly recommend this book to arm-cahir and professional historians alike. I have used this book in my physics classes in order to furnish historical setting for the scientific revolution. Further, I have used it as a quick reference for numerous discussions and classes. Buy it!
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Summary: Typical ivory tower academic bias
Review: I'm a history buff and I have been using this reference book since 1972. It's the best book of its kind. Whether you want facts, maps, or genealogical tables; it's all there.
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Summary: An Encyclopedia of World History
Review: I'm a history buff and I have been using this reference book since 1972. It's the best book of its kind. Whether you want facts, maps, or genealogical tables; it's all there.
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Summary: A Classic Updated
Review: The 1972 Langer was THE standard reference for history students, as I ws for six years of graduate school. It bailed me out numerous times. It parallels the value of the CRC for chemistry students or the OED for scholars of the English language. This splendid revision and updating belongs in the collection of anyone wanting a handy, convenient reference to all phases of history. It has splendid essays that lay out the basics in many fields, like art, math, science, and culture. It should not be the last word on a topic, which you can get from poking through amazon.com, or visitng your local library. The CD-ROM is a dream, and the maps printed out fine, even though they are just an outline of say, the partition of Africa. As for Lindbergh, the error was perpetuated from the 1972 book, but that should not detract from the overwhelmingly excellent job. Any general reference work that cites my obscure dissertation hero, even thought it is spelled in the English and not the Polish style, is truly remarkable!
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Summary: Lots of paper, nice cover, but not too many facts!
Review: This book is nice if you want to put a somewhat big book on your shelf. Or if you want to put it on a table for the waiting patients. If you're looking forward to know more about the world history, look somewhere else. I know the history of my country -Egypt- and I looked at that part just to know how correct the information in this encyclopedia is and how much of the major events did it cover. Correctness was 50% and Coverage was 10% major 90% minor. The biggest war in Egypt's history was not even mentioned. I am returning this book.
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Summary: How many more errors are there?
Review: This volume is very handsome--beautifully typeset. And the illustrations are nicely done, too. However, the very first person I looked up, Charles A. Lindbergh, revealed an error. At the bottom of the first column on page 729, the year for CAL's flight is given as 1925, not 1927 as it should be. (It is correctly noted on page 428.) Needless to say, finding such a significant error almost immediately after opening the book has made me more than a little untrusting of the book's other dates and facts. Buyer beware.
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