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Summary: An Incredable Achivement
Review: This book is a masterpiece of reference books. Asimov has compiled a giantic timeline of human civilization. Each time period has been subdivied into individual countries, empires, and regions(when there wasn't a country to speak of). Within each country section, he gives the most important information first, ending with scientific and artistic achievements. The book ends in 1945 with him siting the segnificance of that year and the fact that he would never be able to catch up with current history. The one weakness is that the majority of history given is Western, but that is understandable considering the lack of written reccord in the Pacific and Sub-Saharan Afican regions.
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Summary: The Bests
Review: This extraordinary book gave me a perspective of all important events in humankind histtory. I was looking for many years for such a book and when I finally found it I was extremely pleased, and I still am
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Summary: Great introductory book on the chronology of history
Review: This is a fantastic book. It is a clear roadmap of history for those of us that are puzzled by history, confused by the chronology of events, and mystified by the complexity of what happened in the world and how it happened.
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Summary: One of Asimov's best non-fiction works
Review: This is probably Isaac Asimov's best non-fiction history book. It tells the story of history from a simple prespective of what happened when. Lots of modern historians have gotten away from that simple approach. It helps that Asimov is not a historian in the traditional academic way. He was just a person who knew a lot about many things, one of them being history.Coupled with his work about Science and Discovery, it makes for a good reference work that is also a good read.
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Summary: Great book by a great writer and communicator.
Review: This may be one of Asimov's greatest achievements. Long known as a science fiction and fact great, Asimov was an even greater historian. The author of some 470 books wrote my three favorite history books - and each one taught me more in each chapter than did each year of history in public school! You're going to find more in this book that will force you to read it in the bath tub, the bed, and, well, you get the point! Buy this book and learn about the world you live in - Bill Anderson
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Summary: asimov's chronology of war
Review: typical asimov; superior writing and very informative. however; it's more a history of war and conquest through-out history than a chronology of the world (i guess the history of civilization is a history of warfare, unfortunately).
gives insight to how various nations,cultures,ethnicities of today got started in their dislike of each other!
A GOOD READ!!
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Summary: asimov's chronology of war
Review: typical asimov; superior writing and very informative. however; it's more a history of war and conquest through-out history than a chronology of the world (i guess the history of civilization is a history of warfare, unfortunately).
gives insight to how various nations,cultures,ethnicities of today got started in their dislike of each other!
A GOOD READ!!
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