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False and Biased representation of history.......2007-09-14
This book has many false and biased representations of history. It's depiction of Indian history is completely and utterly false. Check the statement that Indian civilization was influnced by Mesopotamia (which started around 6000-4000BCE) than check Indian civilization which started around (8000BCE). How can Mesopotamian civilization influence Indian civilization, if according to the book, Indian cilization started 2000 years before Mesopotamia? Should it not be the other way round? All these thinking came from MaCaulay's bias of a great civilization and Max Muller's obedience to Macaulay. Please write a better book with some true substance. Stop teaching kids false history.
Boring but excellent .......2006-09-09
Boring book had to have it for a western civ class. Very informative about everything you may possibly want to know about civilization.
Book Description
This groundbreaking world history text has, in its first edition, become a market leader by offering a fresh, global perspective on the past. The text is unique in approach; covering the world as a whole, examining the formations and development of the world’s major societies (“traditions”), and also systematically exploring cross-cultural interactions and exchanges that have been some of the most effective agents of change in all of world history (“encounters”). In addition, the authors have taken great care in constructing a coherent vision of the past that is not weighed down by a mass of detail, thus enabling instructors to incorporate additional readings of their choosing. Finally the text emphasizes that historical processes work themselves out through the lives and experiences of individual human beings, opening each chapter with an account of individual experiences that illuminate themes in that chapter. The second edition includes scholarship updates throughout and revisions to organization and content.
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Excellent for AP World History!.......2006-09-11
This book is excellent if you want to pass the AP World History Exam. The book has 40 chapters thoroughly explaining every essential part of world history. The language is simple and easy to follow. The online learning center that goes along with this book has great quizzes, chapter outlines, and activities to sharpen up on the most essential parts of the chapters. With good writing and analysis skills, reading this book from cover to cover (which I actually found enjoying), and having an outstanding teacher (Thank You Mr. Wilson!) you can get a 5 on the exam. You don't even need those booklets that help you get prepared for the exam. I took the 2006 APWH exam and received a 5.
Best Text for APWH.......2006-01-23
As a school administrator at a large public high school in Hawai'i I wanted to introduce AP World History as a course offering for our students. Having been an AP teacher myself, I eagerly read the listserv postings regarding texts. In consultation with the teacher I got to offer the class, we decided on this text as most meeting the needs of our students. A big plus is that Dr. Bentley is very approachable and enthusiastic when contacted for information. I feel so strongly about this course that I convinced my son to take it next year as a sophomore. There are a number of excellent texts for APWH, but you really can't go wrong with Traditions and Encounters.
Fair.......2005-09-13
The book was rated in average condition, and average/poor was more like it. The front pages were all stuck together and there are many chips/gouges in the spine. The worst part is, this book was advertised as having PowerWeb with it. Unfortunately, the front page of the book containing the PowerWeb password was ripped out, and so I cannot use the website for my class. It was a cheaper buy than from the campus bookstore, but not sure if it was worth it.
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Incredible Book On World History.......2007-09-13
I am a high school student, and I use this book in my Gifted AP World History class. Now, normally, I am not exactly a fan of social studies courses, but this world history course, and hence, this book, are quite fascinating. I won't get on the topic of the hours of work assigned from outlining and doing all sorts of tasks for supposed maximum retention and comprehension, which are, unsurprisingly, less than fascinating. Despite these hours, the book itself and the content in it is a very authoritative and accurate view of world history. It hits all of the major points and does a very god job of presenting the material.
good but not mine.......2005-09-30
the book was in great condition but i have returned it because i requested the wrong book.
Book Description
Traditions & Encounters: A Brief Global History, the highly-anticipated concise version of Bentley and Ziegler's best-selling survey text, provides a streamlined account of the cultures and interactions that have shaped world history. With an engaging narrative, strong thematic approach, visual appeal, and solid pedagogy, it offers enhanced flexibility and affordability without sacrificing the features that have made the complete text a favorite among instructors and students alike.
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If you love history.......2007-09-02
If you love history, this is the book for you! Goes over everything in DEEP detail!!! This is a COLLEGE book so it's definitely hard to read and understand but you will definitely enjoy it!
Boycott this book.......2003-12-16
This is an OK book, but unfortunately Bentley's predatory practice of reorganizing the same information or renumbering the chapters every year or so keeps students buying the expensive paperback, selling it back for far less to bookstores which then cannot sell it. The contents of the book are indistinguishable from other editions; you don't need the newest one.
If you need this book for a class, buy a used one and refuse to support Bentley's intellectual laziness.
Awesome book!.......2002-09-07
We order a used version of this book and are amazed by how good of condition it came in and all! It was great and a personal note was included in the box which made it all the better!
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Not bad.......2007-01-09
This is probably the most useful history book I've ever read. It was interesting and easy to comprehend. The other students with whom I spoke agree that as far as history books go, this is one of the best.
My only complaint is that, in my personal opinion, there is a lack of maps. Not exactly a huge deal, but sometimes maps make it easier to picture things in the past.
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In this passionate blend of autobiography and cultural history, love and sex and art collide with hatred, withering French xenophobia, and death. How does Paris, with all its faults, remain not only the world's most visited tourist destination, but also the locus of endless sexual fantasy and the very image of the good life for Americans, and for writer and art historian Eunice Lipton?
In sensual and intellectually thrilling prose, Lipton explores how her Eastern European father lured her to France across his fantasies, and then how she surrendered to the food, the textures and smells, the art, and the astonishingly maternal French state. But she is also forced to confront the anti-Semitism of the Dreyfus Affair that lay beneath the dazzling light of Impressionism; the racial disdain of France's Roaring Twenties; and the unspeakable poverty of peasant life that paid for the luxury of eighteenth-century Versailles. And how can a Jewish woman forgive France for its betrayal of its Jews to the Nazis? Lipton, one of our most respected cultural historians, deftly dissects her love-hate relationship with France, transporting the Francophile in all of us back to that first love, and then way beyond to something startlingly new.
Customer Reviews:
An author's incoherent tale of her love/hate of France .......2007-10-08
Let me admit upfront that I was not aware of Eunice Lipton before reading this. I saw this book at my local library and was intruiged by the title. That turned out to be a mistake.
The book's title "French Seduction: An American's Encounter with France, Her Father and the Holocaust" (233 pages) lead me to believe that this book would be about just what the title implies. And there is some of that, although the "Her Father" aspect is mostly misleading, as there are some, but not nearly enough, insights on the author's relationship with her father (just about as many observations as with her relationship with her mother, actually). Furthermore, there are endless deviations on art, including a whole chapter on Impressionism, for no apparent reason, but observing "But to paint only sunny days, again and again and again, was, well, compulsive. The myth of a sunny Paris is mighty and Impressionism has contributed mightily to it". I did like the dissertation on Albert Camus' book "L'Etranger" (The Ousider): "Is The Outsider a new religious parable that tells of a man who does not sufficiently honor his mother and therefore must be put to death?".
The author does come back often to the anti-Semitism that exists in France, overtly or under the current, and it is clear that she (as a Jew) is grealy troubled by it, but at the same time still wanting to be in France (she splits her time between Paris and NY). But in the end, this book was just all over the place, and I had trouble at times making myself reading through the book. An interesting, yet flawed, book.
ernest attempt at grandeur.......2007-07-12
The hype for the book indicated that it was an insight into the factors leading to French antisemtisim by a Jew in France. It is not. It is rather a a semi pretentious autobiography and a boring one at that. I` say semi pretentious because the emotional feelings the author shares seem to be deeply felt but this effort should have remained a private diary...it is not a teaching vehicle in my opinion.I give it two stars for wanting to please.
An incoherent melange..........2007-06-18
of views on feminism, French anti-semitism, father-worship by the author and mother-worship by the French, art and art history, contemporary problems and solutions on North African race-relations in France, Proust, French kings and Madame Pompadour, "voluptuous" models, resorts in the Catskills, Riga,French food, and almost anything else you might like to throw in the mix. I could not "get" exactly why she was writing this book.
I really don't like panning a book. She's probably a very good writer when she stays "on-topic".
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"The Humanistic Tradition is quite simply the finest book of its type. Fiero manages to integrate the political, cultural, and social history of the world into one coherent and fascinating whole. It is a masterpiece of scholarship . . . balanced, interesting, easy to read, and consummately beautiful. Our professors praise its accuracy and scope and our students unanimously say it is their favorite textbook." — Sonia Sorrell, Pepperdine University
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Silence is a key characteristic of Quaker worship. The author shares his experience of learning to wait in the silence and find God. Perfect for seekers, inquirers and seasoned Friends.
Customer Reviews:
THE SILENCE SPEAKS.......2005-09-01
THE WRITER IS PERSONAL AND NOT AFRAID TO BARE HIS SOUL. HE TRAVELS US THROUGH HIS "FINDING" HIMSELF AND THE QUAKER RELIGION AND GROWING THROUGH HIS DISCOVERIES.
I AM ENJOYING THE BOOK, HAVING A HERITAGE OF QUAKERISM WITHOUT THE UPBRINGING NOR EXPERIENCE.
An excellent read, if not original.......2003-02-20
"Encounter With Silence" is a most impressive, if not original, outline of the Quaker tradition which dates back to the middle seventeenth century.
The book, written by Quaker John Punshon and controversial theologian Matthew Fox (who gives a useful introduction from his experience of Quakers), aims to outline the distinctive practices involved in Quakerism and does so most effectively because Punshon is able to write so well from the experience of his own life. He shows how silence aims to produce recollection in those who encounter it and the existence of historical precendents for the Quakers before the seventeeth century. Punshon understands effectively how the first Friends saw convincement (being reborn as a Quaker).
Punshon then focuses on unprogrammed Quaker worship and the manner in which it occurs through believers coming together in silence to pray. He is very effective in focusing on the enviroment created by the simplicity of worship so evident in Quakerism, and he does a useful job of understanding the way in which Quakerism has evolved into the present.
The next part of the book looks at the Quaker testimony and the way in which Punshon was attracted to Quakerism and the meaning of this "Testimony" which is expressed, Punshon feels, through one's life rather than though the Testimony's words.
The remainder of the book aims to deal with the way in which Quaker ethics can be expressed in everyday life. Punshon shows very well who a Quaker meeting can be used to avoid distractions from everyday life, but he spends a lot of the book explaining how one still has to "know how to feel". The book then turns to the meaning of ministry and the rhythm of the unprogrammed meeting.
Punshon does an effective job at remembering what he has learnt throughout the book, especially with repect to the various pieces of Quaker ministry. He does a very good job about explaining how ministry comes to people, and how harmony comes to a religious community.
The next piece focuses on the way in which Quaker principles are applied outside of worship, with examples relating to decision making and being faithful ("if you are faithful in little you will be faithful in much"), and how Friends do not seek to avoid conflict in their opinions. The last few chapters of the book are focused on how Quaker principles are applied in daily life.
Whilst none of Punshon's these are original, they are still a very good read.
Inspiring.......2000-05-31
An excellent apologetic for the Quaker approach to faith. Although Punshon is not well known, he is an outstanding and eloquent writer -- one of the best writers on religious issues I've encountered since Thomas Merton. He makes a strong case for an approach to faith that is grounded both in contemplation and prophetic action; two areas that are often seen as mutually exclusive.
The book is succinct and to the point and will enhance your understanding of Christianity even if Quakerism is not your interest. Punshon takes a common sense approach to much of much of Christian doctrine and even manages to make sense of the sometimes mystifying (to the nonChristian) belief in the divinity of Christ. Especially recommended to agnostics or struggling Christians although it should be noted that Punshon is equally critical of the liberal and conservative wings of the Quaker movement. END
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