Connections: A World History, Volume 2

by Edward H. Judge, John W. Langdon

NOTE: You are purchasing a¿ standalone ¿product; MyHistoryLab ® ¿does not come packaged with this content. If you would like to purchase both the physical text and MyHistoryLab search for 0134167554 / 9780134167558 ¿ Connections: A World History, Volume 2 plus MyHistoryLab for World History – Access Card Package, 3/e ¿ Package consists of: MyHistoryLab should only be purchased when required by an instructor. ¿ For courses in World History ¿ Connections: A World History introduces students to the far-reaching study of world history in a comprehensible manner that is tailored to meet their diverse needs and interests. This Third Edition strongly emphasizes thematic connections between societies and events, making it easy for new history students to absorb a wide array of details, dates, and events. The title’s concise chapters feature engaging, readable content, and avoid bogging students down with unnecessary detail. The authors have provided many visual aids to improve students’ comprehension of the material, including over 200 maps. The result is a clear and concise rendering of world history that will appeal to students of all disciplines and backgrounds. ¿ Also available with MyHistoryLab MyHistoryLab for the World History course extends learning online, engaging students and improving results. Media resources with assignments bring concepts to life, and offer students opportunities to practice applying what they’ve learned. And the Writing Space helps educators develop and assess concept mastery and critical thinking through writing, quickly and easily. Please note: this version of MyHistoryLab does not include an eText. ¿ Connections: A World History, Third Edition is also available via REVEL ™, an immersive learning experience designed for the way today's students read, think, and learn.

496 pages, Paperback

First published August 11, 2008

Reviews

[Vrixton Phillips]

This is the way history textbooks should be written. Full of verve and passion while still getting the necessary information across.

[Lofesti]

This is a great textbook, fun to read even for someone who doesn't care about history. The main draws are the primary sources describing various battles, which feel like a fantasy novel sometimes.

[Prejudice Neutrino]

Reading this right now for my history class, and honestly not impressed at all. Sure its cool that they have a lot of modern facets implemented like videos, 3D renders, interactive panoramas, but the quizzes are just pathetic.

All of them are one word answers and most are highly vague and ambiguous to the point where the answer is not even possible to discern. Not to mention that with such vague questions nothing is really learned. The quizzes would be suitable for a 3rd grader, but for a college level textbook?

Also with the online textbook, the response is not instantaneous. I find myself waiting 5-15 seconds for a single page to load and I basically have a supercomputer that can run just about any modern software so its not a hardware problem.

Most times I try and use the text it just will not even work. Somehow their software is so bad that it cannot even handle the few students that access their site. Disgusting that I even had to pay for this. For now I will stick with PDFs.

Somehow we are capable of self landing rockets, but digital textbooks are too difficult.

[Reader2007]

World History. Good but dry.

[Kat Kryisk]

Pretty good, as texts go.