Daily Dose of Knowledge: History

Daily Dose of Knowledge

by West Side Publishing

Daily Dose of History provides a simple and entertaining way to learn something new every day. Enjoy 365 one-page articles -- an article per day for a year -- on fascinating historical figures, places, and anecdotes. On any given day, you might meet a remarkable historical figure, get the back story on a notable invention, learn about the origins of a religious practice, or find out what nations were actually fighting about in a legendary war. If your New Year s resolutions include learning more about history, this is the perfect book for you. And if they don t? Well, it's still perfect.

Among the many things you'll

Who finally defeated Attila the Hun, and how they did it
What milkmaids had to do with the invention of the smallpox vaccine
How the people of Pompeii met their horrific end
What made Ivan the Terrible so terrible
Why the Hundred Years War took so long
Who put the D in D-Day

With illustrations complementing the informative articles, Daily Dose of History makes it easy to brush up on your history.

Genres: Nonfiction, History

384 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2008

Reviews

[Paul Lunger · Rating 2 out of 5]

West Side Pub's "Daily Dose of Knowledge: History" is a book that means well as it across over 300+ pages presents differing people, places & things that are important in the history of the world from the Greeks & Romans through the modern day. Each "day" of the book is designed to present a different fact & across an arbitrary calendar the events themselves are presented in enough detail as to make a non-history fan a bit more knowledgeable about world history. The book though has one major problem & that is organization. The events themselves are grouped in such a random order that you have things that are so far apart in relationship to each other placed after the other as to be a distraction from the book itself. The categories themselves are broad enough to even make the same day of the week have the same period in history instead of jumping all around history like someone who aimed darts at a board & threw them. The book itself is honestly one I'd only recommend for anyone who has a very basic knowledge of world events or a either a high school or college student trying to study for class. Beyond that, skip this book at all costs since for this student of history it was more a waste of time than anything else not due to facts but due to the chaos within it that was simply unnecessary.

[Cora Lee · Rating 4 out of 5]

Good assortment of people and events, covering all eras and lots of cultures. Each story consisted of a single-page overview, epitomizing the "mild wide, inch deep" educational philosophy. But occasionally things were over-simplified to the point of inaccuracy, and that annoyed me enough to drop a star. This is, however, a great jumping-off point for 365 different historical points.

[Todd · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book is quick clean and a refreshing review of some of the highlights of history. One digestible dose a day. A must read for any history buff