Customer Reviews

DK History of the World

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DK has mastered the art of presenting facts in a way that mesmerizes both young and old. This book is a resource you will return to time and again. This book goes beyond most school texts by giving a side by side timeline of the entire globe on one page. Not just for kids; this book would be valuable to anyone wanting an easy to read timeline of world history. The illustrations and photographs are perfect compliments to the text. It could easily double as a coffee table book, and would make a great gift for youth and teens.

Absolutely beautiful,comprehensive world history book - should be in EVERY classroom and home! A record of conflict of course, but chock full of the best that people have done on this planet(art,architecture,science, etc.)- inspiring and exciting. If anyone knows of a better illustrated world history book, please write me! Thank you DK - once again an incredible book.

This is a simply marvelous book, good for all ages. (After all, I am a single adult with no children!) DK publishes a lot of "children's" books which I, as a mature, educated adult, find very useful and fascinating. This one, though, is probably the best of the lot.

I absolutely love this book. Every page is packed with fascinating information and color photos of real artifacts. I really like the way he ties it all together, giving an overview of the history of the entire world and which events occurred at the same time period. I bought it so I could teach my kids world history. I do think the reading level would be appropriate for a 3rd grader, but unfortunately the print is so small it makes it intimidating for younger kids.

DK Publishing never ceases to hold my interest with colorful and imagiantive formats, and this book is a perfect example. The full color pictures combined with intesting facts make this a great tool for any student of history. As a future teacher and history major, I highly recommend this book to students of all ages!

This is the perfect synopsis of 10,000 years of the history of man's existence. Superbly organized by regions (Africa, Asia, Europe, the Americas, and Oceania) and interspersed with museum quality pictures, maps, key developments, and divided into 20 chapters representing time periods from pre-historic times to the present.

The quality of the presentation alone makes this format a difficult one to beat. Although it is light on substantive details, it is carefully indexed making collations and cross-references painless. A general introduction sets the stage of the book by summarizing the main political, social, and cultural themes of each period. The text gives equal prominence to each continent and the artwork shows typical scenes from key events of each period. In addition, labels enable the reader to locate the important empires, countries, and cities of the time.

Rounding out a perfect presentation, each chapter is opened with a world map providing a
visual overview of the period. And overlay map so that present cities and countries could be mapped back into the past would have been an unexpected bonus. But all things considered, for those of us who have not studied world history for more than 60 years, this is a fine place to start. Five stars.

I didn't order the most recent version of this book. The older version was more affordable to me. DK does a great job with their books. It's very user friendly and appealing to the reader. I've got children studying ancient history this year and this book is great for that!

Product was just as described. The D.K. History of the World was just what we were looking for. We are very happy with our purchase.

I ORDERED THIS BOOK TO HELP ME AND STUDENTS PUT HISTORY IN CONTEXT. TOO OFTEN, WE ONLY LEARN ABOUT THE AMERICAN PAST....WE ALL NEED A BROADER VIEW. THIS BOOK PRESENTS AN OVERVIEW OF WORLD HISTORY IN A BROAD, BUT CONCISE, EASILY UNDERSTOOD WAY. THE PRIMARY SOURCES AND ILLUSTRATIONS USED HELP BRING IT TO LIFE.

More of a time line with illustrations and brief bits of information than a verbose treatment of history. In fact, many important people (Caesar Augustus, Ronald Reagan, The Medici Family, and more...) are barely mentioned or not mentioned at all, to my disappointment. More is said about Hitler than George Washington.

Nice reference nonetheless.