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A History Of World Societies Complete Fifth Edition

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This extraordinarily well written book contains every essential fact with which we all need to be familiar. No other book on the market offers so much information at such a low price. Furthermore, the structure of the book facilitates reading and also makes it more interesting. Needless to say, many history books nowadays present biased accounts of historic facts (after all, it is a well known fact that winners write history books). This book, on the other hand, provides a relatively unbiased and balanced account of world history. I have read a number of history books but none of them is nearly as well written and well structured as this one. In my view, this book should be a part of every student's book collection. Highly recommended.

I used this course for Freshman history and loved it. I moved and lost it again, but glad to of found this book on Amazon. This books provides everything the reviewers wrote in terms of informative, depth of the city-states, the psychology of each civilization, maps, etc. A valuable reference along with The Global Experience to provide more depth into each advancing and fallen civilizations.

Great seller! He initially sent the worng book but IMMEDIATELY and KINDLY corrected the problem. Would certainly buy from him again. Also, the shipping was very speedy!

The textbook we recieved was in great condition and was 1/4 of the price that the college bookstore was asking! Shipping to us was a little slower than expected but we would search Amazon.com again and order earlier next time.

RE: A History of World Societies, Vol. B, by McKay, Hill, and Buckler.The following was taken directly from the pages of this text; chapter 14, page 460, last paragraph, left column:

The average runner could cover about 50 leagues or 175 miles per day  a remarkable feat of physical endurance, especially at high altitude  but the larger the empire became, the greater the distances to be covered.

I had always supposed that genuine scholars wrote textbooks, and that they were intended as works of non-fiction. Instead, this text is more akin to Paul Bunyan; its a sort of South American version of American Folktales.

Upon reflection, I dont know whether the appropriate response is outrage at the ignorance of the authors, or amusement at the gullibility of the (what  apparently sleeping?) editors. Is the ubiquitous filter of political correctness the only scrutiny to which textbooks today are subject?

In my view, this passage calls into question the reliability  indeed, the credibility  of the remaining information. If such fundamentally simple information as this is worthless, to what level of factual scrutiny were the socio/political ideas subject?