The innovative structure of WORLD combines the accessibility of a regional approach with the rigor of "big history" ideas to present world history in a truly global framework. WORLD’s "Societies, Networks, and Transitions" feature brings a comparative end to each Part in the book and helps students see the connections between places, times, and peoples. WORLD also has a primary source feature, "Witness to the Past", in every chapter that helps students understand and analyze historical events from a first-hand perspective. The text has a strong focus on culture and religion.
Mesopotamia, the land between the Tigris and the Euphrates rivers, was the site of the world's first stable civilizations, including Sumer, Babylonia, and Assyria. As people settled permanently along the Fertile Crescent, they built irrigation systems to bring water to crops and constructed levees as protection against the flooding rivers. For the first time, humans had some control over the natural world around them, providing them with the stability and time needed to develop governments, religion, and legendary heroes such as Gilgamesh.
Added by: Kahena | Karma: 11524.33 | Fiction literature | 17 November 2011
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Burn This Book
Burn This Book features 11 essays written by incredibly prominent writers from all over the world. It starts with the speech Morrison gave at the PEN International Festival dinner, entitled "Peril." She sets the mood of the book, voicing her opinion that writers should never be silenced, instead they should be listened to, for they bring art and awareness to the world. As the book unfolds, essay after essay dictates the same idea, only in many different ways.
How to Grow Great Kids - The Good Parents' Guide to Rearing Sociable, Confident and Healthy Children
All parents want their children to have the best start in life. They want them to be healthy, have lots of friends, make the most of their time at school and ultimately lead happy and fulfilled lives. As parents we can't always protect our children from the challenges of the outside world - but there's a lot we can do to help them enter the big wide world as healthy and confident individuals.
Written by the author of "Ender's Game", "Speaker for the Dead" and "Seventh Son", this futuristic adventure tells about the dangerous trek to the Rocky Mountains made by thousands so as to escape World War III. There are some people who just don't fit in. These are the folk of the fringe.
