3.5
Mankind
ByPublisher Description
In conjunction with History Channel's hit television series by the same name,
is a sweeping history of humans from the birth of the Earth and hunting antelope in Africa's Rift Valley to the present day with the completion of the Genome project and the birth of the seven billionth human. Like a Hollywood action movie,
is a fast-moving, adventurous history of key events from each major historical epoch that directly affect us today such as the invention of iron, the beginning of Buddhism, the crucifixion of Jesus, the fall of Rome, the invention of the printing press, the Industrial Revolution, and the invention of the computer.
With more than 300 color photographs and maps,
is not only a visual overview of the broad story of civilization, but it also includes illustrated pop-out sidebars explaining distinctions between science and history, such as why there is 700 times more iron than bronze buried in the earth, why pepper is the only food we can taste with our skin, and how a wobble in the earth's axis helped bring down the Egyptian Empire. This is the most exciting and entertaining history of mankind ever produced.
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3.5
“This is an interesting overview of the history of mankind, but do it with the physical book. This was very much a wham-bam, thank you, ma’am kind of book. That makes sense though when you are trying to cover all of mankind in a few hundred pages. I’ve never watched the complete series before so I might try that. Even with many topics being briefly introduced, I still learned some things.
I appreciated that this wasn’t western civilization centric. There was history included from Africa, Asia, the Middle East, and South America. Really, my biggest complaints were around editing. There were some major misspellings and grammar issues several times. Also, I read this as a Kindle and I don’t think it adapted well. There would be boxed texts randomly inserted in the paragraphs. It was like it’s actually a coffee table book that got smooshed into a Kindle edition. I’ve read other such books from other publishers and their editions are crisp so I know it’s possible to do it correctly.”
“First history book I have ever read”About Pamela D. Toler
, a member of the World History Association and the American Society of Journalists and Authors, is regularly published in national journals specializing in history and culture, including
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She is a contributor and author of several books including
(Adams). She is particularly interested in the times and places where two cultures meet and change each other.
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