An understanding of the history of the world—and understanding why this knowledge is important—has become essential for today's students. Benefiting from the unifying viewpoint of a single author, this lively two-volume narrative tells the story of human events on the move—the exciting event history of wars and politics, booms and busts, the rise and fall of empires, and more. It also reaches beyond the events that have shaped world history to trace the broader development of human institutions and ideas as they evolve through time. Coverage of both events and broader trends is presented as part of major global movements, through the lives of the people who lived them, and as succinctly and vividly as possible.

• Streamlined presentation (includes 30 chapters total instead of the 50 found in earlier editions) helps instructors tailor material to their own needs, as the organization better fits the school calendar; helps students comprehend the material with a more sharply focused narrative.
• Documents CD-ROM - Bound with every new copy of the text, a World History Documents CD-ROM contains over 200 primary sources in world history in an easily-navigable PDF file. Linked to a Companion Website, each document is accompanied by essay questions that allows students to read important sources in history via the CD-ROM and print online. Documents are fully printable.
• "Glance Ahead" chapter openers help students focus on the main points to be discussed.
• Many new "Voices from the Past" boxes - Brings long-vanished peoples to life and makes material more vivid for students.
• Time lines, maps, and pictures keep material and methods of understanding that material as graphically as possible for students.
• New Material integrated throughout keeps students up-to-date on developments in the field.
• Smaller trim size for easier reading makes book more convenient for instructors and students.
• Combined or split-volume coverage gives instructors their choice of a combined volume (spanning all of parts I-VI in the contents below) or split volumes I (parts I-III) and II (parts IV-VI).
• “Probing the Past” boxed readings fosters students' critical evaluation of readings from leading global historians.
• Vigorous narrative style reflects the author's experience as a novelist and world traveler engages students in reading with the enthusiastic voice of the author that draws upon many of his personal experiences.

• Streamlined presentation (includes 30 chapters total instead of the 50 found in earlier editions) helps instructors tailor material to their own needs, as the organization better fits the school calendar; helps students comprehend the material with a more sharply focused narrative.
• Documents CD-ROM - Bound with every new copy of the text, a World History Documents CD-ROM contains over 200 primary sources in world history in an easily-navigable PDF file. Linked to a Companion Website, each document is accompanied by essay questions that allows students to read important sources in history via the CD-ROM and print online. Documents are fully printable.
• "Glance Ahead" chapter openers help students focus on the main points to be discussed.
• Many new "Voices from the Past" boxes - Brings long-vanished peoples to life and makes material more vivid for students.
• Time lines, maps, and pictures keep material and methods of understanding that material as graphically as possible for students.
• New Material integrated throughout keeps students up-to-date on developments in the field.
• Smaller trim size for easier reading makes book more convenient for instructors and students.

Introduction: Venture into History.

    1. Before History: Stone Age People.

I. ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONS (3500 - 200 BCE).

II. THE CLASSIC AGE (500 BCE - CE 500).

III. EXPANDING CULTURAL ZONES (500 - 1500 CE).

World History: Volume 1 (to 1500)  [BRIEF]   (Western & World History)

Anthony Esher has taught history at the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia, for most of his sixty-odd years. But he has also lived in many parts of the United States, accumulated several years of living and travel in Europe, and visited every inhabited continent several times. He spends a minimum of three months overseas each year, sampling the wine, exploring the streets and the ruins, and checking to see if the rainforests are still there. Esler's books reflect his enthusiasms. These include a fascination with generational conflict nurtured in the streets of the sixties, a passion for story-telling, and a preference for panoramic "big picture" history—like The Human Venture.

Written from a truly global perspective, this narrative tells the story of human events on the move—the exciting "event history" of wars and politics, booms and busts, the rise and fall of empires, and more. It also reaches beyond the events that have shaped world history to trace the broader development of human institutions and ideas as they evolve through time. Coverage of both events and broader trends is presented as part of major global movements, through the lives of the people who lived them, and as succinctly and vividly as possible.

The author has made a substantial effort to restructure this fifth edition of The Human Venture with emphasis on classroom use, student appeal, and clarifying the broad patterns of human history. New features include:

• Reorganization to a thirty-chapter format.
• New "Glance Ahead" chapter openers to introduce main themes early on.
• Many new "Voices from the Past" boxes to make some of these long-vanished people "come alive."
• New timelines in each section and a number of new maps and photos.

Instructor's Manual with Tests for Human Venture, The: A Global History (all volumes), 5/E
Esler
©2004  |  Pearson  |  Paper; 200 pp  |  Instock
ISBN-10: 0131834827  |  ISBN-13: 9780131834828
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Pearson Passport -- Standalone Access Card -- for World History
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Pearson Passport -- Valuepack Access Card -- for World History / Western Civilization .
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Pearson Passport Link Library Files for World History
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Building Bridges: The Allyn & Bacon Student Guide to Service-Learning
Hamner
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CPS RF Classroom Performance System
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Everything You Need to Know About Your History Course
Mathews-Lamb
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Fall of the Roman Republic, The
Plutarch
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Guide to Your History Course, A: What Every Student Needs to Know
Clark
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History Student Writer's Manual, The
Hellstern, Scott & Garrison
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iClicker Classroom Response System
iClicker & Allyn & Bacon/Longman
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InterWrite PRS RF (Personal Response System)
InterWrite PRS & Allyn & Bacon/Longman
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Longman Digital Media Archive CD-ROM for History
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Longman Western Civilization Study Site (Open Access)
Pearson Longman
©2007   |   Pearson   |   Website   |   Live
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Longman World History Study Site (Open access)
Pearson Longman
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New Penguin Atlas of Medieval History, The
McEvedy
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Rusesabagina
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Scarre
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Smith
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