[CASL-L] Humanities World History book needed

[Cathy Andronik]

How about Connections by James Burke, S&S 1995, reprint 2007, in paperback ($22.15 on Titlewave)?  It focuses on inventions and technological progress, but there is a LOT of history involved, and not just "dead white guys" history.  Burke also wrote The Day the Universe Changed, which is more history-focused, but it doesn't look like it's in print anymore--though Follett is showing it as an ebook.  Both books accompanied PBS series, which I watched faithfully back in the day.  My kind of series--a little history, a little science, a little art/music, a little sociology!  I ran both by one of our non-honors World History teachers earlier this year, but she felt they were a little above her classes' reading level.  Honors should be fine with Burke's writing.

Cathy Andronik
Teacher Librarian
Brien McMahon HS
Norwalk
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On Wed, 4/20/16, Barbara Lyons <lyonsb at wiltonps.org> wrote:

 Subject: [CASL-L] Humanities World History book needed
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 Date: Wednesday, April 20, 2016, 8:47 AM
 
 Good morning all.  A
 challenge: My humanities (9th grade honors) teacher would
 like to assign a book which covers world history (no small
 task!)  He felt that Gombrich's A Little History of the
 World was too easy a read.  He is open to a thematic
 approach - Bryson's a Short History of Nearly Everything
 is more of a science approach.  Any ideas?  They have, in
 the past, read How the Irish Saved Civilization.  I think
 he wants to go more broad- I am finding books with a
 strong Western bias (The Way of the World, Fromkin; The
 Human story, Davis)I love A History of the World
 in 100 objects by Neil MacGragor (director of the British
 Museum) but it is 700+ pages!
 TIA-Barb Lyons
 
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