[.ca] The No-Nonsense Guide to World History (ISBN 1896357520)

Works for me:
This book is worth it's weight in gold, 'nuff said. I use it for My world history course as a secondary aid to the Barron's book. It's easy to read whenever, requires no special skills, and is small and easy to carry, unlike Barron's. What makes this book so great is that it offers facts in an easy to understand form, almost as if you're talking to a classmate who happens to be a lot smarter than you. With so many history books that are way to long and hard to read, it's refreshing to be able to have something to relate too.

Just what I've been looking for!:
I love this book because it fills in the gaps in my knowledge from random high school history courses. I've only read 40 pages, but every page is so jam-packed that I feel like I've read an entire history book already!

A very highly recommended, iconclastic history!:
The No-Nonsense Guide To World History is an iconoclastic survey of the hidden histories, continents, and communities usually overlooked and unmentioned by traditional, Eurocentric, and patriarchal oriented world history textbooks. Chris Brazier reveals the civilizations of Asia, Africa, and Latin America. The history of women (often neglected because most histories are written by men with a focus on wars and politics) is also brought to the reader's attention. Integrating these suppressed and ignored histories with more familiar narratives of imperial dynasties and superpower struggles, we are provided both context and historical outline. A highly recommended, slender paperback (144 pages), The No-Nonsense Guide To World History is a relatively quick read, and is enhanced with a seven page "Marking Time: Chronology" and a one page subject index.

136 Pages of Brilliance:
Possibly the greatest dip-your-toe-into-the-weird-and-wonderful-world-of-human-history guide out there. Easily digestible, sometimes funny, and always on the mark, Brazier's little gem will give readers (young and old) the confidence to wade into deeper waters with greater clarity and deeper understanding. History properly taught is not a series of mindless dates and mindless wars. Rather, it's a cherished uncle (or aunt) sitting you down in your favourite chair and revealing the world of your family and friends, near and far, known and unknown, in all their glory and all their folly. And if you think I'm an historian, I'm not. I'm just extremely excited to finally get a handle, a small though important handle, on world history. Kudos to Chris Brazier.

A brief *and* complete world history book? Yes, this is....:
The authors, regular contributors to the excellent _New Internationalist_ magazine, have created a book that is clear, bereft of waste and unnecessary filler. All major cultures and events are covered, and I don't mean the "Europe only" history taught in most schools: African empires, women's history, and the world that existed white Europe are discussed. This is by no means a complete book; no book of 10,000 words can be that, but it proves to be a great starting point: people will read this book and say "I didn't know that...". It's slim profile and light weight in grams, not content, also make it a great book for travellers and college students. I work and travel among cities and don't have room even for Guizot's book of European history, but this book fits in nicely. To quote from the film "Good Will Hunting", when asked by his psychiatrist what history is worth reading, Hunting says "Whatever blows your hair back." This is such a book.