We Put the Story Back into History
Many history textbooks present students with a dry list of names, dates, and facts. The Human Odyssey is different. This three volume set from K12 takes young readers back in time, allowing them to see through the eyes of people long ago.
K12 emphasizes the story in history. As an epic narrative of adventure, struggle, and triumph, The Human Odyssey delivers that story in a generously illustrated format that makes students want to read—and helps them understand where the human race has been, where it is now, and where it might be headed.
Special Features
- Full-color design
- Illustrated time lines
- Glossary and pronunciation guide
- Atlas and maps: 22 pages of maps for ready reference, with dozens more topic-specific maps throughout the text
- "Imagining the Past" (Volume 1): Special sections offering dramatized accounts of historical events
- "Pages from the Past" and "Historical Close-Ups" (Volumes 2 and 3):Selections from primary sources and lively biographical portraits
Volume 1: Prehistory Through the Middle Ages
Explore the development of civilization across a twelve-thousand year span, from the Ice Age to the Middle Ages, from cave paintings to stained glass windows, from crude huts to Gothic cathedrals.
© 2004, 2007; 664 pages
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Volume 2: Our Modern World—1400 to 1914
Journey from the Renaissance to the dawn of the twentieth century. Meet trailblazers, innovators, and upstarts as they launch scientific, artistic, democratic, and industrial revolutions.
© 2005; 736 pages
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Volume 3: From Modern Times to Our Contemporary Era
Beginning in the late 1800s, investigate the story of our contemporary era—to borrow the words of Charles Dickens, “the best of times and the worst of times”—darkened by two world wars, a worldwide economic depression, and terrorism, but brightened by advances in technology and medicine, as well as the insistent spread of human rights and democracy.
© 2007; 432 pages
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All volumes published by K12
All volumes edited by Mary Beth Klee, John Cribb, and John Holdren
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