Cengage Advantage Books: The Earth and Its Peoples, Volume 1

Cengage Advantage Books---the best texts at a better price! Designed with price-conscious students like you in mind, Cengage Advantage Books offer high-quality, up-to-date content and learning tools to help you master your course---at a much lower price.Cengage Advantage Books: The Earth and Its Peoples: A Global History, 5e, offers the same outstanding scholarship and narrative as its full-color, hardcover counterpart, but presents it in a smaller, sleeker format. The Advantage Edition has the same narrative as the larger book and includes select illustrations and maps.The Earth and Its Peoples: A Global History, 5e, presents world history in a balanced, global framework, shifting the focus away from political centers of power. This truly global text for the world history survey course employs fundamental themes of "environment and technology" and "diversity and dominance" to explore patterns of human interaction with their surroundings and with each other. The authors' approach reveals how humanity continues to shape and be shaped by the environment and how dominant structures and traditions are balanced and challenged by alternate beliefs. Special emphasis is given to technological development and how it underlies all human activity.For more information about Wadsworth History Texts, visit cengage.com/history