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MindTap History, 1 term (6 months) Instant Access for Adler/Pouwels' World Civilizations: Volume II: Since 1500, 8th Edition

Philip J. Adler, Randall L. Pouwels

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MindTap History, 1 term (6 months) Instant Access for Adler/Pouwels' World Civilizations: Volume II: Since 1500 8th Edition by Philip J. Adler/Randall L. Pouwels
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MindTap History for Adler/Pouwels' World Civilizations, 8th Edition is the digital learning solution that helps instructors engage and transform today's students into critical thinkers. Through paths of dynamic assignments and applications that you can personalize, real-time course analytics, and an accessible reader, MindTap helps you turn cookie-cutter into cutting-edge, apathy into engagement, and memorizers into higher-level thinkers.

As an instructor using MindTap, you have at your fingertips the right content and unique set of tools curated specifically for your course, all in an interface designed to improve workflow and save time when planning lessons and course structure. For example, Chapter Objectives set the goals for each chapter reading; “Navigate the Chapter” Mastery Training provides a fun and challenging way for students to gain perspective on important locations and regions; chapter tests will gauge student readiness for moving on to the subsequent chapter; while a list of Questia readings encourages students to research related subjects that interest them. Likewise, each unit has tailored content including “Reinforce Concepts” Mastery Training to help build student retention of key concepts and events across the set of chapters; and Reflection Activities that explore a core theme of the unit in greater depth. The control to build and personalize your course is all yours, focusing on the most relevant material while also lowering costs for your students. Stay connected and informed in your course through real-time student tracking that provides the opportunity to adjust the course as needed based on analytics of interactivity in the course.

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Meet the Authors

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Philip J. Adler

Philip J. Adler taught college courses in world history to undergraduates for almost thirty years prior to his recent retirement. Dr. Adler earned his Ph.D. at the University of Vienna following military service overseas in the 1950s. His dissertation was on the activity of the South Slav émigrés during World War I, and his academic specialty was the modern history of Eastern Europe and the Austro-Hungarian empire. His research has been supported by Fulbright and the National Endowment for the Humanities grants. Dr. Adler has published widely in the historical journals of the U.S. and German-speaking Europe. He is currently professor emeritus at East Carolina University, where he spent most of his teaching career.

Randall L. Pouwels

Randall L. Pouwels earned his B.A. in history at the University of Wisconsin and his Ph.D. in history at UCLA. His Ph.D. dissertation was on the history of Islam in East Africa. His book, HORN AND CRESCENT: CULTURAL CHANGE AND TRADITIONAL ISLAM ON THE EAST AFRICAN COAST, 800-1900 (Cambridge, 1987), has become a standard work in African history. THE HISTORY OF ISLAM IN AFRICA (Athens, Oxford, and Cape Town, 2000) was jointly edited with Nehemia Levtzion of Hebrew University, Jerusalem. Widely praised in reviews, it was selected by Choice as an Outstanding Academic Title for 2001 and was made a selection of the History Book Club. In addition, he has written numerous articles and reviews on East African history, the history of Islam in Africa, and historical methodologies. Dr. Pouwels's other research interests include the history of the Middle East, the Indian Ocean, and the history and archaeology of Native Americans. Over the years, his work has been supported by grants and fellowships from Fulbright-Hays, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Social Studies Research Council, the National Geographic Society, and the American Philosophical Society. He taught African history for over twenty years at LaTrobe University in Melbourne, Australia, and at UCLA. He has been the Professor of African and Middle Eastern History at the University of Central Arkansas since 1984.

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LEARNING PATH

Navigate the Chapter: Mastery Training offers an engaging and effective way for your students to gain perspective on important chapter regions and events.

Chapter Objectives: Students will want to keep these goals in mind as they read the chapter content.

eBook for World Civilizations, Eighth Edition: The acclaimed MindTap Reader boasts a multimedia rich experience with tagged note-taking, highlighting and bookmarking for easy study guide creation.

Chapter Reviews: Helps students recall important take away points and key terms.

Test Yourself: Students will benefit from testing themselves to see how much they have understood.

Quesia Readings: A whole world of research right at the student’s fingertips.

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  • ISBN-10: 1305960270
  • ISBN-13: 9781305960275
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World Civilizations: Volume II: Since 1500

ISBN: 9781305959989
For an accessible, comprehensive global survey of the world's major civilizations, Adler and Pouwels's WORLD CIVILIZATIONS offers a great balance between detail and brevity. This unique student-oriented text offers 53 short chapters accompanied by strong pedagogy and critical thinking tools, giving instructors the flexibility to assign a wide range of major topics in world history in a variety of different ways, while making learning more manageable for students. The focused treatment of topics throughout history covers every major epoch and follows broad patterns and processes, while illuminating history through specific examples and a particular emphasis on social and cultural topics. This edition is available in MindTap, an online learning experience that guides students through the course by combining the complete textbook with interactive multimedia, new chapter and unit activities, and study tools that assist instructors in keeping students engaged with the material.