WCIV (with Review Cards with CourseMate, Wadsworth Western Civilization Resource Center 2-Semester Printed Access Card)
...this is a solid, concise, well written and highly readable history."I would be likely to encourage my students to go through the student review cards and the Reasons Why features. I would use the what do you think feature in leading discussion and perhaps to review some material before an exam."[WCIV is] an accessible and clearly written, well organized textbook that does a great job integrating primary source documents and internet resources.... I would feel confident that my students could get the necessary information out of the text and that it would support and reinforce my class lectures."[WCIV] truly meets the needs of college and university students. Very well balanced, strong and accurate content, supplements well integrated into the text, a great focus on critical thinking, and outstanding design, layout, color, and maps."WCIV has several important items that make it a very desirable text; among those are the Learning Objectives, defining key terms, responses given to students about the Learning Objectives--not to mention the concise, methodical approach to delivering the subject matter in a non-chronological model.