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Preview Pages from Heart of the Community: Libraries We LoveBerkshire titles focus on global issues and include extensive U.K. scholarship. Reference Reviews has favorably reviewed dozens of publications from Berkshire, many of them edited by Berkshire founders David Levinson, a well-known cultural anthropologist formerly at the Human Relations Area Files at Yale University, and Karen Christensen, an environmental author and expert on community and social media. Patterns of Global Terrorism
Berkshire Encyclopedia of World Sport
Berkshire Encyclopedia of World History
Global Perspectives on the United States
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“Berkshire Publishing Group - an enterprise modest in scale relative to the multinational leviathans – deserves the gratitude of us all for this splendid, demystifying reference resource.... A major and intelligent reference resource deserving a salient place in all libraries and government and legislature offices, and on media editors' desks. Invaluable!” H.G.A Hughes, Reference Reviews, UK
“Its scope is very wide ranging, embracing many recent issues and unusual topics, often written in interesting and imaginative ways.... Indeed, the editors have done well to engage such an impressive array of authorities, both to their editorial board and to author most individual entries. Condensing existing knowledge alongside new information on a given topic in a few hundred words is no mean task. It takes skill and discipline. With careful and considered crafting this has been achieved by the authors and/or well managed by the editors.” Richard William Cox, University of Manchester, UK
"A masterful title that weaves together the social, scientific, anthropological, and geographical influences on world history, this set will be the benchmark against which future history encyclopedias are compared.... Though attempting to cover as broad a subject as world history in five volumes seems impossible, the editors and their contributors have pulled the feat off with aplomb. No article runs more than approximately 10 pages, but each captures the essence of the topic being addressed as well as the distinct style of the contributor.... As McNeill states in his preface, the title is 'designed to help both beginners and experts to sample the best contemporary efforts to make sense of the human past by connecting particular and local histories with larger patterns of world history.' The encyclopedia succeeds admirably and belongs on the shelves of all high-school, public, and academic libraries. In short: buy it. Now." Booklist Starred Review and Editors’ Choice
"The idea of having an encyclopedia of Global Perspectives on the United States is so obvious and so necessary that one wonders how come no one did it before. Here it is now and eminently useful to everyone - politicians, journalists, scholars, and ordinary newspaper readers. Let us hope it is read and taken seriously." Immanuel Wallerstein, Yale University, former president of the International Sociological Association, and author of Decline of American Power: The U.S. in a Chaotic World
