THE HUMAN RECORD is the leading primary source reader for the World History course providing balanced coverage of the global past Each volume contains a blend of visual and textual sources that are often paired or grouped together for comparison as in the Multiple Voices feature A prologue entitled Primary Sources and How to Read Them serves as a tool that helps you approach and get the most from each document Approximately one third of the sources in the Eighth Edition are new and these documents continue to reflect the myriad experiences of the peoples of the world THE HUMAN RECORD is the leading primary source reader for the World History course providing balanced coverage of the global past Each volume contains a blend of visual and textual sources that are often paired or grouped together for comparison as in the Multiple Voices feature A prologue entitled Primary ...Sources and How to Read Them serves as a tool that helps you approach and get the most from each document Approximately one third of the sources in the Eighth Edition are new and these documents continue to reflect the myriad experiences of the peoples of the world