Instruct: Classify a given Amazon review as either positive or negative.
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The author divides the book in several short sections (e.g. history of major events, history of philosophical ideas, history of wars, etc). As a result, everything is so cramped and fragmented that it's impossible to get the big picture. E.g. the actual 'history of major events' section has aprox. 100 pages - way to little to summarize thousands of years of world history.Obviously, everything is relative, but I would have failed the exam I bough it for had I relied only on this material. History is whole, a mixtum compositum, of religious, military, philosophical etc ideas and events - not a series of separated and fragmented dots.Overall, a disappointing experience - and an unusual one, considering that most books in the "Dummies" series I used beforehand were simply great!