AP World History: An Essential Coursebook

What is AP World History: An Essential Coursebook? The Coursebook is more concise than most AP World History textbooks. The Coursebook is more comprehensive than most AP review books. The Coursebook thoroughly covers the topics from the AP World History curriculum, yet its clear concise style helps students to see and understand underlying world history themes without getting lost in a myriad of facts. The Coursebook includes narratives for all five time periods of the course, multiple-choice and free-response questions for each period, and a complete sample examination.

Ethel Wood taught a wide variety of social studies classes at Princeton High School in Princeton, New Jersey for 24 years. There she inaugurated the AP World History course in 2001, and continued to teach it for many years. Her students consistently received top scores, with more than 70% scoring a 5 during the 2006-2007 school year. She is also a prolific writer of social studies educational materials, including AP Comparative Government and Politics: A Study Guide and AP Human Geography: A Study Guide.