World History Original and Secondary Source Readings From the Stone Age to 1500 Book

The subject matter is fascinating and deserves more attention than it receives. However, the book makes some detours from well cited factual stories and starts promoting conspiracy theories (especially in the section where the author tells an entirely fictional story about how aids was created in a lab). This really undermines the credibility of the book as a whole despite some good work in other sections, so I can't conscionably recommend or promote the book.