Reviews for Career information, career counseling, and career development

The average rating for Career information, career counseling, and career development based on 2 reviews is 4 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2019-12-26 00:00:00 Lindell Mcelfresh I picked this up because it's our textbook this semester. This is the second sentence, "His book was not an attempt to turn the clock back to pre-Columbian times when it was widely believed that sailing ships that ventured too far out to sea would fall off the end of the flat earth to their destruction." This is absolute nonsense. We have works from 600BC where scholars deduced the world was round (Ancient Greece, Egypt) and in 240 BC Eratosthenes calculated the Earth's circumference - getting it almost right. The earth's shape was so well accepted that it was a common practice in ancient societies as well as medieval societies to stigmatise primitive people as "people who think the earth is flat". History is also very vocal about Columbus' voyage being the practical proof of philosophical scholarship. When you're sitting in a coffee shop and someone says something like this, it's no biggy but Brown is writing a textbook and should therefore stick to proper academic standards. At the very least all facts should be checked and cited by the author. The very lightest of searches or peer review would have exposed this error and clearly neither Brown nor Pearson bothered to have the book properly vetted. The fact that Brown is professor emeritus at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill makes this worse. I don't trust this book so I'll be looking at other sources for my information.

Review # 2 was written on 2015-11-28 00:00:00 Alexander Drutsa The topic and overall content of the textbook was interesting. I would prefer a more "to-the-point" approach for a textbook though.