Each page is well laid out and good use is made of colour to make the text less intimidating. There is a goodly spread of different photographs and sources are usually short and accessible. The questions are perhaps the weakest part of the text, tending to be largely factual recall or simple source analysis, but teachers could easily compensate for this with questions more appropriate to their own classes. The text fully reflects up-to-date research and historiography and each sub-topic would make an ideal basis for a lesson. If you are searching for a text for the new Modern World specification then I suggest this is worth a close look.