National Geographic History Book: An Interactive Journey by Marcus Cowper (National Geographic Society, 184 pp., $40) has been fittingly described as a "scrapbook of the human family." Using text, photos, and reproductions of important primary text documents, this interactive history book takes readers from the first humans to space stations and on through to the planet's current global warming and economic woes. Among the reproduced documents – most of which are designed to be pulled out and examined – are copies of the issue of Variety that proclaimed the 1929 stock market crash and a memo sent in March 1989 from Tim Berners-Lee in which he discusses his idea for creating the World Wide Web.
