No thick tomes. No cumbersome introductions. No boredom. One topic, one approach, one hour of reading pleasure. Education can be a nightmare for many people. Although they want to speak up and know what’s going on, and wish to find their way, they associate the term "general education" with dry numbers and information that had to be memorized in school, boring textbooks, and tedious teacher lectures. It seems just too difficult to access important topics or understand complicated facts. It can be challenging to bring past events to life, to imagine that behind an idea, a contract, or an important event stood people – people with thoughts, feelings, and energies. "The World in 60 Minutes" offers well-researched and informative texts that are as enjoyable as possible and require no academic prerequisites.