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Excellent text for (and from) an educator

Revisado: 03-27-23

As a mid-career educator myself, I found Ms. Love's directness and insights valuably clarifying. I've been away from America many years and a sea of change has occurred in my absence. Reading in the papers is not living it day-to-day. Ms. Love's work shares both rich perspective and specific ideas for positive impact that I am grateful for. Looking forward to her next book Punished for Dreaming, which comes out in September.
Also, I appreciated the closing recommendation of When Grit Isn't Enough that was tagged onto the end of the credits so I could continue in the same line of thinking in the interim.
Cheers ~ great work.

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Pronunciations of Chinese names are insultingly bad

Revisado: 03-19-22

This book is just obscene.
The reader is using a posh voice that is clearly mad about the resulting loss of the Opium wars.
His incapable or directly malicious pronunciation of names, both places and people is simply unacceptable.
Frederick Davidson: You have done a disservice to history by providing such an abominable reading.
It’s embarrassing, on behalf of Western Culture, that we are still this incapable of moving on.
I wonder if this guy is still sore about “Burma” as well.
AMAZON: PLEASE REDO THIS BOOK.
NEW READER PLEASE.
The book itself is a powerfully important and valuable one, written by a remarkably notable historian. To hear it in such a format is sad.
I’ll be returning this directly. I simply cannot continue listening to it.

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Very well done

Revisado: 03-05-22

This course was incredibly informative and well put together. I listened to it with another from the same production company about the same time but in another area as additions to a university course on the era. They complimented each other very well. Thanks for it!

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A fine bit, indeed.

Revisado: 03-05-22

I enjoyed this title, along with the course that covers the same time period in Europe as I studied a course around this era’s literature for credits at university this past term. The three textual sources together were a great set to learn from and I feel my awareness of the era has come a long way. This title was great at giving insights to actions and details where the others left off.

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Grand ~

Revisado: 09-11-21

Her voice was a dreamy Brooklyn ~ that part I loved ~ her ever so slight Bensonhurst lean is a great tone to me. Only wish it was longer. Heh. Going in for number two.

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Worth it ~

Revisado: 09-11-21

This book lent a good bit of perspective and vocabulary to me considering the modern dialectic around the discussion of current American society, I’m thankful for that.
Performance note: the author reads this book to the benefit of implied stresses etc. However, his cadence is somewhat distractingly staccato and it took me a while to get used to listening. Glad I stuck through. Very good text.

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Back for seconds.

Revisado: 08-17-19

It's been a while since I've heard this book. But I remember finishing it feeling changed, energised, and planning on returning to it in the future. The future is now.

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Great-ish

Revisado: 02-02-19

Really, glad I listened to this book, and I’ll probably listen to it again... My only meh-factor is that there’s a lot of “your amigdula did this” and “Your prefrontal cortex did that” only, I’m simplifying it for my sake as I retell it. Hey. Really, I’m game. I get it. It’s not all nurture, got some nature involved, but seriously, that was a lot of science to wait through the get the useful bits. . . Lots of those.
Guy really knows what he’s talking about. But this book was a bit heavy on the science. Maybe the second or third time through it’ll be less of a distraction. Honestly, I felt easier around others as soon as I started listening to this book. It’s a good bit. I recommend it.

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From the man, himself

Revisado: 12-24-18

Great perspective. This guy was like Waldo, always there in the picture somewhere. It's valuable to listen to stories like this. I think I'll listen again.

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A modern meditation

Revisado: 12-20-18

Having read the author's first two books as well, it is a natural continuation of the same thought process, clearly. What was interesting about this was it's timeliness and occasional sence of urgency that is woven through. It's a very good expression of well thought out ideas.

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