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Title: What Every American Should Know About the Rest of the World: Your Guide to Today's Hot Spots, Hot Shots, and Incendiary Issues by Melissa Rossi ISBN: 0-452-28405-8 Publisher: Plume Pub. Date: 29 April, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.82 (17 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Good way to get fast information
Comment: Sometimes it is hard to know what is going on in a trouble spot of the world, what the history is and how it has impacted on real people.
I found this a very interesting and even handed view of the world. It tries not to demonize either side in a conflict and that is where some of the critics have had issue with this author. I didn't feel there was any particular bias. I learned something and I feel every high school student should be studying and discussing this book in class and airing all viewpoints. It at least gets you thinking.
Rating: 3
Summary: helpful to help you scratch the surface
Comment: This book was great to get a "cliff's notes" version of the rest of the world. So many of us (Americans, including myself) have a very limited scope of understanding about the rest of the world. I like how this book was set up--giving the consistent info like population, economics, % of literacy, etc. for each place mentioned, and the background of the current political situation and the US's involvement.
The information is very surface, however. Of the places/countries that I did know some more about, I found that the information given was not adequate to truly explain the current affairs. For example, one of the quotes on the front of the book is about Rwanda, and asks something like "What little box caused the genocide in Rwanda?". The author was referring to the radio, but saying that the radio was the *cause* of the genocide is a dramatic oversimpflication of what happened in Rwanda in the 90s, and gives the wrong impression of Rwandans as so culturally backwards that they would be so impressed by words magically coming out of a box that they'd do whatever it said.
That said, I do think the book was valuable, and gave me a good jumping off point for what to look into more deeply.
Rating: 5
Summary: shd be 'What EVERYONE should know about rest of the world'
Comment: This is an excellent book that I would recommend to every person I know. It's well written, informative, easy to understand, and entertaining too. A must read book for everyone (american as well as non-american) looking to form an informed opinion of the world amidst confusing or seemingly contradictory media reports.
...particularly impressed with the accuracy of the information provided...
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Title: The Greatest Stories Never Told : 100 Tales from History to Astonish, Bewilder, and Stupefy by Rick Beyer ISBN: 0060014016 Publisher: HarperResource Pub. Date: 18 March, 2003 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: Lies My Teacher Told Me : Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong by James W. Loewen ISBN: 0684818868 Publisher: Touchstone Books Pub. Date: 03 September, 1996 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: What Every American Should Know About American History: 200 Events That Shaped the Nation by Alan Axelrod, Charles Phillips ISBN: 1558503099 Publisher: Adams Media Corporation Pub. Date: October, 1993 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
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Title: The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know by James Trefil, Joseph F. Kett, E. D. Hirsch ISBN: 0618226478 Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Co Pub. Date: 03 October, 2002 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: 50 Things You're Not Supposed to Know by Russ Kick ISBN: 0971394288 Publisher: The Disinformation Company Pub. Date: 01 November, 2003 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
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