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Title: The No-Nonsense Guide to World History (No-Nonsense Guides) by Chris Brazier, William Beinart ISBN: 1-85984-355-7 Publisher: Verso Books Pub. Date: November, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $10.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.17 (6 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Great book, but...
Comment: This book is a fantastic guideline to the history of humans on Earth. However, I was not pleased with how opinionated the author was at times, wasting entire pages on opinionated rants. Again, this book is a fantastic, just a warning to those (like myself) who prefer strong opinions stay in the editorial column if at all possible.
Rating: 1
Summary: *
Comment: The author is obviously a communist, and I got sick of all the leftist sermonizing. Absurd and callous sermonizing. Take these ridiculous thoughts from p. 120: "Mao's dictatorial social engineering had its disastrous effects too - an estimated 20 million died in the famine caused by the Great Leap Forward...But the Chinese Revolution still deserves to be seen as a fantastic achievment." I'm not making this up!! I think any of those 20 million would disagree about Mao having committed a "fantastic achievment." Mr. Brazier might want to look at page 5 of THE BLACK BOOK OF COMMUNISM published by the Harvard University Press, where it says: "China's experience under Mao is unprecedented in terms of the sheer number of people who lost their lives...65 million." Brazier wrote a silly, silly book.
Rating: 5
Summary: Works for me
Comment: This book is worth it's weight in gold, 'nuff said. I use it for My world history course as a secondary aid to the Barron's book. It's easy to read whenever, requires no special skills, and is small and easy to carry, unlike Barron's. What makes this book so great is that it offers facts in an easy to understand form, almost as if you're talking to a classmate who happens to be a lot smarter than you. With so many history books that are way to long and hard to read, it's refreshing to be able to have something to relate too.
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Title: The No-Nonsense Guide to International Development by Maggie Black ISBN: 1859844316 Publisher: Verso Books Pub. Date: December, 2002 List Price(USD): $10.00 |
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Title: The No-Nonsense Guide to Democracy by Richard Swift ISBN: 1859844707 Publisher: Verso Books Pub. Date: May, 2002 List Price(USD): $10.00 |
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Title: The No-Nonsense Guide to Fair Trade (No-Nonsense Guides) by David Ransom, Anita Roddick ISBN: 1859843344 Publisher: Verso Books Pub. Date: May, 2001 List Price(USD): $10.00 |
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Title: The No-Nonsense Guide to Class, Caste & Hierarchies by Jeremy Seabrook ISBN: 1859844650 Publisher: Verso Books Pub. Date: May, 2002 List Price(USD): $10.00 |
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Title: The No-Nonsense Guide to Globalization (No-Nonsense Guides) by Wayne Ellwood, John McMurtry ISBN: 1859843360 Publisher: Verso Books Pub. Date: May, 2001 List Price(USD): $10.00 |
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