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Stunning overview of migration history over time throughout the world.

Revisado: 07-28-15

This book is so pertinent for making informed decisions about integration and understanding our collective heritage, that I am buying copies for all my family members and close friends. Thomas Sowell has meticulously captured the history of the migrations of cultures around the planet and all the repercussions of their settlements and resettlements. I particularly liked his analysis at the end which, after all the explanations about immigration and it's disruptive and constructive forces, he recommends that the focus for the future be on the development of human capital without permanent relocation. Essentially the history of human migration is the history of human suffering and struggle in an attempt for a better life. It is the story of learning, adapting and accumulating knowledge and wealth basically because staying at home was such an unpleasant alternative. If we learn to see those who are different from us as potential sources of friendship and learning, there will be no need to reject them because they are not like us. If countries focus on making life for their citizens fruitful and on creating a climate where citizens can realize their potential instead of having it continuously thwarted, there will be no need to permanently relocate. I highly recommend this book and will certainly be reading many other books by Thomas Sowell.

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Good blend of action, romance, engineering and magic. Enjoyed this read.

Revisado: 07-05-15

I liked the strong female mechanic character and the supporting male mystic character in this story. It is really about the age old clash between science and religion but with a new take. The narrator is great and portrays the different voices with real you want and feeling. I very much enjoyed this and look forward to the next book in the series.

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Most useful cultural adaptation book yet!

Revisado: 06-20-15

Excellent content about using the 8 cultural channels we all have in the context of independent and interdependent modes of seeing the self. Everything is logical and well organized, great examples and useful contrasts! The quality of the audible however needs some attention. There are background squeaks and noises, different sound ambience from different narrators and stumbles in the narrator's performance. Such an excellent book requires a higher quality production.

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Great story kept me interested throughout!

Revisado: 05-09-15

Can't wait to listen to the next book in the trilogy. Good narration with convincing voices. I particularly liked the psychic gifts different populations had and the intrigue of the underworld characters that are as yet still shrouded in mystery

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Good story but disappointing ending

Revisado: 04-04-15

Dystopia world where everyone is born as a twin but one twin is hated, feared and exiled. Interesting story and idea but ends in the middle without resolution.

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Put this one on the top of your fiction list!

Revisado: 01-11-13

I have almost finished listening to "The Roundhouse" by Louise Erdrick" It is about a Lakota reservation lawyer and his family who experience a violent crime and struggle to deal with it professionally, personally and within the context of First Nations community life and US legal history regarding treaty rights. The audio version is read by by a First Nations actor, Gary Farmer, and is told through the eyes of the 13 year old son. This book is so good I would rate it as high as "The Help" or "The Book of Negros" as far as excellent literature. It is a riveting story, with absolutely hilarious Native humour, loveable, heroic, pitiful and sad characters and the infuriating and debilitating injustice of living as outcasts in your own country and as prisoners in your own land. This is a must read people. Get the book.

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How dare they compare this with "The Help"!

Revisado: 11-10-12

The obvious skill of the writer was wasted on this self-indulgent tale of lives wrecked by addiction and stupidity. After listening to hours of depressing, self-centered drivel (albeit artistically written), the ending suddenly brought everyone together and solved all their problems. The entire plot was based on shallow philosophies of life, and aimless, drifting behaviors bereft of meaning or any understanding of the world in which they were operating. Who was the reviewer who said this was the best story since "The Help"? How can anyone compare a tale of real human struggle to deal with racism, poverty and social class with this simpering, whining book about people commodifying, scewing, drinking and overdosing themselves through life?

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Culture and religion intertwined with skill

Revisado: 11-10-12

This book takes the complex interactions between culture, religion, politics, social class, family and individual ambitions and weaves them into a beautiful story that leaves you wanting more. Unsuspecting characters come together in moments that weave in and out of cultural understanding as they struggle to communicate across difference. Set within the simmering polarizations in the American psyche, this story shows the wreckage of fanaticism within the context of an increasingly powerful cosmopolitan world ethos. Breathtaking.

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Best I've read since The Help!

Revisado: 11-22-10

This book is an amazing combination of touching personal stories, unique and surprising humour, biting social commentary and a very realistic portrayal of refugee experience in England. I could not wait to listen to each episode and I laughed and cried throughout the book, an experience much enhanced by the narrator's gift for accents and characters. Until now I thought that my top audible favorites were Shantaram and The Help. I have now added Little Bee as an unforgettable and deeply human story about an increasingly pressing question: what will you do when a vulnerable and suffering human being shows up on your doorstep? And between cultures that have nothing in common, where can we meet, find ways to laugh and learn to love?

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Best read in years

Revisado: 07-07-09

This most engaging story had me absolutely captivated from beginning to end. The characters are unique, endearing, fallible and hilarious. They quietly address the most difficult issues of race from trapped places but still manage to keep their hearts and sense of humour no matter how impossible the odds. An additionally surprising benefit to this book is the collection of cleaning tips that weave through the stories of Black maids and their relationship with a struggling White woman writer in Southern USA at the time of Martin Luther King Jr. Before this book,I would never have thought housework and child care could be so charming, funny, racked with life threatening tensions and momentous decisions. The way the maids quietly teach fairness, equity and truth to the children in their charge and the very real interpersonal and political dilemmas all the characters face in this book as they strive to make connections across racial prejudice are all the more significant when placed in the context of washing dishes and toilet training...

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