Gregory E Benoit

Mostly crap

Revisado: 09-02-23

Very disappointed in this. The first couple of chapters were promising. Then, he fell straight into the normal pattern of the Tony Robbins PD crap, where anything bad that happens to you (including breast cancer, apparently) is your fault (due to your karma), that there's no such thing as objective reality, and you can accomplish anything if you'd just change your lousy attitude and build good karma. He then has the nerve to point out that a large majority of the world lives in squalor compared with us. Which, according to his own philosophy, would lead to some rather unflattering conclusions about those societies and their culture if everything is due to individuals' karma. Skip this and find something more compassionate - since that's the actual Buddhist tradition, not this garbage.

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Excellent. Exactly what I was looking for.

Revisado: 08-24-23

I wanted a complete, unbiased, easy-to-read overview of the issues surrounding the Lakota peoples and their fight for the Black Hills, as well as the overall history of the Lakota. This was exactly that. I can really find no fault at all with this book. If someone ever asked me for the "one book to read" on the Lakota and their history and struggles, this would be it.

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Best single book to help understand modern China

Revisado: 07-13-23

I can't say enough good things about this book. It is written in an extremely accessible narrative style such that you feel like you're listening to a novel. It is sweeping in its coverage of key periods of modern Chinese history, hitting all the key events without any extraneous detail. It provides deep insights into Xi Jin Ping and how his regime works. I've read or listened to a couple of dozen books on China in the last 20 years or so, and this is easily in the top three. Excellent resource for understanding modern China.

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Very informative.

Revisado: 07-05-23

First couple of hours felt a bit dense, but after that I was hooked and really enjoyed listening. Very enlightening.

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Fantastic. Exactly what I hoped for.

Revisado: 06-30-23

This is my 7th or 8th of these Great Courses so far, and it's the best yet. The professor uses very plain, clear language to explain the concepts. There is no fluff. He clearly defines all jargon he uses and comes back to the concepts throughout the course. He gives an amazing tour of the various economies of N. Àmerican, Asian and European countries and compares and contrasts each. And he describes the benefits and drawbacks of each in an evenhanded way, backed by evidence. Absolutely terrific.

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Very informative, worth a listen

Revisado: 01-15-23

This course was almost perfect in terms of what i was hoping to get out of it. He gives a sweeping overview of the history of the empire, yet in s concise manner, and he does a nice job of hitting only the salient points. My one gripe about the course is that he gives the East Asian countries (Hong Kong, Malaysia, Singapore, Burma...) extremely short shrift, and i was particularly interested in these since i lived in that region fruit a few years.

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Clearly biased, but informative

Revisado: 11-28-22

The author has a very clear pro-Israel bias, and it shows in the way he frames all of the events throughout the book. So I see this as an excellent summary of the "Israeli side of the story," and therefore a worthwhile listen.

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Another fantastic one

Revisado: 11-13-21

These continue to be extremely helpful. Really perfectly put together. Looking forward to continuing with the rest in the series.

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Really great. exceeded my expectations by a lot.

Revisado: 10-30-21

Great combination of vocabulary and sentence structure without getting too technical to start with. really a great intro for a beginner.

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Pretty good, learned a lot

Revisado: 10-23-21

Would have liked something a bit more in depth into some of the issues and abuses that occurred, but this was a great intro to the issue.

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