I learn more from the two i read then I have all those year listen to white man
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And I would recommend her  book looking forward to read more of her work can't wait to start the next
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It's a book that I plan to reread. I'm sure that I missed things as I was reading. It reviled things I did not know and brought to mind, things that I had forgotten. I am also interested in learning more about Johan Window and the 4 dimensions of self by Craig Valentine..

It was an interesting read/lesson, I want to read more from Mr. Miller
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I really do love reading something I know about and the reading adds to my knowledge and interest.  Thinking about them and real human beings draws me closer to God
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I loved learning more about the Native American culture.  One Thousand White Women: The Journals of May Dodd  was a good story about how far women have come since the 1870's!!!
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On of the most enlightening informative books I've ever read
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I read this book years ago, then bought the audiobook and listened through it once, and I'm thinking it's time to listen once more. I seem to really love this book.
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Can't get enough of these learning audio books.  Amazing how much I didn't know about so many people and things. I spend a lot of time driving, so it's great listening to these audios. They're read very well too, so it's easy listening.
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I've read these stories several times. And it was worth rereading.
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I have many other reference works, but these two are the ones I use most of the time because they give me the info I want.
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I read the  story  backwards, both were excellent  reads.
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Although it may be tedious in places this is a must read, especially by the privileged white community(of which I am one)
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I like to learn things. I'd like to think I'm getting smarter, not merely older. Listening to Great Courses when I'm driving around in my car, not otherwise overusing my brainpower, has been a wonderful way to achieve that. This book, like all of the other Great Courses lectures I've listened to, definitely made me smarter, and I recommend it without qualification. It put a whole lot of information that I mostly already knew into much better context, and of course taught me much that I did not know, and the theme of comparing and contrasting different civilizations at given periods of human development was an interesting overarching theme.

I have 3 mild criticisms (which are not meant to dissuade anyone from obtaining this excellent series):
1) A "brief history of the world" is an ambitious concept, if not downright self-conflictory, Of necessity (for "briefness") it glosses over, or completely skips, many major world-historical events that I would have liked to be able to better contextualize, had they been included, which they weren't.
2) At the same time, he spends more time than I would have liked indulging in self-reference - that is, talking about the study of World History itself. This is not a deep criticism - in fact, since the field has changed conspicuously since I was in school in the 70's, it's good to be made aware of the ways in which it has changed. But I felt Stearns invoked this too regularly, and spent a bit too much time on it when I just wanted to know about the historical events themselves. It is not surprising that, as an academician in a recently made-over field of study, that he might be more fascinated with the field of study itself, than those outside the field.
3) Some public speakers fill gaps with 'uhms'. Stearns fills his with the word "obviously". He uses it seemingly hundreds of times during the course of these lectures. Obviously we don't know the material he is presenting. So, obviously, what he is telling us might not be particularly obvious. So, obviously, he shouldn't use the word obviously as much as he does. (Believe me - you'd have noticed it yourself, even if I didn't point it out!)
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If we are to extract ourselves from the malaise we have created for ourselves and future generations of all species of life, we need to go back, take a look at how we got here and then move in a new direction.  As a long time politico and activist I have tried to go deeper and deeper into the issues to find some common ground on which we can build anew.  In the last year three writers, Peter Kingsley, David Abrams and Louis G. Herman, have helped expand my own foundation of understanding, and now I grapple with implementing some of what I've learned, but I feel confident in that foundation.  I highly recommend reading all these authors.
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This book helps me leap forward with my desire to being able to read more and learn from what I read.
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I'm a keen supporter of the Culture Smart series. It's become a staple now for me to pick up a book before I head out to a country. It allows me to see a couple of layers deeper than my sense would have been able to by itself.
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I have been learning something similar and so it feels nice to have someone else confirm it in their book.  And I love learning the stuff about other societies and how they do stuff there.
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Yes, very interesting Im still read and I can see the results.