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Anne Fadiman - The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures

Anne Fadiman - The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures

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Product Description A discussion of the history and future of coding theory celebrates the ingenuity of language systems and their uses from Braille and Morse code through binary codes to 32-bit operating systems.
Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction, this brilliantly reported and beautifully crafted book explores the clash between a medical center in California and a Laotian... More
Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction, this brilliantly reported and beautifully crafted book explores the clash between a medical center in California and a Laotian refugee family over their care of a child--and the lack of understanding that led to tragedy. Less
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Authors Charles Petzold Anne Fadiman
Nonfiction Category Computers Literary Criticism • Medical • Social Science
Awards - 1998 Boston Book Review Award
Professional Reviews   
  - New Yorker: "[Fadiman] describes with extraordinary skill the colliding worlds of Western medicine and Hmong culture...yet she remains exquisitely attuned to the interconnectedness of things."
Book Editions   
  PaperbackNovember 11, 2000Microsoft Pr6.5"(h) x 9.5"(w) x 1.25"(d), 1.4 lbs.9780735611313 Paperback352September 01, 1998Noonday Pr9.25"(h) x 6"(w) x 1"(d), 0.68 lbs.9780374525644
 
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Charles Petzold - Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software
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Anne Fadiman - The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures
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The greatest text book ever written

byrzazueta Nov 6, 1999
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Pros Clean, crisp prose; VERY accessible
Cons Can get dry, but only because of the subject matter
Recommended it? Yes

The gist:

* Text book posing as non-fiction

* Lightens up what should be a dry subject

* Clean, crisp prose makes for a good read

This book was written just for me.

OK, maybe that's not entirely true -- I have never met Charles Petzold and, beyond his... Read full review »

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I wish this book was published when I was in school

bytitaniumtommy Aug 3, 2001
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Pros plain english explanation of how codes and computers work
Cons none really
Recommended it? Yes

I wouldn't have struggled through my dry as heck Computer Science classes if this book was around then. Charles has a habit of creating good books on dry stuff. I mean, let's face it, figuring out how transistors and codes work is not really super fun. It can be amusing, it can even be interesting,... Read full review »

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The Conflict Nobody Wanted

bymsiduri May 9, 2012
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Pros Detailed, evenhanded, sympathetic
Cons Author can wander from her point at times, but not too far
Recommended it? Yes

The subject of this book is Lia Lee, a Hmong child born in the States to parents who came to California as refuges from the war in Vietnam in 1980, a time when very little was known about Hmong culture among the American culture at large, much less American medical establishment. As an infant, Lia... Read full review »

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Hmong Means Free Man

byonabreak2 Apr 18, 2005
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Pros Now Required Reading For Medical Students so they have a better understanding of...
Cons Would have liked Hmong terms written in English
Recommended it? Yes

This book is required reading for medical students according to the Hmong Interpreter where I work. It was the winner of the national book critic's circle award. Was praised by editors from the Washington Post to the New York times and many others. After you read it you will see why.

I... Read full review »

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