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Bill Watterson - The Complete Calvin And Hobbes

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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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Illustrated in full-color, three hardcover volumes in a sturdy slipcase bring together every Calvin and Hobbes cartoon that has ever appeared in syndication, along with an original... More
Illustrated in full-color, three hardcover volumes in a sturdy slipcase bring together every Calvin and Hobbes cartoon that has ever appeared in syndication, along with an original introduction by the author, color and sport art, and a treasury of entertaining stories and poems from It's a Magical World, There's Treasure Everywhere, and other classic collections. Less
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 Bill Watterson Anne Fadiman
Nonfiction Category - Literary Criticism • Medical • Social Science
Fiction Genre Comics & Graphic Novels -
Awards - 1998 Boston Book Review Award
Professional Reviews   
  Publishers Weekly: "By the 1980s the once glorious newspaper comics section had become a wasteland, ravaged by shrinking space, editorial timidity and other ills....Bill Watterson...marched directly in the wasteland and made the comatose syndicated strip form kick up its heels and dance....These books offer a testament to Watterson's dedication and to the medium's ability to keep reinventing itself against all odds." (starred review) 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."
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  Hardcover1440September 01, 2005Andrews McMeel Pub11.5"(h) x 12.75"(w) x 5.25"(d), 22.2 lbs.9780740748479 Paperback352September 01, 1998Noonday Pr9.25"(h) x 6"(w) x 1"(d), 0.68 lbs.9780374525644
 
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Bill Watterson - The Complete Calvin And Hobbes
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There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want - Calvin

bync10 Oct 9, 2005
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Pros Its the COMPLETE Calvin and Hobbes
Cons Expensive, few "extras"
Recommended it? Yes

Bill Watterson's The Complete Calvin and Hobbes is a three volume 1440 page Hardcover Collector's Edition containing all of the Calvin and Hobbes cartoon's published during its 10 year syndication run from 1985 to 1995. It follows in the successful tradition of The Complete Far Side collector's... Read full review »

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Thorough and Complete Socio-Political Treatise of Master Thinkers Calvin and Hobbes

byshopaholic_man Dec 18, 2005
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Pros Watterson has delivered a complete collection of the thoughts and musings of Calvin and...
Cons The various diatribes of the pair may be too complex to follow for some.
Recommended it? Yes

This masterwork collection of the two greatest political thinkers of our time is gathered together in one large three volume treatise. I was pleased to find that this is indeed a complete collection of all the various musings, social discussions, political rants and general observations of our... 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.

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