Sửa Đổi Lối Làm Việc (Khổ Nhỏ) tải về miễn phí cuốn sách

Ziad Yusuf ziadyusuf — excellent quick read on hypocrisy in the media.

Hady Hussien deshadyhussien — We'd made three trips, and then we stopped to refuel, and they washed the airplane out, because so many people had thrown up. That's a detail I never considered: many Hmong refugees spent the 1974 airlift from Long Tieng into Thailand vomiting all over each other. Yet that was a cake walk compared with those who later tried to escape through the jungle into Thailand -- this book is rife with tales of parents and kids getting picked off by bullets, an infant getting tossed into a river to quiet its screams, whole families being poisoned during a starved scramble for roots, or -- most haunting -- a restless whiny child being abandoned in the jungle with a toy because he was slowing everyone down. But these are refugee stories that come after years of heroic battle, fighting on the "losing" side during the Laos civil war (aka the "Secret War"), and before some successful immigrant experiences in the U.S., France, Australia, and French Guiana. This book is organized in that tripartite fashion (war-refugee-immigrant), similar to the frame of so many Hmong lives, though obviously things are much more complex. The "People's History" aspect is mostly outside the Howard Zinn concept -- I'm guessing the title derives from the fact that this is often an oral history, based on the author's own interviews. It's clear he's familiar with the historical record, though -- dismissing Al McCoy's The Politics of Heroin in a balanced footnote, and kinda chiding Tragic Mountains for its hagiography of Vang Pao. Oh yeah, Vang Pao: he looms over this entire "people's" narrative, definitely not in the way we all expected. Hillmer does a wonderful job of giving equal time to Vang Pao the military hero (who, let the record show, did not magically deflect bullets), as well as the alleged rent-seeking schemer promising to lead his people back to a liberated Laos. But on the whole, Hillmer's dry detachment -- probably cramped by a very complex culture with emotional ties in all (OK three) directions -- makes for an illuminating history, well worth reading both as a largely ignored chapter in American warfare, and as the fate of a pastoral culture transformed into warriors damn near overnight.

Mijung Kim mijungkimkr — Bad book! Very bad book! Not only is it poorly written but it does very little to enlighten LOST fans (and why is the author's name an anagram for purgatory when they've assured us time and time again that the castaways of Oceanic flight 815 are NOT in purgatory?