02-05-2008, 04:36 AM | #21 | |
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A fairly recent one I enjoyed was "Mr. China" by Tim Clissold. A great story of a Brit who entered into the Chinese business world in the early nineties and saw the difficulties of the merging cultures firsthand. He has a lot of great stories you'd enjoy. |
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02-05-2008, 04:53 AM | #22 |
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I am usually reading two or three books at a time. The one thing that I have been blessed with is to be able to read real fast and still retain the information.
**One or two international spy thrillers **'Lewis and Clark and the Journey of the Corps of Discovery' **'Hiroshima' (personal accounts of the bomb) **'Good to Great' (businesses go from good to great and how they did it) Next up on the list is: The life of Pi
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One my favorite parts is when the author recounts that when she was a little girl at the dinner table, her parents would say "Eat all of your dinner. Do you realize that there are millions of starving capitalists in America who would love to have that food?"
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I neglected to mention that I'm almost done with the audio version of Stiff: The Secret Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach. Other than a couple minor quibbles, I consider it a must-read for anyone who likes very dark humor (or who is interested in the subject material).
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Thank you. I thought it might help.
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I usually have a pooing room book (something easy to read 3 minutes at a time) and a normal book for non-pooing times. Currently in the B.M. drop off room, one of those DK books with 2 page factoids on cats.
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Book 10 of the Wheel of Time.
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Sadly, the country still suffers from the effects of "The Great Leap Forward". The deforestation resulted in massive erosion that continues to this day. The erosion destroys topsoil and results in incredibly high silt loads in the rivers. China is building dams at a rapid pace, but many of them fill up with silt 1-2 years after construction. Some fill simultaneously with construction. In other areas, they build levees on top of levees as the river bottoms getter higher and higher due to sedimentation. In some places, the bottom of a river can be 30 meters or more above an adjacent village. And you can imagine what happens when a levee breaks.
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