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Martha Hilley and Lynn Freeman Olson - Piano for Pleasure: A Basic Course for Adults Spiral

Martha Hilley and Lynn Freeman Olson - Piano for Pleasure: A Basic Course for Adults Spiral

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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This text is an accessible, thorough introductory text for beginning pianists. The authors present vital keyboard skills in a smooth, carefully calibrated progression that makes students feel... More
This text is an accessible, thorough introductory text for beginning pianists. The authors present vital keyboard skills in a smooth, carefully calibrated progression that makes students feel comfortable learning to play the piano. By the end of the first chapter, students can play three simple pieces-a Hilley arrangement of "Amazing Grace," and two songs written especially for this text by Lynn Freeman Olson. Subsequent chapters build students' confidence by offering a consistent synthesis of keyboard skills, music theory, and creativity. Olson's original and appealing musical selections consistently compliment Hilley's mastery of pedagogy and pacing. As a result, students learn difficult piano skills as they experience the excitement of playing old favorites. 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 Martha Hilley Anne Fadiman
Nonfiction Category Music 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."
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  Other - PACKAGEAugust 01, 2001Schirmer Books11.5"(h) x 9.5"(w) x 1.25"(d), 2.45 lbs.9780534519629 Paperback352September 01, 1998Noonday Pr9.25"(h) x 6"(w) x 1"(d), 0.68 lbs.9780374525644
 
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The Conflict Nobody Wanted

bymsiduri May 9, 2012
21 Helpfuls 22 Helpfuls Was this review helpful?
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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