Reviews for Technical mineralogy and petrography

The average rating for Technical mineralogy and petrography based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2016-05-24 00:00:00 David Choi Culture Matters: How Values Shape Human Progress edited by Samuel Huntington and Lawrence E. Harrison is basically an interesting discussion about how cultural values affect the progress of societies. I can't say that there were a lot of answers to why some societies are able to develop easier than others. There seems to be plenty of disagreements between the various essayists as to why this is. Furthermore, most of these essays are written from a pro-free market perspective. That is the preferred model of a developed state, this is played out as the US versus say Sweden. A lot of food for thought in these essays though.

Review # 2 was written on 2012-12-24 00:00:00 Norman Trinh If I could give this book no stars I would. This is by far the most ethnocentric piece of garbage I've had the displeasure of laying my hands on. With references to likewise Eurocentric justifications of Western imperialism, Harrison weaves a logically fallacious and repugnant narrative of why some cultures are superior and destined for progress. While discounting that industrialization and Western "progress" is simply a value of select few societies, he has the nerve to denounce others' values and norms. I feel like I tasted a cockroach this book is so trash. Go fuck yourself Harrison, white supremacist piece of self-righteous shit.