Bản Giao Hưởng Số 6 Của Tchaikovsky tải về miễn phí cuốn sách

Avs Suresh sureshnaidu — I REALLY wanted to like this one, as the premise of the book sounded so incredibly interesting. A housekeeper and her son come to care for a brilliant professor of mathematics, who due to an injury, has a memory that lasts only 80-minutes. I thought that their day-to-day struggles and routine would be fascinating, and I really wanted to find out how they coped with this handicap. Unfortunately (for me), one of the biggest ways they cope is through math. A LOT OF MATH. I found myself skimming huge sections containing equations and formulas...some of which drew interesting parallels to the story itself. I do think this story has the potential to be quite charming, but it just wasn't for me. Ucky math.

Przemysław Durlik przemekdurlik — A book, even a nonfiction book, isn't a Wikipedia article. Books have deviations, details, and distractions. They meander, or take unexpected paths. Do you remember reading the news story about the rubber ducks that all went over the side of a tanker? They went all over the world and scientists used them to learn all sorts of cool things about ocean currents. I remember reading about it in Scholastic News (which, apparently, covered the story no fewer than seven times). And it recently turned up in an Eric Carle board book I bought for my infant son, 10 Little Rubber Ducks. There's just something enchanting about the image of cheerful bright yellow little ducks braving Arctic waters and unfathomable depths to teach scientists something they didn't know. I can imagine, when Donovan Hohn pitched this book idea, the publishers ate it up. Unfortunately, for our imaginations and for Hahn's book, the story turns out to be almost entirely untrue. Yes, a container of bath toys fell off a container ship in mysteriously high seas. It broke up, releasing thousands of bath toys into the ocean. They were made of plastic, though; not rubber. And they weren't just ducks. A fourth of them were, but the ducks were part of a set of four that included a beaver, a turtle, and a frog. And while it turns out that scientists can learn about currents from container ship spills, they didn't learn very much from this one. But the legend lives on, and Hohn indefatigably tracks down the ship spill, people who clean up beaches, dedicated beachcombers, the factory in China that makes the bath toys, the psychology of rubber ducks, and those who study ocean currents. It's a good book in that it includes some striking characters, awesome information, and engaging anecdotes, but it's not really the story of the ducks. Which brings us back to the beginning of this review: a book isn't a Wikipedia post. This is the intriguing story of a non-story.

Elias Zaaza zaazaelias1a10 — So, this book really annoyed me at first. That whole begining set up...whatever. But anyway, I admit, I got sucked in and hooked and eventually inspired.

Jarek Kuta kutajarek — Reading this for the second time. As a baseball fan, I'm sad to say this book didn't register on my radar screen for a while, until my first employer out of college demanded I check it out. Thank goodness! It is, at its core, a book about exceeding the bounds of conventional thinking, and it discusses this with extreme thoroughness through the lenses of statistics and baseball mania. Reading this opened my eyes to a whole new way of watching an already much-loved sport, and reaffirmed my belief that the so-called baseball commentators on networks like Fox and ESPN are both blind and incapable of coherent speech. Scarily enough, after reading this the first time, my employer and I applied its core ideas to our own work and quickly became obsessed with our own 'Project Moneyball.' Sadly, as with the many baseball bigwigs and old-schoolers found in the pages of Lewis's book, we consistently found ourselves flinging bodies, words, and pages of data at a brick wall reinforced with concrete, steel beams, and a healthy dose of Mace. Alas, change is slow, and in any well-established industry, a true war of attrition.

Al Rayhan rtralrayhan — You must be clear and open to truly get the messages in this book. There are some good journaling / exercises to do.