Dạy Trẻ Biết Đọc Sớm: Flash Card Tiếng Việt - Từ Đơn 2 tải xuống LIT miễn phí

Blaine Harvey casualblaine — I stopped reading this book through the introduction, after losing interest in book reading for a brief period. I should pick it up again. Economics research. Ethics and economics issues. Looks very promising.

Puti Rahayu putirf — I'd heard about this book from the barefoot runner folks I know, and it's been on my to-read list forever. Since I'm running my first marathon in two weeks, I finally made it a priority to read. I would highly recommend this if you're running your first long race. (Well, this book or ANY books about ultrarunning.) Since these types of books talk about 50-100 + mile long races, it's makes the mental hurdle of running 26.2 miles really easy to clear. And in long distance running, it's more mental than anything else as long as you're in good shape. I was sick all this last week and completely out of the gym and no running. But I thought, "Seriously - my race is only 26.2 miles. I don't see any reason to be concerned." On the other hand, if you hang out with people who think running ten miles is the hardest feat in the world to accomplish (and don't get me wrong, ten miles can be really hard), you'll get nervous and think 26 miles will kill you. It's all relative. Hanging out with ultra runners makes marathon running sound like a warm up run. There are two major parts to the book - one is the story of the author going into Mexico and meeting the Tarahumara Indians, a tribe who are excellent runners and regularly have huge, crazy hard races. He is part of a 50 mile race with them and some other elite American ultrarunners. The other focus is on the problems that modern day running shoes have caused us. Basically, the running shoe companies have added so much cushioning, support, gels, balance correction, blah blah blah that our feet are not responding to the ground the way they are meant to. For example, we're always told that pronating and supinating is a problem (where our ankles roll in or out), but the fact is that's the way our bodies were designed to handle impact. (It always did sound fishy to me when the shoe store people told me that 80% of people have a problem that needs to be fixed with a special type of shoe - were we really made that faulty?) Anyway, instead of letting our feet roll whichever direction they were designed to roll, we put fancy running shoes on to correct this "problem", and we end up with knee/hip/ankle pain because our natural shock absorbers are inhibited. That's a teeny portion of what the barefoot people say running shoes have done. And I have to say, they make a very convincing argument. I even went to the shoe store and tried on the five finger toe minimalist shoes and jogged around the back of the store with them on. They weren't bad, actually. I have one bone to pick with this book, though. The author and other runners took several digs at Dean Karnazes (who wrote "Ultramarathon Man", a bestseller that I really liked). He and the other ultrarunners in the book made him sound like a pitiful, inexperienced ultrarunner who got famous because he wrote a book about himself, and now everyone thinks he is the superstar of ultrarunning when he's not - they are. It reminded me of another book (Robert Kiyosaki's "Rich Dad, Poor Dad", where he met a talented young writer who asked him for help getting her work recognized. He told her to take a class in sales, and she was insulted. She was a writer, not a salesperson. He pointed out that on his book it said, "Best selling author", not "Best writing author". There's nothing wrong with learning how to promote yourself.) Dean Karnazes wrote this totally gripping, fun book about running ultramarathons. He's run 300 miles at a time before. He's won a couple really hard races. He ran a marathon a day for 50 days. He is a good runner. He's even better at promoting the sport and telling the rest of us about how cool and hard it really is. And so to these other ultrarunners who have never gotten around to writing a book for publication and gripe that he's in the spotlight and they're not, I say this - take a sales class. He's a best selling author, not a best running author. Stop complaining about not getting enough attention. Take some pictures with your shirt off like Dean, get a website, tell us your story. Then you'll be famous like him, too. Overall, this was not my favorite book about running, but it was worth reading - especially if you're interested in barefoot running.

André Nery andrenery — I'm not sure that the rest of the title of this book "The Power of Thinking Without Thinking" really gives the potential reader a good idea of what this book is truly about. i have always been fascinated by the importance and effect of intuition and first impressions, and Malcolm Gladwell does a really great job of giving some interesting examples of where this has come into play, and some good insights into how people can use this thing that they do subconsciously to inform their conscious decisions.