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Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Ngọc Anh
100, minute-long essays on historical oddities. Many written in a Paul Harvey Now-You-Know-the-Rest-Of-the-Story style. All of us Ryghs enjoyed reading these stories. Some fascinating stories including: this history of Muzak, Sherlock Holmes modeled after one of Doyle's professors at medical school. Joshua Lionel Cowen invented the flashlight but signed over the rights to Conrad Hubert who created the Everready Company. Cowen went on to invent model trains. Dixie was composed by a staunch Union supporter, Daniel Decatur Emmett. First mechanical computer invented by Charles Babbage in 1822. Hsi Kai, the most successful pirate of all time, was a Chinese woman. She commanded 50K men and women and more than a thousand ships. The first president of the United States was not Washington, but John Hanson. In fact there were seven presidents elected under the Articles of Confederation. The Scopes Trial was actually all a PR ploy. Scopes was in on the deal and even part of the organizational meeting at Robinson's drugstore in Dayton, OH. Ian Flemming advised the US when it set up the OSS, forerunner to the CIA. He borrowed the name James Bond from a bird-watching book written by an ornithologist by the same name. In 1945 an OSS team parachuted into the jungles of Asia. They saved a man names Nguyen Ai Quoc who later asked for support and direction. Little did the US realize that this freedom fighter would later become know as Ho Chi Minh, leader of North Vietnam.
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Thu Hiền
This is one of my favorite books - it really speaks to the dual nature that many people have to balance both within themselves and then how they promote themselves to others.
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Higashino Keigo
This review covers both books in this story of World War II, The Winds of War and War and Remembrance. Together they follow the experience and growth of Victor Henry, a U.S. Navy Officer, his family, and the many people they meet (American and otherwise) in the great events of that global conflict. As with all great novels, these books are not meant merely to entertain, but to teach and communicate something of the human condition. Here, the auther attempts to reveal the depth of human goodness and evil; to document the human ability to strive, to suffer, to hurt, and to love; and to show the final virtue in individual goodness. I sometimes feel like placid, comfortable lives tend to obscure humanity: there is no need for greatness and no opportunity. This is also dealt with in the story, for though the events of this story take place during a world war, a relatively small part of the book takes place during actual combat. All in all, this is a masterful work, equally attractive to those who enjoy romance and those who enjoy battle. In my mind it stands with War and Peace as one of the greatest novels of all time.
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Bùi Quang Đạt
It's not just for Halloween. :-)
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Harvard Business Review
Fantastic- laugh out loud funny. Not as outrageous or crazy as "Fear and Loathing", but absurd nevertheless. I can only assume that the Rum Diary closely mirrored reality for HST, and that thought is a scary one- all about him joining a dysfunctional set of drunks trying to put out a newspaper in San Juan, Puerto Rico. As always, there are the musings about the "straight and narrow" path, vs some pull toward the weird and bizarre and different. A lot of early monologue for him- "how do I find myself in these situations?", etc.
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Alpha Books biên soạn
same problem as 1984...this is two books in one. i would have liked to see both stories interwoven from the beginning, much like a movie would have. i think this book is important for reasons other than it's literary qualities.
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Koshigaya Osamu
This was a fascinating story. It made me want to know more about Martha's Vinyard.
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Huỳnh Chí Viễn
a good one, predictable bust still well written brain popcorn. a good in flight quick read.
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Nhiều tác giả
hot n sexy, with recipes
Not as good as Magic or Madness, but good enough that I'll finish the trilogy.
Người dùng coi những cuốn sách này là thú vị nhất trong năm 2017-2018, ban biên tập của cổng thông tin "Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn" khuyến cáo rằng tất cả các độc giả sẽ làm quen với văn học này.