Rafik Nour từ Bañaderos, Las Palmas, Spain

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2018-08-01 07:30

Những Kỹ Năng Giải Toán Đặc Sắc Bất Đẳng Thức Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Nhiều Tác Giả

Interesting. I went into this thinking it would be much like "Peaceable Kingdom", which chronicled a year in the life of the Philadelphia zoo, and which was very much a social history of the zoo itself; lots of stories about the people who worked there, the animals, other zoos. Backstage stuff on the Natural History Museum (in England, not the US, which is something else I failed to notice when I picked it up. This fact obviously doesn't affect how I might think of the book, but it was still sort of embarrassing). This is very much more about science. So far I've gone through two whole chapters on the workings of taxonomy (among other things), which is actually fairly interesting, but so far also there hasn't been very much on the museum itself. EDIT: So I'm totally dumb. The reason that there was so much on taxonomy was that Fortey views museums as taxonomical centers. That is, the primary/sole research of any natural history museum is that of classification. Makes sense! His bit on the nature of expertise was rather interesting on this regard, how someone might become "THE beetle man" or "THE cichlid woman". One way this book is head and shoulders above other non-fiction books I've read, is that when the author describes something there, on the same page, is a PICTURE of said thing, instead of being shoveled to the center of the book. It's actually really lovely because it doesn't interfere with the flow of reading it. Also there are just the right amount of illustrations and photos, not condescendingly inserted but when you might honestly not have a visual reference to what's being described (like the eyes of a weird Algerian trilobite). Oh yesh! One more thing, the author has an ongoing simile about the museum being like the castle Gormenghast, which I am finding oddly charming.

Người đọc Rafik Nour từ Bañaderos, Las Palmas, Spain

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.