James Olstein từ Santa Clara Municipality, Durango, Mexico

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11/22/2024

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2018-08-05 20:30

Combo Chăm Sóc Sức Khỏe Trẻ Em (Bộ 2 Tập) Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Thôi Ngọc Đào

beautiful illustrations!

2018-08-05 21:30

Hiện tượng tâm linh Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Đỗ Kiên Cường

Folklorist and ethnographer Henry H. Glassie’s Material Culture (1999) pulls together thought and work developed over the course of the author’s career. Favoring straightforward expression over theoretical gymnastics, Glassie bemoans the loss of 1960s-style academic activism noting that the trend is to “refine theory past any empirical need, displaying academic virtuosity, while the world fades from attention” (76). He defines material culture as the “tangible yield of human conduct” and suggests that artifacts are nonverbal texts that are best understood within the many, overlapping contexts they occupy (41). The scholar’s job, therefore, is to join text to context through what Glassie calls compositional (description, analysis) and associational (discerning meaning, patterns, and connections in the data amassed in the compositional stage) “moves.” The various contexts he proposes are not well delineated. He focuses primarily on creation, consumption, and communication but also mentions assimilation, preservation, compositional, conceptual (shared meanings), and physical contexts. While he notes that things must be studied not only in and of themselves as “sets of parts” but also as belonging to “parts of sets,” he means the study of like objects rather than, as Schelreth emphasized, objects of different sorts that participate in aggregates or systems. Though Glassie’s bibliography does not include writings by Miller (or by Appadurai or Schelreth, for that matter), there is a common concern for man’s fate in an over-commodified world. Glassie finds redemptive power in acts of creation. By study the objects that artisans create, he believes that we can learn about others’ values and how they manage in the world. Such understandings might allow us to join together against the forces that “thwart” creation and together overcome “our separation in a oneness of humanity” (86). In assessing material culture studies, he laments the shift in focus from creation to consumption, from handcrafted artifacts to the study of “goods.” He sees this as yielding to capitalism’s “dominion” rather than opposing it through an affirmation of creation. At this point one wonders why the worlds of Miller and Glassie have not intersected. Like Miller, however, he ultimately decides that consumption can be creative, pointing to such things as customized cars as evidence of what he calls the assimilation context. Assimilation, Glassie states, is the last stage of consumption and is the context we shape for a thing out of our own concerns (59). There are parallels here to Miller’s notion of sublation as the process by which alienated culture is once again made personal, meaningful, and counter-hegemonic.

2018-08-05 22:30

Trên Biển Khơi, Dưới Đá Thẳm Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Susan Cooper

***NOTE MY REVIEWS OFTEN CONTAIN SPOILERS*** After the events in China, the Cahill siblings feel they have no choice but to confront Nellie, because they’re sure Nellie isn’t what she claims to be and they need to know exactly what kind of enemy might be among them. Even though they were expecting it, it still blows them away when Nellie confesses to be working for Mr. McIntyre. Along the search for the clue Nellie has become the only family they had and now she’s confessed that they can’t trust her and she’s been sharing their secrets all along. Feeling betrayed and heartbroken, the trio journey to the Bahamas and Jamaica, following the trail of Anne Bonny, the pirate from the locket. But with Isabel Kambra hard on their heels there isn’t time for heart break if they intend to survive. With no one but each other to trust, will Amy and Dan survive the islands? Like with my previous few reviews, I wrote one review and posted a rating on goodreads after first reading it, but alas that original review was in a notebook that grew legs and ran away. So I reread the book for the purpose of review and I’m sticking with the original rating because I believe books are bast rated after first reading. That and regardless of the fact I like to write reviews I don’t like rating books So I’m not putting myself through making that decision twice. As with all the books in this series, the story presents a wealth of information in the form of a thrilling adventure. This one however shares history on a topic no child could resist – pirates! Following the clue hunt is more than just an adventure for readers, it’s a lesson in history and geography that will hopefully inspire young readers to search for more information on the topics they’re given a taste of in this tale. What’s wonderful about how the information is presented here though is that children don’t even realize they’re learning as they read about Amy and Dan’s adventures in the search for the 39 Clues. The book is a well written close third person with multiple view points and fast pacing. Though filled with information, danger and adventure, this book actually focuses more on the characters. We learn about the clue hunt, but we also learn about how the lives of the Cahills and even their au pair have been maneuvered practically since birth to prepare them for the clue hunt they currently face. Learning this gives all of them a sense of disillusionment added to their au pair’s betrayal it opens us up to more of Amy and Dan’s sensitivities. The characters become even more real as they don’t come across as just adventurers here, they come across as children whose whole world has been torn apart by these events. One thing I didn’t like is that in some ways the characters weren’t as true to form as they’d been in the other novels, Dan’s always been the computer geek while Amy’s into books. Dan’s kind of the hands on puzzles kind of guy while Amy’s the book smart serious worry wort. Or at least that’s how it’s been in the other novels. In this book there’s a scene where Dan correct Amy’s terminology and Amy’s downloading stuff on the computer. Amy’s making up crazy words and Dan’s worrying more than normal. I mean they weren’t completely out of character but it just seemed sort of switched around. The book is filled with action and answers we’ve been searching for throughout the clue hunt are finally revealed which is awesome, but with all the characters introspectiveness and the way they choose at one point to attack rather than defend it’s a little different from other books in the series. Usually Amy and Dan don’t seek out their Cahill relatives, they run from them, in this novel they turn the tables which is unusual but it also goes along with what they’re learning about the historical figures presented in this book. Though each character undergoes a lot of introspection, it doesn’t slow down the plot in anyway because there’s more than enough danger, action and adventure to keep the pace moving along quickly. Like I said above though it has a lot of everything else, the focus of this book is the characters and it includes a lot of introspective moments which allow us to better know the characters and those characters to grow. Amy and Dan have their quirky moments which I mentioned about but are otherwise true to form and gain a new depth in this novel when faced with their au pairs betrayal and how to deal with that. Nellie is torn between her alliances to the children and to her employer. She’s on the outside and she doesn’t know how to get back in and there’s a big part of her that doesn’t care about the job anymore, just the kids. We see her character really grow in this novel as she sees how the Cahill children weren’t the only ones molded for the clue hunt, she was as well. She reflects on how Grace affected her life and how she in turn has affected Amy and Dan’s. Another thing I really enjoyed was seeing into Natalie Kambra. Natalie hasn’t had a lot of spotlight in the previous novels and we start to understand why she is like she is, and how she rationalizes her behavior. She’s starting to question her mother’s action and then berate herself for doing so and there’s a lot of internal struggle going on for this character. I think for the first time ever Natalie actually becomes a little girl as a character rather than just another villain. She’s finally human and that’s kind of impressive. Overall this was an excellent addition to the 39 Clues Series and like always I recommend to readers young and old and am excited to get to the next title.

2018-08-05 23:30

Nàng Tiên Xương Rồng - Tìm Hiểu Về Động Vật Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Mei Rini

I wonder if anyone finds it all that interesting to read tales of selfish flaky women whose vision is tunneled to their own narcissistic existence. Sure there's some random descriptions of lesbian sex, which seem to be a focal point in a few reviews I have read, but these sections are few and far between (thankfully). The main story is told through the ever-fretting and forever-self-obsessed eyes of a truly unlikeable character. I don't sit with the camp that thinks all characters must be attractive for a book to be good - indeed, some of the best books around feature loathesome characters who are all the more interesting for it - however, Nancy doesn't offer a whole lot in the way of real depth to this book. She's a cookie cutter template of superficial stereotypes, but is thankfully balanced by the other characters in her story that actually puncture the bleak egoism with some differentiating chatter. Basically this book was straight forward enough to read and never felt like a struggle despite the lead voice. I'm not one for period pieces and I'm not all that big on hearing about the contrived inner monologues that happen within pathetic women's heads when they falter at the first sight of someone attractive. I mean, grow the fuck up! It's the same thing that made that Twilight book so appalling...

2018-08-06 00:30

Nhanh Hơn, Khao Khát Hơn Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Jonathan Yabut

Review coming soon

2018-08-06 01:30

TRANG - Tái bản 2005 Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Pearl S. Buck/ giải Nobel Văn chương 1938

An interesting look at something that we all gripe about. Maybe (maybe) they aren't so bad...

2018-08-06 02:30

Từ Vựng Và Mẫu Câu Tiếng Anh Thực Dụng Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Larousse

Temple Grandin has a extraordinary gift for explaining behavior and motivations. Recommended reading for everyone!

2018-08-06 03:30

Cẩm Nang Hướng Dẫn Du Lịch Việt Nam Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi:

Half way through I really didn't like it that much but then the end got pretty good. Not one of my favortie Jodi Picoult books though

2018-08-06 04:30

Lời Giải Vở Bài Tập Tiếng Việt Lớp 4 (Tập 2) Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi:

I was not sure about this book when I first started to read it along with the fact it was one of the free ones on Amazon for the kindle. But man am I glad I read it, took me two days cause I didn't want to stop! It had suspense, mystery, romance, heart break, laughter, and some good ummm hot scenes as well, a few miss spellings but hell I can't comment on that! I completely recommend this book to mystery/who done it fans.

2018-08-06 05:30

Dòng Sông Mặt Trời Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Nhiều Tác Giả

Before there was Pat Buchanan there was Robert Taft, Lawrence Dennis, John Flynn, political eccentrics who identified with the Old Right but, perhaps paradoxically, found a following on the anti-Cold War Left. Written when the author was a self-declared libertarian socialist (he has since converted to neo-conservatism), it makes for a fascinating tour of intellectual figures who have been largely forgotten by history, but who retain a committed following.

Người đọc James Olstein từ Santa Clara Municipality, Durango, Mexico

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.