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Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Viện Ngôn Ngữ Học
PROS: The glimpses we get of the oncoming army of vampire newborns is really quite impressive. There's a nice build up to the climactic confrontation. Great battle between Edward and Victoria. The werewolves are cool. Alice and Charlie can still do no wrong. Rosalie and Jasper have fascinating, sometimes haunting backstories. CONS: Edward is a controlling dick. Jacob is a jealous dick. Bella is weak. The vampire army exists almost entirely off screen. The book promises a huge battle between werewolves and vampires, but that also takes place almost entirely off screen. I'm not as grossed out by werewolf imprinting as others are, but it is somewhat troubling.
Sách được viết bởi Bởi:
A good study of the role of informal institutions in economic growth, but a fundamental lack of attention/neglect to the nature of institutional change. The author argues that the fundamental process of economic development is the transformation of informal to formal institutions. The author attributes underdevelopment in the 3rd world to the inability of those people to leverage their assets to create capital (they thus have only "dead capital"). Many people in developing countries live on land that is not technically (i.e. formally) their own. The government creates many barriers to the legitimization of their capital. The author cites the US as the prime example of how a government can legitimate squatter rights (essentially citing the homestead act of the 1860s). This allows the settlers to trade their land rights with a set of people beyond their own families/friends. Interestingly, the author argues that the settlers had already established themselves on the land well before the homestead act. The political leaders of the time eventually stopped trying to evict the settlers, realizing they were an important political base (as they were the majority of the population). While the story of the US does provide an important example of why the transformation/incorporation of informal into formal property rights plays a fundamental role in development, it's relevance for the third world today is less clear. In the US, there were substantially fewer established political bases that needed to be overcome to establish new property law. Over the past 200 years, the developing world has faced the imposing laws of metropoles interested in extracting natural resources and exploiting cheap labor, as opposed to efficient, democratic property law. The Native Americans proved to be less of a political opposition than the extractive metropoles of England, France, Spain, and the Netherlands. Reinforcing the author's blindness towards the causes of institutional change, the author makes snide jokes at those who argue that economic underdevelopment is the result of colonial legacies (See Acemoglu, et. al, The Colonial Origins of Economic Development, AER 2001 for a lambasting of this author's views). Without a view of the causes of institutional change, the author argues that all that is necessary to change the economic situation of the underdeveloped peoples is to enlighten the leaders. We should be so glad to have such a great mind who is establishing consulting positions with ~20 of the world's leaders. Sounds like things are on the right track :) More enlightened academics who recognize the nature of institutional change have argued that revolutions (and the threat thereof), along with other forms of collective action play a fundamental role in changing institutions, such as property rights and access to the legitimization of capital. People in political power got there for a reason. They have an established interest in the structure of society that is providing profits to industries and/or union groups that support him/her. Withholding property rights to the unorganized squatting masses both a) decreases the supply of capital (increasing rents to established formal capital) and b) increases the supply of cheap labor (further increasing the return on established capital). Squatters don't need to have their current leaders "enlightened". The leaders are enlightened enough. The squatters and marginalized masses need organization grounded in a sense of common purpose. Either the threat of a revolution or an actual revolution has caused the type of fundamental reorganization necessary to legitimize the squatters in society. In sum, the book is interesting in some respects. The high-level idea of the book is correct: the marginalized masses need to have thier informal institutions incorporated into the formal institutions to spur economic prosperity. However, this is not an apolitical task.
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Dương Thượng Quân
An excellent translation of a fantastic book by one of the wittiest figures of the Enlightenment. Candide was meant to be an assault on the work of Descartes and is certainly scathing in it's attack. This particular translation is easily read and carries much of Voltaire's wit and humor. It is not nearly as dry as many translations tend to be, and really let's you hear the voice of this man. And the cover of the book is hilarious. Really if you haven't read at least Candide then I am sad.
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Scholastic
Wow! What a powerful book! Keeps you guessing, keeps you bugging your eyes out, keeps you wanting to shake Mia while chanting GO FOR IT, GO FOR IT! Tina can write some amaaaazing sensual scenes! Definitely a book for adult females. I would not recommend for under 18 because of the sex scenes. Plenty of action and suspense, plenty of down and dirty, and plenty of Mia and Cole. All I got to say is "Can I see those abs?" Very detailed images, and makes you feel like you are right there through all of the bloody and hot scenes. Can't wait for the next one, especially after the end of book teaser for the second installment. Reviewed by Mom's Novel Characters on Facebook.
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Keith D. Harrell
Last book in the series. Follows Dell and her search for her Father.
"and for the rest, it was like trying to pick up a glass of water without the glass."
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Nguyễn Bích Hiền
Magykal!!! Quirky!!! Funny!!!
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Girlne Ya
JF-YAWic
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Người Khăn Trắng
I wanted to read this book ever since hearing the controversy about its inclusion in the curriculum for grade 7 & 8 students in Toronto schools. There was an attempt to ban it, but the school board decided not to. I found the book a quick read, and while it certainly presented the viewpoint of the Palestinians, I did not feel it demonized Israelis. I also did not feel it advocated violence, though there are characters in the book who feel that is the only way to protest the Israeli policies. I think it's entirely appropriate to have teenagers read this book and think about what is going on, in balance with other points of view.
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Gino Wickman
lessons on being "in love" and on committment. Reminds me of the move Fireproof.
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.