Francisco Tapia từ West Bergholt, Colchester, Essex, UK

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05/16/2024

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Francisco Tapia Sách lại (10)

2018-11-13 08:30

Nhân Nào Quả Ấy Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Vương Trí Nhàn

I've been wanting to read this for years and years, and I'm excited to finally start it!

2018-11-13 09:30

Ngồi Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Nguyễn Bình Phương

This is a BEAUTIFUL book, I loved it! It's a touching, fictional story about a family who arose out of poverty in the early 1900's. This book is on my top ten list (though there are more than ten books on that list now!). :-)

2018-11-13 10:30

Sam Walton - Cuộc Đời Kinh Doanh Tại Mỹ (Tái Bản 2015) Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi:

More poetry than drama, really - very much in the flavour of Under Milk Wood, only with 21st century cosmopolitanism and English reactionary politics thrown in. Lovely play of language; doesn't really go anywhere, but leaves you with a marmalade taste in your mouth.

2018-11-13 11:30

Những Giá Trị Tinh Thần - Hãy Cám Ơn Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Hoàng Mai

Iósef Stalin es una de las figuras más famosas de la historia. Ordenó asesinatos sistemáticos a gran escala. Durante sus años de poder y boato, desde finales de la década de los veinte hasta su muerte en 1953, personificó el orden comunista soviético. La Revolución de octubre de 1917 había dado origen en Rusia a una dictadura de partido único y de ideología única que sirvió de modelo de transformación social para un tercio de la superficie del globo después de la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Aunque Lenin había fundado la URSS, fue Stalin quien reforzó y consolidó decisivamente la estructura. Sin Stalin, la Unión Soviética podría haberse desmoronado décadas antes de que fuera desmantelada en 1991. Después de la muerte de Lenin en 1924 mucha gente se sorprendió cuando Stalin logró la victoria en el conflicto por la sucesión que tuvo lugar entre los líderes del partido. Hacia el final de esa década ya había anulado los compromisos que el partido había aceptado de mala gana para mantenerse en el poder después de la Guerra Civil que se había producido en el antiguo Imperio ruso. Stalin dirigió la Unión Soviética hacia la industrialización. Millones de campesinos murieron en el proceso de colectivización de la agricultura. La red de campos de trabajo se expandió y Stalin fortaleció su despotismo por medio del Gran Terror a finales de la década de los treinta. La Operación Barbarroja impulsada por Hitler contra la Unión Soviética en 1941 encontró a Stalin catastróficamente desprevenido. Sin embargo, el Ejército Rojo logró responder al ataque y, con Stalin como comandante supremo, derrotó a la Wehrmacht. Después de la Segunda Guerra Mundial, la URSS afirmó su dominio sobre la mitad oriental de Europa. La reputación de Stalin, para bien o para mal, alcanzó su punto culminante. Cuando murió en 1953 fue llorado por millones de compatriotas que tenían razones de sobra para detestarlo a él y a su política. Dejó la URSS convertida en una potencia mundial y en un coloso industrial con una sociedad alfabetizada. Dejó como legado instituciones de terror y de adoctrinamiento con pocos rivales de su envergadura. La historia de la URSS después de su muerte consistió en gran medida en una serie de intentos para conservar, modificar o liquidar su herencia. Stalin no dejó una autobiografía. Hasta finales de la década de los veinte casi nadie se molestó en escribir algo más que una breve semblanza suya.

2018-11-13 12:30

Kể Chuyện Danh Nhân Việt Nam Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi:

This is a surprising book about witches. The protagonist is a 149 year old witch who uses her magic mainly to make herself look younger to meet younger men. She doesn't get serious with any of the young men she meets until she meets Justin - a dead ringer for a man who won her heart during World War II when they worked together collecting information for the allies. It goes between the modern story and the one from her past and it pulls in all kinds of quirky characters with her family and other coven memebers. Since my current story involves witchcraft, I thought it would be a great read for a little research and found I really enjoyed it. Stayed up way too late last night finishing it.

2018-11-13 13:30

Bộ Sách Phiêu Lưu Kì Bí Hấp Dẫn - 39 Manh Mối: Trong Vùng Nước Thẳm Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Jude Watson

I was afraid this book was headed for banal monotony, but just as I was getting worried, the author threw in a nice plot twist that suddenly made the entire book into a story that I wanted to see have a good and satisfying ending. The end was neither good nor bad, but it was satisfying, and it made perfect sense in the context of the book. I did have a few nagging questions, but perhaps it is best they were left unexplored. The short epilogue was also very satisfying. I would recommend this book to anyone who lived through the book's time period, 1963-1988, just to see what you recognized, too.

2018-11-13 14:30

Cả Nhà Bên Nhau - 100 Trò Vui Cho Con Thêm Sáng Tạo Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Gilles Diederichs

This book haunts me. Top 5 books of all time

2018-11-13 15:30

The Confidence Effect: Every Woman's Guide to the Attitude That Attracts Success Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Grace Killelea

Caveat: I "read" this one via audio-book, which might leave a somewhat different impression than reading the text, though I really liked the readers and voices. The first half was a little slow, but worth it to get to the second half. The story is set in a world of zombies, but is more about people, politics and society. I could see a lot of references to the way our country and political system work today. I plan to read the second book in the series as soon as I can get a copy.

2018-11-13 16:30

Dạy Con Kiểu Do Thái - Sự May Mắn Của Cái Đầu Gối Bị Trầy Xước Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi: TS. Wendy Mogel

This is one of my favorite books- it is extremely sad though, you will definitely need tissues throughout..many plot turns..i loved it!

2018-11-13 17:30

Combo Gà Con Lon Ton (Bộ 18 Cuốn) Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Tinman Arts

This is clearly an important book, and the "star-rating" system doesn't really do justice to it. So if you're wondering whether to read this book, consider it a five-star review. It has some flaws, but as someone said of Kant (if I recall correctly), the mistakes of a great thinker are more valuable than a thousand correct platitudes from a lesser one. McWilliams takes on one of the hottest topics in food politics, the whole question of the "locavores" who emphasize the need for eating locally. In his first chapter, he demolishes the whole "food miles" paradigm. Without even pausing for a breath, he then proceeds to take on organic agriculture, genetically engineered foods, land based animals, aquaculture, and ecological economics. His approach is nonideological. He just wants to preserve the environment and feed the world, and thinks we need technology to do that. On the other hand, unlike Stewart Brand (who comes across as essentially an apostate from environmentalism) he is not uncritical of technology nor of the human institutions that use it. He sees a place for both chemical agriculture and even GMOs. But he is quite scathing of meat production. Only aquaculture -- and only some aquaculture, at that -- escapes his wrath. I liked his critique of localism and of eating animals. He clearly understands the problem of organic agriculture -- it's valuable, but does it scale up to feeding the world? This same problem applies to GMOs. GMO technology is now in the hands of private for-profit corporations who are making a mess of things, but in principle, according to McWilliams, GMO technology could be used for good rather than evil. Here is where the problems with the book start -- with his treatment (or non-treatment) of ecological economics. He says somewhere early on that when he wrote the book, he in effect "threw down his hand" when he felt his case was strong enough to be published. This isn't bad advice for a magazine writer: if your case is better than anything that's currently widely circulated, throw it out there. But the problem is that our economic system is fundamentally flawed and is without mainstream critics. Yes, his case is better than anything currently out there, but that's not saying all that much. I wish he had looked deeper. He might have written a very different kind of book. He essentially presupposes the case for continued economic growth. Uh, it's not going to happen. We'll be lucky if we ever even get back to the state of the world economy in 2005, much less expand the economy beyond that point. Peak oil will see to that. And our agricultural system depends on oil, and consequently won't be expanding very much further in any event. Food prices and oil prices are rising in tandem; the only thing that will save us from starvation because of high food prices, will be another recession or depression, which will lower food prices (which the poor still may not be able to afford, though). The first consideration of ecological economics is "how big can our economy get?" (Before, that is, resource limitations such as land, oil, etc. restrict further economic growth.) He doesn't really address this and while I'm sure he is aware of it, it doesn't enter into the discussion either in chapter 6 ("Merging Ecology and Economy") or anywhere else. Our agricultural system is already in ecological overshoot and we need to address the question, how much food can be sustainably produced at all? And how many people can be fed in such a world? If he had addressed these questions, he would probably come up with an answer of about 2 to 3 billion. (I'm speaking off the top of my head here -- I need to write my own book to fully explain this statement.) And THAT'S assuming we're using technology to the max and we're all vegans. We can probably support more than that for a while -- perhaps quite a while -- but inevitably there will be a population crash. The original "Limits to Growth" study set this date at about 2050 in the "main" (business as usual) scenario. The question of how big our agriculture can get is extremely significant, and how we can get from where we are now to a sustainable agriculture (and a lower population) is even more perplexing. No one is really talking about it. I hope that McWilliams will turn his considerable analytical talents in this direction. It is a most difficult task because there is currently no popular version of "ecological economics" out there. There is some technical academic stuff from Herman Daly, et. al. (whom he quotes at least once, as I recall), but we lack even the most basic tools to discuss this subject intelligently in public. Instead, all he can do is talk about "perverse subsidies" -- which is fine as far as it goes, but doesn't go nearly far enough.

Người đọc Francisco Tapia từ West Bergholt, Colchester, Essex, UK

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.