Deepanshu Pareek từ Runavik, Faroe Islands

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2018-12-16 20:30

Tài Liệu Chuyên Toán Đại Số - Lớp 10 - Tái bản 08/2011 Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Nhiều Tác Giả

carry a copy, everywhere I go...

2018-12-16 21:30

Tủ Sách Tuổi Hoa - Ngục Thất Giữa Rừng Già Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Mỹ Lan

I have never really grasped semiotics. I get the general idea, one thing, the sign, points to something else. For example this "0" is a sign for zero, but zero as a concept outside of any particular zero (ok, bad example, but that's what this book is about, just take it for face value that is a something 'zero' in the world, and forget that the very idea of their being the existence of this 'zero' is possibly paradoxical to all ideas of reality). But why doesn't the concept of zero point to the mark "0"? Maybe this is pretty self evident, but in other examples the whole thing becomes a muddle, for me at least, kind of like a chicken or the egg question. As a result I have never given much attention to semiotics, it hurts my head and leads to unnecessary confusion, for me at least. Besides the whole thing reeks of a Platonism I'm not fully able to accept. That said, there are large parts of this book I didn't quite get, but other parts that I enjoyed quite a bit and shed an interesting light on the current state of fiscal unease the world is feeling. The argument of the book is that the concept of zero entered into the European mind at about the same time that paper money came to economics and the vanishing point into painting. All three represent revolutions of sort in the way that the world was viewed. Sadly for me of the three topics being explored the one that I could grasp best was the effect of money, the math part being a little out of my depth, and the art part falling into my general ignorance of art (I know so little about art, and anytime I read about art in books I just nod along and take whatever the writer says at face value, I have no critical faculties in place, and with my guard down I feel really dumb. This is opposed to the math parts that I sort of understood but just never really stopped to do all the necessary thought I should have. I'm a terrible reader sometimes.). The idea behind this book is that the introduction of this nothingness into the three different spheres created quite a stir at first, they were 'dangerous' ideas in some respect, and then something strange happened the nothingness inherent in each of these three fields reflected back on itself, thus creating a sort of meta-nothingness that altered entirely the definition of the original nothingness and as a result 'sanitized' the concept itself, but at the risk of unleashing ramifications that would be invisible (in art I don't know exactly how this works out, I'm sticking the cash money part that I can actually wrap my head around). It's this second move of the concept, the 'meta' zero-point that's quite interesting in the book, and I think that it kind of explains some of the difficulties I have of wrapping my head around the whole semiotics problem. What does it mean for a sign to point towards itself? What kind of problems does this entail? Why should we care about shit like this anyway since isn't it really just a bunch of post modern crap? I would like to think so, but the 'postmodern' turns in the examples Rotman gives all happened in a time when Modernity wasn't even getting ready to rear it's difficult little head. In the money example what happens is that paper money is introduced. Paper money itself is nothing, rather it's a sign that points towards something, that would be some kind of metal that has been granted the authority of having value that can be used to trade for 'goods'. The metal itself has no inherent value, rather society decided that certain things found in the ground were valuable and had the purpose of being hoarded, spent, lost, won, earned, etc. Already the stuff found in the ground is a sign towards something that doesn't really exist except in the collective acceptance that this thing you dug up is worth something. (For example, if everyone but one guy woke up one day and decided that gold wasn't worth anything, that it was as good as any stone you see on the ground (this is at a time when gold was used as a standard of currency), and everyone now accepted this then the one person who still believed that his gold was worth something would come to a rude awakening when he tried to pass it off to buy some eggs in the morning. It would be like going to the store with some string and trying to change it in for something.) So in a way gold (or silver, or bronze, of whatever you want to insert here), is a wide spread and all pervasive delusion that society in it's entirety accepts so that things will run smoothly. Now if you think about it that way the stuff from the ground is already on shaky ground, it's value proscribed by delusions. Now add a piece of paper that allows the bearer to trade in these things from the ground, that they don't actually have access to, but which are held by the place that issued the piece of paper. Now make another move where the pieces of paper aren't even pointing anymore to a one to one ratio with the gold, but which fluctuate in it's value based on a while variety of variables and at the same time, make the paper money the standard, and you start to see the sign of paper money pointing towards something tangible and outside of itself to in general acceptance pointing only towards other paper money. This pointing towards itself is the 'meta' move. This isn't really anything to be worried about, but eventually society forgets that the money is pointing ultimately towards something outside of itself, and behold it's enough to make it permanetly point towards itself (such as what happened when paper money was no longer backed by gold or silver, such as the case in the present day). Now money, which was originally only a sign points only towards itself. The results of this can be seen in a whole slew of economic problems that are occurring today. Looking at a problem in this way is using a postmodern / deconstruction approach, but what Rotman argues is that the moves are tied up in the very notion of zero. This review is sort of a whole bunch of nonsense, and I'm realizing now that I completely missed explaining how he connected paper money to zero, but think of it as the cliff hanger that will make you want to seek out the book and read it. Seriously it's an interesting book, and it utilizes many different disciplines to show the effect that zero has had on both society and on the concept itself.

2018-12-16 22:30

Tuyển tập 351 bài toán Hoá học Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Võ Tường Huy

The Almost Moon by Alice Sebold was a struggle for me to get through. I had a really hard time relating to the characters in the book. I really enjoyed Lovely Bones but found this one to be a bit out of my comfort zone and slightly disturbing.

2018-12-16 23:30

Đi Vẽ - Nhật Ký Hội Họa 2014 Của Trịnh Lữ Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi:

Too simple, too predictable...

2018-12-17 00:30

Catherine Cô Bé Đeo Mắt Kính Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Patrick Modiano

Makes me not like white people................

2018-12-17 01:30

Chị Hằng Nga Kể Chuyện - Tập 2: Chuyện Về Trí Thông Minh (Kèm CD) Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Trịnh Minh Thanh

Donna Tartt wrote a splendid book called The Secret History which both celebrated and skewered hyper-intellectualism as well as explored the process of interacting with a text and the pleasures of narrative devices. This book follows roughly the same storyline (and, incidentally, the storyline of Daniel Handler's The Basic Eight, down to the "study questions" at the end), except there's absolutely no reason for the precious chapter titles and the annotated references - they have no bearing on the story itself and the general effect is talking with someone who's read a lot of books and hasn't understood a damn one of them. The irritating dialogue is more reminiscent of chick lit than of anything spoken in real life or in the realm of drama, and the narrator is utterly divorced from the grand intellectual she is supposed to be (again: see The Secret History for an excellent depiction of young scholars). No one has any sort of believable emotional reaction to anything, because no one has any discernable personality traits. Charles, Camilla, and Frances wander over from Tartt's novel to halfheartedly play roles as Charles, Leulah (really!) and Nigel, and then get bored and leave after the story inexplicably becomes a murder mystery. The only possible killer is so obviously telegraphed from early on that all of Blue's supermarket-paperback-mystery "sleuthing" is enragingly tiresome. Also, there's some sort of limp romantic subplot that I guess we're supposed to care about. So where The Secret History is a brilliant story of the delights and dangers of text and narrative and a wrenching depiction of a classical sort of madnesss, Special Topics in Calamity Physics is the same book shat out and frosted with irritatingly perky metaphors and the worst dialogue I've seen outside of a Harlequin pulper. If you want to read this book and aren't a fan of Donna Tartt, just read The Basic Eight, which is shorter and more entertaining.

2018-12-17 02:30

Những Mảnh Ghép Cuộc Đời Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Jim Rohn

This is the story of a young woman leaving home and dealing with her introduction into society and coming to grips with her family (or lack thereof), sexuality, and, well, herself in general. Great book!

2018-12-17 03:30

Luyện Kỹ Năng Nghe & Nói Tiếng Anh Trong Phỏng Vấn Xin Việc Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Ngọc Linh

An interesting depiction of human interaction. Very enjoyable, and no one will forget what a conch shell is after reading this book.

2018-12-17 04:30

Tôi Cứ Nghĩ Yêu Là Để Hạnh Phúc Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Gia Đoàn

Very compelling story. I don't agree too much with Chris McCandless's ideals and beliefs but definitely respect his decisions to live out his dreams without any inhibitions. I was afraid that the author would over-romanticize the story but he told it from all different perspectives which kept me thinking about this book even after I was finished reading it.

2018-12-17 05:30

Mong Manh Tình Đầu Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Born

Wow, I loved this story. I didn't expect the intensity or the complexity of Bianca's relationships with her boyfriend, her best friend, her roommate, her parents...even her schoolmate enemy. Her experiences and thoughts were realistically believable despite this vampire, ghoulish world. Can't wait for the next!!!

Người đọc Deepanshu Pareek từ Runavik, Faroe Islands

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.