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Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Osho
I really enjoyed this book. the set up was very exciting! there's no way of actually guessing the end till your there. for a teen vampire book the plot was well put together!
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Dương Thụy
loved this book and my favorite charter is snowy
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Bích Lãnh
I find Douglas Coupland's work to be very hit and miss, and was expecting for this to be a miss after hearing some poor reviews from friends, but I actually really enjoyed it. The family was dysfunctional in comic proportions, yes, but I really responded to the real affecftion and sweetness in it and found it quite touching.
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Châu Văn Văn
I love this book. I love the main character's journey from a young awkward princess into a very strong, brave princess. I love the friends she meets along the way and the magic, not only in the story but in the words Shannon Hale weaves. I love the names she makes up and think the sound of the book is very beautiful.
Sách được viết bởi Bởi:
Every character in this absorbing tale of suburbia is defined by their children and their inner child's desire to live life freely. There's the unhappy stay-at-home mom who questions her identity and her role as caretaker; the stay-at-home dad who figures prominently in the interior fantasies of all the other stay-at-home moms who still yearns for the glory and freedom of his younger days; and the mom so consumed by her duties as mom that she schedules sex once a week with her husband. Finally there's the pedophile who has been released from jail who haunts their neighborhood and unearths their greatest fears.
This is an extremely important book, and Derek Freeman is a hero for writing it. At the beginning of his career, Freeman accepted Margaret Mead's claims about Samoa - he trusted that she had done her ethnography well. But, when he went to Samoa to do his own fieldwork there, he gradually realized that Mead had made some egregious mistakes, and that many of the claims that Mead made about Samoans were dead wrong. Given the influence that Mead's ethnography of Samoa had on the development of cultural anthropological theory, Freeman felt compelled to set the record straight. He spent the next several decades reviewing historical accounts of Samoan culture, collecting his own observations of Samoans, and analyzing hard data such as police and hospital records that provided a wealth of information about Samoan culture. Freeman refutes Mead so clearly and with so much CONVERGENT EVIDENCE from different kinds of sources that I honestly cannot imagine anyone reading this book and still believing that Mead's portrayal of Samoan culture is even slightly credible. For instance, while Mead insisted that unmarried girls were allowed and even encouraged to have casual sex with several boys before getting married, Freeman provided loads of evidence to show that girls and their families were very protective of the unmarried girls' virginity. If a girl's hymen was breached, her attractiveness as a potential wife plummeted (because she could no longer prove her virginity). Also, Mead insisted that "the idea of forcible rape or of any other sexual act to which both participants do not give themselves freely is completely foreign to the Samoan Mind." (That's a quote from Mead, not Freeman). This claim seems very hard to believe, and, sure enough, Freeman shows that it is completely false. Police records from Samoa suggest that rape and sexual assault are more common in Samoa than in most places. In fact, Samoan males would teach each other a specific technique for assaulting girls in which the male begins by stunning the girl with a strong strike to the solar plexus. Finally, the practice of "moetotolo" - in which men sneak into the beds of female virgins and penetrate their vaginas with their fingers to breach the hymen - is devastating to girls. Freeman even reported an account of a girl who committed suicide after being assaulted in her sleep. The list of slam-dunk refutations could go on and on. But this is not a morbid book, as the above discussion of rape would suggest. Rather, it is radiant with a passion for truth and scientific rigor, and its an inspiring demonstration of independent thought and intellectual courage. Freeman respected the Samoan people, and tried to convey them as fully human - with similar virtues and vices that occur all over the world. Because Freeman so unequivocally refutes Mead, and Mead is so beloved by the cultural anthropology community, lots of people have been extremely critical of Freeman's book. Since they have a very difficult time challenging his actual arguments, they desperately resort to ad hominem attacks - calling him cowardly, opportunistic, mean-spirited, etc. But these attacks are outrageously unfair: Freeman knew that his refutation of Mead would be treated as heresy by his colleagues. He knew that by defending his convictions about Samoa he would be isolating himself from the scholarly community that he had been a member of throughout his whole life. But he decided to sacrifice his reputation in the name of science, and there's nothing more admirable than that. Indeed, there is one group of people who have consistently favored Freeman's ethnography over Mead's: the people of Samoa. P.S. I should also tell you that this book is not only about the reality of Samoan culture; it is also about the intellectual history of cultural anthropology. Freeman explains how an extreme version of cultural determinism developed among social theorists as a reaction to the Eugenics movement, and how the radical cultural determinists felt morally obligated to defend their absolute rejection of "biological determinism" by all means necessary. So Freeman does not only reveal THAT Margaret Mead distorted the facts about Samoa, but WHY.
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Đặng Xuân Lĩnh
I enjoyed this book but I did have early on figured out what was going on but didn't know who all the players were. It has been a long time since I have read a medical mystery.
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Nhiều Tác Giả
I wasn't able to finish this book, unfortunately. When I read Eragon, I think I was the perfect age for it: 12 or 13. But then the second book came out much later and I obtained it even later than that. By the time I was finally getting around to it, I lost interest for some reason, and instead chose to read books like Jane Eyre and Philippa Gregory's novels. But I don't doubt for a moment that the story would have unwraveled in a beautiful way, and I think Paolini is an amazing writer with an unbelievable imagination.
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Dr. Lin Lougheed
Terrible book. Terrible movie. Also, I hate the Civil War.
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Jean Piaget
Paris to the Moon is a collection of articles & essays written by the author for his column in the New Yorker. They tell of the experiences that he had with his wife & son as Americans living abroard in Paris. Like many essay & short story collections, some of the selections in this book were a lot stronger than others.
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.