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Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Đỗ Thị Hồng Nhung
i look forward to each new "stephanie plum" novel- they can be counted on to be fun, snappy and an enjoyable read. this one was all those things and all my favorite characters were present. however, i must say that the "will they, won't they" dance between Stephanie and Ranger is tired as is Stephanie lamenting her life, but doing absolutely nothing to change it. still, a fun, breezy addition to the series. just don't expect any character development; they are precisely the same as book one.
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Huy Phương (Tuyển chọn)
i was obviously on a kingsolver kick in 1997 and 1996, but a good book none the less.
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Đặng Thủ Nghiêu
This book deserves credit for prsenting the basic model of western mediation. A good read for anyone just wanted to get familiar with the basic process. Alot has evolved from this. Very procedural.
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Trần Ngọc Thuận
The Secret Life of Bees was an excellent book but definitely a 'girly read'. The characters, especially the calendar sisters, were well-rounded and loveable. The way Lily used her self-contrived lies as crutches through her father's unkindness and memories of her mother was sadly relatable (because everyone has used denial as a defense mechanism). When she eventually opens herself to the truth, her story is downright heartwarming.
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Some pretty dubious uses of econometrics. Continues the economic tradition of assuming that data removed from studies by mathematically trying to achieve ceteris paribus is not important.
This is a terribly difficult book to write a review of, especially a short one. I'd be happy to talk to anyone about it, but in this sort of space, I'm going to stick with: perfect.
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Trương Văn Ánh
This book has two narrative threads, one taking place a hundred years ago in Chicago and one in present-day Chicago and Europe. The first thread involves the killing of a Jewish immigrant by a Chicago police official, while the other involves the travels of Bosnian immigrant living in Chicago who travels to Europe to research the story of the Jewish immigrant. Hemon does a good job of telling both stories and creating structures for both stories that parallel each other. The problem I have with this book is that neither narrative thread is particularly compelling. This is especially true of the story taking place in the present day. It's simply dull. A fully realized novel based on the story of the Jewish immigrant could have been a major work, but as it is written the historical story is not fleshed out enough to be truly memorable.
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Trần Mạnh Hà
Review: November 2006 Philosophy and the World it Rules This book is composed of a translation of Xenophon's Hiero, a commentary by Leo Strauss ('On Tyranny') on it, two essays (one by Kojève, one by Strauss) outlining the controversy between them and finally, in the latest edition, the correspondence between them. After reading the essays Kojève and Strauss aimed at each other one comes to suspect that the major difference between the two is how, precisely, philosophy is to rule the world. Strauss prefers the ancient way of moderately (and occasionally) influencing the Nomos while Kojève insists that Nomos (i.e., Law) must be exactly equal to Philosophy - or, more precisely, equal to exactly what philosophy wants of it. Thus Strauss is for 'ruling' while Kojève wants to Rule. Thus it really is very funny how Kojève 'accuses' Strauss of insanity! By this, Kojève only means that if a philosopher does not go forth and change the World he can never know that his understanding is not mere private fancy - that is, madness. Since Kojève believes that in order to be rational philosophy must rule all he accuses the practical moderation defended by Strauss of madness. Of course, one could moderately accuse Kojève's 'Enlightened' dream of One World of the same thing... Thus the argument between them is not whether philosophy should rule - but exactly how it should rule. Kojève believes that without the arrival of the Final Philosophical Artifact -the Universal Homogenous State (UHS)- philosophy is only a private mania. But Strauss says that the UHS will make philosophy impossible. To Kojève, the UHS is a monument to Philosophical Reason while for Strauss it is its tomb. Kojève invites Strauss to join him in making the UHS -it is a great honor!- but Strauss declines because he cannot bring himself to preside over the End of Philosophy. Thus it is very amusing that over the years, thanks primarily to Allan Bloom (who studied with both Kojève and Strauss) and students (of students) of Bloom there has arisen the 'Straussian' neoconservative position that it is the duty of US foreign policy to make the World into good democratic, liberal capitalists in the Euro-American vein. But this 'Straussian' neoconservative position really is at most a hybrid of Kojève and Strauss which leans decidedly in the Kojèvean direction. No? Then have the courage to read the exchange between Kojève and Strauss (Essays and Correspondence) and decide for yourself. For those that only have the old 1983 edition I want to point out, even insist, that the correspondence adds some nice touches to the argument between Kojève and Strauss that should not be missed. For instance, we see here quite clearly how important the Criterion of Knowledge is to Kojève's thought: "As regards myself, I came to Hegel by way of the question of criteria. I see only three possibilities: (a) Plato's-Husserl's "intuition of essences" (which I do not believe [for one has to believe it]); (b) relativism (in which one cannot live); (c) Hegel and "circularity." If, however, one assumes circularity as the only criterion of truth (including the moral), then everything else follows automatically." (Kojève, Letter of Sept 19, 1950, p 256.) Thus when one sees that between the extremes of what Kojève is pleased to call 'intuition' (Religion, Phenomenology, 'esoteric' silence) and its failure ('chatter', relativism, postmodernism) there is only the 'Circularity of the Concept' then one begins to see why Kojève must proclaim the 'End of History' - it is to protect the 'Absolute Knowledge' such Circularity requires. (Absolute Knowledge, btw, means unchanging knowledge while circularity means that wherever we begin our research we end, if we proceed scientifically (i.e., in a Hegelian manner), always in the same place.) Kojève, in the same letter, goes on to concede that there was for him once a fourth possibility: "For a time I believed in a fourth possibility: nature is "identical," hence the classical criterion can be retained for nature. But now I believe that one can only be silent about nature (mathematics). Hence: either one remains "classically" silent (cp. Plato's Parmenides and Seventh Epistle), or one chatters "in the modern manner" (Pierre Bayle), or one is an Hegelian." (p. 256) Thus we see that nature was at one time also a possible 'criterion' for Kojève. But he abandons it and with it the Hegelian 'Philosophy of Nature'. Strauss, however, is insistent that there is a 'human nature' and he continually throws it in the face of Kojève. Of this Kojève writes: "Regarding the issue, I can only keep repeating the same thing. If there is something like "human nature," then you are surely right in everything. But to deduce from premises is not the same as to prove these premises. And to infer premises from (anyway questionable) consequences is always dangerous." (Kojève, Letter of October 29, 1953, p 261.) Thus Kojève says to Strauss that he can't prove what he says and, of course, Kojève can. -But he can do so if, and only if, History Ends as Kojève says it will. But the proof of success is no proof of Reason but only of power... In any case, we see Strauss still pressing the point on nature a few years later: "You have never given me an answer to my questions: a) was Nietzsche not right in describing the Hegelian-Marxian end as "the last man"? and b) what would you put into the place of Hegel's philosophy of nature?" (Strauss, Letter of Sept 11, 1957, p 291.) It is my belief that Strauss is convinced that this lack of what the ancients would have thought of as a cosmology (i.e., cosmogony) allows ordinary people in the secular, atheistic UHS to turn to religion. He argues that Wisdom in the UHS can only belong to a tiny few and that: "...if wisdom does not become common property, the mass remains in the thrall of religion, that is to say of an essentially particular and particularizing power (Christianity, Islam, Judaism...), which means that the decline and fall of the universal-homogenous state is unavoidable." (Strauss, Letter August, 22, 1948, p 238.) Without some sort of Cosmogony the atheistic UHS cannot hold onto its citizens. Of course, this is true only if the UHS must be entirely secular. However, if somehow a right-Hegelian (i.e., religious) interpretation were to prevail in the UHS this would no longer be necessary. And the UHS could survive indefinitely... But Kojève, of course, discounts this possibility, for him there are only two Hegelian possibilities: "If the Westerners remain capitalist (that is to say, also nationalist), they will be defeated by Russia, and that is how the End-State will come about. If, however, they "integrate" their economies and policies (they are on their way to doing so), then they can defeat Russia. And that is how the End-State will be reached (the same universal and homogenous State). But in the first case it will be spoken about in "Russian" (with Lysenko, etc.), and in the second case - in "European"." (Kojève, Letter of Sept. 19, 1950, p 256.) But historically this is false. The first interpretation of Hegel (during his lifetime) was religious. Thus one wonders if the UHS with a universal Hegelian religion could somehow be brought about... But that is another story. So, for those of you familiar with an earlier edition I hope I have given some hint of how the letters amplify and expand the argument between Kojève and Strauss that we first saw in the essays included in earlier editions. This book is superb - I have only hinted at its intricate arguments - do not pass it up!
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: George Ohsawa
Interesting idea (tapes from a dead girl after she committed suicide), but ultimately didn't think that the idea of having various kids send the cassette tapes on (as prescribed by the girl who killed herself) would happen in reality. Felt device-y, but engaging read.
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Jin Kai an
I was in my gothic fase where everything was cool about vampires...co at the time this book seemed perfect. Good movie too...better than the book for me. Saw that a couple times actualy.
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