Patryk Grądys từ San Antonio Suchitepéquez, Guatemala

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12/22/2024

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2019-10-23 10:30

Em Thích Giỏi Tiếng Việt - Lớp 2 Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Play Bac

Classic Sparks. Emotional, sentimental; not badly written, better than the last book of his I read; a surprise ending caught me pleasantly off guard. The usual opinions.

2019-10-23 11:30

Trí Tưởng Tượng Mở Con Đường (Tái Bản 2017) Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

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There's a strange dynamic at play in Peter Post's Essential Manners for Men. On the one hand, Post regularly calls on his readers to follow the essential manners. However, in this postmodern, globalized age, is anything "essential?" Perhaps not, but Post maintains that we should be considerate by remaining aware of social guidelines for behavior. Still, I found it problematic that Post calls on us to be considerate, not because it's right, but rather because it can cost us if we are not. Isn't it crass to apply the logic of the marketplace to manners? Post points out that if we break the rules in front of our clients, they are free to "take their business elsewhere, for whatever reason" -- including bad manners. I imagine this argument is stated at greater length in Post's other book, The Etiquette Advantage in Business. This argument becomes more troublesome when Post begins to discuss male-female relationships. Though not directly stated, Post regularly organizes his call to action around the notion that women are free to "take their business elsewhere, for whatever reason." And you can bet that includes bad manners. It seems like bad manners to outline relationships using business analogies, though I'll admit that I'm not an expert. Crass or not, I wonder how important -- and how uniform -- etiquette really is to women. For one thing, it's clear that the majority of the complaints Post shares come from women that live with their partner. I think it's fair to say that "business," to use the parlance of Post's book, is being transacted. At best, what Post's complaints reveal is the way that we tend to focus on the negative. We tend to nitpick our partners for their faults rather than commending them for their achievements. Is that impolite? Post regularly relies on the notion that men have poor etiquette and women tend to be better, and more traditionally, mannered. I'm not saying this isn't true. It may well be true. Still, the pictures at the start of every chapter hearken back to the Jazz Age, suggesting that those were the days when men were "men," which also implies that those were the days when women were "women." I found myself wondering whether women are today generally better mannered than their male counterparts. Perhaps it is the gentleman's responsibility to argue that women are better mannered. To make his arguments, Post relies on a poll conducted by the Emily Post Institute, and he often shares his "shocking" results. However, I couldn't help recalling Homer Simpson's famous claim that "statistics can be used to prove anything. 14% of people know that," particularly when I came across Post's argument that we (men) should modify our behavior because "one in seven women" disapprove of X and Y. Is one in seven really a persuasive statistic, or does it just sound like it should be? At other times, Post is on firmer ground, citing an 88% disapproval rating on this or that, but few of these results come as surprises. Don't we already read enough articles about putting down the toilet seat (and other mundane pet peeves) in the "Life" section of the newspaper? Finally, Post's comments on public displays of affection had me laughing out loud. In a world of "sexting," Post worries about people kissing in public -- anything beyond a public peck is too much. Of course, "more than a peck" might be acceptable in Europe, Post suggests, where apparently "anything" goes -- especially in Italy and France. So why bother reading Essential Manners for Men? After all, aren't the people most in need of a book on etiquette the ones that are least likely to read it? We are human beings and we make mistakes everyday. Certainly I do. So I'm always happy to return to the rule book, even if Essential Manners for Men wasn't the most impressive set of rules I've encountered. Nevertheless, I wish I'd read this book, or perhaps a book like this but that doesn't ground its principles in cost/ benefits analysis, when I was 13, rather than in my late 20s.

2019-10-23 12:30

Con Ngủ Đi Con Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Tú

What an enjoyable book! The story is a wonderful tale about how the bats are able to enjoy the library at night. The illustrations are rich with their deep colors. And, it is fun to see how many classic books you can see while reading this story. We enjoyed this book so much that we will be purchasing a copy to have it for our own collection. I highly recommend it to book loving children.

2019-10-23 13:30

Những Câu Chuyện Ở Xứ Thần Tiên - Vườn Địa Đàng Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

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I'm not into women but I love the heart shaped ass on the cover.

2019-10-23 14:30

Giúp Em Học Giỏi Hóa Học Lớp 9 (2014) Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

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i still don't know how i feel about this book, except i know that i like it a lot...the plot is twisty and hard to pin down, and the characters are deeply flawed, but it is such a good look at how much our society underestimates the non-sexual power of adolescence. [edited to add: i now know how I feel about this book. I really, really like it. It's not for the faint of heart - it's adult even for young adult fiction. But it has very brave and deeply flawed characters and deals amazingly with what war means to individuals and how humans are driven not only to survive, but to form, support, and build up community. It's truly gut-wrenching in the best and worst senses.]

2019-10-23 15:30

Đàm Thoại Tiếng Hoa Học Đường Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Hải Yến

I started this book on Tuesday, and then finished it on Wednesday, so I guess I liked it! Fans of fantasy and variations on famous fairy tales won't be disappointed by "Wildwood Dancing".

2019-10-23 16:30

Nếu Như Không Có Điện - Khám Phá Vương Quốc Điện Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Nhiều Tác Giả

Interaction between sisters and family and the feelings that seem to get suppressed in the story were about secrets.

2019-10-23 17:30

From Impossible To Inevitable Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Aaron Ross

I'm glad that I didn't read the reviews for this book before I read it. The reviews gave me the impression that it was the younger, more homely sister among siblings, as compared to The Book of Salt. However, I really liked this book. The first half was a rolling bike ride through Linda Hammerick's childhood and introduction to the main characters. The language was beautiful, if the not the painful relationships between the characters. An estranged mother and father, a grandmother with no filter on her tongue, a great uncle with nothing and everything in common with her and a best friend who barely acts like a friend. This is all tempered through the eyes of her special talent, the association of tastes with all of the words in her life. Act 2: Linda drops the bomb and explains all of the craziness just described in act 1. Her father's love for a Vietnamese woman (her mother), the crazy night that brought her to live with her adoptive mother and father, the fact that she is Asian (Linh-Dao), the fact that her uncle is a closet homosexual and cross-dresser and the fact that she has a medical condition call synesthesia (a crossing of two sensory portions of the brain).

2019-10-23 18:30

Ping - Vượt Khỏi Ao Tù - Tái bản 09/2013 Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Stuart Avery Gold

Another PD James book that probes the darkness of the human soul, only this one set in 2027. She takes the same highbrow intelligence she applies to the mystery genre and applies it to sci fi. As with any James, it is dark, dark, dark, mitigated somehow by sentences that unfold like flowers. It seems to have little relationship with the movie--as with her mysteries it becomes a character study with characters in extremis--except this time the "extremis" is the extinction of the entire race. Wonderful.

2019-10-23 19:30

Từ Điển Nga - Việt Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

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12th grade English class assignment: pick a book then choose a part and recite. I chose this book and what i recited was the passage (on this edition pages 148 to 150) of the accident-acid-trip from eating chocolate covered peanuts... my teacher was shocked but i believe it got a point across... needless to say, she wasn't surprised when on the next read-what-you-want assignment i chose A Clockwork Orange.

2020-08-05 23:28

Bé Đọc Thơ Vui & Tập Vẽ - Tập 2 Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Tinh Tinh

A helpful guide - but take it with a grain of salt - they had to fill the pages so they put in every possible worst case scenario out there!

Người đọc Patryk Grądys từ San Antonio Suchitepéquez, Guatemala

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.