Gabriel Monk từ Eidendorf, Austria

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05/17/2024

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2019-11-08 10:30

Hạnh Phúc Một Mình (Tặng Kèm Móc Khóa - Số Lượng Có Hạn) Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Mộc Diệp Tử

I thought this was a great, fast read that still had meaning. Recommended for everyone's TBR list.

2019-11-08 11:30

Từ Điển Usborne Hóa Học Minh Họa - Sách Song Ngữ Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi:

Not a badly written book - I just thought it was kind of boring.

2019-11-08 12:30

Thấy Phật (Tái Bản 2014) Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Cao Huy Thuần

impressive. sad. homey.

2019-11-08 13:30

Thiết Kế Thời Trang Nữ - Xuân Hè Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Triệu Thị Chơi

Enjoyable rants.

2019-11-08 14:30

Cô Bé Mác-tin Chăm Sóc Bạn Chim Sẻ (Bìa Mềm) Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Marcel Marlier

Really good, and not at all what I was expecting. Rash's description of small Appalachian communities can be pretty dark and grim, but it's also dead-on accurate. Travis Shelton, a high school dropout living in Madison County, North Carolina, finds a field of marijuana while he is looking for a new fishing hole. He steals a few plants to sell to a small-time drug dealer for extra money. When he returns for more, his foot is mangled in a bear trap that was left out by the growers, the vicious Toomeys. In the aftermath of his injury, Travis's father kicks him out. He moves in with Leonard Shuler, the dealer who bought the first batch of plants, and his eternally-drugged girlfriend. Leonard becomes a father figure for Travis, helping him to finish his GED and encouraging him to apply to college. Unfortunately, just when the men seem to be getting their lives in order, the Toomeys make a violent return. I didn't love the end-- I thought it was needlessly dramatic (Full disclosure: lately I almost never like the end of books. I think it may be a personal failing.) Otherwise, I thought this was a terrific book. Rash really seemed to understand the insularity of small mountain communities, and the sense of hopelessness and pointlessness that can mark life there. Not exactly uplifting, but I'm very glad I read it.

2019-11-08 15:30

Bộ Túi Bé Tô Màu Thỏ Con Khéo Tay (Trọn Bộ 5 Cuốn) Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi:

Coming from a position that cannot be easily characterized as either Left or Right, Saul critiques technocracy and the anti-democratic culture of management and conformity, the favoring of private profit to public good, which comprise what he calls "corporatism." Regularly citing Adam Smith in opposition to the received truths of contemporary "free market" evangelists, Saul argues that markets do have a proper place in society (a fun game for those with the means to enjoy them!), but that they do not necessarily lead to free speech or democracy. For Saul, the corporatist emphasis on management involves aversion to risk and innovation (hence the past three decades of financial card shuffling in lieu of real economic activity), short-term decision-making without long-term vision (e.g., over-fishing, inaction on global warming, etc.), and an absence of critical thinking and reflection in general. He isn't what you would call a "conspiracy theorist" (i.e., someone like Jim Marrs) in regard to the corporatist culture he critiques. In fact, for Saul, "there is no need for a conspiracy. These are structures managed by servants. Their logic is public and self-evident. Complex, long-range conspiracies require conscious leaders. To treat the technocrats as such is to give credence to their illusions about themselves" (122-3). If society will permit and reward robbery, robbery will be invested in. (151) Practical humanism is the voyage toward equilibrium without the expectation of actually arriving there. (154) At the very origin of management theory lies the falsely scientific Taylorist model of the mechanistic human. The uncertainty of time, which surrounds human activity, is to be removed by encasing us in a structure fit for machinery. Machines may depreciate, but they do not fear death....[C]orporatism--with its markets- and technology-led delusions--is profoundly tied to a mechanistic view of the human race. This is not an ideology with any interest in or commitment to the shape of society or the individual as citizen. It is fixed upon a rush to use machinery--inanimate or human--while these are still at full value; before they suffer any depreciation. (156, 158) The intellectual life of both Right and Left is thus similar because both are based upon a conception of individualism as self-absorption or selfishness. The Left, of course, would protest that these rights are equally distributed and therefore represent a form of fairness. They would also protest that they see government, regulation and taxation as making up the essential structure that enables society to function fairly. But if their definition of rights creates a form of individualism independent from that essential structure, well then, they have created the conditions for the aborting--both theoretical and practical--of the fair society they wished to create.... As for the version of individualism advocated by the Right, it is the product of either naivete or cynicism. What are they saying? That individualism requires the individual citizen to deny himself the use of his ability and his right to pool his strengths with those of other citizens through the public mechanisms of their on making. This is a maniacally self-destructive view of human society. It abandons the individual to isolation before enormous, unpredictable and uncontrollable forces. (159) I would like to mention one last source of the Left's weakness. From the beginnings of the Enlightenment there has been among reformers at least the hint of a fear of the citizen. The liberals in particular have been devoted to the citizen in theory, but not really to the citizen in flesh and bone and in mind. (162) The individual's rights are guaranteed by law only to the extent that they are protected by the citizenry's exercise of their obligation to participate in society. Rights are a protection from society. But only by fulfilling their obligations to society can the individual give meaning to that protection. (163-4) Now the very essence of corporatism is minding your own business. And the very essence of individualism is the refusal to mind your own business. This is not a particularly pleasant or easy style of life. It is not profitable, efficient, competitive or rewarded. It often consists of being persistently annoying to others as well as being stubborn and repetitive....Criticism is perhaps the citizenry's primary weapon in the exercise of her legitimacy. That is why, in the corporatist society, conformism, loyalty and silence of so admired and rewarded; why criticism is so punished or marginalized. (165) We have progressed in our control of high treason. We no longer need to draw and quarter. The heretic today merely finds his career shattered and himself cast to the margins of corporatist society. (169) It is through language that we will find our way out of our current dilemma, just as a rediscovery of language provided a way out for Westerners during the humanist breakthrough that began in the twelfth century. For those addicted to concrete solutions, this call for a rebirth or rediscovery of meaning may well seem vague and unrelated to reality. But language, when it works, is the tool that makes it possible to invoke reality. (171) The difficulty with many of the arguments used today to examine reigning fallacies is that they have fallen into the general assumptions of deconstructionism. They do not seek meaning or knowledge or truth. They seek to demonstrate that all language is tied to interest. The deconstructionists have argued against language as communication in order to get at the evils of rhetoric and propaganda. But if language is always self-interest, then there is no possibility of disinterest and therefore no possibility of the public good. The net effect has been to reinforce the corporatist point of view that we all exist as functions within our corporations. To rephrase this problem in terms of my argument, the deconstructionists have effectively attacked our addiction to answers, but in such a way as to undermine the validity of our questions. And so the answers, assertive as they are, stand reinforced. (172-3) It seems to me that a sensible list of the human qualities would run as follows: common sense, creativity or imagination, ethics (not morality), intuition or instinct, memory and, finally, reason. I have arranged all six in alphabetical order because I do not believe that equilibrium is aided by attempts to create orders of importance or precedence. (182)

2019-11-08 16:30

Lịch Sử Việt Nam Bằng Tranh Tập 39 : Ông Nghè Ông Cống (Tái Bản 2018) Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi:

Francine Rivers... books written in the love language, inspired by Love, also known as God. This book is inspired partly by the drift in generations in the authors own family, inspired by her grandmother`s life. This book also deals with a serious problem that is usually debated these days: euthanasia. After reading this book i dream of having a garden some day...

2019-11-08 17:30

Truyện Cổ Nước Nam - Quyển 2: Phần Chim Muông Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Ôn Như Nguyễn Vǎn Ngọc

More than just another explanation of an important hadith, this is a classic in defining the true bearers of knowledge. While it inspires you to seek knowledge, it also reminds, advises and at parts quite sternly warns of the requisites for doing so. Must-read!

2019-11-08 18:30

Luật Tiến Hóa & Dịch Lý Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Nguyễn Cường

difficult read - but essential from a political and social perspective. heard the author lecture at the library. he was so good that three couples created a book club using this book as the foundation for our political/history interests.

2019-11-08 19:30

Kỹ Thuật Điều Khiển Tự Động (Tập 1) Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi:

LOL funny. A great chic-lit/romantic comedy.

Người đọc Gabriel Monk từ Eidendorf, Austria

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.