Riyan Ganteng từ Afanasyevka, Saratovskaya oblast', Russia

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12/22/2024

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2020-01-16 14:31

Chuyện Nhỏ Sài Gòn Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Đàm Hà Phú

It's relatively easy to write a biography about someone who is well documented, but these two authors had to dig - make that excavate the center of the earth - for every fact, story, and photo they found of Jim Tully, a celebrity author time too swiftly forgot. Both the persistence and the writing itself show it for what it was -- a labor of love, done not for the quick dollar, or instant celebrity, but because they were compelled to do it. Somehow this unschooled writer of tough guy tales grabbed them both by the collar and pleaded his case until they agreed to take him on. When I began reading this book I knew little to nothing about Jim Tully except that his ancestral roots and Ohio background mimic my own. But now, having finished it, I will never hear the name Jim Tully again without being flooded with myriad images and the haunting wish that if life were fair the road would have risen a little higher to meet him. The authors compare him to Hemingway with one important difference. Hemingway wrote tough guy stuff in an idealized tough guy way; Tully wrote tough guy stuff as men really are. And so perhaps that is why one enjoys immortality and the other must be resurrected. A grand book.

2020-01-16 15:31

Thế Giới Văn Hóa - Số 10 (Tháng 03/2012) Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi:

I note that this is a series. Foul Deeds and Suspicious Deaths in Huddersfield doesn't have the same ring to it for me though...

2020-01-16 16:31

Tin Học Cho Người Mới Bắt Đầu Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Trần Văn Thắng

Captivity, Linda Colley reports in this engagingly written and lavishly illustrated study, was an influential but understudied element of the British imperial project of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Before the middle of the 1800s, Britain was a small nation with a massively overextended empire, and the experience of capture demonstrated the vulnerability of its subjects and how easily non-Western peoples could thwart Britain's ambitions. In the seventeenth century, England aspired to dominate the rich trade of the Mediterranean, but “the sea that enticed...could also entrap” (p. 41), and Barbary corsairs took and enslaved 20,000 Englishmen by 1800. Barbary captivity became a unifying event for the English nation, generating fund-raising campaigns for ransom payments and public processions for returned captives. The actual experience of slavery proved less than terrible for most of these captives – slaves under Islam could legally marry and own property – and those who were ransomed brought home a positive view of Muslims, describing them as an urbane people whose faith was less threatening than Catholicism. The second and third groups of English captives whom Colley studies were Indian captives, in both senses of that adjective: the four or five thousand colonists captured by American Indians in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and the 1,700 prisoners-of-war taken by the Mysore kingdom in the Indian subcontinent. Native American captivity induced “panics” in colonial settlements and inspired a popular genre of literature, the Indian captivity narrative. Metropolitan Britons were initially indifferent to colonists' suffering; later, when several thousand British soldiers became French and Indian prisoners during the Seven Years' War, Britons began to produce their own Indian captivity narratives, but with a more nuanced view of Indians than the colonists'. By the 1770s many came to see Native Americans as victims of colonial aggression, and American colonists as people unfairly demanding privileges denied to other imperial subjects. Later in the century, after the American Revolution reduced the British empire to a low ebb of power, the East India Company's isolated holdings in India came under pressure from Tipu Sultan, and during the Mysore Wars of the 1780s and '90s many British soldiers became prisoners. Their narratives emphasized both the vulnerability of the British empire in India and the virtuous perseverance of Britons against a treacherous foe. CAPTIVES strongly resembles Colley's earlier book, BRITONS, in that both identify similar factors shaping group identity: a large and dangerous external threat (the French Empire, the Muslim world), a belief in the nation's collective virtue and its underdog status, and the use of print culture to spread both ideas. In the volume under review, Colley argues that Britons applied the narrative elements of nationalism to the ideological construction of empire: until the 1850s, Britons viewed their empire more as an exotic domain of peril and suffering than as a source of pride and wealth. One might further argue that such an imperial narrative is far more compelling for ordinary people than one that exclusively focuses on military conquests and on painting the globe red. One ominous development in Colley's account is the increasing xenophobia of Britons toward their imperial allies and subjects toward the end of the eighteenth century. Before 1800, British captives were able to hold nuanced views of Muslims and Native Americans, but increasingly thereafter they tended to view colonial peoples as savage, effete, treacherous, or some combination thereof. Was this change a product or a cause of Britain's shift from an informal commercial empire to a military and administrative one? This is a question worth asking, perhaps in a future book.

2020-01-16 17:31

Iliad Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Homer

If you don't get the title's allusive pun (to Robbins's Goldberg Variations), you won't get far into this long, densely textured, multi-referential, and brilliant novel. It demands that a reader make connections between such diversities as the genetic code and musical notation, Flemish art and biological nomenclature, the logic of computer systems and the Dewey decimal classification, cartography and chemistry. Making such connections--deciphering the encrypted messages of our world--is the great single quest in this novel of multiple searches. There is a rudimentary plot: a pair of love stories, separated by 25 years, entwined one round the other, but the real story here, its great treasure hunt, is the search to break the code unlocking the secret of life. This won't be one of the summer's hottest best sellers, but it is one of the year's best books, a grand encyclopedic novel akin to Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow or Joseph McElroy's Lookout Cartridge .

2020-01-16 18:31

Cổ Tích Mới - Viên Ngọc Bùa Mê Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Nguyên Hương

Fire Season Field Notes From A Wilderness by Philip Connors was a delightful surprise on many levels. I have a longterm history of loving the southwest and a great appreciation for authors such as Edward Abbey. Mr. Connors follows in the fire lookout footsteps of luminaries such as Mr. Abbey, Jack Kerouac, and Normal Maclean. He has served up a a truly wonderful narrative on life and the affect that man and fire have had in the mountains of the southwest. Fire Season is basically two narratives in one. Mr. Connors alternates between sharing his own stories and ruminations on life as a fire lookout atop Apache Peak as well as giving the reader an overall history of the mountains of New Mexico and the evolution of forestry response to fire beginning with the creation of the Forest Service in 1905. In many regards it is part memoir and part forestry lesson. While I enjoyed this book a great deal, it is not for everyone. For those who turn a blind eye toward history this book will probably miss the mark. For those with an appreciation of nature and how complex dynamics such as livestock grazing, watersheds, fire suppression, and bureaucratic blunder affect our natural world, this book will probably be a wise choice. Having spent many of my formative years hiking the trails and fishing the waters of Oregon, I felt quite at home and really enjoyed myself. While I enjoyed both aspects of the book, I found myself pushing through to the parts where Mr. Connors romanticized his personal experiences of life as a lookout. His observations and descriptions of detail were both interesting and educational for me. Not to say that the history lessons were not interesting, because they were, but I preferred to read his words on the experience of living atop a 10,000 foot mountain for 100 plus days a year. I would whole heartedly recommend this book to anyone who can appreciate a good nature read, especially those with a bent toward the southwest.

2020-01-16 19:31

Anh Hùng Việt Nam: Nguyễn Văn Trỗi - Hãy Nhớ Lấy Lời Tôi Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi:

I don't remember how I stumbled upon Julia Wertz's stuff, but I am so happy I did. Drinking at the Movies is a graphic novel about leaving the safety of home for the big bad wolf - New York. She is funny, self-deprecating and slightly awesome. Read it last night in an hour or so - the joy of graphic novels.

2020-01-16 20:31

Hậu Trường Phim Ảnh Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Việt Linh

Loved it.

2020-01-16 21:31

Hướng Dẫn Tự Học Tiếng Việt Lớp 5 - Tập 2 - Tái bản 06/12/2012 Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Nhóm Sư Phạm VHP

A classic, first part of a trilogy. This trilogy is considered one of the most important children's books of our time. Very suitable for adults too. Don't let the film put you off - as usual, the book is much better.

2020-01-16 22:31

Có Hai Con Mèo Ngồi Bên Cửa Sổ (Bìa Mềm) - Tái Bản 2018 Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Nguyễn Nhật Ánh

Overly detailed but still interesting and sometimes exciting history of the Irish Republican Brotherhood, the formation of the Irish Republican Army and the British political police, the so called "Special Branch" which were initially the "Special (Irish) Branch. Reading "Fenian Fire" shows just how little the attitudes of the English establishment regarding the Irish and Roman Catholics have changed in the past 120 years. Lots of minutiae regarding raising money in America, shadowing Irish activists in Paris and the internal politics of the Metropolitan Police at the end of the nineteenth century but also some very intriguing revelations on how Scotland Yard had not only penetrated the Irish Repubican movement at the top. The British police were responsible, at least in part, for some of the deaths caused by bombing campaigns in England. The invention and widespread availability of dynamite, a stable high explosive that could be easily transported and hidden, changed the rules. An example of the eagerness with which the Irish Republicans adopted the new bomb making material was the title of one of their leading newspapers in the United States: The Irish Liberator and Dynamite Times which says a lot in itself.

2020-01-16 23:31

88 Câu Chuyện Về Những Khám Phá Kỳ Bí (Bìa Cứng) Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Đặng Bình

Always makes me chuckle!

Người đọc Riyan Ganteng từ Afanasyevka, Saratovskaya oblast', Russia

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.