Erin Scruby từ Commissariat Point SA, Australia

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06/03/2024

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2019-08-18 04:31

Mãi Mãi Là Bí Ẩn - Tập 2 Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Nhiều Tác Giả

I love this book. It's beautiful, sweet and engaging. The characters are well developed and the setting is spot on. The love written about in this book is one we all want in our lives.

2019-08-18 05:31

Học Vui Chữ Hán (Tập 1) Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

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it was good, but the subject matter of the stories didn't really vary, maybe that was his ploy to create cohesion for his collection. but it got a bit boring after all. i still prefer novels over short stories though.

2019-08-18 06:31

Người Tình Bắc Hải Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Thiên Tầm

this is one of those books i read as a kid that the cover is bent and almost ripped off, there are fingerprints on all the pages, and i still have it on my shelf. a perfect example of good storytelling, jerry spinelli weaves together this story of a boy who appears out of nowhere in a small, segregated town. he manages to be a compelling character without any backstory, and the important lessons to be learned never come across as cheesy morals. a great read for kids and a good intro to kids' lit for grownups.

2019-08-18 07:31

Sổ Tay Đội Viên Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

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This one was by far my favorite in the quadriligy for so many reasons. I won't go into those reasons because they will all be spoilers. The movie for this one will be the absolute best. I'm obsessed with the entire saga and I LOVE EDWARD CULLEN. I don't want the saga to end!

2019-08-18 08:31

10 Vạn Câu Hỏi Vì Sao - Tập 1 (Hộp 5 Cuốn) Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Trịnh Diên Tuệ

It took me a few chapters to get into the swing of this book, mainly because of the use of description, which at times felt like wading through unnecessary adjectives. But once I got used to the style of writing I started to really enjoy it. The book follows "Eve" as she embarks on her relationship with the mysterious Dom, and documents their time in their cottage in France, whilst flashing back to past stories of the previous residents of the house. The book paints a wonderful picture of France, a country I love, and so it was lovely to escape into. The story builds up suspense throughout, and as the many strange events started to be explained I was hooked. Deducting a star for the slow start and for problems I had with Dom's character, but a beautiful book all the same.

2019-08-18 09:31

Như Mây Thong Dong - Phát Hành Dự Kiến 27/05/2018 Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Lưu Đình Long

The introduction by Dr. Michael W. Fox promises of Animal Rights: It will undoubtedly be a source of lively classroom debate and should do more than merely sensitize young adults to the plights and rights of animals. It exposes them to those values and attitudes associated with our regard for and treatment of animals. The following chapters each focus upon an animal advocate working in a specific field; unfortunately, they are not true stories but fictionalized accounts based upon actual events. In line with the priorities of the animal rights movement of 30 years ago, the first chapter focuses on vivisection. The author notes the deficiencies of the Animal Welfare Act, the federal law which sets standards for the care of animals in laboratories. Unfortunately, while the Animal Welfare Act is better than nothing, it has some big loopholes. First, the act applies to only about 4 percent of the animals used in laboratories …Second, the law does not limit the cruelty of experiments that may be performed—it is directed mainly at the housing and care of lab animals. Third…it exempts researchers from using pain relievers if they say pain is a necessary part of the experiments. … Another loophole is that emotional pain is not even mentioned in the Animal Welfare Act. The first story ends with an Animal Liberation Front raid, which will likely trouble modern activists who have seen the ALF morph from a clandestine group that swiped rabbits from experimental tables into an outfit better known for aggression and property destruction. While Curtis calls the ALF’s animal removals “extreme and illegal,” it’s still clear she’s writing from the perspective of her time. The chapter nods to a positive newspaper story that came as a result of removing 11 beagle puppies from a laboratory, and the main character at one point states, “But I did whatever I could with the ALF—I liked them for their spirit. So did many Britons.” That’s hardly the case today, as both the press and the public have turned away from the ALF—generating a storm of controversy among animal activists, most of whom reject the modern group’s tactics. Unfortunately, young readers encountering the animal rights movement for the first time in this book may deduce involvement with the ALF is necessary to oppose vivisection. The kinder, gentler ALF is not the only out-of-date aspect of this book. At the time this book was written, 14 million pets were destroyed yearly in shelters, some of which still used decompression chambers. Today, the number of animals euthanized has fallen to 4 million, and decompression chambers are used nowhere in the United States. In 1980, some humane groups were pushing for the development of a “truly humane trap,” whereas today animal advocacy organizations realize that the only way to end the cruelty of trapping is to take a firm stance against the wearing of fur. Circuses were a much more acceptable form of entertainment thirty years ago, so much that Curtis seems apologetic to even raise the fact that wild animals used in circuses are frequently abused. She calls the traditional circus a “beloved spectacle”, admits she has “trouble making some people believe there could be anything wrong with such an innocent show”, and opines, “how can we take a stand against something that is so much fun?” Today, few kids would choose an old-fashioned circus over a game of Wii, entire countries have banned the use of animals in circuses, and even Time magazine admits that an animal circus in the new millennium is the “interspecies version of a minstrel show.” Curtis calls out the International Whaling Commission: The object of the commission is to save the whaling industries of the world, not to save the whales for their own sakes. However, neither she nor other activists of the era seems to see the portent shown by this 'Cove'-like massacre of dolphins in Japan: In 1978 a bunch of Japanese fishermen drove a school of hundreds of dolphins ashore and clubbed them to death because they said the dolphins were eating the fish they wanted to catch. Nor did most activists have much knowledge of the dog fighting industry, only a fraction of the size it is now. Curtis writes: Small-time dogfighters do not use pedigreed, highly bred fighting dogs, but will take ordinary dogs from animal shelters, give them drugs, and work them over with electric prods to make fighters of them. It is true that amateur dogfighters typically don’t use top-of-the-line fighting dogs, and they have been known to burglarize shelters for pit bulls, especially after a fight bust has netted them as evidence. Cruelty is, as we all know, part and parcel of the “game.” But the idea presented here that dogfighters adopt any old poodle or beagle from an unsuspecting shelter and turn them into a fighter is patently wrong. The breed that has been abused almost exclusively for fighting for generations has been the pit bull terrier and its close relations. In 1980, the pit bull breeding machine wasn’t yet in full swing and the dogs were still relatively rare, both as house pets and in shelters. At times, however, Curtis’s measured approach is an improvement over that of modern activists. Curtis is not rigidly anti-zoo in the manner of quite a number of today’s AR crusaders. Curtis recognizes some of the good accredited zoos do, concluding that they “don’t have to be prisons for animals.” During a time in which few animal advocates cared about farm animals as more than an afterthought, and many animal advocacy groups even served meat at their fundraising functions, Curtis recognized: In terms of sheer numbers, more farm animals suffer than any other animals in the United States. … Virtually all the poultry and most of the meat we eat comes from huge factory farms where millions of animals live out their short lives confined… Curtis continues: “Some people object so strongly to the killing and eating of animals that they become vegetarians. Some vegetarians will eat fish, some not.” (Reality: No vegetarians eat fish. People who eat fish aren’t vegetarians.) She goes on to state that most vegetarians and vegans want a cruelty-free wardrobe, but are “hard pressed to find nonleather shoes.” (Thank god for the Internet .) While Curtis believes that dwindling resources will one day force the human race to adopt a plant-centered diet, she says, Until that time, possibly the only hope for meat animals is to enact stronger humane laws governing the way they are raised, shipped, and slaughtered—and enforce them. The defeatist talk continues: [T]hough I am a vegetarian myself, in my work I do not try to convert people to vegetarianism. Instead I concentrate on helping animals through what I think we can achieve right now---better laws, more information, and humane changes in intensive agriculture. Well, three decades on, the number of animals slaughtered in the US has exploded to ten billion per year, and the abuse has grown even more out of control. Activists have found it nearly impossible to make meaningful changes in farm animals’ lives while going through the agribiz-dominated state and federal legislatures. By taking the issues directly to the people, we are just now beginning to see a few cracks in the armor of the mighty factory farming machine. However, as long as Americans consume animal products at their incredible current rate, there’s only so much that can be done. Ten billion animals simply can’t be raised in a way that puts their comfort and welfare above profits. So think of how things might have been if the AR folks of thirty years ago didn’t have such a defeatist attitude. What if a Vegan Outreach had existed in 1980? Would ten billion animals still be slaughtered in 2011? Would more headway have been made against the evils of battery cages and gestation crates? Just imagine.

2019-08-18 10:31

Lâu Đài Sói Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Hilary Mantel

I loved this book. I'm happy to lend it on Kindle, if you like. Beautifully, poignantly, poetically written. The narrator is a girl who can taste the emotions of the person(s) who made her food. Her family is peculiar and gifted. The book is a little bit sad, a whole lot touching and a great departure from the world we live in; I almost felt like I could relate to her experience after a while. I'm going to seek out her other books now.

2019-08-18 11:31

Chuột Hin Có Bạn Mới Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Thanh Tâm

I hated this book. I had to drag myself through it just for book club. Read in 1999

2019-08-18 12:31

21 Cách Học Tiếng Anh Du Kích - FuSuSu (Song ngữ) Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

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It was 509 L - O - N - G pages....not the best book I ever read. I want to know more about the Borgia's so I will most likely check out some non-fiction books about them. I watched the mini series on Showtime, but I found that difficult to follow sometimes as well. I don't think I would suggest this book. It's a little boring. Finally at the end as it was wrapping up I liked it. I think there was too much describing things and not much happened.

2019-08-18 13:31

Ngụ Ngôn Thế Giới Về Những Chú Ếch Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

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She comes on strong at first, but then you grow to love her sarcasm and her edginess. Overall it is a great story of falling from the top and all of the lessons that she has learned.

2020-08-04 22:40

Những Nền Văn Hóa Lớn Của Nhân Loại Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

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another nick hornby classic

Người đọc Erin Scruby từ Commissariat Point SA, Australia

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.