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Accelerate: Building and Scaling High Performing Technology Organizations

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]]> <![CDATA[Team Topologies: Organizing Business and Technology Teams for Fast Flow]]> 44135420 Effective software teams are essential for any organization to deliver value continuously and sustainably. But how do you build the best team organization for your specific goals, culture, and needs?

Team Topologies is a practical, step-by-step, adaptive model for organizational design and team interaction based on four fundamental team types and three team interaction patterns. It is a model that treats teams as the fundamental means of delivery, where team structures and communication pathways are able to evolve with technological and organizational maturity.

In Team Topologies, IT consultants Matthew Skelton and Manuel Pais share secrets of successful team patterns and interactions to help readers choose and evolve the right team patterns for their organization, making sure to keep the software healthy and optimize value streams.

Team Topologies is a major step forward in organizational design for software, presenting a well-defined way for teams to interact and interrelate that helps make the resulting software architecture clearer and more sustainable, turning inter-team problems into valuable signals for the self-steering organization.

]]> 240 Matthew Skelton 1942788827 �ʳ�ù�Բ� 0 to-read 4.15 2019 Team Topologies: Organizing Business and Technology Teams for Fast Flow

Team Topologies: Organizing Business and Technology Teams for Fast Flow

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]]> Cây Brooklyn Xanh Biếc 215500547 584 Betty Smith 6043816903 �ʳ�ù�Բ� 0 to-read 4.52 1943

author: Betty Smith
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]]> 2666 51518603
Bên cạnh Santa Teresa, bối cảnh và ch�� đ�� của tiểu thuyết còn có c�� Mặt trận phía Đông trong Th�� Chiến th�� Hai, th�� giới học thuật, bệnh lý tâm thần, báo chí, tình bạn tan v��, s�� nghiệp tiêu tán. 2666 khám phá s�� suy thoái của th�� k�� 20 qua một loạt các nhân vật, địa điểm, giai đoạn và những câu chuyện nằm trong câu chuyện.

Giới phê bình nhìn chung đánh giá cuốn sách hết sức tích cực. �� Chile, nó thắng giải Altazor Award vào năm 2005. The New York Times Book Review đưa cuốn sách vào danh sách Mười cuốn sách hay nhất năm 2008; Tạp chí Time xem 2666 là Sách Hư Cấu Hay nhất Năm 2008; tiểu thuyết cũng thắng giải National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction năm 2008. Các nhà phê bình so sánh 2666 với các tác phẩm của W. G. Sebald và ca ngợi tầm vóc và những tuyến truyện đan cài trong cuốn sách.

Hiếm có cuốn tiểu thuyết nào mà t�� khi đang còn trên bàn biên tập đã được một b�� phận độc gi�� văn chương “sành sỏi�� háo hức mong đợi như vậy. Nếu Roberto Bolaño không mất sớm vào năm 2003 khi mới năm mươi tuổi, chắc hẳn ông s�� là một trong những ứng viên nặng ký cho giải Nobel Văn chương.

TÓM TẮT:
Bốn người châu Âu nghiên cứu văn chương. Một giáo sư đại học �� Mexico. Một nhà báo M�� đưa tin v�� một trận quyền Anh. Một nhà văn Đức kiệt xuất, ẩn dật, từng là lính quốc xã. Cảnh sát, nhiều cảnh sát. Gái điếm. Và nhiều, rất nhiều câu chuyện riêng tư thoạt nhìn chẳng liên quan đến nhau. Nhưng rồi, đọc k��, ta s�� thấy rằng tất c�� các chuyện đó, giống như những th�� giới rất khác nhau, chồng lớp lên nhau, thảy đều xoay quanh một l�� đen khổng l��, hắc ám: Santa Teresa. Thành ph�� bên rìa sa mạc phía bắc Mexico, giáp giới nước M��. Một thành ph�� lớn, đầy sức sống. Một thành ph�� lớn, nơi hiểm họa xảy ra bất c�� lúc nào. Nhất là nếu bạn là ph�� n��. Phức tạp như bản thân th�� giới, cuốn sách là c�� một vũ tr�� đ�� màu h�� n�� ái ��, đ�� mùi triết lý, nực cười, lãng mạn, tục tằn, ngây thơ đến đ�� đui mù, ngoan ngoãn xoay quanh địa ngục l�� đen và răm rắp tuân theo lệnh của l�� đen.

TÁC GI��:
Roberto Bolaño (1953-2003) nhà văn kiệt xuất người Chile, tác gi�� nhiều tiểu thuyết, truyện ngắn và tiểu luận văn chương. Năm 1999 ông đoạt giải thưởng Rómulo Gallegos cho tiểu thuyết Los detectives salvajes (tạm dịch: Trinh thám hoang dại), và năm 2008 ông được truy tặng Giải thưởng Hội Phê bình sách Toàn quốc (National Book Critics Circle Award) của Hoa K�� cho tiểu thuyết 2666. Marcela Valdes, một thành viên của ban chấm giải, mô t�� 2666 là “một cuốn sách phong phú và chói sáng đến đ�� chắc chắn s�� thu hút người đọc và giới học gi�� suốt nhiều đời sau.�� Thời báo New York gọi Bolaño là “tiếng nói văn chương M�� la-tinh quan trọng nhất trong th�� h�� của ông��.]]> 882 Roberto Bolaño 6049778450 �ʳ�ù�Բ� 5 4.05 2004 2666

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]]> Greenlights 52838315 From the Academy Award®–winning actor, an unconventional memoir filled with raucous stories, outlaw wisdom, and lessons learned the hard way about living with greater satisfaction.

I’ve been in this life for fifty years, been trying to work out its riddle for forty-two, and been keeping diaries of clues to that riddle for the last thirty-five. Notes about successes and failures, joys and sorrows, things that made me marvel, and things that made me laugh out loud. How to be fair. How to have less stress. How to have fun. How to hurt people less. How to get hurt less. How to be a good man. How to have meaning in life. How to be more me.

Recently, I worked up the courage to sit down with those diaries. I found stories I experienced, lessons I learned and forgot, poems, prayers, prescriptions, beliefs about what matters, some great photographs, and a whole bunch of bumper stickers. I found a reliable theme, an approach to living that gave me more satisfaction, at the time, and still: If you know how, and when, to deal with life’s challenges - how to get relative with the inevitable - you can enjoy a state of success I call “catching greenlights.��

So I took a one-way ticket to the desert and wrote this book: an album, a record, a story of my life so far. This is fifty years of my sights and seens, felts and figured-outs, cools and shamefuls. Graces, truths, and beauties of brutality. Getting away withs, getting caughts, and getting wets while trying to dance between the raindrops.

Hopefully, it’s medicine that tastes good, a couple of aspirin instead of the infirmary, a spaceship to Mars without needing your pilot’s license, going to church without having to be born again, and laughing through the tears.

It’s a love letter. To life.

It’s also a guide to catching more greenlights - and to realizing that the yellows and reds eventually turn green too.

Good luck.]]> 289 Matthew McConaughey 0593139135 �ʳ�ù�Բ� 0 to-read 4.21 2020

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]]> <![CDATA[Becoming Trader Joe: How I Did Business My Way and Still Beat the Big Guys]]> 55918690 288 Joe Coulombe 1400225434 �ʳ�ù�Բ� 0 to-read 3.39 2021

Becoming Trader Joe: How I Did Business My Way and Still Beat the Big Guys

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]]> <![CDATA[1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created]]> 9862761
More than 200 million years ago, geological forces split apart the continents. Isolated from each other, the two halves of the world developed radically different suites of plants and animals. When Christopher Columbus set foot in the Americas, he ended that separation at a stroke. Driven by the economic goal of establishing trade with China, he accidentally set off an ecological convulsion as European vessels carried thousands of species to new homes across the oceans.

The Columbian Exchange, as researchers call it, is the reason there are tomatoes in Italy, oranges in Florida, chocolates in Switzerland, and chili peppers in Thailand. More important, creatures the colonists knew nothing about hitched along for the ride. Earthworms, mosquitoes, and cockroaches; honeybees, dandelions, and African grasses; bacteria, fungi, and viruses; rats of every description—all of them rushed like eager tourists into lands that had never seen their like before, changing lives and landscapes across the planet.

Eight decades after Columbus, a Spaniard named Legazpi succeeded where Columbus had failed. He sailed west to establish continual trade with China, then the richest, most powerful country in the world. In Manila, a city Legazpi founded, silver from the Americas, mined by African and Indian slaves, was sold to Asians in return for silk for Europeans. It was the first time that goods and people from every corner of the globe were connected in a single worldwide exchange. Much as Columbus created a new world biologically, Legazpi and the Spanish empire he served created a new world economically.

As Charles C. Mann shows, the Columbian Exchange underlies much of subsequent human history. Presenting the latest research by ecologists, anthropologists, archaeologists, and historians, Mann shows how the creation of this worldwide network of ecological and economic exchange fostered the rise of Europe, devastated imperial China, convulsed Africa, and for two centuries made Mexico City—where Asia, Europe, and the new frontier of the Americas dynamically interacted—the center of the world. In such encounters, he uncovers the germ of today’s fiercest political disputes, from immigration to trade policy to culture wars.

In 1493, Charles Mann gives us an eye-opening scientific interpretation of our past, unequaled in its authority and fascination]]> 557 Charles C. Mann 0307265722 �ʳ�ù�Բ� 0 to-read 4.12 2011 1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created

1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created

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]]> Sundays in August 34607029 From beloved storyteller and Nobel Prize winner Patrick Modiano, a masterful and gripping crime novel set in picturesque Nice on the French Riviera

Stolen jewels, black markets, hired guns, crossed lovers, unregistered addresses, people gone missing, shadowy figures disappearing in crowds, newspaper stories uncomfortably close and getting closer . . . this ominous novel is Patrick Modiano’s most noirish work to date. Set in Nice—a departure from the author’s more familiar Paris—this novel evokes the bright sun and dark shadow of the Riviera. Modiano’s trademark ability to create a haunting atmosphere is here on full display: readers descend precipitously into a world of mystery, uneasiness, inevitability.
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A young couple in hiding keeps close watch over a notorious diamond necklace known as the Southern Cross. Its provenance is murky, its whereabouts known only to our hero and heroine, who find themselves trapped by its potential value—and its ultimate cost. Deftly Modiano reaches further and further into the past, revealing the secret histories of the two even as the pressurized present threatens to overwhelm them.]]> 168 Patrick Modiano 0300223331 �ʳ�ù�Բ� 0 to-read 3.77 1986 Sundays in August

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]]> Abundance 176444106 Abundance is a once-in-a-generation, paradigm-shifting call to rethink big, entrenched problems that seem mired in systemic from climate change to housing, education to healthcare.

To trace the global history of the twenty-first century so far is to trace a history of growing unaffordability and shortage. After years of refusing to build sufficient housing, the entire country has a national housing crisis. After years of slashing immigration, we don’t have enough workers. After decades of off-shoring manufacturing, we have a shortage of chips for cars and computers. Despite decades of being warned about the consequences of climate change, we haven’t built anything close to the clean energy infrastructure we need. The crisis that’s clicking into focus now has been building for decades—because we haven’t been building enough.

Abundance explains that our problems today are not the results of yesteryear’s villains. Rather, one generation’s solutions have become the next generation’s problems. Rules and regulations designed to solve the environmental problems of the 1970s often prevent urban density and green energy projects that would help solve the environmental problems of the 2020s. Laws meant to ensure that government considers the consequences of its actions in matters of education and healthcare have made it too difficult for government to act consequentially. In the last few decades, our capacity to see problems has sharpened while our ability to solve them has diminished.

Progress requires the ability to see promise rather than just peril in the creation of new ideas and projects, and an instinct to design systems and institutions that make building possible. In a book exploring how can move from a liberalism that not only protects and preserves but also builds, Klein and Thompson trace the political, economic, and cultural barriers to progress and how we can adopt a mindset directed toward abundance, and not scarcity, to overcome them.]]> 304 Ezra Klein 1668023482 �ʳ�ù�Բ� 0 to-read 4.05 2025

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]]> <![CDATA[Norwegian Method: The Culture, Science, and Humans Behind the Groundbreaking Approach to Elite Endurance Performance]]> 207617613 Find out how a sparsely-populated country came to dominate��the world of endurance sports and get a��blueprint for high performance.��

Norway has long stacked the field with champions in sports like Nordic skiing and sailing, but a new generation of athletes has arrived on the endurance scene, smashing records and grabbing medals in running, cycling, and triathlon.

Sports journalist Brad Culp unpacks the rise of the Norwegian method and its meticulous scientific protocols, which upend long-held beliefs about training and performance.

With its rugged terrain and harsh weather, Norway has a way of hardening competitors for any test. Culp explores the how the Scandinavian culture imbues a unique biopsychosocial approach to performance. He also introduces the athletes, coaches, and scientists who are shaking up the world of endurance sports. Their secret? Plenty of volume at low intensity, punctuated with hard-fought double-threshold workouts, which seems to turn workhorses into winners—they know when to hold back and when to go all-out.

The Norwegian Method is a real-life story of how discipline and determination can be employed to overcome seemingly impossible odds and achieve breakthrough performances. Culp drives this point home by introducing U.S. pros who have reconfigured their training to look more like that of Norway’s Jakob Ingebritgsen and Kristian Blummenfelt, and how endurance athletes can adopt the same methods in their own pursuit of high performance.]]> 230 Brad Culp �ʳ�ù�Բ� 0 to-read 4.28 Norwegian Method: The Culture, Science, and Humans Behind the Groundbreaking Approach to Elite Endurance Performance

Norwegian Method: The Culture, Science, and Humans Behind the Groundbreaking Approach to Elite Endurance Performance

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]]> Marcovaldo 18929 128 Italo Calvino �ʳ�ù�Բ� 0 to-read 3.83 1963

author: Italo Calvino
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]]> <![CDATA[Apple in China: The Capture of the World's Greatest Company]]> 220161058 For readers of Walter Isaacson’s Steve Jobs and Chris Miller’s Chip War, a riveting look at how Apple helped build China’s dominance in electronics assembly and manufacturing only to find itself trapped in a relationship with an authoritarian state making ever-increasing demands.

Apple isn’t just a brand; it’s the world’s most valuable company and creator of the 21st century’s defining product. The iPhone has revolutionized the way we live, work, and connect. But Apple is now a victim of its own success, caught in the middle of a new Cold War between two superpowers.

On the brink of bankruptcy in 1996, Apple made a strategic move to offshore its operations. By 2003 it was being lured to China by the promise of affordable labor that allowed the company to churn out premium products at an unprecedented scale. For years, the Silicon Valley giant sent thousands of America’s top engineers to China and spent tens of billions of dollars on equipment, spurring the transformation of a cheap labor country into the world’s most sophisticated electronics manufacturing powerhouse. Fast forward to 90% of iPhone assembly happens in China. Despite capturing less than 20% of the global smartphone market, Apple’s operations allow it to rake in 80% of the sector’s profits.

Yet Beijing has tightened its grip, incentivizing Apple to work with more Chinese companies in its production, exerting control over what Chinese users can do on the iPhone, and requiring customer data for its citizens to be stored in state-backed data centers. The visionary company that Steve Jobs dreamed of finds itself in a tight spot. No other nation can match China’s quality, volumes, and flexibility as a producer of nearly half a billion iGadgets yearly, and Apple isn’t keen to abandon a market where it generates more profit than even China’s own tech giants.

Investigative journalist Patrick McGee draws on 200 interviews with former Apple executives and engineers to reveal how Cupertino’s choice to anchor its supply chain in China has increasingly made it vulnerable to the regime’s whims. Both an insider’s historical account and a cautionary tale, Apple in China is the first history of Apple to go beyond the biographies of its top executives and set the iPhone’s global domination within an increasingly fraught geopolitical context.]]> 448 Patrick McGee 1668053373 �ʳ�ù�Բ� 0 to-read 4.46 Apple in China: The Capture of the World's Greatest Company

Apple in China: The Capture of the World's Greatest Company

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]]> <![CDATA[A Job to Love (The School of Life Library)]]> 34331071 142 The School of Life �ʳ�ù�Բ� 5 4.06 2017

A Job to Love (The School of Life Library)

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]]> <![CDATA[How to Survive the Modern World]]> 59228581
The modern world has brought us a range of extraordinary benefits and joys, including technology, medicine, and transport. But it can also feel as though modern times have plunged us ever deeper into greed, despair, and agitation. Seldom has the world felt more privileged and resource-rich yet also worried, blinkered, furious, panicked, and self-absorbed.

How to Survive the Modern World is the ultimate guide to navigating our unusual times. It identifies a range of themes that present acute challenges to our mental well-being. The book tackles our relationship to the news media, our ideas of love and sex, our assumptions about money and our careers, our attitudes to animals and the natural world, our admiration for science and technology, our belief in individualism and secularism �� and our suspicion of quiet and solitude. In all cases, the book helps us to understand how we got to where we are, digging deeply and fascinatingly into the history of ideas while pointing us towards a saner individual and collective future.

The emphasis isn’t just on understanding modern times but also on knowing how we can best relate to the difficulties these present. The book helps us to form a calmer, more authentic, more resilient, and sometimes more light-hearted relationship to the follies and obsessions of our age. If modern times are (in part) something of a disease, this is both the diagnostic and the soothing, hope-filled cure.]]> 320 The School of Life 1912891530 �ʳ�ù�Բ� 4 4.12 2022 How to Survive the Modern World

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]]> The Glass Castle 7445 THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

The Glass Castle is a remarkable memoir of resilience and redemption, and a revelatory look into a family at once deeply dysfunctional and uniquely vibrant. When sober, Jeannette's brilliant and charismatic father captured his children's imagination, teaching them physics, geology, and how to embrace life fearlessly. But when he drank, he was dishonest and destructive. Her mother was a free spirit who abhorred the idea of domesticity and didn't want the responsibility of raising a family.

The Walls children learned to take care of themselves. They fed, clothed, and protected one another, and eventually found their way to New York. Their parents followed them, choosing to be homeless even as their children prospered.

The Glass Castle is truly astonishing--a memoir permeated by the intense love of a peculiar but loyal family.]]> 288 Jeannette Walls 074324754X �ʳ�ù�Բ� 0 to-read 4.32 2005

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]]> <![CDATA[The Nvidia Way: Jensen Huang and the Making of a Tech Giant]]> 218319936 "The definitive look at the most remarkable business story of this era."

—Morgan Housel, New York Times best-selling author of The Psychology of Money and Same As Ever

"The Nvidia Way is a riveting history of Nvidia’s unexpected ascent to the top of the tech sector—and a compelling case for why cofounder Jensen Huang is one of history’s great CEOs."

—Chris Miller, New York Times best-selling author of Chip The Fight for the World’s Most Critical Technology

A deeply reported business history of the chip-designer Nvidia—from its founding in 1993 to its recent emergence as one of the most valuable corporations in the world—explaining how the company’s culture, overseen by cofounder and CEO Jensen Huang, has powered its incredible success.

Nvidia is the darling of the age of artificial its chips are powering the generative-AI revolution, and demand is insatiable. For all the current interest and attention, however, Nvidia is not of our time. Founded more than three decades ago in a Denny’s in East San Jose, for years it was known primarily in the then-niche world of computer gaming. In fact, the company’s leather-jacketed leader, Jensen Huang, is the longest-serving CEO in an industry marked by near constant turmoil and failure.

In The Nvidia Way, acclaimed tech writer Tae Kim draws on more than one hundred interviews—including Jensen (as he is known) and his cofounders, the two original venture capital investors, early former employees, and current senior executives—to show how Nvidia played the longest of long games, repeatedly creating new markets and outmaneuvering competitors, including the original semiconductor giant, Intel, which now finds itself well behind the upstart. Kim offers revelations at every step, among

An authoritative, myth-busting account of Nvidia’s founding in 1993.
How Nvidia managed to overcome early missteps that would have killed most start-ups.
The benefits of Nvidia’s flat organizational structure, which allows even low-level employees to contribute to the direction of the company.
How Jensen’s obsession with solving the Innovator’s Dilemma—the problem of an entrenched market leader falling to smaller, nimbler companies—drove him to reinvent his approach to corporate strategy.
How Nvidia saw the coming AI wave sooner than anyone else, and how it bet its future on a technology that had not yet arrived.

A rare view into Nvidia’s distinct culture and Jensen’s management principles, The Nvidia Way is a book for our moment as well as an instant classic of business history, with enduring lessons for entrepreneurs and managers alike.]]> 268 Tae Kim 1324086726 �ʳ�ù�Բ� 0 to-read 4.35 The Nvidia Way: Jensen Huang and the Making of a Tech Giant

The Nvidia Way: Jensen Huang and the Making of a Tech Giant

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]]> <![CDATA[How to Get Married: The School of Life]]> 39941747
Many couples today feel uncomfortable with the rituals traditionally associated with getting married. The old ceremonies can feel too overtly religious and out of step with the complexities of contemporary relationships. In response to this dilemma, The School of Life has rethought the ideal wedding day and redesigned the entire process from scratch.

The book begins by proposing new methods of psychological preparation, providing practical advice on how to prepare not only for the day of the wedding, but for the long marriage that follows. Also included is a practical and thoughtfully redesigned wedding ceremony, covering everything from picking a venue to writing vows and selecting readings.

With their trademark wisdom and warmth, The School of Life presents a bold rethinking of one of humankind's most important and popular rituals.]]> 132 Alain de Botton 1999747119 �ʳ�ù�Բ� 4 3.34 2023 How to Get Married: The School of Life

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]]> The Communist Manifesto 30474 The Communist Manifesto, Marx and Engels' revolutionary 1848 summons to the working classes, is one of the most influential political theories ever formulated. After four years of collaboration, the authors produced this incisive account of their idea of Communism, in which they envisage a society without classes, private property, or a state. They argue that increasing exploitation of industrial workers will eventually lead to a revolution in which capitalism is overthrown. Their vision transformed the world irrevocably, and remains relevant as a depiction of global capitalism today.]]> 288 Karl Marx 0140447571 �ʳ�ù�Բ� 0 to-read 3.67 1848 The Communist Manifesto

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]]> <![CDATA[The Life We Bury (Joe Talbert, #1; Detective Max Rupert, #1)]]> 20758175
As Joe writes about Carl's life, especially Carl's valor in Vietnam, he cannot reconcile the heroism of the soldier with the despicable acts of the convict. Joe, along with his skeptical female neighbor, throws himself into uncovering the truth, but he is hamstrung in his efforts by having to deal with his dangerously dysfunctional mother, the guilt of leaving his autistic brother vulnerable, and a haunting childhood memory. Thread by thread, Joe unravels the tapestry of Carl’s conviction. But as he and Lila dig deeper into the circumstances of the crime, the stakes grow higher. Will Joe discover the truth before it’s too late to escape the fallout?]]> 304 Allen Eskens 1616149981 �ʳ�ù�Բ� 0 to-read 4.06 2014 The Life We Bury (Joe Talbert, #1; Detective Max Rupert, #1)

The Life We Bury (Joe Talbert, #1; Detective Max Rupert, #1)

author: Allen Eskens
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]]> <![CDATA[Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman's OpenAI]]> 222725518 An Instant New York Times Bestseller

“Excellent and deeply reported.�� —Tim Wu, The New York Times

“Startling and intensely researched . . . an essential account of how OpenAI and ChatGPT came to be and the catastrophic places they will likely take us.�� Vulture

“Hao’s reporting inside OpenAI is exceptional, and she’s persuasive in her argument that the public should focus less on A.I.’s putative ‘sentience�� and more on its implications for labor and the environment.�� —Benjamin Wallace-Wells, New Yorker

From a brilliant longtime AI insider with intimate access to the world of Sam Altman's OpenAI from the beginning, an eye-opening account of arguably the most fateful tech arms race in history, reshaping the planet in real time, from the cockpit of the company that is driving the frenzy

When AI expert and investigative journalist Karen Hao first began covering OpenAI in 2019, she thought they were the good guys. Founded as a nonprofit with safety enshrined as its core mission, the organization was meant, its leader Sam Altman told us, to act as a check against more purely mercantile, and potentially dangerous, forces. What could go wrong?

Over time, Hao began to wrestle ever more deeply with that question. Increasingly, she realized that the core truth of this massively disruptive sector is that its vision of success requires an almost unprecedented amount of the “compute�� power of high-end chips and the processing capacity to create massive large language models, the sheer volume of data that needs to be amassed at scale, the humans “cleaning up�� that data for sweatshop wages throughout the Global South, and a truly alarming spike in the usage of energy and water underlying it all. The truth is that we have entered a new and ominous age of only a small handful of globally scaled companies can even enter the field of play. At the head of the pack with its ChatGPT breakthrough, how would OpenAI resist such temptations?

Spoiler it didn’t. Armed with Microsoft’s billions, OpenAI is setting a breakneck pace, chased by a small group of the most valuable companies in human history—toward what end, not even they can define. All this time, Hao has maintained her deep sourcing within the company and the industry, and so she was in intimate contact with the story that shocked the entire tech industry—Altman’s sudden firing and triumphant return. The behind-the-scenes story of what happened, told here in full for the first time, is revelatory of who the people controlling this technology really are. But this isn’t just the story of a single company, however fascinating it is. The g forces pressing down on the people of OpenAI are deforming the judgment of everyone else too—as such forces do. Naked power finds the ideology to cloak itself; no one thinks they’re the bad guy. But in the meantime, as Hao shows through intrepid reporting on the ground around the world, the enormous wheels of extraction grind on. By drawing on the viewpoints of Silicon Valley engineers, Kenyan data laborers, and Chilean water activists, Hao presents the fullest picture of AI and its impact we’ve seen to date, alongside a trenchant analysis of where things are headed. An astonishing eyewitness view from both up in the command capsule of the new economy and down where the real suffering happens, Empire of AI pierces the veil of the industry defining our era.]]> 496 Karen Hao 0593657519 �ʳ�ù�Բ� 0 to-read 4.13 2025 Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman's OpenAI

Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman's OpenAI

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]]> Bạn Đ�� Ngu Ngơ Rồi Đấy 39025422
T�� ngụy biện dựa vào niềm tin ph�� biến cho tới hiệu ứng phản tác dụng, hãy cùng tìm hiểu v�� 19 hiện tượng tâm lý lúc nào cũng tồn tại trong bạn dù bạn có nhận ra hay không. Ngoài ra, bạn cũng s�� được biết thêm s�� thật v�� cái gọi là bản ngã, cùng tính toán đ�� tìm ra cái giá của hạnh phúc, và khám phá ra cách đ�� không rơi vào bẫy của b�� não t�� bây gi�� cho đến mãi mãi v�� sau.

Bạn đã biết rằng b�� não của mình chẳng thông minh lắm đâu, vậy thì gi�� là lúc đ�� đi đánh lừa nó rồi đấy. Hãy hít một hơi thật sâu trước khi bước vào cuộc chiến với bản năng nào.]]> 384 David McRaney �ʳ�ù�Բ� 0 3.88 2013 Bạn Đỡ Ngu Ngơ Rồi Đấy

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average rating: 3.88
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]]> <![CDATA[What Makes an Apple?: Six Conversations about Writing, Love, Guilt, and Other Pleasures]]> 58885965
In the last years of his life, the writer Amos Oz talked regularly with Shira Hadad, who worked closely with him as the editor of his final novel, Judas . These candid, uninhibited dialogues show a side of Oz that few ever saw. What Makes an Apple? presents the most revealing of these conversations in English for the first time, painting an illuminating and disarmingly intimate portrait of a towering literary figure.

In frank and open exchanges that are by turns buoyant, introspective, and argumentative, Oz explains what impels him to begin a story and shares his routines, habits, and challenges as a writer. He discusses the tectonic changes he experienced in his lifetime in relationships between women and men, and describes how his erotic coming of age shaped him not only as a man but also as an author. Oz reflects on his parents, his formative years on a kibbutz, and how he dealt with and learned from his critics, his students, and his fame. He talks about why there is more humor in his later books and gives his exceptional take on fear of death.

Resonating with Oz’s clear, honest, and humorous voice, What Makes an Apple? offers unique insights about Oz’s artistic and personal evolution, and enables readers to explore his work in new ways.]]> 152 Amos Oz 0691219907 �ʳ�ù�Բ� 0 to-read 4.20 2018 What Makes an Apple?: Six Conversations about Writing, Love, Guilt, and Other Pleasures

What Makes an Apple?: Six Conversations about Writing, Love, Guilt, and Other Pleasures

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]]> Daughters of Shandong 69705411
Daughters are the Ang family’s curse.

In 1948, civil war ravages the Chinese countryside, but in rural Shandong, the wealthy, landowning Angs are more concerned with their lack of an heir. Hai is the eldest of four girls and spends her days looking after her sisters. Headstrong Di, who is just a year younger, learns to hide in plain sight, and their mother—abused by the family for failing to birth a boy—finds her own small acts of rebellion in the kitchen. As the Communist army closes in on their town, the rest of the prosperous household flees, leaving behind the girls and their mother because they view them as useless mouths to feed.

Without an Ang male to punish, the land-seizing cadres choose Hai, as the eldest child, to stand trial for her family’s crimes. She barely survives their brutality. Realizing the worst is yet to come, the women plan their escape. Starving and penniless but resourceful, they forge travel permits and embark on a thousand-mile journey to confront the family that abandoned them.

From the countryside to the bustling city of Qingdao, and onward to British Hong Kong and eventually Taiwan, they witness the changing tide of a nation and the plight of multitudes caught in the wake of revolution. But with the loss of their home and the life they’ve known also comes new freedom—to take hold of their fate, to shake free of the bonds of their gender, and to claim their own story.

Told in assured, evocative prose, with impeccably drawn characters, Daughters of Shandong is a hopeful, powerful story about the resilience of women in war; the enduring love between mothers, daughters, and sisters; and the sacrifices made to lift up future generations.]]> Eve J. Chung �ʳ�ù�Բ� 0 to-read 4.62 2024 Daughters of Shandong

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]]> <![CDATA[Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood]]> 29780253
Trevor Noah’s unlikely path from apartheid South Africa to the desk of The Daily Show began with a criminal act: his birth. Trevor was born to a white Swiss father and a black Xhosa mother at a time when such a union was punishable by five years in prison. Living proof of his parents�� indiscretion, Trevor was kept mostly indoors for the earliest years of his life, bound by the extreme and often absurd measures his mother took to hide him from a government that could, at any moment, steal him away. Finally liberated by the end of South Africa’s tyrannical white rule, Trevor and his mother set forth on a grand adventure, living openly and freely and embracing the opportunities won by a centuries-long struggle.

Born a Crime is the story of a mischievous young boy who grows into a restless young man as he struggles to find himself in a world where he was never supposed to exist. It is also the story of that young man’s relationship with his fearless, rebellious, and fervently religious mother—his teammate, a woman determined to save her son from the cycle of poverty, violence, and abuse that would ultimately threaten her own life.]]> 289 Trevor Noah 0385689225 �ʳ�ù�Բ� 0 to-read 4.48 2016 Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood

Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood

author: Trevor Noah
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]]> <![CDATA[Chasing Hope: A Reporter's Life]]> 196846120
Since 1984, Nicholas Kristof has worked almost continuously for The New York Times as a reporter, foreign correspondent, bureau chief, and now columnist, becoming one of the foremost reporters of his generation. Here, he recounts his event-filled path from a small-town farm in Oregon to every corner of the world.

Reporting from Hong Kong, Beijing, and Tokyo, while traveling far afield to India, Africa, and Europe, Kristof witnessed and wrote about century-defining the Tiananmen Square protests and massacre, the Yemeni civil war, the Darfur genocide in Sudan, and the wave of addiction and despair that swept through his hometown and a broad swath of working-class America. Fully aware that coverage of atrocities generates considerably fewer page views than the coverage of politics, he nevertheless continued to weaponize his pen against regimes and groups violating basic human rights, raising the cost of oppression and torture. Some of the risks he took while doing so make for hair-raising reading.

Kristof writes about some of the great members of his profession and introduces us to extraordinary people he has met, such as the dissident whom he helped escape from China and a Catholic nun who browbeat a warlord into releasing schoolgirls he had kidnapped. These are the people, the heroes, who have allowed Kristof to remain optimistic. Side by side with the worst of humanity, you always see the best.

This is a candid memoir of vulnerability and courage, humility and purpose, mistakes and learning—a singular tale of the trials, tribulations, and hope to be found in a life dedicated to the pursuit of truth.]]> 480 Nicholas D. Kristof 0593536568 �ʳ�ù�Բ� 0 to-read 4.48 Chasing Hope: A Reporter's Life

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]]> <![CDATA[The Bone Season (The Bone Season, #1)]]> 195391688 The lavishly reimagined 10th Anniversary Edition of the New York Times and Sunday Times bestseller.

The year is 2059. For two centuries, the Republic of Scion has led an oppressive campaign against unnaturalness in Europe.

In London, Paige Mahoney holds a high rank in the criminal underworld. The right hand of the ruthless White Binder, Paige is a dreamwalker, a rare and formidable kind of clairvoyant. Under Scion law, she commits treason simply by breathing.

When Paige is arrested for murder, she meets the mysterious founders of Scion, who have designs on her uncommon abilities. If she is to survive and escape, Paige must use every skill at her disposal �� and put her trust in someone who ought to be her enemy.]]> 624 Samantha Shannon 163973418X �ʳ�ù�Բ� 0 to-read 3.98 2013 The Bone Season (The Bone Season, #1)

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]]> One Day in December 38255337 Two people. Ten chances. One unforgettable love story.

Laurie is pretty sure love at first sight doesn't exist anywhere but the movies. But then, through a misted-up bus window one snowy December day, she sees a man who she knows instantly is the one. Their eyes meet, there's a moment of pure magic... and then her bus drives away.

Certain they're fated to find each other again, Laurie spends a year scanning every bus stop and cafe in London for him. But she doesn't find him, not when it matters anyway. Instead they "reunite" at a Christmas party, when her best friend Sarah giddily introduces her new boyfriend to Laurie. It's Jack, the man from the bus. It would be.

What follows for Laurie, Sarah and Jack is ten years of friendship, heartbreak, missed opportunities, roads not taken, and destinies reconsidered. One Day in December is a joyous, heartwarming and immensely moving love story to escape into and a reminder that fate takes inexplicable turns along the route to happiness.

Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780525574682.]]> 393 Josie Silver �ʳ�ù�Բ� 0 to-read 3.80 2018 One Day in December

author: Josie Silver
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]]> Winesburg, Ohio 80176 Winesburg, Ohio depicts the strange, secret lives of the inhabitants of a small town. In "Hands," Wing Biddlebaum tries to hide the tale of his banishment from a Pennsylvania town, a tale represented by his hands. In "Adventure," lonely Alice Hindman impulsively walks naked into the night rain. Threaded through the stories is the viewpoint of George Willard, the young newspaper reporter who, like his creator, stands witness to the dark and despairing dealings of a community of isolated people.]]> 240 Sherwood Anderson 0192839772 �ʳ�ù�Բ� 0 to-read 3.83 1919 Winesburg, Ohio

author: Sherwood Anderson
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average rating: 3.83
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]]> Nàng mèo 53447397
L’histoire : Alain se marie. Il emmène sa chatte dans l’appartement conjugal. Camille, son épouse, en éprouve une jalousie qui rapidement la submerge. Alain devra choisir.

Le roman : Alain ne peut supporter la force, la vitalité que manifeste sa jeune épouse, ni le « monde moderne » qu’elle représente. Camille heurte la pudeur d’Alain, « une pudeur d’homme presque toujours plus délicate, plus sincère que la nôtre», dit ailleurs Colette - qui aurait pu intituler ce roman La Pure et l’Impure.

« Il y avait dans ce sujet matière à deux cents lignes. Colette l’a développé en deux cents pages. Le miracle est qu’on ne songe pas à s’en plaindre. Son beau génie sensuel a transposé l’anecdote. Il en a fait le roman d’une cristallisation amoureuse qui échoue, d’une intimité conjugale qui rate » (André Billy).]]> 212 Colette Gauthier-Villars �ʳ�ù�Բ� 0 to-read 3.50 1933 Nàng mèo

author: Colette Gauthier-Villars
name: �ʳ�ù�Բ�
average rating: 3.50
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]]> Những điều nh�� bé vĩ đại 48911717 Đ�� chứng minh mình vô tội, đ�� tiếng nói của người M�� gốc Phi được cất lên công bằng, Ruth phải trải qua một chặng đường rất khó khăn, nhưng cô không cô đơn. Bên cạnh cô là n�� luật sư, ch�� gái, con trai và những người bạn không ng�� khác��
Tác phẩm Những điều nh�� bé vĩ đại của Jodi Picoult là một câu chuyện sâu sắc v�� vấn đ�� k�� th�� chủng tộc, s�� lựa chọn, nỗi lo s�� và niềm hy vọng. Tiểu thuyết được sáng tác dựa trên một chuyện có thật �� M��, gợi m�� nhiều vấn đ�� đ�� độc gi�� t�� rút ra kết luận v�� cách chúng ta nhìn nhận bản thân và người khác trong th�� giới đa dạng này.

Jodi Picoult là tác gi�� có sách bán chạy nhất theo bình chọn của New York Times. Bà đã xuất bản 25 tiểu thuyết, bao gồm Siêu Thoát, Luật nhà, Nơi chốn lưu đày, và các tác phẩm khác.]]> 738 Jodi Picoult 6041149861 �ʳ�ù�Բ� 0 to-read 4.17 2016 Những điều nhỏ bé vĩ đại

author: Jodi Picoult
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]]> <![CDATA[Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World]]> 10374 Lord Jim.

Science fiction, detective story and post-modern manifesto all rolled into one rip-roaring novel, Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World is the tour de force that expanded Haruki Murakami's international following. Tracking one man's descent into the Kafkaesque underworld of contemporary Tokyo, Murakami unites East and West, tragedy and farce, compassion and detachment, slang and philosophy.]]> 400 Haruki Murakami �ʳ�ù�Բ� 0 to-read 4.14 1985 Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World

Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World

author: Haruki Murakami
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average rating: 4.14
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]]> Đi Tìm Nhân Dạng 57970617 250 Luigi Pirandello 6043196034 �ʳ�ù�Բ� 0 to-read 3.40 1925

author: Luigi Pirandello
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average rating: 3.40
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]]> <![CDATA[King, Warrior, Magician, Lover: Rediscovering Masculinity Through the Lens of Archetypal Psychology - A Journey into the Male Psyche and Its Four Essential Aspects]]> 91781 Moore and Gillette identify four archetypes of masculine energies from myth and literature: the Lover, brimming with vitality and sensitivity; the Magician, guider of the processes of inner and outer transformation; the selfless and wise King identified with Adam or primordial man; and the Warrior, whose energies often go awry in destructive activity. Dream analysis, meditation, Jungian "active imagination" and ritual processes are among the tools set forth in a clear, concise map to territories of masculine selfhood.]]> 180 Robert L. Moore 0062506064 �ʳ�ù�Բ� 0 to-read 4.12 1990 King, Warrior, Magician, Lover: Rediscovering Masculinity Through the Lens of Archetypal Psychology - A Journey into the Male Psyche and Its Four Essential Aspects

King, Warrior, Magician, Lover: Rediscovering Masculinity Through the Lens of Archetypal Psychology - A Journey into the Male Psyche and Its Four Essential Aspects

author: Robert L. Moore
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average rating: 4.12
book published: 1990
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]]> Networks: An Introduction 8533325
The study of networks is broadly interdisciplinary and important developments have occurred in many fields, including mathematics, physics, computer and information sciences, biology, and the social sciences. This book brings together for the first time the most important breakthroughs in each of these fields and presents them in a coherent fashion, highlighting the strong interconnections between work in different areas.

Subjects covered include the measurement and structure of networks in many branches of science, methods for analyzing network data, including methods developed in physics, statistics, and sociology, the fundamentals of graph theory, computer algorithms, and spectral methods, mathematical models of networks, including random graph models and generative models, and theories of dynamical processes taking place on networks.]]> 784 M.E.J. Newman 0199206651 �ʳ�ù�Բ� 0 to-read 4.21 2010 Networks: An Introduction

author: M.E.J. Newman
name: �ʳ�ù�Բ�
average rating: 4.21
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]]> Thiếu n�� 62327497 Tôi muốn nhìn thấy xác chết... Tôi muốn chứng kiến cái chết... Tôi muốn giác ng�� v�� cái chết...

Sau khi cùng nghe lời k�� có phần hơi khoe khoang v�� việc đã được chứng kiến cái chết của người bạn thân nhất t�� một học sinh chuyển trường, Yuki muốn nhìn thấy khoảnh khắc một người chết đi ch�� không phải một cái xác; còn Atsuko từng nghĩ đến việc t�� t��, thì cho rằng khi nhìn thấy một xác chết, cô có th�� giác ng�� v�� cái chết và tr�� nên mạnh m�� hơn. Th�� là hai cô gái lần lượt đi làm tình nguyện viên �� viện dưỡng lão và khoa Nhi trong bệnh viện mà không nói cho người kia biết, hòng mong được chứng kiến giây phút lâm chung của một ai đó.

Thiếu n�� mô t�� k�� ngh�� hè chấn động của các n�� sinh lớp 11 muốn khám phá cái chết. Câu chuyện thực s�� gây lay động bởi những trang viết đầy hồi hộp và xúc động v�� gia đình, tình bạn, tình yêu.]]> 324 Kanae Minato 6043552981 �ʳ�ù�Բ� 0 to-read 3.51 2009 Thiếu nữ

author: Kanae Minato
name: �ʳ�ù�Բ�
average rating: 3.51
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]]> Bad Science 3272165
We are obsessed with our health. And yet—from the media's "world-expert microbiologist" with a mail-order Ph.D. in his garden shed laboratory, via multiple health scares and miracle cures, to the million-pound trial that Durham Council now denies ever existed—we are constantly bombarded with inaccurate, contradictory and sometimes even misleading information. Until now.

Ben Goldacre masterfully dismantles the dodgy science behind some of the great drug trials, court cases and missed opportunities of our time, but he also goes further: out of the bullshit, he shows us the fascinating story of how we know what we know, and gives us the tools to uncover bad science for ourselves.]]> 338 Ben Goldacre 0007240198 �ʳ�ù�Բ� 0 to-read 4.05 2008

author: Ben Goldacre
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average rating: 4.05
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]]> Luận Ng�� và Bàn Tính 55825608 354 Shibusawa Eiichi 6047771327 �ʳ�ù�Բ� 0 to-read 4.50 Luận Ngữ và Bàn Tính

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]]> <![CDATA[Introduction to Stochastic Control Theory (Dover Books on Electrical Engineering)]]> 322014

This text for upper-level undergraduates and graduate students explores stochastic control theory in terms of analysis, parametric optimization, and optimal stochastic control. Limited to linear systems with quadratic criteria, it covers discrete time as well as continuous time systems. 1970 edition.

]]> 320 Karl Johan Åström 0486445313 �ʳ�ù�Բ� 0 to-read 4.08 1970 Introduction to Stochastic Control Theory (Dover Books on Electrical Engineering)

author: Karl Johan Åström
name: �ʳ�ù�Բ�
average rating: 4.08
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]]> <![CDATA[Feedback Systems: An Introduction for Scientists and Engineers]]> 2913059 This book provides an introduction to the mathematics needed to model, analyze, and design feedback systems. It is an ideal textbook for undergraduate and graduate students, and is indispensable for researchers seeking a self-contained reference on control theory. Unlike most books on the subject, Feedback Systems develops transfer functions through the exponential response of a system, and is accessible across a range of disciplines that utilize feedback in physical, biological, information, and economic systems.

Karl Åström and Richard Murray use techniques from physics, computer science, and operations research to introduce control-oriented modeling. They begin with state space tools for analysis and design, including stability of solutions, Lyapunov functions, reachability, state feedback observability, and estimators. The matrix exponential plays a central role in the analysis of linear control systems, allowing a concise development of many of the key concepts for this class of models. Åström and Murray then develop and explain tools in the frequency domain, including transfer functions, Nyquist analysis, PID control, frequency domain design, and robustness. They provide exercises at the end of every chapter, and an accompanying electronic solutions manual is available. Feedback Systems is a complete one-volume resource for students and researchers in mathematics, engineering, and the sciences.

Covers the mathematics needed to model, analyze, and design feedback systems Serves as an introductory textbook for students and a self-contained resource for researchers Includes exercises at the end of every chapter Features an electronic solutions manual Offers techniques applicable across a range of disciplines ]]> 408 Karl Johan Åström 0691135762 �ʳ�ù�Բ� 0 to-read 4.39 2008 Feedback Systems: An Introduction for Scientists and Engineers

Feedback Systems: An Introduction for Scientists and Engineers

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]]> Tôi, Robot 223271022
Là gối kê đầu giường của đông đảo các th�� h�� thanh thiếu niên mà gi�� đây tuổi đã ngoài 70, cuốn sách c�� xưa này hôm nay vẫn có th�� cung cấp cho bạn đọc những tiên tri chính xác đến k�� l�� của Asimov v�� thời đại trí tu�� nhân tạo mà chúng ta sắp sửa trải qua.]]> 330 Isaac Asimov �ʳ�ù�Բ� 5 ]]> 4.36 1950 Tôi, Robot

author: Isaac Asimov
name: �ʳ�ù�Բ�
average rating: 4.36
book published: 1950
rating: 5
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Vibe giống Phoenix của Osamu Tezuka.

]]> <![CDATA[The Whole-Brain Child: Revolutionary Strategies to Nurture Your Child's Developing Mind]]> 10353369
In this pioneering, practical book, Daniel J. Siegel, neuropsychiatrist and author of the bestselling Mindsight, and parenting expert Tina Payne Bryson demystify the meltdowns and aggravation, explaining the new science of how a child’s brain is wired and how it matures. The “upstairs brain,�� which makes decisions and balances emotions, is under construction until the mid-twenties. And especially in young children, the right brain and its emotions tend to rule over the logic of the left brain. No wonder kids can seem—and feel—so out of control. By applying these discoveries to everyday parenting, you can turn any outburst, argument, or fear into a chance to integrate your child’s brain and foster vital growth. Raise calmer, happier children using twelve key strategies, including
��
�� Name It to Tame It: Corral raging right-brain behavior through left-brain storytelling, appealing to the left brain’s affinity for words and reasoning to calm emotional storms and bodily tension.
�� Engage, Don’t Enrage: Keep your child thinking and listening, instead of purely reacting.
�� Move It or Lose It: Use physical activities to shift your child’s emotional state.
�� Let the Clouds of Emotion Roll By: Guide your children when they are stuck on a negative emotion, and help them understand that feelings come and go.
�� SIFT: Help children pay attention to the Sensations, Images, Feelings, and Thoughts within them so that they can make better decisions and be more flexible.
�� Connect Through Conflict: Use discord to encourage empathy and greater social success.
��
Complete with clear explanations, age-appropriate strategies for dealing with day-to-day struggles, and illustrations that will help you explain these concepts to your child, The Whole-Brain Child shows you how to cultivate healthy emotional and intellectual development so that your children can lead balanced, meaningful, and connected lives.]]> 192 Daniel J. Siegel 0553807919 �ʳ�ù�Բ� 0 to-read 4.25 2011 The Whole-Brain Child: Revolutionary Strategies to Nurture Your Child's Developing Mind

The Whole-Brain Child: Revolutionary Strategies to Nurture Your Child's Developing Mind

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]]> Tender Is the Night 46164 Tender Is the Night is the tragic romance of the young actress Rosemary Hoyt and the stylish American couple Dick and Nicole Diver. A brilliant young psychiatrist at the time of his marriage, Dick is both husband and doctor to Nicole, whose wealth goads him into a lifestyle not his own, and whose growing strength highlights Dick's harrowing demise. A profound study of the romantic concept of character, Tender Is the Night is lyrical, expansive, and hauntingly evocative.]]> 430 F. Scott Fitzgerald �ʳ�ù�Բ� 0 to-read 3.80 1934

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]]> <![CDATA[The Testosterone Advantage: A Complete Guide to Male Hormonal Balance and Endocrine Health]]> 199236243 Reclaim Your The Men's Ultimate Guide to Testosterone Optimization

Hormonal balance is necessary for good health, fitness, performance, and aesthetics. One of the key hormones that regulate a man's health, longevity, and well-being is testosterone.

Testosterone is an androgen (sex steroid hormone) responsible for the development of male and secondary sexual characteristics, muscle mass and strength, stamina, bone density, spermatogenesis (sperm production), sexual desire (libido), sexual function and performance, metabolic health, body composition, mood and cognitive function, cardiovascular health, red blood cell production (erythropoiesis), immune system function, and the regulation of many other hormones in the body.

In this meticulous, evidence-based male hormone optimization guide, you will discover the most powerful techniques and strategies for increasing testosterone levels naturally. From lifestyle modifications, diet changes, and exercise adjustments, to powerful nutraceuticals, supplements, and therapies, this book offers extensive insights for optimizing testosterone levels and improving all aspects of male health and wellness.

Learn how to identify hidden signs of low testosterone, understand the root causes of hormone imbalance, and explore the latest scientific breakthroughs in the fields of endocrinology, anti-aging, and male hormone optimization. Get educated about the potential risks associated with testosterone replacement therapy (TRT) and get access to natural alternative solutions for boosting testosterone levels naturally, safely, and effectively.

Whether you are a seasoned athlete looking to improve your performance, a fitness enthusiast seeking to build muscle or lose fat, or simply someone looking to obtain and maintain optimal health and vitality until ripe old age, this book is for you. With practical advice and expert insights, it will empower you to take control of your hormonal health today and live your best life as a man.

Discover Science-Backed Strategies

�� Boost your testosterone levels naturally through diet, exercise, supplements, and lifestyle changes.

�� Optimize your hormonal balance for improved energy, mood, fertility, and performance.

�� Build muscle and burn fat for a leaner, healthier, more aesthetic physique.

�� Address common men's health concerns like erectile dysfunction and low libido.

This Comprehensive Guide

�� The science behind testosterone and its impact on male health and physiology.

�� Practical steps to maximize testosterone production naturally.

�� The best foods and supplements to support healthy hormone levels.

�� Effective strategies to manage stress and optimize sleep.

�� How to identify and address low testosterone symptoms.

�� Safe and effective ways to improve sexual performance.

"The Testosterone Advantage" is more than just a book. It's your personalized guide to a healthier, stronger, and more fulfilling life.

Here's What You'll

�� Clear, actionable steps you can implement immediately.

�� Evidence-based information from the latest research.

�� Holistic strategies that address the root cause of hormonal imbalances.]]> 405 Timotheus Ray �ʳ�ù�Բ� 0 4.46 The Testosterone Advantage: A Complete Guide to Male Hormonal Balance and Endocrine Health

The Testosterone Advantage: A Complete Guide to Male Hormonal Balance and Endocrine Health

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]]> <![CDATA[Vintage Physique: A Golden Era Bodybuilding Guide to Health and Aesthetics]]> 87827234
How About Doing That Without Stuffing Yourself With Sugar and Carbs?

Vintage Physique is an in-depth, easy-to-follow, low-carb, Old-School bodybuilding guide designed to help men achieve new levels of health and aesthetics. Combining secrets, tips and innovative techniques established by the most bright Old-School bodybuilders of the Golden Era, this premium musclebuilding guide offers all the tools you need to achieve a superhero level of muscularity and strength easily, safely and effectively. Strict adherence to the guidelines provided in this book will lead to a strong, lean, sexy, and healthy body - without the gas, bloating, indigestion, blood sugar problems and energy crashes caused by carb overconsumption.

Components

�� NUTRITION: A heavy animal-based - almost carnivorous - diet regime based on bioavailable, high-quality protein and fats. Lots of meat, eggs, and raw dairy. Depending on the person's tolerance, small amounts of gut-friendly and easy-to-digest sources of carbohydrates may be included. Their use is solely intended to replace electrolytes and glycogen stores depleted during intense physical exercise. Smaller meals with a higher eating frequency are recommended to ease off the load on the digestive system and ensure perfect nutrient absorption, especially protein.

�� TRAINING: High-intensity, full-body training with zero cardio.

�� SUPPLEMENTS: Combining Old-School bodybuilding wisdom with the latest research in Sports Nutrition (2023), the 3 most basic supplements of the protocol are:
�� Glandular extracts to optimize hormone health and androgen production, especially testosterone.
�� Vitamin D for strong bones and teeth, healthy immune function, and good mental health, especially during the winter months.
�� HCL tablets & Digestive Enzymes to optimize digestion and nutrient absorption.

�� In This Groundbreaking Old-School Bodybuilding Guide, You Will Discover:

�� The logic behind the Old-School, Golden Era bodybuilding principles of proper training, nutrition, and supplementation.
�� Pre-designed, powerful training routines for people who can train from only x1 to 4 times per week.
�� Why high-frequency, full-body workouts are the most superior style of training for the natural bodybuilder / gym-goer.
�� Simple rules by which you can effortlessly create the perfect training program, based on your own daily schedule, individual needs and preferences.
�� What are the best protein sources for musclebuilding, health, and longevity.
�� What are the best carbohydrate sources for optimum gut, skin, mental and metabolic health.
�� What is the role of organ meats (offal) in bodybuilding and how they can skyrocket your body composition, health, performance, energy, and overall vitality.
�� Why red meat is an excellent source of nutrition, doesn't cause heart disease or cancer, and is actually a healthy & sustainable option for both you and the planet.
�� How critical proper digestion, absorption, utilization of nutrients is for immunity, gut health, muscle growth, and cognitive performance (and how most athletes / bodybuilders fall short in that department).
�� What supplements really work for your physical and mental health and fitness.
�� How to remain perfectly healthy and maintain excellent biomarkers, while enjoying delicious meals, eating 1000's of calories, and building muscle like a "pro."
�� How to promptly recognize you’ve reached a plateau + smart tips and tricks to overcome it.

So What Are You Waiting For?

Revolutionize The Way You Look and Train by Following the Amazing Secrets and Forgotten Knowledge of Old-School Bodybuilders.]]> 142 George Kelly �ʳ�ù�Բ� 0 to-read 4.22 Vintage Physique: A Golden Era Bodybuilding Guide to Health and Aesthetics

Vintage Physique: A Golden Era Bodybuilding Guide to Health and Aesthetics

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]]> The Things They Carried 133518
The Things They Carried depicts the men of Alpha Company: Jimmy Cross, Henry Dobbins, Rat Kiley, Mitchell Sanders, Norman Bowker, Kiowa, and the character Tim O’Brien, who has survived his tour in Vietnam to become a father and writer at the age of forty-three.

Taught everywhere—from high school classrooms to graduate seminars in creative writing—it has become required reading for any American and continues to challenge readers in their perceptions of fact and fiction, war and peace, courage and fear and longing. The Things They Carried won France's prestigious Prix du Meilleur Livre Etranger and the Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize; it was also a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award.]]> 246 Tim O'Brien 0767902890 �ʳ�ù�Բ� 0 to-read 4.14 1990 The Things They Carried

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average rating: 4.14
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]]> Burmese Days 9650 276 George Orwell 1421808307 �ʳ�ù�Բ� 0 to-read 3.87 1934

author: George Orwell
name: �ʳ�ù�Բ�
average rating: 3.87
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]]> Leonardo da Vinci 34684622 600 Walter Isaacson 1501139150 �ʳ�ù�Բ� 4 4.18 2017

author: Walter Isaacson
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average rating: 4.18
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]]> Giữa lòng tăm tối 35478122
Trích đoạn: "Câu chuyện của c�� bọn, dù vậy, chẳng khác gì phường hải tặc h�� lưu: liều lĩnh mà không gan d��, tham lam mà không táo bạo, tàn độc mà không dũng cảm; chẳng có một mảy may viễn kiến hay d�� định nghiêm túc nào trong đầu c�� bọn, và dường như chẳng ai ý thức được rằng s�� vận hành của th�� giới này đòi hỏi những cái đó. Bứt sản vật khỏi lòng đất đai là dục vọng của chúng, và động cơ đạo đức đằng sau việc làm ấy cũng chẳng khác gì khi k�� cắp phá két."]]> 180 Joseph Conrad 6045385292 �ʳ�ù�Բ� 0 to-read 3.85 1899 Giữa lòng tăm tối

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average rating: 3.85
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]]> A Field Guide to Getting Lost 76479 Wanderlust), or using the life of photographer Eadweard Muybridge as a lens to discuss the transformations of space and time in late nineteenth-century America (River of Shadows), Rebecca Solnit has emerged as an inventive and original writer whose mind is daring in the connections it makes. A Field Guide to Getting Lost draws on emblematic moments and relationships in Solnit's own life to explore the issues of wandering, being lost, and the uses of the unknown. The result is a distinctive, stimulating, and poignant voyage of discovery.]]> 209 Rebecca Solnit 0143037242 �ʳ�ù�Բ� 0 to-read 3.97 2005 A Field Guide to Getting Lost

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]]> <![CDATA[Call Them by Their True Names: American Crises (and Essays)]]> 39688744 Men Explain Things to Me. Called “the voice of the resistance�� by the New York Times, she has emerged as an essential guide to our times, through incisive commentary on feminism, violence, ecology, hope, and everything in between.

In this powerful and wide-ranging collection of essays, Solnit turns her attention to the war at home. This is a war, she says, “with so many casualties that we should call it by its true name, this war with so many dead by police, by violent ex-husbands and partners and lovers, by people pursuing power and profit at the point of a gun or just shooting first and figuring out who they hit later.�� To get to the root of these American crises, she contends that “to acknowledge this state of war is to admit the need for peace,�� countering the despair of our age with a dose of solidarity, creativity, and hope.

The loneliness of Donald Trump --
Coda (July 16, 2018) --
Milestones in misogyny --
Twenty million missing storytellers --
Ideology of isolation --
Naïve cynicism --
Facing the furies --
Preaching to the choir --
Climate change is violence --
Blood on the foundation --
Death by gentrification: the killing of Alex Nieto and the savaging of San Francisco --
No way in, no way out --
Bird in a cage: visiting Jarvis Masters on death row --
Coda: case dismissed --
The monument wars --
Eight million ways to belong --
The light from Standing Rock --
Break the story --
Hope in grief --
In praise of indirect consequences]]> 188 Rebecca Solnit 1608469468 �ʳ�ù�Բ� 0 to-read 4.19 2018 Call Them by Their True Names: American Crises (and Essays)

Call Them by Their True Names: American Crises (and Essays)

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]]> Con cú mù 15995898
Đôi nét v�� tác gi��

Sadegh Hedayat (1903-1951) nhà văn Iran với bút pháp hiện đại mang tính siêu thực. Con cú mù là cuốn tiểu thuyết nổi tiếng nhất của Iran trong th�� k�� XX đã được dịch sang nhiều th�� tiếng. Do b�� kiểm duyệt �� Iran nên tác gi�� đã t�� xuất bản lần đầu vào năm 1936 dưới dạng in ronéo �� Bombay Ấn Đ��).

S�� phận của kiệt tác này nằm �� giao l�� trong một k�� nguyên lịch s�� Iran đầy những biến c�� chính tr��, những cuộc cách mạng, những va chạm gay go giữa văn hóa truyền thống Islam và cuộc hiện đại hóa �� Iran.

Đương thời �� Iran con cú mù b�� xem là th�� trái cấm hiện sinh, và nó đã dẫn tới không ít những cuộc t�� sát và chính tác gi�� cũng t�� sát. Sau khi cuốn tiểu thuyết được đăng từng k�� trên một chuyên san của Iran t�� 1941 -1942 thì lịch s�� xuất bản của Con cú mù ch�� yếu là một cuộc trốn tìm với nhà cầm quyền. Cho tới năm 1993 được phát hành lại nhưng tiếp tục b�� kiểm duyệt và b�� cấm trong Hội ch�� Sách Quốc t�� Tehran năm 2005, và năm 2006 b�� truất quyền xuất bản.]]> 137 Sadegh Hedayat �ʳ�ù�Բ� 0 to-read 3.78 1937 Con cú mù

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]]> Malice (Detective Kaga, #1) 20613611
Acclaimed bestselling novelist Kunihiko Hidaka is found brutally murdered in his home on the night before he's planning to leave Japan and relocate to Vancouver. His body is found in his office, in a locked room, within his locked house, by his wife and his best friend, both of whom have rock solid alibis. Or so it seems.

Police Detective Kyochiro Kaga recognizes Hidaka's best friend from years ago when they were both teachers. Kaga joined the police force while Nonoguchi became a writer, though with not nearly the success of his friend Hidaka. When Kaga suspects something is a little bit off with Nonoguchi's statement, he investigates further, searching Nonoguchi's apartment. There he finds evidence that shows that the two writers' relationship was very different than the two claimed...

In a brilliantly realized tale of cat and mouse, the detective and the writer battle over the truth of the past and how events that led to the murder really unfolded. Which one of the two writers was ultimately guilty of malice?]]> 288 Keigo Higashino 1250035600 �ʳ�ù�Բ� 0 to-read 4.02 1996 Malice (Detective Kaga, #1)

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]]> <![CDATA[Real Analysis: A Long-Form Mathematics Textbook]]> 41434513 375 Jay Cummings 1724510126 �ʳ�ù�Բ� 0 to-read 4.51

Real Analysis: A Long-Form Mathematics Textbook

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]]> <![CDATA[Proofs: A Long-Form Mathematics Textbook (The Long-Form Math Textbook Series)]]> 56895723 511 Jay Cummings �ʳ�ù�Բ� 5 4.52

Proofs: A Long-Form Mathematics Textbook (The Long-Form Math Textbook Series)

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]]> Why I Write 9644
Contents:
"Why I Write", first published 1946
"The Lion and the Unicorn", first published 1940
"A Hanging", first published 1931
"Politics and the English Language", first published 1946]]> 120 George Orwell 0143036351 �ʳ�ù�Բ� 0 to-read 4.04 1946 Why I Write

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average rating: 4.04
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]]> <![CDATA[The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality]]> 22435 The fabric of the cosmos 569 Brian Greene 0965900584 �ʳ�ù�Բ� 0 to-read 4.12 2004

The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality

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]]> Dã Thú Đô Thành 54743547
Song đáng s�� nhất, không phải là k�� th�� ác muốn che giấu và che giấu thành công, cũng không phải là che giấu thành công và sống yên ổn giữa cộng đồng. Mà là che giấu thành công và sống yên ổn giữa cộng đồng, nhưng lại không h�� nhận ra mình là k�� th�� ác.

Câu chuyện bắt đầu khi báo đài đưa tin, có một tên sát nhân hàng loạt chuyên nhằm vào ph�� n��. Sau mỗi lần hành s��, hắn lại lấy đi một b�� phận trên người nạn nhân, c�� lần sau lấy nhiều hơn lần trước.

Đây là câu chuyện v�� một k�� th�� ác trực tiếp, mắc một căn bệnh gọi là bệnh tàn sát. Nhưng bản thân hắn lại cho rằng mình đang theo đuổi ái tình chân-thiện-m��, nên mỗi lần giết người, hắn lại trau chuốt cho thao tác của mình “ngh�� thuật�� thêm một chút.

Đây còn là câu chuyện v�� một k�� th�� ác gián tiếp, mắc một căn bệnh gọi là bệnh ích k��. Nhưng bản thân lại nghĩ mình đang gi�� gìn th�� diện gia đình, bằng cách đó âm thầm tiêm ung thư vào t�� bào xã hội.

C�� hai, vô thức và c�� ý, đã cùng che giấu k�� th�� ác thực s��.

Đáng nói là chính tác gi��, bằng th�� pháp giấu cây vào rừng, cũng đã che giấu s�� thật khỏi tầm mắt người đọc, đến tận phút cuối cùng.]]> 276 Takemaru Abiko 604555406X �ʳ�ù�Բ� 2 3.53 1992 Dã Thú Đô Thành

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]]> <![CDATA[Einstein: His Life and Universe]]> 10884 675 Walter Isaacson 0743264738 �ʳ�ù�Բ� 4 4.16 2007

author: Walter Isaacson
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Kết thúc cuốn này vào ngày sinh nhật Einstein. Trùng hợp ghê.
]]> The Metamorphosis 485894 Alternate cover edition of ISBN 0553213695 / 9780553213690

"As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect. He was laying on his hard, as it were armor-plated, back and when he lifted his head a little he could see his domelike brown belly divided into stiff arched segments on top of which the bed quilt could hardly keep in position and was about to slide off completely. His numerous legs, which were pitifully thin compared to the rest of his bulk, waved helplessly before his eyes."

With it's startling, bizarre, yet surprisingly funny first opening, Kafka begins his masterpiece, The Metamorphosis. It is the story of a young man who, transformed overnight into a giant beetle-like insect, becomes an object of disgrace to his family, an outsider in his own home, a quintessentially alienated man. A harrowing—though absurdly comic—meditation on human feelings of inadequacy, guilt, and isolation, The Metamorphosis has taken its place as one of the most widely read and influential works of twentieth-century fiction. As W.H. Auden wrote, "Kafka is important to us because his predicament is the predicament of modern man."]]> 201 Franz Kafka 0553213695 �ʳ�ù�Բ� 5 Cay đắng và lắm suy ngẫm. Hic 3.90 1915 The Metamorphosis

author: Franz Kafka
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average rating: 3.90
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Cay đắng và lắm suy ngẫm. Hic
]]> <![CDATA[Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism]]> 223436601 An explosive memoir charting one woman’s career at the heart of one of the most influential companies on the planet, Careless People gives you a front-row seat to Facebook, the decisions that have shaped world events in recent decades, and the people who made them.

From trips on private jets and encounters with world leaders to shocking accounts of misogyny and double standards behind the scenes, this searing memoir exposes both the personal and the political fallout when unfettered power and a rotten company culture take hold. In a gripping and often absurd narrative where a few people carelessly hold the world in their hands, this eye-opening memoir reveals what really goes on among the global elite.

Sarah Wynn-Williams tells the wrenching but fun story of Facebook, mapping its rise from stumbling encounters with juntas to Mark Zuckerberg’s reaction when he learned of Facebook’s role in Trump’s election. She experiences the challenges and humiliations of working motherhood within a pressure cooker of a workplace, all while Sheryl Sandberg urges her and others to “lean in.��

Careless People is a deeply personal account of why and how things have gone so horribly wrong in the past decade—told in a sharp, candid, and utterly disarming voice. A deep, unflinching look at the role that social media has assumed in our lives, Careless People reveals the truth about the leaders of Facebook: how the more power they grasp, the less responsible they become and the consequences this has for all of us.]]> 382 Sarah Wynn-Williams 1250391237 �ʳ�ù�Բ� 0 to-read 4.23 2025 Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism

Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism

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]]> Người chưa bao gi�� thấy biển 13636142 214 J.M.G. Le Clézio �ʳ�ù�Բ� 0 to-read 3.54 Người chưa bao giờ thấy biển

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]]> <![CDATA[How to Feed the World: A Factful Guide]]> 210678415 ‘There is no author whose books I look forward to more�� BILL GATES

In this ambitious, myth-busting book, leading scientist and internationally bestselling author Vaclav Smil investigates many of the burning questions facing the world

Why are some of the world’s biggest food producers also the countries with the most undernourished populations?

Why is food waste a colossal 1,000kcal per person daily, and how can we solve that?

Could we all go vegan and be healthy? Should we?

How will we feed the ballooning population without killing the planet?

How Food Really Works shows how we misunderstand the essentials of where our food really comes from, how our dietary requirements shape us, and why this impacts our planet in drastic ways. Ultimately, this data-based, rigorously researched guide explains how we will survive and thrive long into the future.

‘There is perhaps no other academic who paints pictures with numbers like Smil�� GUARDIAN]]> 258 Vaclav Smil 0241999499 �ʳ�ù�Բ� 0 to-read 3.61 2025 How to Feed the World: A Factful Guide

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]]> Mặt trời mù 28108973
Curzio Malaparte vốn dấn thân vào con đường binh nghiệp t�� rất sớm, ông đã phải chứng kiến hàng loạt thảm cảnh của Th�� chiến 2 ngay t�� những buổi đầu. Chính cái nhì chân xác của người trong cuộc kết hopwj với ngòi bút tuyệt k�� của một cây viết gạo cội đã làm nên một trong những tiểu thuyết ấn tượng bậc nhất của văn chương Ý...]]> 168 Curzio Malaparte 6046964997 �ʳ�ù�Բ� 0 to-read 3.27 1947 Mặt trời mù

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]]> <![CDATA[Ma Huateng and Tencent: A Business and Life Biography (China's Entrepreneurs)]]> 33921556 256 Leng Hu 1911498282 �ʳ�ù�Բ� 1 3.02

Ma Huateng and Tencent: A Business and Life Biography (China's Entrepreneurs)

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]]> The Elements of Style 33514 105 William Strunk Jr. �ʳ�ù�Բ� 4 4.15 1918

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]]> <![CDATA[David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants]]> 15751404 The Tipping Point, Blink, and Outliers, Malcolm Gladwell has explored the ways we understand and change our world. Now he looks at the complex and surprising ways the weak can defeat the strong, the small can match up against the giant, and how our goals (often culturally determined) can make a huge difference in our ultimate sense of success. Drawing upon examples from the world of business, sports, culture, cutting-edge psychology, and an array of unforgettable characters around the world, David and Goliath is in many ways the most practical and provocative book Malcolm Gladwell has ever written.]]> 305 Malcolm Gladwell 0316204366 �ʳ�ù�Բ� 3 3.97 2013 David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants

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]]> The Craft of Research 2543099 The Craft of Research is the unrivaled resource for researchers at every level, from first-year undergraduates to research reporters at corporations and government offices.

Seasoned researchers and educators Gregory G. Colomb and Joseph M. Williams present an updated third edition of their classic handbook, whose first and second editions were written in collaboration with the late Wayne C. Booth. The Craft of Research explains how to build an argument that motivates readers to accept a claim; how to anticipate the reservations of readers and to respond to them appropriately; and how to create introductions and conclusions that answer that most demanding question, “So what?��

The third edition includes an expanded discussion of the essential early stages of a research task: planning and drafting a paper. The authors have revised and fully updated their section on electronic research, emphasizing the need to distinguish between trustworthy sources (such as those found in libraries) and less reliable sources found with a quick Web search. A chapter on warrants has also been thoroughly reviewed to make this difficult subject easier for researchers

Throughout, the authors have preserved the amiable tone, the reliable voice, and the sense of directness that have made this book indispensable for anyone undertaking a research project.]]> 317 Wayne C. Booth 0226065669 �ʳ�ù�Բ� 4 3.91 1995 The Craft of Research

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]]> Economics: The User's Guide 20613671 23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism, Cambridge economist Ha-Joon Chang brilliantly debunked many of the predominant myths of neoclassical economics. Now, in an entertaining and accessible primer, he explains how the global economy actually works—in real-world terms. Writing with irreverent wit, a deep knowledge of history, and a disregard for conventional economic pieties, Chang offers insights that will never be found in the textbooks.

Unlike many economists, who present only one view of their discipline,��Chang introduces a wide range of economic theories, from classical to Keynesian, revealing how each has its strengths and weaknesses, and why�� there is no one way to explain economic behavior. Instead, by ignoring the received wisdom and exposing the myriad forces that shape our financial world, Chang gives us the tools we need to understand our increasingly global and interconnected world often driven by economics. From the future of the Euro, inequality in China, or the condition of the American manufacturing industry here in the United States��Economics: The User’s Guide is a concise and expertly crafted guide to economic fundamentals that offers a clear and accurate picture of the global economy and how and why it affects our daily lives.]]> 384 Ha-Joon Chang 1620408120 �ʳ�ù�Բ� 0 to-read 4.16 2014 Economics: The User's Guide

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]]> <![CDATA[Bad Samaritans: The Myth of Free Trade and the Secret History of Capitalism]]> 1032019 The World Is Flat head-on—a crisp, contrarian history of global capitalism.

One economist has called Ha-Joon Chang "the most exciting thinker our profession has turned out in the past fifteen years." With Bad Samaritans, this provocative scholar bursts into the debate on globalization and economic justice. Using irreverent wit, an engagingly personal style, and a battery of examples, Chang blasts holes in the "World Is Flat" orthodoxy of Thomas Friedman and other liberal economists who argue that only unfettered capitalism and wide-open international trade can lift struggling nations out of poverty. On the contrary, Chang shows, today's economic superpowers—from the U.S. to Britain to his native Korea—all attained prosperity by shameless protectionism and government intervention in industry. We have conveniently forgotten this fact, telling ourselves a fairy tale about the magic of free trade and—via our proxies such as the World Bank, International Monetary Fund, and World Trade Organization—ramming policies that suit ourselves down the throat of the developing world.

Unlike typical economists who construct models of how the marketplace should work, Chang examines the past: what has actually happened. His pungently contrarian history demolishes one pillar after another of free-market mythology. We treat patents and copyrights as sacrosanct—but developed our own industries by studiously copying others' technologies. We insist that centrally planned economies stifle growth—but many developing countries had higher GDP growth before they were pressured into deregulating their economies. Both justice and common sense, Chang argues, demand that we reevaluate the policies we force on nations that are struggling to follow in our footsteps.]]> 288 Ha-Joon Chang 1596913991 �ʳ�ù�Բ� 0 to-read 4.19 2007 Bad Samaritans: The Myth of Free Trade and the Secret History of Capitalism

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]]> <![CDATA[Nuôi con không phải là cuộc chiến]]> 31699037 Những ngày đầu tiên bạn s�� c�� gắng cho bé bú liên tục, nhằm kích sữa, đ�� con biết đây là m��. Đôi khi bạn s�� đánh thức con dậy đ�� cho con bú khi thấy bé ng�� li bì vì bạn s�� lâu quá con không bú s�� b�� đói. Bạn liên tục t�� hỏi: con bú ít th�� có đói không? Mình làm như th�� có sao không? Con có ng�� được không? Con có nóng không? Con có lạnh không? Và làm th�� nào đ�� con tăng cân nhanh nhất có th��. Con tăng cân th�� có chậm so với anh, ch��, em hay con nhà hàng xóm không?
Khi được 4 tháng tuổi, t�� nhiên bạn thấy con bú ít hẳn, con cáu gắt, con ng�� không yên, con dậy đêm nhiều lần. Bạn nghĩ là con đói, hốt hoảng cho con bú mỗi gi��. Con quấy khóc, ch�� có ti m�� hay cái bình mới có th�� cho con ng�� được. Và ch�� khi ng�� con mới chịu ăn. Mỗi giấc ng�� của con ch�� kéo dài 30 phút rồi con choàng dậy và kích động như chưa bao gi�� được ngh�� ngơi. Đêm con dậy liên tục, con đòi bú, bạn nghĩ con ngày bú ít chắc cần bú bù, c�� đêm bạn chẳng ng�� vì phục v�� “tiếp dưỡng�� cho con. M�� mệt và cảm giác càng ngày con càng “khó tính��.

6 tháng con bắt đầu ăn dặm, con c�� nhè chẳng ăn được bao nhiêu. Bạn quyết cho con nằm ngửa ra bón đ�� ch�� trọng lực của t�� nhiên giúp thức ăn “rơi�� vào bụng con. Sữa cũng vậy - cách duy nhất đ�� uống sữa là nằm ngửa đút thìa, hay t�� hơn là uống bằng xi-lanh. Con vẫn quấy khóc đêm, dậy liên tục. Bạn cảm giác những đêm mất ng�� có l�� s�� kéo dài đến vô tận.

9 tháng, cân nặng của con mãi không tăng, con c�� tuyệt và s�� hãi với thức ăn. Sữa gi�� phải b�� ra đút thìa. Mà k�� c�� vậy, một thìa vào bụng con thì một thìa rơi xuống đất. Lãng phí. Bạn thấy thất vọng và bất lực với con.

Bạn đọc hơn trăm trang tài liệu ăn dặm, các loại Tây Tàu Nhật Th��, nhưng dường như con bạn là đối tượng không phù hợp với bất c�� phương pháp nào.

Mười mấy tháng con chào đời, bạn những tưởng con càng lớn s�� càng d��, nhưng không, mọi s�� tr�� nên khó hơn. Lúc này, mỗi bữa ăn bạn phải cho con ra đường đi dạo, phải cho ra sân chơi, phải có đ�� chơi nếu con ngồi gh��, đi ăn nhà hàng là một cơn ác mộng. Con có th�� đòi hỏi nhiều điều không tưởng, và bạn đáp ứng vô điều kiện, miễn là con ăn�� Cuối cùng con cũng không muốn ăn. Rồi con ăn v��, con khóc, con dọa nôn ra thức ăn, và th�� là bạn lại tìm mọi cách thực hiện yêu sách miễn là con không ăn v��, con không nôn kẻo con lại sụt cân��. Bạn những tưởng con qua nấc 1 tuổi s�� có th�� cho bạn một giấc ng�� nguyên đêm, nhưng không, con vẫn thức dậy vài lần, mỗi đêm trằn trọc không ngon giấc. Bạn đi khám mọi bác s�� dinh dưỡng, uống đ�� các loại men tiêu hóa và cảm giác bất lực càng thêm bất lực vì bạn không th�� thay đổi t�� nhiên, không th�� làm con béo, hay con ng�� ngoan��

Hơn th�� nữa, lúc nào bạn cũng cảm thấy như có thêm cái đuôi bất đắc dĩ, bạn vừa chạy ra ngoài 5 phút thì �� trong phòng đã nghe tiếng khóc nức n��. Bạn đi vào nhà tắm làm công tác bí mật cũng phải có khán gi�� bất đắc dĩ vừa nhăn mũi vừa nhăm nhăm trèo lên lòng . Lâu hơn chút, bạn cảm giác như mình có thêm ông vua bà chúa con trong nhà, thích gì là phải có ngay lập tức, trái ý là lăn đùng ra đất giãy giụa, tiếng khóc át tiếng bom, thậm chí còn dọa đập đầu vào tường, càng �� chốn đông người thì bạn càng được nghe ca nhạc kịch với âm lượng quá tải. Bạn thường xuyên trong tâm trạng lo s�� con ngã, con khóc; đôi khi bạn cảm thấy xấu h�� khi thấy người đi đường ngoái lại nhìn rồi xì xào nên lại chạy ra b��, ra ôm và lại đáp ứng mọi nhu cầu của các thượng đ�� tí hon. Hay thỉnh thoảng khi con b�� ngã, bạn liền lập tức ra tay “đánh chừa�� này, đôi khi ông bà cha m�� lại được con “phát�� miễn phí vài cái tát, hay vài dấu răng trên tay, trên vai. Những tưởng lớn dần bạn nói con s�� hiểu, th�� nhưng đời đâu như mơ, một ngày đẹp trời, thiên thần nh�� của bạn ch�� biết nói duy nhất t�� “không�� đối với tất c�� những gì bạn yêu cầu hay đòi hỏi �� con: tắm xong thì nhất quyết không chịu mặc quần áo, không chịu ngồi yên một ch�� đ�� ăn, không chịu cất đ�� chơi. Nói nh�� không được chuyển qua nói nặng rồi ép buộc rồi dọa nạt, th�� là ngôi nhà biến thành trận chiến nơi có tiếng la hét quát tháo của m�� và những cơn nức n�� của con��
Nếu bất c�� trường hợp nào trên đây giống như những gì xảy ra �� gia đình bạn, thì cuốn sách này là dành cho bạn!

Cuốn sách không là cẩm nang đ�� bé ăn nhiều tăng cân nhanh hay dạy bé nghe lời răm rắp, mà giúp bạn hiểu con mình hơn. Giúp bạn hiểu chu k�� sinh học của con và cách phối kết hợp cuộc sống gia đình với chu k�� sinh học đó của bé. Hơn th��, cuốn sách còn hướng dẫn bạn cách cho ăn khi con đó...]]> 312 Hachun Lyonnet 6046520460 �ʳ�ù�Բ� 0 to-read 3.84 Nuôi con không phải là cuộc chiến

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]]> Lão T�� Đạo Đức Kinh 11779272 277 Lao Tzu �ʳ�ù�Բ� 0 to-read 4.36 -350 Lão Tử Đạo Đức Kinh

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]]> <![CDATA[Vector: A Surprising Story of Space, Time, and Mathematical Transformation]]> 202104095 A celebration of the seemingly simple idea that allowed us to imagine the world in new dimensions—sparking both controversy and discovery.��The stars of this book, vectors and tensors, are unlikely celebrities. If you ever took a physics course, the word “vector�� might remind you of the mathematics needed to determine forces on an amusement park ride, a turbine, or a projectile. You might also remember that a vector is a quantity that has magnitude and (this is the key) direction. In fact, vectors are examples of tensors, which can represent even more data. It sounds simple enough—and yet, as award-winning science writer Robyn Arianrhod shows in this riveting story, the idea of a single symbol expressing more than one thing at once was millennia in the making. And without that idea, we wouldn’t have such a deep understanding of our world.Vector and tensor calculus offers an elegant language for expressing the way things behave in space and time, and Arianrhod shows how this enabled physicists and mathematicians to think in a brand-new way. These include James Clerk Maxwell when he ushered in the wireless electromagnetic age; Einstein when he predicted the curving of space-time and the existence of gravitational waves; Paul Dirac, when he created quantum field theory; and Emmy Noether, when she connected mathematical symmetry and the conservation of energy. For it turned out that it’s not just physical quantities and dimensions that vectors and tensors can represent, but other dimensions and other kinds of information, too. This is why physicists and mathematicians can speak of four-dimensional space-time and other higher-dimensional “spaces,�� and why you’re likely relying on vectors or tensors whenever you use digital applications such as search engines, GPS, or your mobile phone.In exploring the evolution of vectors and tensors—and introducing the fascinating people who gave them to us—Arianrhod takes readers on an extraordinary, five-thousand-year journey through the human imagination. She��shows the genius required to reimagine the world—and how a clever mathematical construct can dramatically change discovery’s direction.]]> 376 Robyn Arianrhod 0226821102 �ʳ�ù�Բ� 0 to-read 4.03 2024 Vector: A Surprising Story of Space, Time, and Mathematical Transformation

Vector: A Surprising Story of Space, Time, and Mathematical Transformation

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]]> <![CDATA[A Manual for Writers of Research Papers, Theses, and Dissertations: Chicago Style for Students and Researchers]]> 201004 Manual for Writers of Research Papers, Theses, and Dissertations, created from her years of experience with research projects across all fields, has sold more than seven million copies since it was first published in 1937.

Now, with this seventh edition, Turabian’s Manual has undergone its most extensive revision, ensuring that it will remain the most valuable handbook for writers at every level—from first-year undergraduates, to dissertation writers apprehensively submitting final manuscripts, to senior scholars who may be old hands at research and writing but less familiar with new media citation styles. Gregory G. Colomb, Joseph M. Williams, and the late Wayne C. Booth—the gifted team behind The Craft of Research—and the University of Chicago Press Editorial Staff combined their wide-ranging expertise to remake this classic resource. They preserve Turabian’s clear and practical advice while fully embracing the new modes of research, writing, and source citation brought about by the age of the Internet.

Booth, Colomb, and Williams significantly expand the scope of previous editions by creating a guide, generous in length and tone,��to the art of research and writing. Growing out of the authors�� best-selling Craft of Research, this new section provides students with an overview of every step of the research and writing process, from formulating the right questions to reading critically to building arguments and revising drafts. This leads naturally to the second part of the Manual for Writers, which offers an authoritative overview of citation practices in scholarly writing, as well as detailed information on the two main citation styles (“notes-bibliography�� and “author-date��). This section has been fully revised to reflect the recommendations of the fifteenth edition of The Chicago Manual of Style and to present an expanded array of source types and updated examples, including guidance on citing electronic sources.

The final section of the book treats issues of style—the details that go into making a strong paper. Here writers will find advice on a wide range of topics, including punctuation, table formatting, and use of quotations. The appendix draws together everything writers need to know about formatting research papers, theses, and dissertations and preparing them for submission. This material has been thoroughly vetted by dissertation officials at colleges and universities across the country.

This seventh edition of Turabian’s Manual for Writers of Research Papers, Theses, and Dissertations is a classic reference revised for a new age. It is tailored to a new generation of writers using tools its original author could not have imagined—while retaining the clarity and authority that generations of scholars have come to associate with the name Turabian.]]> 466 Kate L. Turabian 0226823377 �ʳ�ù�Բ� 0 currently-reading 4.00 1955 A Manual for Writers of Research Papers, Theses, and Dissertations: Chicago Style for Students and Researchers

A Manual for Writers of Research Papers, Theses, and Dissertations: Chicago Style for Students and Researchers

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Hình thức truyền thông có ảnh hưởng đến tư duy và văn hóa như th�� nào ?
Việc xã hội loài người phát triển t�� hình thức ngôn ng�� văn nói cho đến văn viết, in ấn, rồi đến tivi có th�� gợi m�� nhiều suy nghĩ v�� hình thức truyền thông ch�� yếu chúng ta dùng hiện tại: Internet. “Giải trí đến chết’�� một cuốn sách phân tích sâu v�� tình hình một đất nước Hoa K�� đã đầu độc tư duy của chính nó bằng tivi và giải trí t�� những năm 80, nhưng vẫn còn nhiều giá tr�� cho đến bây gi��.
Đồng thời cuốn sách còn gây chấn động v�� tác động ăn mòn của truyền hình và phương tiện truyền thông điện t�� đối với văn hóa con người. Đó là cái nhìn tiên tri v�� những gì s�� xảy ra khi chính tr��, báo chí, giáo dục và thậm chí c�� tôn giáo tr�� thành đối tượng của nhu cầu giải trí và mạng xã hội tr�� thành một th�� lực có th�� thao túng và khống ch�� tư tưởng con người.
Gi�� đây, với s�� bùng n�� của Internet, smartphone, mạng xã hội và thực t�� ảo và các thuật toán gợi ý nội dung tinh vi, các nội dung này ngày càng lan rộng đến mọi ngóc ngách trên th�� giới, khuếch đại s�� truy cầu các kích thích tâm lý và dục vọng của con người �� thì ý nghĩa của cuốn sách càng to lớn hơn.
S�� bùng n�� của Internet, các ứng dụng di động, mạng xã hội và trò chơi điện t�� ngày nay đang gây ra một làn sóng nghiện ngập mới. Chúng giống như một loại ma túy tinh thần, được tiêm bằng một ống tiêm dưới da chính là chiếc điện thoại di động lúc nào cũng có trong túi của mỗi người. Thực t��, mạng xã hội d�� dàng gây nghiện hơn c�� rượu bia và ma túy bởi vì chúng ph�� biến hơn, được cộng đồng chấp nhận rộng rãi và gần như là hoàn toàn miễn phí.

Những điều này cho thấy Neil Postman đã đúng khi nhận định đúng, vào thời đại giải trí, tiêu khiển vô đ�� như hiện nay, k�� hủy diệt nhân loại không phải là “k�� thù�� hay những điều chúng ta thù ghét, s�� hãi, mà rất có th�� là những thú vui tiêu khiển, những điều chúng ta đang yêu thích và mê đắm kia.
Những th�� chúng ta yêu thích s�� hủy hoại chúng ta.]]> 336 Neil Postman 6043875683 �ʳ�ù�Բ� 5 1. Học tập tốt nhất thông qua tài liệu in ấn. Không gì khác.
T�� khi phương pháp in được hình thành và chiếm lĩnh xã hội tới trước thời đại của loa đài và tivi, con người đã có bước nhảy vọt v�� cách mạng công ngh�� và khoa học. Đọc nhiều nên có tư duy phản biện và h�� yêu cầu người khác cũng có tư duy phản biện. Cấu trúc, t�� vựng của cuộc nói chuyện b�� ảnh hưởng bởi sách v��.
2. Truyền hình thời đó, và mạng xh ngày nay là 1 phương tiện biểu đạt khiến con người ta b�� xao nhãng, vô tri, mất kết nối. Mục đích của nó là giải trí. K phải đ�� tranh luận, đ�� hình thành tư duy.
3. T�� l�� chuyển hoá t�� tri thức sang hành động ngày càng sụt giảm. (Và tôi k thích điều này :( )

Nhưng nó là trend r. Phải sống và tận dụng nó đ�� có ích cho bản thân thôi. Học tốt qua đọc sách, làm việc. Và biết cách th�� hiện bản thân một cách giải trí tốt trong mắt công chúng. That’s the key point.]]> 4.16 1985 Giải trí đến chết

author: Neil Postman
name: �ʳ�ù�Բ�
average rating: 4.16
book published: 1985
rating: 5
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4.5 sao.
1. Học tập tốt nhất thông qua tài liệu in ấn. Không gì khác.
T�� khi phương pháp in được hình thành và chiếm lĩnh xã hội tới trước thời đại của loa đài và tivi, con người đã có bước nhảy vọt v�� cách mạng công ngh�� và khoa học. Đọc nhiều nên có tư duy phản biện và h�� yêu cầu người khác cũng có tư duy phản biện. Cấu trúc, t�� vựng của cuộc nói chuyện b�� ảnh hưởng bởi sách v��.
2. Truyền hình thời đó, và mạng xh ngày nay là 1 phương tiện biểu đạt khiến con người ta b�� xao nhãng, vô tri, mất kết nối. Mục đích của nó là giải trí. K phải đ�� tranh luận, đ�� hình thành tư duy.
3. T�� l�� chuyển hoá t�� tri thức sang hành động ngày càng sụt giảm. (Và tôi k thích điều này :( )

Nhưng nó là trend r. Phải sống và tận dụng nó đ�� có ích cho bản thân thôi. Học tốt qua đọc sách, làm việc. Và biết cách th�� hiện bản thân một cách giải trí tốt trong mắt công chúng. That’s the key point.
]]> <![CDATA[The Unfolding of Language: An Evolutionary Tour of Mankind's Greatest Invention]]> 262579
Drawing on recent groundbreaking discoveries in modern linguistics, Deutscher exposes the elusive forces of creation at work in human communication, giving us fresh insight into how language emerges, evolves, and decays. He traces the evolution of linguistic complexity from an early "Me Tarzan" stage to such elaborate single-word constructions as the Turkish sehirlilestiremediklerimizdensiniz ("you are one of those whom we couldn't turn into a town dweller"). Arguing that destruction and creation in language are intimately entwined, Deutscher shows how these processes are continuously in operation, generating new words, new structures, and new meanings.]]> 368 Guy Deutscher 0805080120 �ʳ�ù�Բ� 0 to-read 4.20 2005 The Unfolding of Language: An Evolutionary Tour of Mankind's Greatest Invention

The Unfolding of Language: An Evolutionary Tour of Mankind's Greatest Invention

author: Guy Deutscher
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average rating: 4.20
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]]> <![CDATA[The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution]]> 21856367
What were the talents that allowed certain inventors and entrepreneurs to turn their visionary ideas into disruptive realities? What led to their creative leaps? Why did some succeed and others fail?

In his masterly saga, Isaacson begins with Ada Lovelace, Lord Byron’s daughter, who pioneered computer programming in the 1840s. He explores the fascinating personalities that created our current digital revolution, such as Vannevar Bush, Alan Turing, John von Neumann, J.C.R. Licklider, Doug Engelbart, Robert Noyce, Bill Gates, Steve Wozniak, Steve Jobs, Tim Berners-Lee, and Larry Page.

This is the story of how their minds worked and what made them so inventive. It’s also a narrative of how their ability to collaborate and master the art of teamwork made them even more creative.

For an era that seeks to foster innovation, creativity, and teamwork, The Innovators shows how they happen.]]> 542 Walter Isaacson 147670869X �ʳ�ù�Բ� 3 4.09 2011 The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution

The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution

author: Walter Isaacson
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average rating: 4.09
book published: 2011
rating: 3
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]]> <![CDATA[Benjamin Franklin: An American Life]]> 10883
He was, during his 84-year life, America's best scientist, inventor, diplomat, writer, and business strategist, and he was also one of its most practical—though not most profound—political thinkers. He proved by flying a kite that lightning was electricity, and he invented a rod to tame it. He sought practical ways to make stoves less smoky and commonwealths less corrupt. He organized neighborhood constabularies and international alliances, local lending libraries and national legislatures. He combined two types of lenses to create bifocals and two concepts of representation to foster the nation's federal compromise. He was the only man who shaped all the founding documents of America: the Albany Plan of Union, the Declaration of Independence, the treaty of alliance with France, the peace treaty with England, and the Constitution. And he helped invent America's unique style of homespun humor, democratic values, and philosophical pragmatism.

But the most interesting thing that Franklin invented, and continually reinvented, was himself. America's first great publicist, he was, in his life and in his writings, consciously trying to create a new American archetype. In the process, he carefully crafted his own persona, portrayed it in public, and polished it for posterity.

Through it all, he trusted the hearts and minds of his fellow "leather-aprons" more than he did those of any inbred elite. He saw middle-class values as a source of social strength, not as something to be derided. His guiding principle was a "dislike of everything that tended to debase the spirit of the common people." Few of his fellow founders felt this comfort with democracy so fully, and none so intuitively.

In this colorful and intimate narrative, Isaacson provides the full sweep of Franklin's amazing life, from his days as a runaway printer to his triumphs as a statesman, scientist, and Founding Father. He chronicles Franklin's tumultuous relationship with his illegitimate son and grandson, his practical marriage, and his flirtations with the ladies of Paris. He also shows how Franklin helped to create the American character and why he has a particular resonance in the twenty-first century.]]> 586 Walter Isaacson 074325807X �ʳ�ù�Բ� 0 to-read 4.04 2003 Benjamin Franklin: An American Life

author: Walter Isaacson
name: �ʳ�ù�Բ�
average rating: 4.04
book published: 2003
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]]> Đ�� Con Được Ốm 29606004
Trên th�� trường có nhiều đầu sách v�� chăm sóc tr��, tuy nhiên đa phần đều là nội dung được dịch t�� các sách nước ngoài nên phần nào đó không phù hợp với các gia đình Việt bởi s�� khác biệt v�� suy nghĩ và ý thức h�� cùng những quan niệm sống. Đặc biệt là các cuốn sách ấy không bao gi�� nhắc tới cách x�� lý các vấn đ�� đời thường, những kinh nghiệm dân gian hay phương pháp chăm sóc tr�� t�� “kinh nghiệm cá nhân�� của các m�� tràn lan trên các diễn đàn và mạng xã hội - những điều đang tồn tại trong xã hội Việt ta hiện nay. Do đó, Đ�� con được ốm tr�� thành một tác phẩm độc đáo khi đi sâu vào vấn đ�� chăm sóc con tr�� cùng những điều bất cập trong xã hội Việt, trong những gia đình Việt, giữa các thành viên trong gia đình. Đ�� con được ốm không phải là cuốn “bách khoa toàn thư�� chữa bách bệnh �� tr�� em, nó đơn giản là lời s�� chia và động viên gửi đến các bà m�� tr�� nói riêng và các gia đình nói chung.

Hi vọng, cuốn sách s�� khiến các bậc ph�� huynh cảm thấy như một luồng gió mát giúp “cởi phăng��, “cuốn bay�� những suy nghĩ, những định kiến không đúng như những lớp áo giáp vững chắc v�� hiều biết, v�� cách chăm sóc tr�� khi bệnh cũng như khi khỏe.]]> 300 Uyên Bùi �ʳ�ù�Բ� 0 to-read 4.19 2016 Để Con Được Ốm

author: Uyên Bùi
name: �ʳ�ù�Բ�
average rating: 4.19
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]]> Source Code: My Beginnings 213034913 The origin story of one of the most influential and transformative business leaders and philanthropists of the modern age.

The business triumphs of Bill Gates are widely known: the twenty-year-old who dropped out of Harvard to start a software company that became an industry giant and changed the way the world works and lives; the billionaire many times over who turned his attention to philanthropic pursuits to address climate change, global health, and U.S. education.

Source Code is not about Microsoft or the Gates Foundation or the future of technology. It’s the human, personal story of how Bill Gates became who he is today: his childhood, his early passions and pursuits. It’s the story of his principled grandmother and ambitious parents, his first deep friendships and the sudden death of his best friend; of his struggles to fit in and his discovery of a world of coding and computers in the dawn of a new era; of embarking in his early teens on a path that took him from midnight escapades at a nearby computer center to his college dorm room, where he sparked a revolution that would change the world.

Bill Gates tells this, his own story, for the first time: wise, warm, revealing, it’s a fascinating portrait of an American life.]]> 336 Bill Gates 059380158X �ʳ�ù�Բ� 0 to-read 4.06 2025 Source Code: My Beginnings

author: Bill Gates
name: �ʳ�ù�Բ�
average rating: 4.06
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]]> <![CDATA[Mathematicians Don't Work With Numbers]]> 210179941

Requiring only familiarity with the multiplication table (and that for only one vignette), the book makes accessible a variety of mathematical concepts, such as game theory, chaos, and traffic flow modelling. The author accomplishes this with a light, engaging style, and a range of real-world examples that includes everything from barbershops to President James Garfield.

Mathematicians Don't Work With Numbers will be of interest to the large audience of people who have always assumed that mathematicians do, in fact, work with numbers.

��]]> 212 Richard Poulo 3031589157 �ʳ�ù�Բ� 0 3.00 Mathematicians Don't Work With Numbers

author: Richard Poulo
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average rating: 3.00
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]]> Vương quốc sáng tạo 31563395
Trong khoảng 20 năm gần đây, Pixar thống tr�� th�� giới phim hoạt hình, sản xuất ra những b�� phim đầy giá tr�� yêu thương như Toy Story (Câu chuyện đ�� chơi), Finding Nemo (Đi tìm Nemo), Up (Vút bay) và WALL-E. Trong cuốn sách này, Catmull s�� tiết l�� những ý tưởng và k�� thuật đã giúp Pixar tr�� nên sáng tạo và được ngưỡng m�� cũng như đem v�� những khoản lợi nhuận khổng l�� đến như vậy.]]> 383 Ed Catmull �ʳ�ù�Բ� 5 5.5 / 5 ]]> 4.50 2014 Vương quốc sáng tạo

author: Ed Catmull
name: �ʳ�ù�Բ�
average rating: 4.50
book published: 2014
rating: 5
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Thích tính cách tác gi�� và phong cách lãnh đạo của ông ý và John. T�� thấy mình có tính cách và góc nhìn giống tác gi��, gi�� t đã biết mình có th�� sống như nào và có th�� lead mn như nào nếu một ngày có cơ hội đ�� làm điều đó.
5.5 / 5
]]> <![CDATA[Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters]]> 4591 344 Matt Ridley 0060894083 �ʳ�ù�Բ� 0 to-read 4.05 1999

Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters

author: Matt Ridley
name: �ʳ�ù�Բ�
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]]> <![CDATA[The Cancer Code: A Revolutionary New Understanding of a Medical Mystery]]> 52163526 In��The Cancer Code,��Dr Jason Fung offers a revolutionary new understanding of this invasive, often fatal disease �� what��it is,��how��it manifests and��why��it is so challenging to treat. In this rousing narrative, Dr Fung identifies the medical community’s many missteps in cancer research �� in particular, its focus on genetics, or what he terms the ‘seed�� of cancer, at the expense of examining the ‘soil,�� or the conditions under which cancer flourishes. Dr Fung �� whose ground-breaking work in the treatment of obesity and diabetes has won him international acclaim �� suggests that the primary disease pathway of cancer is caused by the dysregulation of insulin. In fact, obesity and type 2 diabetes significantly increase an individual’s risk of cancer.

In this accessible read, Dr Fung provides a new paradigm for dealing with cancer, with recommendations for what we can do to create a hostile soil for this dangerous seed. One such strategy is intermittent fasting, which reduces blood glucose, lowering insulin levels. Another, eliminating intake of insulin-stimulating foods, such as sugar and refined carbohydrates.

For hundreds of years, cancer has been portrayed as a foreign invader we’ve been powerless to stop. By reshaping our view of cancer as an internal uprising of our own healthy cells, we can begin to take back control. The seed of cancer may exist in all of us, but the power to change the soil is in our hands.]]> 288 Jason Fung 0062894021 �ʳ�ù�Բ� 0 to-read 4.39 2020 The Cancer Code: A Revolutionary New Understanding of a Medical Mystery

The Cancer Code: A Revolutionary New Understanding of a Medical Mystery

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]]> Năng Lượng 57373745
People have lived and died, businesses have prospered and failed, and nations have risen to world power and declined, all over energy challenges. Ultimately, the history of these challenges tells the story of humanity itself.

Through an unforgettable cast of characters, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Richard Rhodes explains how wood gave way to coal and coal made room for oil, as we now turn to natural gas, nuclear power, and renewable energy. Rhodes looks back on five centuries of progress, through such influential figures as Queen Elizabeth I, King James I, Benjamin Franklin, Herman Melville, John D. Rockefeller, and Henry Ford.

In Energy, Rhodes highlights the successes and failures that led to each breakthrough in energy production; from animal and waterpower to the steam engine, from internal-combustion to the electric motor. He addresses how we learned from such challenges, mastered their transitions, and capitalized on their opportunities. Rhodes also looks at the current energy landscape, with a focus on how wind energy is competing for dominance with cast supplies of coal and natural gas. He also addresses the specter of global warming, and a population hurtling towards ten billion by 2100.

Human beings have confronted the problem of how to draw life from raw material since the beginning of time. Each invention, each discovery, each adaptation brought further challenges, and through such transformations, we arrived at where we are today. In Rhodes’s singular style, Energy details how this knowledge of our history can inform our way tomorrow.]]> 598 Richard Rhodes �ʳ�ù�Բ� 4 4.00 2018 Năng Lượng

author: Richard Rhodes
name: �ʳ�ù�Բ�
average rating: 4.00
book published: 2018
rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[The Book of Why: The New Science of Cause and Effect]]> 36204378
"Correlation is not causation." This mantra, chanted by scientists for more than a century, has led to a virtual prohibition on causal talk. Today, that taboo is dead. The causal revolution, instigated by Judea Pearl and his colleagues, has cut through a century of confusion and established causality -- the study of cause and effect -- on a firm scientific basis. His work explains how we can know easy things, like whether it was rain or a sprinkler that made a sidewalk wet; and how to answer hard questions, like whether a drug cured an illness. Pearl's work enables us to know not just whether one thing causes another: it lets us explore the world that is and the worlds that could have been. It shows us the essence of human thought and key to artificial intelligence. Anyone who wants to understand either needs The Book of Why .]]> 432 Judea Pearl 046509760X �ʳ�ù�Բ� 0 currently-reading 3.93 2018 The Book of Why: The New Science of Cause and Effect

The Book of Why: The New Science of Cause and Effect

author: Judea Pearl
name: �ʳ�ù�Բ�
average rating: 3.93
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]]> China in Ten Words 12884314 ��
Framed by ten phrases common in the Chinese vernacular—“people,�� “leader,�� “reading,�� “writing,�� “Lu Xun�� (one of the most influential Chinese writers of the twentieth century), “disparity,�� “revolution,�� “grassroots,�� “copycat,�� and “bamboozle”�� China in Ten Words reveals as never before the world’s most populous yet oft-misunderstood nation. In “Disparity,�� for example, Yu Hua illustrates the mind-boggling economic gaps that separate citizens of the country. In “Copycat,�� he depicts the escalating trend of piracy and imitation as a creative new form of revolutionary action. And in “Bamboozle,�� he describes the increasingly brazen practices of trickery, fraud, and chicanery that are, he suggests, becoming a way of life at every level of society.
��
Characterized by Yu Hua’s trademark wit, insight, and courage, China in Ten Words is a refreshingly candid vision of the “Chinese miracle�� and all its consequences, from the singularly invaluable perspective of a writer living in China today.]]> 240 Yu Hua 0307379353 �ʳ�ù�Բ� 0 to-read 4.09 2011 China in Ten Words

author: Yu Hua
name: �ʳ�ù�Բ�
average rating: 4.09
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]]> <![CDATA[Hồi Ký Nguyễn Th�� Bình - Family, Friends And Country (Bản Tiếng Anh)]]> 36253613
Những người ít nhiều biết bà Nguyễn Th�� Bình thường ngạc nhiên v�� hai điều: sức hấp dẫn, tính thuyết phục lớn và sâu của bà, không ch�� trong nước mà c�� đối với đông đảo những người ngoài nước, k�� c�� những nhân vật lớn và “khó�� - chúng ta biết chẳng hạn sau năm 1979, khi ta buộc phải tiến hành cuộc chiến tranh biên giới Tây-Nam khó nhọc chống lại quân Pôn Pốt xâm lấn và cứu nhân dân Campuchia khỏi họa diệt chủng, rất nhiều bạn bè cũ đã không th�� thấu hiểu và chúng ta đã lâm vào th�� cô lập khá lâu, h�� đã tìm đến bà Bình, và sau khi nghe bà ôn tồn giải thích, h�� bảo: Đúng rồi, chúng tôi đã nghe nhiều người, nhưng đến Bình nói thì tôi tin! Suốt những năm tháng ác liệt, khó khăn nhất của chiến tranh chống ngoại xâm, �� bất c�� nơi nào bà đến trên hầu khắp th�� giới cũng vậy, người ta bảo: “Bình nói thì tôi tin��... Có th�� nói mà không s�� quá rằng có l�� bà là người Việt Nam có nhiều bạn bè nhất trên th�� giới, t�� những người dân thường cho đến các nguyên th�� quốc gia nổi tiếng và thuộc nhiều ch�� đ�� chính tr�� khác nhau. Những năm tháng ấy, bà có mặt �� hầu khắp hành tinh, và thật l��, thật đẹp, hình ảnh của một Việt Nam đang chiến đấu khốc liệt lại được đại diện không phải bằng một chiến binh đằng đằng sát khí mà là một ph�� n�� nh�� nhắn, khiêm nhường mà uyên bác, gần gũi mà sang trọng, s�� kiên định không gì lay chuyển nổi lại được th�� hiện chính bằng một v�� thong dong đầy t�� tin... Bà gọi công việc đó là: ngoại giao nhân dân, nghĩa là con người đến với con người, trái tim đến với trái tim. Bà đem bạn bè v�� cho dân tộc. Và đấy là một trong những nhân t�� quan trọng nhất quyết định thắng lợi k�� l�� của Việt Nam trong th�� k�� qua.

Điều “lạ�� th�� hai �� bà là sức tr�� của trí tu�� và tâm hồn, sức sống và sức làm việc đáng kinh ngạc, tầm nghĩ rộng, sâu và sắc, thậm chí càng phát triển cùng tuổi tác. Hầu như trên tất c�� các mũi nhọn nhất và sâu nhất của đời sống xã hội và con người hiện tại đều có mặt bà, �� hàng đầu, miệt mài, không mệt mỏi...

Là người có may mắn được gần gũi và cùng làm việc với bà trong một s�� năm qua, tôi xin trân trọng giới thiệu cùng độc gi�� những trang viết này của bà, có th�� gợi cho chúng ta thật nhiều suy nghĩ, không ch�� v�� một thời sôi nổi đã qua, mà c�� v�� hôm nay và ngày mai của đất nước.

(Lời giới thiệu - Nguyên Ngọc)]]> 450 Nguyen Thi Binh �ʳ�ù�Բ� 5 4.36 2012 Hồi Ký Nguyễn Thị Bình - Family, Friends And Country (Bản Tiếng Anh)

Hồi Ký Nguyễn Thị Bình - Family, Friends And Country (Bản Tiếng Anh)

author: Nguyen Thi Binh
name: �ʳ�ù�Բ�
average rating: 4.36
book published: 2012
rating: 5
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Một th�� h�� t�� hào của người Việt.
]]> Steve Jobs 11084145 630 Walter Isaacson 1451648537 �ʳ�ù�Բ� 4 4.15 2011

author: Walter Isaacson
name: �ʳ�ù�Բ�
average rating: 4.15
book published: 2011
rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[Big Friendship: How We Keep Each Other Close]]> 52766000 A close friendship is one of the most influential and important relationships a human life can contain. Anyone will tell you that! But for all the rosy sentiments surrounding friendship, most people don’t talk much about what it really takes to stay close for the long haul.

Now two friends, Aminatou Sow and Ann Friedman, tell the story of their equally messy and life-affirming Big Friendship in this honest and hilarious book that chronicles their first decade in one another’s lives. As the hosts of the hit podcast Call Your Girlfriend, they’ve become known for frank and intimate conversations. In this book, they bring that energy to their own friendship—its joys and its pitfalls.

An inspiring and entertaining testament to the power of society’s most underappreciated relationship, Big Friendship will invite you to think about how your own bonds are formed, challenged, and preserved. It is a call to value your friendships in all of their complexity. Actively choose them. And, sometimes, fight for them.]]> 256 Aminatou Sow 1982111909 �ʳ�ù�Բ� 0 to-read 3.74 2020 Big Friendship: How We Keep Each Other Close

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]]> <![CDATA[You Don't Have to Be Mad to Work Here: A Psychiatrist’s Life]]> 62897692
Humane, hilarious, and heart-breaking, You Don’t Have to Be Mad to Work Here is an enlightening and darkly comic window into the world of psychiatry.

A woman with bipolar flies from America in a wedding dress to marry Harry Styles.

A lorry driver with schizophrenia believes he’s got a cure for coronavirus.

A depressed psychiatrist hides his profession from his GP due to stigma.

Most of the characters in this book are his patients. Some of them are family. One of them is him.

Unlocking the doors to the psych ward, NHS psychiatrist Dr Benji Waterhouse provides a fly-on-the-padded-wall account of medicine’s most mysterious and controversial speciality.

Why would anyone in their right mind choose to be a psychiatrist? Are the solutions to people’s messy lives really within medical school textbooks? And how can vulnerable patients receive the care they need when psychiatry lacks staff, hospital beds and any actual cures?

You Don’t Have to Be Mad to Work Here explores these complicated questions from both sides of the doctor’s desk. This is the perfect read for fans of This Is Going to Hurt, Unnatural Causes and The Prison Doctor.

‘The Adam Kay of mental healthcare�� (THE TIMES, BOOK OF THE WEEK)

'Humane, hilarious, eye-opening' (THE GUARDIAN)

‘Fearlessly honest, funny... and uplifting�� JO BRAND

'Very funny and deeply sympathetic. Really excellent' HENRY MARSH

'This is honestly my dream book. Both fascinating and bleakly funny' FERN BRADY]]> 336 Benji Waterhouse 1787333183 �ʳ�ù�Բ� 0 to-read 4.43 You Don't Have to Be Mad to Work Here: A Psychiatrist’s Life

You Don't Have to Be Mad to Work Here: A Psychiatrist’s Life

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]]> <![CDATA[The Book of Life (All Souls, #3)]]> 16054217 The #1 New York Times bestselling series finale and sequel to A Discovery of Witches and Shadow of Night

Bringing the magic and suspense of the All Souls Trilogy to a deeply satisfying conclusion, this highly anticipated finale went straight to #1 on the New York Times bestseller list. In The Book of Life, Diana and Matthew time-travel back from Elizabethan London to make a dramatic return to the present—facing new crises and old enemies. At Matthew’s ancestral home, Sept-Tours, they reunite with the beloved cast of characters from A Discovery of Witches—with one significant exception. But the real threat to their future has yet to be revealed, and when it is, the search for Ashmole 782 and its missing pages takes on even more urgency.]]> 561 Deborah Harkness 0670025593 �ʳ�ù�Բ� 0 to-read 4.15 2014 The Book of Life (All Souls, #3)

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]]> <![CDATA[The Art of War/The Art of Warfare]]> 19605970
Sun Tzu and Sun Pin's timeless strategic masterpieces are constantly analyzed and interpreted by leaders worldwide. For the first time ever, author D.E. Tarver explains the classic texts, The Art of War by Sun Tzu and The Art of Warfare by Sun Pin, in plain English.

War is the perfect training ground for teaching Sun Tzu's ancient philosophies to attaining victory over an opponent. The Art of War outlines the steps for outwitting the enemy, be it an army of 10,000 or an unresponsive client.

The Art of War teaches leaders strategies to attain victory by:

Knowing when to stand up to an opponent, and when to back down.
How to be confident without being overly confident.
Considering the cost of the campaign before launching an attack.
Avoiding an opponent's strengths and striking his weaknesses.

""The one who is first to the field of battle has time to rest, while his opponent rushes into the conflict weary and confused. The first will be fresh and alert. The second will waste most of his energy trying to catch up."" Be the first to the battlefield with The Art of War."]]> 143 Sun Tzu �ʳ�ù�Բ� 0 to-read 4.15 2002 The Art of War/The Art of Warfare

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]]> <![CDATA[Work: A History of How we spend our Time]]> 54550359 A revolutionary new history of humankind through the prism of work by leading anthropologist James Suzman

Work defines who we are. It determines our status, and dictates how, where, and with whom we spend most of our time. It mediates our self-worth and molds our values. But are we hard-wired to work as hard as we do? Did our Stone Age ancestors also live to work and work to live? And what might a world where work plays a far less important role look like?

To answer these questions, James Suzman charts a grand history of "work" from the origins of life on Earth to our ever more automated present, challenging some of our deepest assumptions about who we are. Drawing insights from anthropology, archaeology, evolutionary biology, zoology, physics, and economics, he shows that while we have evolved to find joy meaning and purpose in work, for most of human history our ancestors worked far less and thought very differently about work than we do now. He demonstrates how our contemporary culture of work has its roots in the agricultural revolution ten thousand years ago. Our sense of what it is to be human was transformed by the transition from foraging to food production, and, later, our migration to cities. Since then, our relationships with one another and with our environments, and even our sense of the passage of time, have not been the same.

Arguing that we are in the midst of a similarly transformative point in history, Suzman shows how automation might revolutionize our relationship with work and in doing so usher in a more sustainable and equitable future for our world and ourselves.]]> 464 James Suzman 152660499X �ʳ�ù�Բ� 0 to-read 3.81 2020 Work: A History of How we spend our Time

Work: A History of How we spend our Time

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]]> Freedom: Memoirs 1954-2021 212900939 The New York Times and USA Today bestselling memoir by one of the most important leaders of our time

For 16 years, Angela Merkel bore the governmental responsibility for Germany, leading the country through numerous crises and shaping German and international politics and society with her actions and attitude. But Angela Merkel was not born a Chancellor. In her memoirs, co-written with her long-standing political advisor Beate Baumann, she looks back on her life in two German states �� 35 years in the GDR (German Democratic Republic), 35 years in reunified Germany. More personally than ever before, she talks about her childhood, youth, and her studies in the GDR, and the dramatic year of 1989, when the Wall fell and her political life began. She shares insights into her meetings and conversations with the world's most powerful leaders and elucidates, with clear and precise examples, significant national, European, and international turning points and how decisions were made that shape our times. Her book offers a unique insight into the inner workings of power �� and is a decisive plea for freedom.

“What does freedom mean to me? This question has occupied me my entire life. Naturally, politically, because freedom needs democratic conditions, without democracy there is no freedom, no rule of law, no protection of human rights. But this question also occupies me on another level. Freedom, for me, is finding out where my own limits are, and pushing my own limits. Freedom is for me not to stop learning, not to have to stand still but to be allowed to continue, even after leaving politics.�� - Angela Merkel]]> 720 Angela Merkel 1250319900 �ʳ�ù�Բ� 0 to-read 3.76 2024 Freedom: Memoirs 1954-2021

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]]> Cô gái mặc váy tím 61727894
Trong mắt mọi người, “cô gái mặc váy tím�� hết sức k�� d�� và không ai có th�� tiếp cận. Nhưng với “tôi��, người con gái ấy lại có một sức cuốn hút vô cùng k�� l��. “Tôi�� muốn kết bạn với “cô gái mặc váy tím�� bằng mọi giá. Cuối cùng, “tôi�� đã tìm cách đ�� “cô gái mặc váy tím�� tới làm cùng một ch�� với mình. Nhưng “tôi�� là ai? Và mong ước thực s�� của “tôi�� là gì?

Một s�� ám ảnh mập m�� giữa điên r�� và l�� bịch khiến Cô gái mặc váy tím tr�� nên khác biệt, đ�� đ�� kích thích trí tò mò và khơi gợi s�� đồng cảm trong lòng độc gi��.

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Nhận xét của các thành viên ban giám khảo giải thưởng Akutagawa v�� Cô gái mặc váy tím:

Khắc họa một người dẫn chuyện có phần ng�� nghệch và k�� d�� là một việc hết sức khó khăn nhưng nh�� s�� diện hiện của “cô gái mặc váy tím�� mà những điều lẩn khuất trong bóng tối v�� nhân vật “tôi�� lại càng tr�� nên có chiều sâu. Khi đọc đến đoạn cuối, khi “tôi�� đang định ăn bánh mì kem thì b�� một đứa bé v�� vào vai, nỗi buồn như muốn phát điên choán lấy lồng ngực tôi. Tác gi�� Imamura qu�� nhiên rất có tài năng trong việc khắc họa sống động những con người đi lệch qu�� đạo thông thường của con người. �� Ogawa Yoko]]> 160 Natsuko Imamura 6043591413 �ʳ�ù�Բ� 0 to-read 3.15 2019 Cô gái mặc váy tím

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]]> Phúc Âm của loài Cá Chình 223060335
Cá chình, cũng như những bí ẩn của cuộc sống rù quến chúng ta. Đây là cơ s�� cho tác phẩm, cuốn hồi ký v�� khoa học t�� nhiên độc đáo của Patrik Svensson. Cuốn sách là niềm đam mê không ngừng của Patrik Svensson với loài cá bí ẩn này, và cũng có liên quan tới mối quan h�� rắc rối không kém của ông và cha của mình - người có niềm đam mê duy nhất trong đời là câu cá chình. Cuốn sách cũng đưa chúng ta tìm hiểu v�� thân phận con người, s�� sống và cái chết, thông qua khoa học t�� nhiên và những bài viết hay nhất v�� t�� nhiên.

Như Patrik Svensson đã nói: "Bằng cách viết v�� cá chình, theo một cách nào đó, tôi đã tìm lại được đường v�� nhà."]]> 340 Patrik Svensson 6043037718 �ʳ�ù�Բ� 0 to-read 4.25 2019 Phúc Âm của loài Cá Chình

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]]> <![CDATA[Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader by Anne Fadiman (2000-03-02)]]> 139209508 Excellent Book Anne Fadiman �ʳ�ù�Բ� 0 to-read 4.50 1998

Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader by Anne Fadiman (2000-03-02)

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]]> <![CDATA[The Story of Philosophy: The Lives and Opinions of the World's Greatest Philosophers]]> 31795
Will Durant chronicles the ideas of the great thinkers, the economic and intellectual environments which influenced them, and the personal traits and adventures out of which each philosophy grew. Durant’s insight and wit never cease to dazzle; The Story of Philosophy is an essential book for anyone who wishes to understand the history and development of philosophical ideas in the Western world.]]> 704 Will Durant 0671739166 �ʳ�ù�Բ� 0 to-read 4.16 1926 The Story of Philosophy: The Lives and Opinions of the World's Greatest Philosophers

The Story of Philosophy: The Lives and Opinions of the World's Greatest Philosophers

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]]> The Book of Delights: Essays 38746152 The Book of Delights is a genre-defying book of essays—some as short as a paragraph; some as long as five pages—that record the small joys that occurred in one year, from birthday to birthday, and that we often overlook in our busy lives. His is a meditation on delight that takes a clear-eyed view of the complexities, even the terrors, in his life, including living in America as a black man; the ecological and psychic violence of our consumer culture; the loss of those he loves. Among Gay’s funny, poetic, philosophical delights: the way Botan Rice Candy wrappers melt in your mouth, the volunteer crossing guard with a pronounced tremor whom he imagines as a kind of boat-woman escorting pedestrians across the River Styx, a friend’s unabashed use of air quotes, pickup basketball games, the silent nod of acknowledgment between black people. And more than any other subject, Gay celebrates the beauty of the natural world—his garden, the flowers in the sidewalk, the birds, the bees, the mushrooms, the trees.

This is not a book of how-to or inspiration, though it could be read that way. Fans of Roxane Gay, Maggie Nelson, and Kiese Laymon will revel in Gay’s voice, and his insights. The Book of Delights is about our connection to the world, to each other, and the rewards that come from a life closely observed. Gay’s pieces serve as a powerful and necessary reminder that we can, and should, stake out a space in our lives for delight.��

Preface
1. My Birthday, Kinda
2. Inefficiency
3. Flower in the Curb
4. Blowing It Off
5. Hole in the Head
6. Remission Still
7. Praying Mantis
8. The Negreeting
9. The High-Five from Strangers, Etc
10. Writing by Hand
11. Transplanting
12. Nicknames
13. But, Maybe ..
14. "Joy Is Such a Human Madness
15. House Party
16. Hummingbird
17. Just a Dream
18. "That's Some Bambi Shit" ..
19. The Irrepressible: The Gratitudes
20. Tap Tap
21. Coffee without the Saucer
22. Lily on the Pants
23. Sharing a Bag 24. Umbrella in the Café
25. Beast Mode
26. Airplane Rituals
27. Weirdly Untitled
28. Pecans
29. The Do-Over
30. Infinity
31. Ghost
32. Nota Bene
33. "Love Me in a Special Way"
34. "Stay," by Lisa Loeb
35. Stacking Delights
36. Donny Hathaway on Pandora
37. "To Spread the Sweetness of Love"
38. Baby, Baby, Baby
39. "REPENT OR BURN"
40. Giving My Body to the Cause
41. Among the Rewards of My Sloth . .
42. Not Grumpy Cat
43. Some Stupid Shit
44. Not Only . .
45. Microgentrification: WE BUY GOLD
46. Reading Palms
47. The Sanctity of Trains
48. Bird Feeding
49. Kombucha in a Mid-century Glass
50. Hickories
51. Annoyed No More
52. Toto
53. Church Poets
54. Public Lying Down
55. Babies. Seriously
56. "My Life, My Life, My Life, My Life in the Sunshine
57. Incorporation
58. Botan Rice Candy
59. Understory
60. "Joy Is Such a Human Madness": The Duff Between Us
61. "It's Just the Day I'm Having" ..
62. The Purple Cornets of Spring
63. The Volunteer
64. Fishing an Eyelash: Two or Three Cents on the Virtues of the Poetry Reading
65. Found Things
66. Found Things (2)
67. Cuplicking
68. Bobblehead
69. The Jenky 70. The Crow's Ablutions
71. Flowers in the Hands of Statues
72. An Abundance of Public Toilets
73. The Wave of Unfamiliars
74. Not for Nothing
75. Bindweed ... Delight?
76. Dickhead
77. Ambiguous Signage Sometimes
78. Heart to Heart
79. Caution: Bees on Bridge
80. Tomato on Board
81. Purple-Handed
82. Name: Kayte Young; Phone Number: 555-867-5309
83. Still Processing
84. Fireflies
85. My Scythe Jack
86. Pawpaw Grove
87. Loitering
88. Touched
89. Scat
90. Get Thee to the Nutrient Cycle!
91. Pulling Carrots
92. Filling the Frame
93. Reckless Air Quotes 94. Judith Irene Gay, Aged Seventy-six Today!
95. Rothko Backboard
96. The Marfa Lights
97. The Carport
98. My Garden (Book):
99. Black Bumblebees!
100. Grown
101. Coco-baby
102. My Birthday]]> 274 Ross Gay 1616207922 �ʳ�ù�Բ� 0 to-read 4.15 2019 The Book of Delights: Essays

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