Oana's bookshelf: read en-US Thu, 10 Apr 2025 14:14:17 -0700 60 Oana's bookshelf: read 144 41 /images/layout/goodreads_logo_144.jpg Paznicul de noapte 222248257
Călătoria se va dovedi hotărâtoare pentru soarta tuturor membrilor acestei familii și va da, în cele din urmă, la iveală secretele tragice ale unor destine prinse și răvășite de istoria recentă a statelor americane. Roman complex al schimbărilor � violente sau subtile, exterioare, dar mai ales interioare �, Paznicul de noapte ne călăuzește prin labirintul gândurilor și emoțiilor unor personaje memorabile: de la curajoasa ConaLee sau clarvăzătoarea Dearbhla, la misteriosul „paznic de noapte� al azilului, la figura brutală a lui Domnu și până la femeia aprigă ce conduce bucătăria, doamna Hexum.

Pe nesimțite, din detalii pline de miez și într-un limbaj adesea poetic, Jayne Anne Phillips compune tabloul „Americii profunde� a vremii, al unei societăți pline de contradicții, de violență și discriminare rasială, etnică și socială, care merge înainte hrănită de curajul celor uitați și pierduți în război și de rezistența supraviețuitorilor. Paznicul de noapte reconstituie trecutul cu o remarcabilă fidelitate, aruncând o punte simbolică spre prezentul frământat al lumii noastre.]]> 368 Jayne Anne Phillips 6303053564 Oana 0 currently-reading 3.81 2023 Paznicul de noapte
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average rating: 3.81
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]]> Anul în care nu am murit 222438597 248 Carmen Uscatu 9735086492 Oana 5 4.72 Anul în care nu am murit
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]]> <![CDATA[Școala de ieri, copilul de astăzi și lumea de mâine]]> 227754310
Așa am și început, de altfel, prin 2013, să scriu într-o doară pe pagina mea de Facebook, din nevoia de a conversa cu alți oameni implicați într-un fel sau altul în procesul educațional. Eram în toiul proiectului nostru din Călărași, Școala „Helikon�, înființată în 2007 cu speranța și avântul pedagogului-antreprenor, care crede că orice este posibil, chiar și într-un oraș mic, atașat modelelor tradiționale de edu­cație, deloc chestionate până la vremea aceea.

Așadar, vă invit să selectați din această carte textele care credeți că vă vor fi de ajutor și să le „gustați� ca pe niște feluri diferite de gân­dire, de revelații și de perspective ale unui om aflat în vâltoarea luptei, dar și în leagănul atâtor momente de liniște, de încredere și de opti­mism pe care le oferă negreșit munca alături de copii.

Este o carte care nu trebuie neapărat citită filă cu filă. Poate fi des­chisă la orice pagină și citită fragmentar ori privită ca o culegere de teme și de exerciții destinate să încurajeze reflecția personală.

Sper din suflet să vă ajute!�

~Oana Moraru~]]> 464 Oana Moraru 6069574494 Oana 0 currently-reading 5.00 Școala de ieri, copilul de astăzi și lumea de mâine
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]]> <![CDATA[Sub cerul liber, stăm în lumină]]> 203782983
Într-un orășel din America zilelor noastre, Willa Knox și familia ei se luptă cu o precaritate dezarmantă: sărăcie, șomaj, doliu, boală și lipsa oricărei siguranțe materiale � crize personale care se profilează pe fundalul unei și mai amenințătoare crize globale. În același oraș, dar în 1874, sosește Thatcher Greenwood. Profesor de științe și adept entuziast al recentelor teorii ale lui Darwin, el se lovește de o societate aparent utopică, în realitate anacronică, roasă de ipocrizie și de teamă. La un secol și jumătate distanță, fiecare va lua lumea în piept în felul său. Poveștile lor își răspund de peste timp între pereții aceleiași case care stă să se dărâme, punând în oglindă două epoci istorice de mari frământări, două schimbări de paradigmă din a căror răscruce se desprinde o întrebare: ce faci când vechile certitudini se clatină și lumea pe care o știai pare să-și fi schimbat regulile peste noapte?

Barbara Kingsolver îmbină filigranul ironiei cu forța de a făuri lumi într-o poveste inteligentă, dulce-amăruie, prin care se mișcă personaje construite cu tandrețe. Dincolo de cangrenele societății și de durerea discretă de fiecare zi, întrezărim abisurile ființei și tot ce nu se schimbă din ce e omenesc. Dar prin crăpăturile unor vieți care par să se destrame, vedem cum pătrunde lumina.]]> 432 Barbara Kingsolver 6064415568 Oana 0 3.91 2018 Sub cerul liber, stăm în lumină
author: Barbara Kingsolver
name: Oana
average rating: 3.91
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]]> Minunea (Minunea #1) 17973471 Minunea este o poveste emoţionantă despre curaj şi bunătate, despre integrare şi acceptare, scrisă cu sensibilitate şi umor. „Nu judeca după aparenţe" pare să fie ideea de la care porneşte R.J. Palacio, iar una dintre cheile de lectură este dată de replica vulpiţei din Micul prinţ: „Nu poţi vedea bine decât cu inima. Esenţialul e invizibil pentru ochi."
--back cover]]> 336 R.J. Palacio 6068044378 Oana 5 4.52 2012 Minunea (Minunea #1)
author: R.J. Palacio
name: Oana
average rating: 4.52
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rating: 5
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]]> <![CDATA[320 de pisici negre (Melania Lupu #3)]]> 6068880 288 Rodica Ojog-Braşoveanu Oana 0 to-read 4.34 1978 320 de pisici negre (Melania Lupu #3)
author: Rodica Ojog-Braşoveanu
name: Oana
average rating: 4.34
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]]> Three Men on the Bummel 324296
So do these heroes of THREE MEN IN A BOAT, only on this occasion, a cycling trip through the Black Forest, it seems they may cycle on forever, such are their problems. Whether it's George attempting to buy a cushion for his aunt or Harris's harrowing experience with a road-waterer, not to mention the routine problems with language and directions, things get very confused indeed!

"A delightful excursion in a world which, alas, exists no longer--and indeed may only have been found in the author's lively imagination." (B-O-T Editorial Review Board)]]> 207 Jerome K. Jerome 0140063927 Oana 0 to-read 3.79 1900 Three Men on the Bummel
author: Jerome K. Jerome
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average rating: 3.79
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]]> <![CDATA[Jerome K. Jerome Bloche Vol. 1: The Shadow Killer]]> 34064114
Wearing an old trenchcoat and his indispensable felt hat, the 20-year-old Jérôme tries to look the part of a seasoned sleuth. By day he translates detective novels and fantasizes about being one. By night he’s enrolled in Professor Maison’s correspondence course for would-be private eyes. His girlfriend, Babette, is a flight attendant who brings him recordings for his collection of police sirens from around the world. It's a happy—if not particularly promising—existence, until his first “case."

In the past two months, fifteen people in Paris have been killed by poisoned darts. All the witnesses saw was a feathered shadow and a blowgun. The job of capturing the flamboyant assassin is entrusted to Jérôme by Professor Maison. Things get off to a rocky start, however, when the professor appears to be victim number sixteen!]]> 56 Alain Dodier 1631409026 Oana 0 to-read 3.50 1985 Jerome K. Jerome Bloche Vol. 1: The Shadow Killer
author: Alain Dodier
name: Oana
average rating: 3.50
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]]> Violonista 218213411
Veneția. 1704. O parte a orașului plutește departe de grandoare, împinsă de sărăcie și disperare. La orfelinatul Ospedale della Pietà, în fiecare zi sunt abandonate copile într-o mică gaură din perete.

Anna Maria este doar una dintre cele trei sute de tinere crescute între pereții de piatră ai orfelinatului. De la vârsta de opt ani, fără nume de familie sau avere, ea își pune toată speranța în talentul și ambiția sa. Naturalețea cu care mânuiește arcușul viorii a fost remarcată de însuși maestrul Antonio Vivaldi și, sub îndrumarea lui, Anna Maria della Pietà va deveni cea mai cunoscută violonistă venețiană a secolului al XVIII-lea.

Dar, pe măsură ce ascensiunea proprie către faimă o eclipsează pe cea a mentorului său, Anna Maria devine protagonista unei fascinante rivalități muzicale, care îi va decide atât reputația, cât și destinul.

Inspirată de femeile necunoscute din spatele unora dintre capodoperele istoriei, Violonista este o poveste nemuritoare despre ambiție, exploatare și sfidare, desfășurată pe fundalul întunecat și melancolic al Veneției secolului XVIII.]]> 416 Harriet Constable 6303053068 Oana 3 4.24 2024 Violonista
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average rating: 4.24
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rating: 3
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]]> Ο ραφτάκος των λέξεων 43501520 36 Αντώνης Παπαθεοδούλου 6180312508 Oana 5 greek-kids-books 4.75 2012 Ο ραφτάκος των λέξεων
author: Αντώνης Παπαθεοδούλου
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average rating: 4.75
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rating: 5
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Πολύ γλυκό, ζεστό και... ανθρώπινο! <3
]]> <![CDATA[Cum sa fii o mama/fiica buna (Romanian Edition)]]> 51320634 400 Eliza Reynolds Sil Reynolds 9733410829 Oana 0 currently-reading 3.80 Cum sa fii o mama/fiica buna (Romanian Edition)
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]]> <![CDATA[Practical Object Oriented Design in Ruby]]> 13507787 247 Sandi Metz 0321721330 Oana 0 started-but-will-not-finish
An object has a dependancy when it knows:
- 1) The name of another class.
- 2) The name of a message that it intends to send to someone other than self.
- 3) The argument that a message requires.
- 4) The order of those arguments.

Writing Loosely Coupled Code techniques
- Inject dependencies
- Isolate dependencies: isolate instance creation, isolate external vulnerable messages, explicitely define defaults, isolate multiparameter initialization
- Choosing the dependency direction]]> 4.53 2012 Practical Object Oriented Design in Ruby
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Chapter 3: Managing Dependencies

An object has a dependancy when it knows:
- 1) The name of another class.
- 2) The name of a message that it intends to send to someone other than self.
- 3) The argument that a message requires.
- 4) The order of those arguments.

Writing Loosely Coupled Code techniques
- Inject dependencies
- Isolate dependencies: isolate instance creation, isolate external vulnerable messages, explicitely define defaults, isolate multiparameter initialization
- Choosing the dependency direction
]]> Designing Experiences 42260353
J. Robert Rossman and Mathew D. Duerden present a comprehensive and accessible introduction to experience design. They synthesize the fundamental theories and methods from multiple disciplines and lay out a process for designing experiences from start to finish. Rossman and Duerden challenge us to reflect on what makes a great experience from the user’s perspective. They provide a framework of experience types, explaining people’s engagement with products and services and what makes experiences personal and fulfilling. The book presents interdisciplinary research underlying key concepts such as memory, intentionality, and dramatic structure in a down-to-earth style, drawing attention to both the macro and micro levels. Designing Experiences features detailed instructions and numerous real-world examples that clarify theoretical principles, making it useful for students and professionals. An invaluable overview of a growing field, the book provides readers with the tools they need to design innovative and indelible experiences and to move their organizations into the experience economy.

Designing Experiences features a foreword by B. Joseph Pine II.]]> 224 J Robert Rossman 0231191685 Oana 0 to-read 3.94 Designing Experiences
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]]> <![CDATA[The Mother Tongue: English and How It Got That Way]]> 29
From its mongrel origins to its status as the world's most-spoken tongue; its apparent simplicity to its deceptive complexity; its vibrant swearing to its uncertain spelling and pronunciation; Bryson covers all this as well as the many curious eccentricities that make it as maddening to learn as it is flexible to use.

Bill Bryson's classic Mother Tongue is a highly readable and hilarious tale of how English came to be the world's language.]]> 270 Bill Bryson 0380715430 Oana 0 started-but-will-not-finish 3.91 1990 The Mother Tongue: English and How It Got That Way
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name: Oana
average rating: 3.91
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]]> Drumul către tine însuţi 16177300
Cartea lui M. Scott Peck, medic psihiatru cu o îndelungată experienţă în psihoterapie, vorbeşte despre lucruri fundamentale legate de evoluţia umanităţii actuale: gândire, conştiinţă (sau stare de conştienţă), cunoaştere şi evoluţie spirituală, alegeri făcute în viaţa personală sau într-un cadru organizat (instituţie, societate), dar şi despre „ştiinţa� lui Dumnezeu. Om de ştiinţă el însuşi, autorul caută, în această carte, să înţeleagă misterele Creaţiei, fiinţa umană ca parte a acesteia, calea spre credinţă şi spre păstrarea ei.
Caracterul raţional al cărţii � convingerea implicită a autorului că omului îi sunt necesare într-un anumit stadiu „dovezile� � nu ştirbeşte cu nimic transcendenţa subiectului acestei lucrări: căutarea lui Dumnezeu în toate manifestările conştiinţei umane, pornind de la gândire şi ajungând la etapele evoluţiei spirituale care stau în faţa omului, aflat astăzi în epoca raţiunii. Speranţa lui M. Scott Peck, aşa cum reiese din această carte, este ca următoarea epocă să fie una a integrării, care să cuprindă adevărul decantat din eforturile de cunoaştere de până acum, dar şi căi noi de percepţie superioară, izvorâte din apartenenţa omului la o lume divină.

Drumul către tine însuţi este o carte devenită deja clasică � s-a vândut în peste 6 milioane de exemplare numai în America şi a fost tradusă în mai mult de 20 de limbi. Este primul volum dintr-o trilogie ce mai cuprinde volumele Further Along the Road Less Traveled şi The Road Less Traveled and Beyond, ultimul fiind deja publicat de Curtea Veche Publishing, în 2008, sub numele de Drumul către tine însuţi şi mai departe. La aceeaşi editură a mai apărut şi Psihologia minciunii (2009).]]> 320 M. Scott Peck 6065880973 Oana 4 4.06 1978 Drumul către tine însuţi
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name: Oana
average rating: 4.06
book published: 1978
rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA["Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!": Adventures of a Curious Character]]> 35167685 A New York Times bestseller—the outrageous exploits of one of this century's greatest scientific minds and a legendary American original.


Richard Feynman, winner of the Nobel Prize in physics, thrived on outrageous adventures. Here he recounts in his inimitable voice his experience trading ideas on atomic physics with Einstein and Bohr and ideas on gambling with Nick the Greek; cracking the uncrackable safes guarding the most deeply held nuclear secrets; accompanying a ballet on his bongo drums; painting a naked female toreador. In short, here is Feynman's life in all its eccentric—a combustible mixture of high intelligence, unlimited curiosity, and raging chutzpah.]]> 400 Richard P. Feynman 0393355624 Oana 5 4.26 1985 "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!": Adventures of a Curious Character
author: Richard P. Feynman
name: Oana
average rating: 4.26
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]]> <![CDATA[Transformed: Moving to the Product Operating Model (Silicon Valley Product Group)]]> 56465356
In INSPIRED, product thought leader Marty Cagan revealed the best practices and techniques used by the top product teams operating in the product model. Next, EMPOWERED shared the best practices and techniques used by the top product leaders to provide their teams with the kind of environment they need to thrive in the product model. Yet, the most common question after reading INSPIRED and EMPOWERED has “Yes, we want to work this way, but the way we work today is so different, and so deeply ingrained, is it even possible for a company like ours to transform to the product model?� TRANSFORMED was written to bridge the gap between where most companies are right now and where they need to be. The leaders of these companies know they must transform to compete in an era of rapidly changing enabling technology, but most of them have never operated this way before. TRANSFORMED has three big
TRANSFORMED is written for those driving change, including the senior company leaders―starting with the CEO―as well as the senior executives and stakeholders who need to collaborate with the product teams, the product leaders, the members of the product teams, and all those who either support or depend on these product teams. Written by best-selling author Marty Cagan and his partners at the Silicon Valley Product Group, TRANSFORMED is filled with real-world examples and proven, practical advice from their decades of experience helping companies move to the product operating model.]]> 368 Marty Cagan 1119697336 Oana 0 currently-reading 3.90 Transformed: Moving to the Product Operating Model (Silicon Valley Product Group)
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]]> The Psychology of Money 41881472 242 Morgan Housel 0857197681 Oana 4 4.27 2020 The Psychology of Money
author: Morgan Housel
name: Oana
average rating: 4.27
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rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[Self-Reg: How to Help Your Child (and You) Break the Stress Cycle and Successfully Engage with Life]]> 27774752
Self-Reg is a groundbreaking book that presents an entirely new understanding of your child’s emotions and behavior and a practical guide for parents to help their kids engage calmly and successfully in learning and life. Grounded in decades of research and working with children and parents by Dr. Shanker, Self-Reg realigns the power of the parent-child relationship for positive change. Self-regulation is the nervous system’s way of responding to stress. We are seeing a generation of children and teens with excessively high levels of stress, and, as a result, an explosion of emotional, social, learning, behavior, and physical health problems. But few parents recognize the “hidden stressors� that their children are struggling with: physiological as well as social and emotional. An entrenched view of child rearing sees our children as lacking self-control or willpower, but the real basis for these problems lies in excessive stress.

Self-regulation can dramatically improve a child’s mood, attention, and concentration. It can help children to feel empathy, and to cultivate the sorts of virtues that most parents know are vital for their child’s long-term wellbeing. Self-regulation brings about profound and lasting transformation that continues throughout life. Dr. Shanker translates decades of his findings from working with children into practical, prescriptive advice for parents, giving them concrete ways to develop their self-regulation skills and teach their children to do the same and engage successfully with life for optimal learning, social, and emotional growth.]]> 320 Stuart Shanker 1594206090 Oana 0 4.16 Self-Reg: How to Help Your Child (and You) Break the Stress Cycle and Successfully Engage with Life
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]]> <![CDATA[Το ταξίδι του Πάντα και του Δράκου]]> 64636055
Ξεκινήστε μαζί με το Μεγάλο Πάντα και τον Μικρό Δράκο για μια απίθανη περιπέτεια με τη σειρά βιβλίων «Το Μεγάλο Πάντα και ο Μικρός Δράκος», που αποτελεί παγκόσμιο φαινόμενο σε πωλήσεις!

Μολονότι οι δύο φίλοι είναι ευχαριστημένοι στον ναό τους ψηλά στα βουνά, ο Μικρός Δράκος συνειδητοποιεί ότι κάτι λείπει, νιώθει ανολοκλήρωτος.
Κι έτσι αποφασίζουν να κάνουν παρέα ένα ταξίδι σε τόπους άγνωστους και μακρινούς.
Στο διάβα τους συναντούν προκλήσεις και κινδύνους και εντέλει μαθαίνουν πως ό,τι χρειάζονται το έχουν ήδη μέσα τους και πως η αλλαγή, αν και κάποιες φορές είναι τρομακτική, είναι εφικτή και με υπομονή μπορεί να μας οδηγήσει σε καλύτερα πράγματα.

«Αν πρέπει να χαθούμε», κατέληξε το Μεγάλο Πάντα, «χαίρομαι που αυτό έγινε μαζί σου…»]]> 168 James Norbury 9606538419 Oana 0 4.65 2022 Το ταξίδι του Πάντα και του Δράκου
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average rating: 4.65
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]]> Mastery 18072970
What did Charles Darwin, middling schoolboy and underachieving second son, do to become one of the earliest and greatest naturalists the world has known? What were the similar choices made by Mozart and by Caesar Rodriguez, the U.S. Air Force’s last ace fighter pilot? In Mastery, Robert Greene’s fifth book, he mines the biographies of great historical figures for clues about gaining control over our own lives and destinies. Picking up where The 48 Laws of Power left off, Greene culls years of research and original interviews to blend historical anecdote and psychological insight, distilling the universal ingredients of the world’s masters.

Temple Grandin, Martha Graham, Henry Ford, Buckminster Fuller—all have lessons to offer about how the love for doing one thing exceptionally well can lead to mastery. Yet the secret, Greene maintains, is already in our heads. Debunking long-held cultural myths, he demonstrates just how we, as humans, are hardwired for achievement and supremacy. Fans of Greene’s earlier work and Malcolm Gladwell’s Outliers will eagerly devour this canny and erudite explanation of just what it takes to be great.]]> 352 Robert Greene 1101601027 Oana 3 4.30 2012 Mastery
author: Robert Greene
name: Oana
average rating: 4.30
book published: 2012
rating: 3
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It was very interesting to find out about several masters in several fields that I knew nothing before. However, I found the information rather repetitive, and I think it could have been 30% compressed and the effect still the same.
]]> <![CDATA[Running on Empty: Overcome Your Childhood Emotional Neglect]]> 15812553 227 Jonice Webb 161448242X Oana 5 4.16 2012 Running on Empty: Overcome Your Childhood Emotional Neglect
author: Jonice Webb
name: Oana
average rating: 4.16
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rating: 5
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]]> Copilul tău citește 60855395
Metode detaliate, exemple practice pornind de la poveștile Olinei Ortiz și activități distractive pentru părinți și copii!

„Cum ar fi să știi că există un plan bine gândit pentru maturizarea copilului tău prin lectură, prin arta cuvântului?�

„În școală, copiii învață răbdarea, perseverența, planificarea, atenția voluntară. Aceste funcții ale minții sunt cabina de control a vieții lor ulterioare.�

Părinții și profesorii sunt instructori de zbor, copiloți doar pentru o scurtă vreme, iar lectura este cel mai puternic instrument de orientare în viață.
Însoțiți mințile copiilor când învață să citească și când se lasă vrăjiți de o poveste, învățați-i să gândească critic și, dacă veți urma sfaturile, direcțiile și planul acestei cărți, veți avea satisfacția de a-i vedea transformându-se în cititori îndrăgostiți de lectură.
Iar parcursul va fi, garantat, o sursă de plăcere, distracție și timp de calitate petrecut împreună, la școală sau în familie. Nu degeaba textul trimite la seria de povești semnate de Olina Ortiz, care fac deliciul celor mici!]]> 192 Oana Moraru 9733413941 Oana 0 currently-reading 4.49 2022 Copilul tău citește
author: Oana Moraru
name: Oana
average rating: 4.49
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]]> <![CDATA[Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology]]> 60321447
You may be surprised to learn that microchips are the new oil—the scarce resource on which the modern world depends. Today, military, economic, and geopolitical power are built on a foundation of computer chips. Virtually everything� from missiles to microwaves, smartphones to the stock market � runs on chips. Until recently, America designed and built the fastest chips and maintained its lead as the #1 superpower. Now, America's edge isslipping, undermined by competitors in Taiwan, Korea,Europe, and, above all, China. Today, as Chip War reveals, China, which spends more money each year importing chips than it spends importing oil,is pouring billions into a chip-building initiative to catch up to the US. At stake is America's military superiority and economic prosperity.

Economic historian Chris Miller explains how the semiconductor came to play a critical role in modern life and how the U.S. become dominant in chip design and manufacturing and applied this technology to military systems. America's victory in the Cold War and its global military dominance stems from its ability to harness computing power more effectively than any other power. But here, too, China is catching up, with its chip-building ambitions and military modernization going hand in hand.America has let key components of the chip-building process slip out of its grasp, contributing not only to a worldwide chip shortage but also a new Cold War with a superpower adversary that is desperate to bridge the gap.

Illuminating, timely, and fascinating, Chip War shows that, to make sense of the current state of politics, economics, and technology, we must first understand the vital role played by chips.]]> 464 Chris Miller 1982172002 Oana 0 to-read 4.38 2022 Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology
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]]> <![CDATA[Inspired: How to Create Tech Products Customers Love]]> 35249663 Автор делится собственным опытом и техниками, используемыми в работе с самыми известными компаниями в области высоких технологий. Вы узнаете, как ведущие мировые корпорации создают свои лучшие продукты и каким образом можно использовать их опыт.
Книга помогает усвоить главное: как бы хороша ни была ваша команда разработчиков - это не имеет значения, если ей не дают работать над тем, что достойно разработки. Совсем недостаточно просто хорошо трудиться, проектируя продукт. Важно убедиться в том, что этот продукт полезен, удобен в использовании, и его можно воплотить в жизнь.
Книга адресована руководителям и собственникам компаний, ведущим инженерам и дизайнерам, разработчикам программных продуктов - всем, кто принимает участие в процессе управления продуктом и создания того, в чем люди действительно будут нуждаться.
Благодаря информации, собранной в книге, менеджеры по маркетингу продукта и руководители проектов различных отделов производственной организации научатся правильно определять, что именно хотят получить покупатели.
Издание станет полезным для команд разработчиков, занимающихся запуском новых проектов. Методы, представленные в книге, позволят вам создавать абсолютно новые продукты-хиты или совершенствовать уже существующие товары.]]> 349 Marty Cagan 1119387507 Oana 0 currently-reading 4.22 2008 Inspired: How to Create Tech Products Customers Love
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]]> Refactoring: Ruby Edition 11560939 The Definitive Refactoring Guide, Fully Revamped for Ruby

With refactoring, programmers can transform even the most chaotic software into well-designed systems that are far easier to evolve and maintain. What’s more, they can do it one step at a time, through a series of simple, proven steps. Now, there’s an authoritative and extensively updated version of Martin Fowler’s classic refactoring book that utilizes Ruby examples and idioms throughout–not code adapted from Java or any other environment.

The authors introduce a detailed catalog of more than 70 proven Ruby refactorings, with specific guidance on when to apply each of them, step-by-step instructions for using them, and example code illustrating how they work. Many of the authors� refactorings use powerful Ruby-specific features, and all code samples are available for download.

Leveraging Fowler’s original concepts, the authors show how to perform refactoring in a controlled, efficient, incremental manner, so you methodically improve your code’s structure without introducing new bugs. Whatever your role in writing or maintaining Ruby code, this book will be an indispensable resource.

This book will help you

Understand the core principles of refactoring and the reasons for doing it Recognize “bad smells� in your Ruby code Rework bad designs into well-designed code, one step at a time Build tests to make sure your refactorings work properly Understand the challenges of refactoring and how they can be overcome Compose methods to package code properly Move features between objects to place responsibilities where they fit best Organize data to make it easier to work with Simplify conditional expressions and make more effective use of polymorphism Create interfaces that are easier to understand and use Generalize more effectively Perform larger refactorings that transform entire software systems and may take months or years Successfully refactor Ruby on Rails code ]]> 660 Jay Fields 0321604172 Oana 0 to-read 4.15 1999 Refactoring: Ruby Edition
author: Jay Fields
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]]> <![CDATA[O pereche de pantofi: Finanţele şi contabilitatea afacerii]]> 32366648
În facultate, primul lucru pe care voiam să-l fac când deschideam o carte de finanțe sau de contabilitate era s-o închid repede la loc. După ce am descoperit cu adevărat acest domeniu și am început să-l stăpânesc, mi-am dat seama că nu este chiar așa de fioros. Am înțeles că finanțele și contabilitatea înseamnă câteva instrumente practice și elegante, care aduc liniște și claritate în afaceri.

După aproape 20 de ani de practică de business și după ce am curtat îndelung subiectul, am reușit să pun toate noțiunile acestea abstracte și aparent complicate într-o carte care tratează finanțele și contabilitatea afacerii pe înțelesul tuturor. Sper că nu te va pune pe fugă când o vei deschide și, mai mult, că o vei putea duce până la capăt cu interes.

Cartea se adresează „nefinanțiștilor� din business, viitorilor și actualilor manageri, antreprenorilor, dar și studenților și tuturor celor care vor să-și strunească mai bine afacerea sau cariera.]]> 296 Tinca Celnicu 6067222094 Oana 0 to-read 4.49 O pereche de pantofi: Finanţele şi contabilitatea afacerii
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]]> Secretele gunoaielor 49180878
Curios și dornic de aventură, băiatul pornește în expediție. Dar lumea gunoaielor nu e ușor de cucerit, iar Leo, un băiat răsfățat de viață, trebuie să treacă prin experiențe grele: descoperă frigul, foamea, frica, tristețea, răutatea și tot ce înseamnă traiul de azi pe mâine și lupta pentru supraviețuire. Surprinzător, dar tot aici va înțelege Leo ce sunt cu adevărat prietenia și generozitatea.
De aceeași autoare: "Aventurile piratului Ket"]]> 480 Alis Popa 606788562X Oana 4 4.05 Secretele gunoaielor
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]]> <![CDATA[Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions]]> 25666050 A fascinating exploration of how insights from computer algorithms can be applied to our everyday lives, helping to solve common decision-making problems and illuminate the workings of the human mind

All our lives are constrained by limited space and time, limits that give rise to a particular set of problems. What should we do, or leave undone, in a day or a lifetime? How much messiness should we accept? What balance of new activities and familiar favorites is the most fulfilling? These may seem like uniquely human quandaries, but they are not: computers, too, face the same constraints, so computer scientists have been grappling with their version of such issues for decades. And the solutions they've found have much to teach us.

In a dazzlingly interdisciplinary work, acclaimed author Brian Christian and cognitive scientist Tom Griffiths show how the algorithms used by computers can also untangle very human questions. They explain how to have better hunches and when to leave things to chance, how to deal with overwhelming choices and how best to connect with others. From finding a spouse to finding a parking spot, from organizing one's inbox to understanding the workings of memory, Algorithms to Live By transforms the wisdom of computer science into strategies for human living.]]> 368 Brian Christian 1627790365 Oana 0 to-read 4.12 2016 Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions
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]]> <![CDATA[Lumea fetelor. Portrete si povesti din jurul pamantului]]> 209343615 256 Mihaela Noroc 9735083051 Oana 4 4.57 Lumea fetelor. Portrete si povesti din jurul pamantului
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]]> <![CDATA[Small Data: The Tiny Clues that Uncover Huge Trends]]> 25663776
Hired by the world's leading brands to find out what makes their customers tick, Martin Lindstrom spends 300 nights a year in strangers� homes, carefully observing every detail in order to uncover their hidden desires, and, ultimately, the clues to a multi-million dollar product.

Lindstrom connects the dots in this globetrotting narrative that will enthrall enterprising marketers, as well as anyone with a curiosity about the endless variations of human behavior. You’ll learn�

� How a noise reduction headset at 35,000 feet led to the creation of Pepsi’s new trademarked signature sound.
� How a worn down sneaker discovered in the home of an 11-year-old German boy led to LEGO’s incredible turnaround.
� How a magnet found on a fridge in Siberia resulted in a U.S. supermarket revolution.
� How a toy stuffed bear in a girl’s bedroom helped revolutionize a fashion retailer’s 1,000 stores in 20 different countries.
� How an ordinary bracelet helped Jenny Craig increase customer loyalty by 159% in less than a year.
� How the ergonomic layout of a car dashboard led to the redesign of the Roomba vacuum.]]> 256 Martin Lindstrom 1250080681 Oana 0 to-read 3.75 2016 Small Data: The Tiny Clues that Uncover Huge Trends
author: Martin Lindstrom
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average rating: 3.75
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]]> Simon 141097766
Într-un orășel din Armenia, moare zidarul Simon. A avut o viață lungă, s-a bucurat de respect, dar a fost cunoscut și pentru numeroasele sale aventuri amoroase. La înmormântare se adună toate femeile pe care le-a iubit: Susanna, prima dragoste, fata cu o copilărie invadată de tenebre, Eliza, modestă și tandră, trădată de propriul soț, Sofia, frivolă și plină de viață, dar marcată de suferința numeroaselor sarcini pierdute, Silvia, internată cândva abuziv într-un spital de psihiatrie, fără dreptul de a-și mai vedea copilul. Pentru ele, iubirea lui Simon a fost vraja care le-a schimbat complet soarta. Și să nu uităm de Melania, soția care a învățat cu timpul să se resemneze cu aventurile lui, punând însă la cale din când în când câte un scandal cu țipete și veselă spartă, pentru a-și păstra demnitatea, sau de Sașia Vardanuș, personajul aproape magic, care însoțește ca un fel de cor antic povestea fiecăreia dintre femei.

„Alcătuit din povești de viață răscolitoare, romanul lui Narine Abgarian este înțelept într-un sens aproape biblic.� � ANNA DELIANIDI]]> 313 Narine Abgaryan 6060972101 Oana 4 4.48 2020 Simon
author: Narine Abgaryan
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average rating: 4.48
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]]> Librăreasa din Paris 199338180 343 Kerri Maher 6060972950 Oana 3 3.75 2022 Librăreasa din Paris
author: Kerri Maher
name: Oana
average rating: 3.75
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rating: 3
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]]> <![CDATA[What I Talk About When I Talk About Running]]> 2195464
Equal parts training log, travelogue, and reminiscence, this revealing memoir covers his four-month preparation for the 2005 New York City Marathon and takes us to places ranging from Tokyo’s Jingu Gaien gardens, where he once shared the course with an Olympian, to the Charles River in Boston among young women who outpace him. Through this marvelous lens of sport emerges a panorama of memories and insights: the eureka moment when he decided to become a writer, his greatest triumphs and disappointments, his passion for vintage LPs, and the experience, after fifty, of seeing his race times improve and then fall back.

By turns funny and sobering, playful and philosophical, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running is rich and revelatory, both for fans of this masterful yet guardedly private writer and for the exploding population of athletes who find similar satisfaction in running.]]> 188 Haruki Murakami Oana 0 to-read 3.87 2007 What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
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average rating: 3.87
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]]> A Fine Balance 5211
The time is 1975. The place is an unnamed city by the sea. The government has just declared a State of Emergency, in whose upheavals four strangers--a spirited widow, a young student uprooted from his idyllic hill station, and two tailors who have fled the caste violence of their native village--will be thrust together, forced to share one cramped apartment and an uncertain future.

As the characters move from distrust to friendship and from friendship to love, A Fine Balance creates an enduring panorama of the human spirit in an inhuman state.]]> 603 Rohinton Mistry 140003065X Oana 0 to-read 4.38 1995 A Fine Balance
author: Rohinton Mistry
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]]> Leaves of Grass 27494 624 Walt Whitman Oana 0 to-read 4.12 1855 Leaves of Grass
author: Walt Whitman
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]]> <![CDATA[The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin]]> 52309
Few men could compare to Benjamin Franklin. Virtually self-taught, he excelled as an athlete, a man of letters, a printer, a scientist, a wit, an inventor, an editor, and a writer, and he was probably the most successful diplomat in American history. David Hume hailed him as the first great philosopher and great man of letters in the New World.]]> 143 Benjamin Franklin 0743255062 Oana 0 to-read 3.84 1791 The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
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]]> UNA 208849013 Dor de blândețe, de duioșie, de sensibilitate și dăruire, de bunăvoință, apartenență și conectare.
Dor de trăit cu inima vie, întreagă.
Încet-încet, chemarea ne va învălui. Uneori, împotriva minții noastre, o vom asculta, cu o mână pe inimă și alta pe pământ. Vom simți că nu avem încotro decât s-o urmăm, în adâncul din noi.
Aici, ne așteaptă părți din noi uitate, neiubite, pierdute în poveștile unei civilizații ale triumfului cu orice preț.
Reîntâlnirea va fi sărbătoare. Reîntregirea, darul nostrum pentru înnoirea lumii.
Vom fi una în noi însene.
Apoi, precum copacii, ne vom împleti rădăcinile cu următoarea femeie care a auzit chemarea.
Împreună, vom renaște lumea din afară, o lume în care toți și toate-s una.]]> 104 Iunia Cordea 6069071832 Oana 5 4.88 2023 UNA
author: Iunia Cordea
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Special de sensibilă, revelatoare și grațioasă.
]]> The Handmaid's Tale 58990073 The Handmaid's Tale explores a broad range of issues relating to power, gender, and religious politics. Multiple Golden Globe award-winner Claire Danes (Romeo and Juliet, The Hours) gives a stirring performance of this classic in speculative fiction, one of the most powerful and widely read novels of our time.

After a staged terrorist attack kills the President and most of Congress, the government is deposed and taken over by the oppressive and all-controlling Republic of Gilead. Offred, now a Handmaid serving in the household of the enigmatic Commander and his bitter wife, can remember a time when she lived with her husband and daughter and had a job, before she lost even her own name. Despite the danger, Offred learns to navigate the intimate secrets of those who control her every move, risking her life in breaking the rules in hopes of ending this oppression.]]> 558 Margaret Atwood Oana 5
Margaret is damn good!]]> 3.81 1985 The Handmaid's Tale
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average rating: 3.81
book published: 1985
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But what a wonderful way to write �

Margaret is damn good!
]]> Mai am câteva certitudini 59453933
Textele scurte surprind prin diversitate, mergând de la amintiri și corespondență până la interludii cu irizații poetice, alegorii cu accente de (auto)ironie și veritabile pagini de manifest pentru relații interumane sănătoase. Cu simplitate și blândețe, ele ne prezintă sinteza gândirii lui Jacques Salomé, oferindu-ne ocazia (re)întâlnirii cu unul dintre cei mai îndrăgiți formatori în domeniul comunicării, ale cărui idei răzbat până la esența omenescului și, poate de aceea, rămân mereu actuale.]]> 240 Jacques Salomé 606441037X Oana 4 4.29 Mai am câteva certitudini
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]]> <![CDATA[The Most Beautiful Girl in Cuba (The Perez Family, #4)]]> 54866589
A feud rages in Gilded Age New York City between newspaper tycoons William Randolph Hearst and Joseph Pulitzer. When Grace Harrington lands a job at Hearst’s newspaper in 1896, she’s caught in a cutthroat world where one scoop can make or break your career, but it’s a story emerging from Cuba that changes her life.

Unjustly imprisoned in a notorious Havana women’s jail, eighteen-year-old Evangelina Cisneros dreams of a Cuba free from Spanish oppression. When Hearst learns of her plight and splashes her image on the front page of his paper, proclaiming her, “The Most Beautiful Girl in Cuba,� she becomes a rallying cry for American intervention in the battle for Cuban independence.

With the help of Marina Perez, a courier secretly working for the Cuban revolutionaries in Havana, Grace and Hearst’s staff attempt to free Evangelina. But when Cuban civilians are forced into reconcentration camps and the explosion of the USS Maine propels the United States and Spain toward war, the three women must risk everything in their fight for freedom.]]> 367 Chanel Cleeton 0593098870 Oana 0 to-read 3.89 2021 The Most Beautiful Girl in Cuba (The Perez Family, #4)
author: Chanel Cleeton
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]]> Pride and Prejudice 22999157
With a host of Bennet sisters playing out their own triumphs and disasters, and the unforgettable tragicomedy of their parents� marriage demonstrating just how high the stakes can be, Jane Austen’s second novel has a lasting effect on every­one who reads it.
--almabooks.com]]> 311 Jane Austen 1847493696 Oana 5 4.27 1813 Pride and Prejudice
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average rating: 4.27
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]]> <![CDATA[Don't Shoot the Dog! : The New Art of Teaching and Training]]> 31052
In her groundbreaking approach to improving behavior, behavioral biologist Karen Pryor says, “Whatever the task, whether keeping a four-year-old quiet in public, housebreaking a puppy, coaching a team, or memorizing a poem, it will go fast, and better, and be more fun, if you know how to use reinforcement.�

Now Pryor clearly explains the underlying principles of behavioral training and reveals how this art can be applied to virtually any common situation. And best of all, she tells how to do it without yelling threats, force, punishment, guilt trips—or shooting the dog. From the eight methods for putting an end to all kinds of undesirable behavior to the ten laws of “shaping� behavior, Pryor helps you combat your own addictions and deal with such difficult problems as a moody spouse, an impossible teen, or an aged parent. Plus, there’s also incredibly helpful information on house training the dog, improving your tennis game, keeping the cat off the table, and much more!

“In the course of becoming a renowned dolphin trainer, Karen Pryor learned that positive reinforcement…is even more potent that prior scientific work had suggested…Don’t Shoot the Dog looks like the very best on the subject—a full-scale mind-changer� (The Coevolution Quarterly). Learn why pet owners rave, “This book changed our lives!� and how these pioneering techniques can work for you, too.

Karen Pryor is a behavioral biologist with an international reputation in marine mammal biology and behavioral psychology. She is a founder and leading proponent of “clicker training,� a training system based on operant conditioning (isolate wanted behaviors and ignore the unwanted) and the all-positive methods developed by marine mammal trainers. Pryor is the CEO of KCPT/Sunshine Books, Inc., a publishing, training product, and online company. In addition to her bestselling Don’t Shoot the Dog, Pryor wrote Nursing Your Baby (more than 2 million copies in print) along with several other books and many scientific papers and popular articles on learning and behavior. She has three grown children and lives in Boston with two clicker-trained dogs and a clicker-trained cat.]]> 202 Karen Pryor 1860542387 Oana 0 to-read 4.26 1984 Don't Shoot the Dog! : The New Art of Teaching and Training
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]]> <![CDATA[Femei invizibile. Manipularea datelor într-o lume concepută pentru bărbați]]> 58663477
Telefonul este prea mare pentru mâna ta.

Doctorul îți prescrie un medicament care nu e bun pentru corpul tău.

Într-un accident de mașină ai cu 47% mai multe șanse să fii rănit serios.

DACĂ VREUNUL DINTRE ACESTE LUCRURI SUNĂ CUNOSCUT, ATUNCI FOARTE PROBABIL EȘTI FEMEIE.

De la politicile guvernamentale și cercetarea medicală la tehnologie, locuri de muncă și media, Femei invizibile ne dezvăluie cum, într-o lume construită în principal de și pentru bărbați, ignorăm în mod sistematic jumătate din populație, adesea cu consecințe dezastruoase. Caroline Criado Perez aduce laolaltă pentru prima dată o gamă impresionantă de studii de caz, de povestiri și de cercetări noi din toată lumea, care ilustrează modurile ascunse în care femeile sunt uitate și impactul profund pe care îl are acest lucru asupra noastră.]]> 448 Caroline Criado Pérez 6063373608 Oana 5 4.24 2019 Femei invizibile. Manipularea datelor într-o lume concepută pentru bărbați
author: Caroline Criado Pérez
name: Oana
average rating: 4.24
book published: 2019
rating: 5
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]]> <![CDATA[Psihologia poporului român: profilul psihologic al românilor într-o monografie cognitiv-experimentală]]> 25919692
Lucrarea ofera o baza de date si o sinteza a literaturii de specialitate la zi, din care fiecare poate selecta doar partea ce il intereseaza, in scopuri practice si/sau de cercetare. Dincolo de inventarierea acestor clisee si in special a autostereotipurilor relevante pentru perceptia de sine a romanilor, autorul analizeaza si cauzele lor si, mai important, realizeaza un profil psihologic bazat pe trasaturile reale ale romanilor si alte doua profiluri: potentialul nostru sau ce am putea fi si modelele care ne ghideaza sau ce am vrea sa fim.

„Modelul cultural ideal al romanilor, «cum vrem sa fim», este identificabil in proiectia noastra psihologica, «cum credem ca sintem». Vestea buna este ca, desi romanii se cred asa cum nu sint, totusi se cred asa cum ar putea sa fie! Asadar, as spune ca proiectia noastra nu reprezinta o iluzie pozitiva, ci un optimism realist. De aceea, in cazul romanilor exista sanse foarte mari de dezvoltare si evolutie in directia unui model psihocultural ideal, sanse care pot creste prin actiuni psihoculturale intelepte si hotarite. Cetatenii romani din diverse zone ale tarii au un fundament psihocultural comun mai important decit elementele ce ii diferentiaza, fundament pe care putem construi un viitor comun, in care aceste elemente diferentiatoare sa-si gaseasca insa locul si sa contribuie la o unitate in diversitate. Utilizarea rezultatelor monografiei in logica unui patriotism modern trebuie sa duca la promovarea si utilizarea punctelor tari si la recunoasterea si corectarea constructiva a punctelor mai putin tari, evitindu-se astfel atit extremele patriotarde, cit si cele defaimatoare, la fel de necredibile si cu aceleasi consecinte negative asupra respectului si a statutului international al romanilor si asupra progresului lor. Daca ar fi sa rezum esenta monografiei, as mentiona ca virtuti ale romanilor potentialul intelectual (de inteligenta si creativitate) si competitivitatea, iar ca atribute psihologice de imbunatatit increderea scazuta in oameni, care duce la o lipsa de cooperare pentru actiuni colective in beneficiul comun, si tendinta de distorsionare a realitatii prin exagerarea atit a pozitivului (prin emotionalitatea ridicata), cit si a negativului (prin scepticism sau cinism). Daca am redobindi increderea in oameni si am reduce exagerarile in evaluarile pe care le facem, atunci am realiza actiuni colective in beneficiul tuturor, in cadrul carora ne-am putea valorifica la maximum potentialul foarte bun pe care il avem ca popor.� (Daniel David)

„Astfel de cercetari despre caracterul national si relatia acestuia cu atribute psihologice de baza sint fundamentale pentru psihologia interculturala moderna.� (Dr. Antonio Terracciano, Florida State University, autor al articolului „National Character Does Not Reflect Mean Personality Trait Levels in 49 Cultures�, Science, 2005)]]> 400 Daniel David 9734654780 Oana 4 4.02 2015 Psihologia poporului român: profilul psihologic al românilor într-o monografie cognitiv-experimentală
author: Daniel David
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]]> <![CDATA[The Culture Map: Breaking Through the Invisible Boundaries of Global Business]]> 22085568 An international business expert helps you understand and navigate cultural differences in this insightful and practical guide, perfect for both your work and personal life. Americans precede anything negative with three nice comments; French, Dutch, Israelis, and Germans get straight to the point; Latin Americans and Asians are steeped in hierarchy; Scandinavians think the best boss is just one of the crowd. It's no surprise that when they try and talk to each other, chaos breaks out. In The Culture Map, INSEAD professor Erin Meyer is your guide through this subtle, sometimes treacherous terrain in which people from starkly different backgrounds are expected to work harmoniously together. She provides a field-tested model for decoding how cultural differences impact international business, and combines a smart analytical framework with practical, actionable advice.]]> 290 Erin Meyer Oana 5 4.32 2014 The Culture Map: Breaking Through the Invisible Boundaries of Global Business
author: Erin Meyer
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]]> <![CDATA[Atlas of the Heart: Mapping Meaningful Connection and the Language of Human Experience]]> 58330567 Atlas of the Heart, Brown takes us on a journey through eighty-seven of the emotions and experiences that define what it means to be human. As she maps the necessary skills and an actionable framework for meaningful connection, she gives us the language and tools to access a universe of new choices and second chances—a universe where we can share and steward the stories of our bravest and most heartbreaking moments with one another in a way that builds connection.

Over the past two decades, Brown's extensive research into the experiences that make us who we are has shaped the cultural conversation and helped define what it means to be courageous with our lives. Atlas of the Heart draws on this research, as well as on Brown's singular skills as a storyteller, to show us how accurately naming an experience doesn't give the experience more power, it gives us the power of understanding, meaning, and choice.

Brown shares, "I want this book to be an atlas for all of us, because I believe that, with an adventurous heart and the right maps, we can travel anywhere and never fear losing ourselves."]]> 301 Brené Brown 0399592555 Oana 5 4.33 2021 Atlas of the Heart: Mapping Meaningful Connection and the Language of Human Experience
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average rating: 4.33
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]]> <![CDATA[DOR #34 - Căutări (IV) Iarnă 2018]]> 43305794
Citindu-l veți cunoaște o familie care trăiește cu Huntington, o boală neurodegenerativă rară, care îl afectează nu doar pe soț � al cărui corp își pierde treptat libertatea �, ci și pe soție, devenită motorul familiei, și pe cei doi copii � ambii născuți, ca și tatăl lor, cu 50% risc de a dezvolta boala. Veți citi și povestea colegei noastre, Ioana, care, dându-și seama că e singurul urmaș al familiei, s-a întors în Suceava natală și înstrăinată ca să înțeleagă cum au definit-o mama, bunica și trecutul acestora.

Pe cele două coperte, fotografiați de Matei Buță, sunt actrița Andra Guți și activistul Tiberiu Căpudean și i-am ales pentru că poveștile lor sunt simbolice pentru ideile numărului: intimitate, familie și, nu în ultimul rând, migrația modernă. Andra s-a născut în Spania și a revenit în țară, unde și-a descoperit iubirea pentru actorie. Tiberiu consideră că a luptat suficient pentru a schimba ceva în România și se pregătește de o viață nouă, tot în Spania.

Ne dorim să puteți să-i priviți în ochi așa cum o fac ei: simultan curajos și vulnerabil, întotdeauna deschiși la dialog.

Din cuprins:

� O fiică rătăcitoare se întoarce acasă ca să-și înțeleagă moștenirea
� O femeie își face loc într-un sport dominat de bărbați.
� Mama, tata, doi copii și o boală genetică incurabilă.
� 100 (partea IV): Portretele unor oameni care vor defini România viitorului.
� Ce ai schimba la cum te-au crescut părinții tăi?
� Ce spun poveștile unor arbori cu secole de viață despre istoria locurilor în care au crescut?
� Ce te împinge, la 44 de ani, să pleci din România pe care ai vrut mereu s-o schimbi?]]> 240 Decât o Revistă Oana 5 stories, relax
O recomand cu drag și probabil voi face multe abonamente începând cu acest număr prietenilor mei.]]> 4.57 DOR #34 - Căutări (IV) Iarnă 2018
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O ediție foarte reușită, de la ”Dilema premiantului� până la povestea lui Tiberiu care m-a pus foarte tare pe gânduri.

O recomand cu drag și probabil voi face multe abonamente începând cu acest număr prietenilor mei.
]]> <![CDATA[The Mom Test: How to talk to customers & learn if your business is a good idea when everyone is lying to you]]> 52283963
The Mom Test is a quick, practical guide that will save you time, money, and heartbreak.



They say you shouldn't ask your mom whether your business is a good idea, because she loves you and will lie to you. This is technically true, but it misses the point. You shouldn't ask anyone if your business is a good idea. It's a bad question and everyone will lie to you at least a little . As a matter of fact, it's not their responsibility to tell you the truth. It's your responsibility to find it and it's worth doing right .



Talking to customers is one of the foundational skills of both Customer Development and Lean Startup. We all know we're supposed to do it, but nobody seems willing to admit that it's easy to screw up and hard to do right. This book is going to show you how customer conversations go wrong and how you can do better.

]]> 138 Rob Fitzpatrick Oana 0 to-read 4.37 2013 The Mom Test: How to talk to customers & learn if your business is a good idea when everyone is lying to you
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]]> <![CDATA[Crossing the Chasm: Marketing and Selling High-Tech Products to Mainstream Customers]]> 61329 211 Geoffrey A. Moore 0060517123 Oana 0 to-read 4.00 2006 Crossing the Chasm: Marketing and Selling High-Tech Products to Mainstream Customers
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]]> <![CDATA[Lessons in Chemistry (Korean Edition)]]> 72336792
연구� 동료들은 엘리자베스를 동등� 화학자가 아닌 연구 보조원이� 커피 심부름을 담당� 사람쯤으� 여긴�. � � 사람� 제외하고. 그는 바로 노벨과학� 후보 캘빈 에번스다. 유능하지� 사람들과 � 어울리지 못하� 외로� 섬이� 마찬가지였� � 사람은 영구적인 화학 결합처럼 사랑� 빠져버렸�.

그러� 행복은 오래가지 못했�, 과학자로서의 이름� 연구� 지키기 위해 ‘결� 없는 동거’를 선택� 엘리자베스는 캘빈� 사고� 죽자 비혼모가 되었�. 하지� 주저앉아 � 시간조차 없다. 아이� 가졌다� 이유� 연구소에� 쫓겨� 엘리자베스는 쇠지레로 직접 � 부엌을 부수고 개조� 실험실로 만들� 연구� 해나간다.

그녀� 남들� 말하� ‘화학자 지망생’이 아니� 이미 훌륭� 화학자니�. 누가 봐도 범상� 않은 비혼모인 그녀� 딸이 다섯 살이 되던 무렵 우연찮은 계기� TV 요리 프로그램 �6� 저� 식사」의 MC� 발탁된다. 급기� 미국 부통령까지 그녀� 팬을 자처하는 미국 최고� 슈퍼스타가 되는데…�.]]> 0 Bonnie Garmus Oana 5 4.30 2022 Lessons in Chemistry (Korean Edition)
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]]> <![CDATA[Autopilot: The Art and Science of Doing Nothing]]> 19025810 At every turn we’re pushed to do more, faster and more efficiently: that drumbeat resounds throughout our wage-slave society. Multitasking is not only a virtue, it’s a necessity. Books such as Getting Things Done, The One Minute Manager, and The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People regularly top the bestseller lists, and have spawned a considerable industry.
But Andrew Smart argues that slackers may have the last laugh. The latest neuroscience shows that the “culture of effectiveness� is not only ineffective, it can be harmful to your well-being. He makes a compelling case � backed by science � that filling life with activity at work and at home actually hurts your brain.
A survivor of corporate-mandated “Six Sigma� training to improve efficiency, Smart has channeled a self-described “loathing� of the time-management industry into a witty, informative and wide-ranging book that draws on the most recent research into brain power. Use it to explain to bosses, family, and friends why you need to relax � right now.]]> 142 Andrew Smart 1939293111 Oana 0 to-read 3.79 2013 Autopilot: The Art and Science of Doing Nothing
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]]> Copilul in familie 38460700 112 Maria Montessori Oana 0 currently-reading 4.00 1923 Copilul in familie
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]]> The Design of Everyday Things 840 257 Donald A. Norman 0465067107 Oana 0 currently-reading The principles of good design:

-1) Visibility
By looking, the user can tell the state of the device and the alternatives for action.

-2) A good conceptul model
The designer provides a good conceptual model for the user, with consistency in the presentation of operations and results and a coherent, consistent system image.

-3) Good mappings
It is possible to determine the relationship between actions and results, between the controls and their effects, and between the system state and what is visible.

-4) Feedback
The user receives full and continuous feedback about the results of the actions.
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People function through their use of two kinds of knowledge: knowledge of and knowledge how.

Knowledge of or declarative knowledge includes the knowledge of facts and rules. It is easy to write down and teach.

Knowledge how or procedural knowledge is largely subconscious. It is the knowledge that allows a person to play music, to stop the car smoothly with a flat tire on an icy road, to return a serve in tennis. It is difficult to teach.]]> 4.14 1988 The Design of Everyday Things
author: Donald A. Norman
name: Oana
average rating: 4.14
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The principles of good design:

-1) Visibility
By looking, the user can tell the state of the device and the alternatives for action.

-2) A good conceptul model
The designer provides a good conceptual model for the user, with consistency in the presentation of operations and results and a coherent, consistent system image.

-3) Good mappings
It is possible to determine the relationship between actions and results, between the controls and their effects, and between the system state and what is visible.

-4) Feedback
The user receives full and continuous feedback about the results of the actions.
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People function through their use of two kinds of knowledge: knowledge of and knowledge how.

Knowledge of or declarative knowledge includes the knowledge of facts and rules. It is easy to write down and teach.

Knowledge how or procedural knowledge is largely subconscious. It is the knowledge that allows a person to play music, to stop the car smoothly with a flat tire on an icy road, to return a serve in tennis. It is difficult to teach.
]]> <![CDATA[Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me): Why We Justify Foolish Beliefs, Bad Decisions, and Hurtful Acts]]> 522525 Renowned social psychologists Carol Tavris and Elliot Aronson take a compelling look into how the brain is wired for self-justification.

Why is it so hard to say “I made a mistake”—and really believe it?

When we make mistakes, cling to outdated attitudes, or mistreat other people, we must calm the cognitive dissonance that jars our feelings of self-worth. And so, unconsciously, we create fictions that absolve us of responsibility, restoring our belief that we are smart, moral, and right—a belief that often keeps us on a course that is dumb, immoral, and wrong. Backed by years of research, Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me) offers a fascinating explanation of self-justification—how it works, the damage it can cause, and how we can overcome it.

This updated edition concludes with an extended discussion of how we can live with dissonance; learn from it; and perhaps, eventually, forgive ourselves.]]> 292 Carol Tavris 0151010986 Oana 0 to-read 4.01 2007 Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me): Why We Justify Foolish Beliefs, Bad Decisions, and Hurtful Acts
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]]> Die Perlendiebin 52218746 62 Axel Scheffler Oana 3 3.33 Die Perlendiebin
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I read the Greek version, but it doesn't seen to appear just yet in here
]]> The Queen's Gambit 62022 258 Walter Tevis 1400030609 Oana 3 4.14 1983 The Queen's Gambit
author: Walter Tevis
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average rating: 4.14
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3.5/5 more than just 3. Loved the Netflix series much more. But the book is worth giving a try as well.
]]> <![CDATA[Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams]]> 34466963 Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9781501144318.

Neuroscientist and sleep expert Matthew Walker provides a revolutionary exploration of sleep, examining how it affects every aspect of our physical and mental well-being. Charting the most cutting-edge scientific breakthroughs, and marshalling his decades of research and clinical practice, Walker explains how we can harness sleep to improve learning, mood and energy levels, regulate hormones, prevent cancer, Alzheimer's and diabetes, slow the effects of aging, and increase longevity. He also provides actionable steps towards getting a better night's sleep every night.]]> 368 Matthew Walker Oana 0 currently-reading 4.37 2017 Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams
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]]> <![CDATA[The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry]]> 18293427
A. J. Fikry’s life is not at all what he expected it to be. His wife has died, his bookstore is experiencing the worst sales in its history, and now his prized possession, a rare collection of Poe poems, has been stolen. Slowly but surely, he is isolating himself from all the people of Alice Island—from Lambiase, the well-intentioned police officer who’s always felt kindly toward Fikry; from Ismay, his sister-in-law who is hell-bent on saving him from his dreary self; from Amelia, the lovely and idealistic (if eccentric) Knightley Press sales rep who keeps on taking the ferry over to Alice Island, refusing to be deterred by A.J.’s bad attitude. Even the books in his store have stopped holding pleasure for him. These days, A.J. can only see them as a sign of a world that is changing too rapidly.

And then a mysterious package appears at the bookstore. It’s a small package, but large in weight. It’s that unexpected arrival that gives A. J. Fikry the opportunity to make his life over, the ability to see everything anew. It doesn’t take long for the locals to notice the change overcoming A.J.; or for that determined sales rep, Amelia, to see her curmudgeonly client in a new light; or for the wisdom of all those books to become again the lifeblood of A.J.’s world; or for everything to twist again into a version of his life that he didn’t see coming. As surprising as it is moving, The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry is an unforgettable tale of transformation and second chances, an irresistible affirmation of why we read, and why we love.]]> 260 Gabrielle Zevin 1616203218 Oana 4 Many circles.
Not everybody knows everything ]]> 4.00 2014 The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry
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Short story.
Many circles.
Not everybody knows everything
]]> Mai drăguț decît Dostoievski 34623486 poem dramatic
ilustratii de Ion Barbu

In mai dragut decit dostoievski, Nora Iuga si Angela Baciu poarta un dialog intr-un ritm alert, colocvial, abundind in calambururi, satira politica, observatii cotidiene, referiri la lecturi, la lumea artistica, la evenimente de senzatie cu coloratura locala. Cartea este impartita in 25 de tablouri scurte, in care se urmareste foarte subtil firul unei povesti sentimentale: doua femei asteapta sosirea unui barbat iubit, mister T., care trebuie sa se intoarca la ele incununat de glorie de la vinatoarea de lei. Fiecare tablou se incheie cu interventia Corului Antic. Limbajul � un exercitiu de virtuozitate combinatorie � face multiple referiri la expresiile si ticurile verbale folosite azi in exces. Volumul are o accentuata tenta dadaista, putind fi considerat un demers indraznet de reinviere a avangardei.

mai dragut decit dostoievski. Nu e poezie, nu e proza, nu e jurnal, nu e eseu, nu e decit o conversatie intre doua prietene la o cafea� De ce mai dragut decit dostoievski? Totul e un plagiat, ca tot se poarta. Pe peronul metroului o fata ii spune altei fete: «Stii ca am citit Idiotul de Dostoievski?». «Si cum, e chiar idiot?» «Nu, e dragut.» Nici protagonistele-autoare, Nora si Angela, nu sint mai prejos, altfel Ion Barbu, nu cel de la Ripa Uvedenrode, ci Ion Barbu de la Petrila, nu s-ar fi lasat ademenit. Cartea e un spectacol la care se face haz de necaz, se ride mult, se plinge din amor, se-nvata expresii si nume de bucate, de gateli si snoave balcanice, venind dinspre porturile si bazarurile dunarene. Se cugeta adinc, se iubeste platonic, teuton-medieval, cu halebarde, bastioane si turnuri cu ceas ca la Curtea Regelui Arthur. In amestecul asta apar brusc elefanti si figuri politice de ultima ora. Din cind in cind, se povestesc vise uneori fantasmagorice, alteori politically correct, iar toate ordonantele ori sentintele le rosteste CORUL ANTIC, in limba latina, fireste. Apoteoza e atinsa odata cu sosirea mult asteptatului Mister T, alias Ducipal, intors victorios de la vinatoarea de lei.]]> 120 Nora Iuga 973466669X Oana 0 started-but-will-not-finish 3.22 2017 Mai drăguț decît Dostoievski
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]]> <![CDATA[Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics]]> 25135194 Geography shapes not only our history, but where we're headed...

All leaders are constrained by geography. Their choices are limited by mountains, rivers, seas and concrete. Yes, to follow world events you need to understand people, ideas and movements - but if you don't know geography, you'll never have the full picture.

If you've ever wondered why Putin is so obsessed with Crimea, why the USA was destined to become a global superpower, or why China's power base continues to expand ever outwards, the answers are all here.

In ten chapters and ten maps, Prisoners of Geography looks at the past, present and future to offer an essential insight into one of the major factors that determines world history.

It's time to put the 'geo' back into geopolitics.

Ten maps; ten chapters:

Russia * China * United States of America * Latin America * the Middle East * Africa * India and Pakistan * Europe * Japan and Korea * the Arctic]]> 256 Tim Marshall 1783961414 Oana 0
*Russia*
Being the biggest country in the world, Russia is undeniably an international player that cannot be ignored on the geopolitical map of the world. Its influence comes mainly from its economic power given by the natural reserves of gas an oil.

The main painpoint of Russia, which dragged her also in all kind of conflicts, is that they never had a warm water port. Why is this important? Because it would facilitate international trade all year long, compared to just couple of months that they have available now. By annexing Crimea in 2013, Russia can now say they do have a warm water port, the one from Sevastopol, however that has opening only to the Black Sea. To get out of it, they would need access to the Bosphorus Strait, currently controlled by Turkey.

Russia currently covers large part of the necessary of gas requested by Europe, which is also looking for forms of becoming less dependent of this unwanted partner. Thus, the USA jumped in with the solution of *liquified natural gas* (LNG). Putin, however, raised the price issue with this solution, in an attempt to of course, keep their clients. On the long term, he is also trying to diversify its clients portfolio by closing a deal with the Chinese which will make Russia a gas provider for the next 30 years.

]]> 4.18 2015 Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics
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Notes based on every chapter

*Russia*
Being the biggest country in the world, Russia is undeniably an international player that cannot be ignored on the geopolitical map of the world. Its influence comes mainly from its economic power given by the natural reserves of gas an oil.

The main painpoint of Russia, which dragged her also in all kind of conflicts, is that they never had a warm water port. Why is this important? Because it would facilitate international trade all year long, compared to just couple of months that they have available now. By annexing Crimea in 2013, Russia can now say they do have a warm water port, the one from Sevastopol, however that has opening only to the Black Sea. To get out of it, they would need access to the Bosphorus Strait, currently controlled by Turkey.

Russia currently covers large part of the necessary of gas requested by Europe, which is also looking for forms of becoming less dependent of this unwanted partner. Thus, the USA jumped in with the solution of *liquified natural gas* (LNG). Putin, however, raised the price issue with this solution, in an attempt to of course, keep their clients. On the long term, he is also trying to diversify its clients portfolio by closing a deal with the Chinese which will make Russia a gas provider for the next 30 years.


]]> <![CDATA[The Last Lecture: Lessons in Living]]> 9666456 Randy Pausch, Jeffrey Zaslow 224 Jeffrey Zaslow 0340978503 Oana 0 4.26 2008 The Last Lecture: Lessons in Living
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name: Oana
average rating: 4.26
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]]> <![CDATA[Soft Skills: The software developer's life manual]]> 24798576
"Soft Skills: The software developer's life manual" is a unique guide, offering techniques and practices for a more satisfying life as a professional software developer. In it, developer and life coach John Sonmez addresses a wide range of important "soft" topics, from career and productivity to personal finance and investing, and even fitness and relationships, all from a developer-centric viewpoint.

Forewords by Robert C. Martin (Uncle Bob) and Scott Hanselman.

Purchase of the print book includes a free eBook in PDF, Kindle, and ePub formats from Manning Publications.

About the Book

For most software developers, coding is the fun part. The hard bits are dealing with clients, peers, and managers, staying productive, achieving financial security, keeping yourself in shape, and finding true love. This book is here to help.

"Soft Skills: The software developer's life manual" is a guide to a well-rounded, satisfying life as a technology professional. In it, developer and life coach John Sonmez offers advice to developers on important "soft" subjects like career and productivity, personal finance and investing, and even fitness and relationships. Arranged as a collection of 71 short chapters, this fun-to-read book invites you to dip in wherever you like. A Taking Action section at the end of each chapter shows you how to get quick results. Soft Skills will help make you a better programmer, a more valuable employee, and a happier, healthier person.

What's InsideBoost your career by building a personal brandJohn's secret ten-step process for learning quicklyFitness advice to turn your geekiness to your advantageUnique strategies for investment and early retirement

About the Author

John Sonmez is a developer, teacher, and life coach who helps technical professionals boost their careers and live a more fulfilled life.

Table of ContentsWhy this book is unlike any book you've ever readSECTION 1: CAREERGetting started with a "BANG!": Don't do what everyone else doesThinking about the future: What are your goals?People skills: You need them more than you thinkHacking the interviewEmployment options: Enumerate your choicesWhat kind of software developer are you?Not all companies are equalClimbing the corporate ladderBeing a professionalFreedom: How to quit your jobFreelancing: Going out on your ownCreating your first productDo you want to start a startup?Working remotely survival strategiesFake it till you make itResumes are BORING Let's fix thatDon't get religious about technologySECTION 2: MARKETING YOURSELFMarketing basics for code monkeysBuilding a brand that gets you noticedCreating a wildly successful blogYour primary goal: Add value to others#UsingSocialNetworksSpeaking, presenting, and training: Speak geekWriting books and articles that attract a followingDon't be afraid to look like an idiotSECTION 3: LEARNINGLearning how to learn: How to teach yourselfMy 10-step processSteps 1-6: Do these onceSteps 7-10: Repeat theseLooking for mentors: Finding your YodaTaking on an apprentice: Being YodaTeaching: Learn you want? Teach you must.Do you need a degree or can you "wing it?"Finding gaps in your knowledgeSECTION 4: PRODUCTIVITYIt all starts with focusMy personal productivity planPomodoro TechniqueMy quota system: How I get way more done than I shouldHolding yourself accountableMultitasking dos and don'tsBurnout: I've got the cure!How you're wasting your timeThe importance of having a routineDeveloping habits: Brushing your codeBreaking things down: How to eat an elephantThe value of hard work and why you keep avoiding itAny action is better than no actionSECTION 5: FINANCIALWhat are you going to do with your paycheck?How to negotiate your salaryOptions: Where all the fun isBits and bytes of real estate investingDo you really understand your retirement plan?The danger of debt: SSDs are expensiveBonus: How I retired at 33SECTION 6: FITNESSWhy you need to hack your healthSetting your fitness criteriaThermodynamics, calories, and youMotivation: Getting your butt out of the chairHow to gain muscle: Nerds can have bulging bicepsHow to get hash-table absStarting RunningProgram.exeStanding desks and other hacksTech gear for fitness: Geeking outSECTION 7: SPIRITHow the mind influences the bodyHaving the right mental attitude: RebootingBuilding a positive self-image: Programming your brainLove and relationships: Computers can't hold your handMy personal success book listFacing failure head-onParting words"]]> 504 John Z. Sonmez 1617292397 Oana 0 started-but-will-not-finish 3.94 Soft Skills: The software developer's life manual
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]]> Programming Ruby 1.9 & 2.0 18106139
Ruby is a fully object-oriented language, much like the classic object-oriented language, Smalltalk. Like Smalltalk, it is dynamically typed (as opposed to Java or C++), but unlike Smalltalk, Ruby features the same conveniences found in modern scripting languages such as Perl and Python.

The combination of the power of a pure object-oriented language with the convenience of a scripting language makes Ruby a favorite tool of intelligent, forward-thinking programmers.

The Pickaxe contains four major sections:

An acclaimed tutorial on using Ruby.
The definitive reference to the language.
Complete documentation of all built-in classes, modules, and methods.
Complete descriptions of all 97 standard libraries.
This is the reference manual for Ruby, including a description of all the standard library modules, a complete reference to all built-in classes and modules (including all the new and changed methods introduced by Ruby 1.9, 1.9.2, 1.9.3, and 2.0¹). It also includes all the new and changed syntax and semantics introduced since Ruby 1.8. Learn about the new parameter passing rules, local variable scoping in blocks, fibers, and the new block declaration syntax, among other exciting new features.]]> 876 Dave Thomas 1937785491 Oana 0 started-but-will-not-finish 4.09 2000 Programming Ruby 1.9 & 2.0
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]]> <![CDATA[The RSpec Book: Behaviour Driven Development with RSpec, Cucumber, and Friends (Facets of Ruby)]]> 6261920
Get the most out of BDD in Ruby with The RSpec Book , written by the lead developer of RSpec, David Chelimsky.

You'll get started right away with RSpec 2 and Cucumber by developing a simple game, using Cucumber to express high-level requirements in language your customer understands, and RSpec to express more granular requirements that focus on the behavior of individual objects in the system. You'll learn how to use test doubles (mocks and stubs) to control the environment and focus the RSpec examples on one object at a time, and how to customize RSpec to "speak" in the language of your domain.

You'll develop Rails 3 applications and use companion tools such as Webrat and Selenium to express requirements for web applications both in memory and in the browser. And you'll learn to specify Rails views, controllers, and models, each in complete isolation from the other.

Whether you're developing applications, frameworks, or the libraries that power them, The RSpec Book will help you write better code, better tests, and deliver better software to happier users.]]> 426 David Chelimsky 1934356379 Oana 0 started-but-will-not-finish
"Acceptance Test–Driven Planning is one of three practices of BDD. It
is an extension of Acceptance Test–Driven Development.

The difference between ATDP and ATDD is simple. ATDD specifies that
we write acceptance tests before we write code, but it doesn’t specify
when we should write them.

ATDP specifies that the acceptance tests are agreed on during or pos-
sibly before, but no later than, an iteration planning meeting. This lets us consider the acceptance criteria in our estimates, which improves our ability to plan iterations, which is why it’s called Acceptance Test–Driven Planning."

"The Scenario keyword is followed by a string and then a series of steps. Each step begins with any of five keywords: Given, When, Then, And, and But.
*Given* steps represent the state of the world before an event. *When* steps represent the event. *Then* steps represent the expected outcomes. *And* and *But* steps take on the quality of the previous step. In the start game scenario, the *And* step is a second *Then*; a second expected outcome."

111. "Perhaps you’re wondering why we’d want to do exploratory testing if we’ve already tested the app. Well, we haven’t. Remember that BDD is
a design practice, not a testing practice. We’re using executable exam-
ples of how we want the application to behave."

112. "We were able to refactor with confidence because we ran the specs between each step, so we always knew right away when we introduced a problem. We looked at two structural refactorings in detail: Extract Method and Extract Class. We also talked about a few specific code smells: Temporary Variable, Long Method, and Large Class."

121. "You Can Always Roll Back
Things don’t always work out quite this cleanly. Sometimes we’ll try to
experiment like this and run into failure after failure after failure.
When that happens to you, and it will, don’t let it go on too long before rolling back to the last point at which all examples were passing. Then you can proceed forward again in smaller steps."

125. "How Traditional Projects Fail
Traditional projects fail for all sorts of reasons. A good way to identify the different failure modes is to ask your project manager what keeps them up at night. (It’s nice to do this from time to time anyway—it helps their self-esteem.) It is likely your project manager will come up with a list of fears similar to ours."

127. "Now, because we are responsible adults, we have a Testing phase where we test the software to make sure it does what it was supposed to do. This phase contains activities with names like user acceptance testing or performance testing to emphasize that we are getting closer to the users now and the final delivery."

131. "The Agile Manifesto
We are uncovering better ways of developing software by doing it and
helping others do it. Through this work we have come to value:
*Individuals and interactions* over processes and tools
*Working software* over comprehensive documentation
*Customer collaboration* over contract negotiation
*Responding to change* over following a plan

That is, while there is value in the things on the right, we value the things on the left more."

136. "Getting software into formally controlled environments puts us at odds with the corporate governance structures. But if we can’t get into production frequently, there is arguably little value in all the other stuff. It may still be useful for the team’s benefit, but software doesn’t start making money until it’s in production. Remember, we want to be writing software that matters!"

139: "Three principles of BDD:
> Enough is enough: Up-front planning, analysis, and design all have
a diminishing return. We shouldn’t do less than we need to get
started, but any more than that is wasted effort. This also applies
to process automation. Have an automated build and deployment,
but avoid trying to automate everything.

> Deliver stakeholder value: If you are doing something that isn’t either delivering value or increasing your ability to deliver value, stop doing it, and do something else instead.

> It’s all behavior: Whether at the code level, the application level, or beyond, we can use the same thinking and the same linguistic constructs to describe behavior at any level of granularity."

144. "Many people use the words feature and story interchangeably,
but there is a subtle difference. A feature is something that
delivers cohesive value to a stakeholder. A story is a piece of
demonstrable functionality that shouldn’t take more than a few
days to implement. So, the feature is more useful from the point
of view of the stakeholder, and the story is more useful from the
point of view of the team delivering the feature."

146. "A story consists of a number of components:
> A title: so we know which story are we talking about.
> A narrative: that tells us what the story is about.
> Acceptance criteria: so we know when we are done.

Regarding narrative: the most common format for this is known as the Connextra format, after the company where it was first used: as a [stakeholder], I want {feature] so that [benefit]."

147. "We use the slightly artificial structure of givens, events, and outcomes to describe these scenarios. This doesn’t mean that every scenario has exactly one Given, When, and Then in that order. Rather, it means that each step is either setting something up in a known state (a given) or exercising some behavior (an event) or verifying something happened (an outcome). Trying to do more than one of these in a single step usually ends up in confusion."
]]> 3.88 2009 The RSpec Book: Behaviour Driven Development with RSpec, Cucumber, and Friends (Facets of Ruby)
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BDD = Behaviour Driven Development

"Acceptance Test–Driven Planning is one of three practices of BDD. It
is an extension of Acceptance Test–Driven Development.

The difference between ATDP and ATDD is simple. ATDD specifies that
we write acceptance tests before we write code, but it doesn’t specify
when we should write them.

ATDP specifies that the acceptance tests are agreed on during or pos-
sibly before, but no later than, an iteration planning meeting. This lets us consider the acceptance criteria in our estimates, which improves our ability to plan iterations, which is why it’s called Acceptance Test–Driven Planning."

"The Scenario keyword is followed by a string and then a series of steps. Each step begins with any of five keywords: Given, When, Then, And, and But.
*Given* steps represent the state of the world before an event. *When* steps represent the event. *Then* steps represent the expected outcomes. *And* and *But* steps take on the quality of the previous step. In the start game scenario, the *And* step is a second *Then*; a second expected outcome."

111. "Perhaps you’re wondering why we’d want to do exploratory testing if we’ve already tested the app. Well, we haven’t. Remember that BDD is
a design practice, not a testing practice. We’re using executable exam-
ples of how we want the application to behave."

112. "We were able to refactor with confidence because we ran the specs between each step, so we always knew right away when we introduced a problem. We looked at two structural refactorings in detail: Extract Method and Extract Class. We also talked about a few specific code smells: Temporary Variable, Long Method, and Large Class."

121. "You Can Always Roll Back
Things don’t always work out quite this cleanly. Sometimes we’ll try to
experiment like this and run into failure after failure after failure.
When that happens to you, and it will, don’t let it go on too long before rolling back to the last point at which all examples were passing. Then you can proceed forward again in smaller steps."

125. "How Traditional Projects Fail
Traditional projects fail for all sorts of reasons. A good way to identify the different failure modes is to ask your project manager what keeps them up at night. (It’s nice to do this from time to time anyway—it helps their self-esteem.) It is likely your project manager will come up with a list of fears similar to ours."

127. "Now, because we are responsible adults, we have a Testing phase where we test the software to make sure it does what it was supposed to do. This phase contains activities with names like user acceptance testing or performance testing to emphasize that we are getting closer to the users now and the final delivery."

131. "The Agile Manifesto
We are uncovering better ways of developing software by doing it and
helping others do it. Through this work we have come to value:
*Individuals and interactions* over processes and tools
*Working software* over comprehensive documentation
*Customer collaboration* over contract negotiation
*Responding to change* over following a plan

That is, while there is value in the things on the right, we value the things on the left more."

136. "Getting software into formally controlled environments puts us at odds with the corporate governance structures. But if we can’t get into production frequently, there is arguably little value in all the other stuff. It may still be useful for the team’s benefit, but software doesn’t start making money until it’s in production. Remember, we want to be writing software that matters!"

139: "Three principles of BDD:
> Enough is enough: Up-front planning, analysis, and design all have
a diminishing return. We shouldn’t do less than we need to get
started, but any more than that is wasted effort. This also applies
to process automation. Have an automated build and deployment,
but avoid trying to automate everything.

> Deliver stakeholder value: If you are doing something that isn’t either delivering value or increasing your ability to deliver value, stop doing it, and do something else instead.

> It’s all behavior: Whether at the code level, the application level, or beyond, we can use the same thinking and the same linguistic constructs to describe behavior at any level of granularity."

144. "Many people use the words feature and story interchangeably,
but there is a subtle difference. A feature is something that
delivers cohesive value to a stakeholder. A story is a piece of
demonstrable functionality that shouldn’t take more than a few
days to implement. So, the feature is more useful from the point
of view of the stakeholder, and the story is more useful from the
point of view of the team delivering the feature."

146. "A story consists of a number of components:
> A title: so we know which story are we talking about.
> A narrative: that tells us what the story is about.
> Acceptance criteria: so we know when we are done.

Regarding narrative: the most common format for this is known as the Connextra format, after the company where it was first used: as a [stakeholder], I want {feature] so that [benefit]."

147. "We use the slightly artificial structure of givens, events, and outcomes to describe these scenarios. This doesn’t mean that every scenario has exactly one Given, When, and Then in that order. Rather, it means that each step is either setting something up in a known state (a given) or exercising some behavior (an event) or verifying something happened (an outcome). Trying to do more than one of these in a single step usually ends up in confusion."

]]> <![CDATA[The Dynamic Laws of Prosperity]]> 186270
As she explores these dynamic laws of prosperity she shares actual success stories to help those of us who are uncertain. Practical advice for using Divine power to overcome difficulties and achieve happiness.

First published in 1962, and revised and updated by the author in 1985, THE DYNAMIC LAWS OF PROSPERITY presents basic laws of prosperity in clear language for the modern reader.

"During my first year in the ministry, one of the most severe business recessions since WWII hit this country. Members of my congregation began asking for lectures on ways to survive this difficult period. It was then that these dynamic laws of prosperity began to take form. And, with breathtaking rapidity, these ideas worked, for all types of people!" Catherine Ponder]]> 430 Catherine Ponder 0875165516 Oana 0 started-but-will-not-finish 4.30 1962 The Dynamic Laws of Prosperity
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]]> Abraxas 60179041 611 Bogdan-Alexandru Stănescu 9734688006 Oana 4 4.50 2022 Abraxas
author: Bogdan-Alexandru Stănescu
name: Oana
average rating: 4.50
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]]> <![CDATA[The Scout Mindset: Why Some People See Things Clearly and Others Don't]]> 42041926 The Scout Mindset, Galef shows that what makes scouts better at getting things right isn't that they're smarter or more knowledgeable than everyone else. It's a handful of emotional skills, habits, and ways of looking at the world--which anyone can learn. With fascinating examples ranging from how to survive being stranded in the middle of the ocean, to how Jeff Bezos avoids overconfidence, to how superforecasters outperform CIA operatives, to Reddit threads and modern partisan politics, Galef explores why our brains deceive us and what we can do to change the way we think.]]> 288 Julia Galef 0735217556 Oana 0 currently-reading 4.09 2021 The Scout Mindset: Why Some People See Things Clearly and Others Don't
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]]> <![CDATA[Couples That Work: How To Thrive in Love and at Work]]> 43533059 How can we successfully combine love and work?

It's quite easy to get distracted from your career when you're happy in love or devote all your time to securing a promotion at work only to find your relationship is on the rocks. Balancing the demands of your career and your partner's while trying to nourish a relationship and family can be tough - but it doesn't have to be.

In Couples That Work, Professor Jennifer Petriglieri reveals how all couples can thrive in work and love at the same time. Petriglieri has spent the last five years studying over a hundred couples in a variety of roles and types of relationships from all over the world. Drawing on this research, Petriglieri highlights the three distinct yet predictable developmental stages that all couples go through and offers practical guidance in the form of questions, exercises and activities that couples can use to overcome the most pressing challenges they face.

From couples in their mid-20s to those in their mid-60s, from heterosexual couples to same-sex couples, from high flyers to steady careerists, and from those based in the US, to those in Asia, Europe and the Middle East, Couples That Work holds something of interest to all couples in which both members are committed to their careers and to each other.

Couples That Work provides two-career couples with all the insight and tools they need to have it all and thrive in work and love.]]> Jennifer Petriglieri Oana 0 to-read 4.15 2019 Couples That Work: How To Thrive in Love and at Work
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]]> <![CDATA[The Ideal Team Player: How to Recognize and Cultivate The Three Essential Virtues (J-B Lencioni Series)]]> 28930640
In The Ideal Team Player, Lencioni tells the story of Jeff Shanley, a leader desperate to save his uncle’s company by restoring its cultural commitment to teamwork. Jeff must crack the code on the virtues that real team players possess, and then build a culture of hiring and development around those virtues.

Beyond the fable, Lencioni presents a practical framework and actionable tools for identifying, hiring, and developing ideal team players. Whether you’re a leader trying to create a culture around teamwork, a staffing professional looking to hire real team players, or a team player wanting to improve yourself, this book will prove to be as useful as it is compelling.]]> 226 Patrick Lencioni Oana 3
While I relate and probably agree with 80%, the last 20% just don't click. And that is because beyond the words of being smart, hungry, and humble there is the expectation that you give A LOT to work. And by A LOT I mean not only more than 8 hours but leaving hobbies and family behind.

And that is a paradigm that is under constant change in the past years. Rightfully so.

P.S. This was the first book we read and debate on at Women in Tech Cluj - Book Club #1 in 2023 and it was a deliciously critical thinking exercise.]]> 4.06 2016 The Ideal Team Player: How to Recognize and Cultivate The Three Essential Virtues (J-B Lencioni Series)
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It reminded me of ”The Phoenix Project� in the writing style � this is a good thing as a novel is easier to read, relate to, and ultimately remember than plain theory.

While I relate and probably agree with 80%, the last 20% just don't click. And that is because beyond the words of being smart, hungry, and humble there is the expectation that you give A LOT to work. And by A LOT I mean not only more than 8 hours but leaving hobbies and family behind.

And that is a paradigm that is under constant change in the past years. Rightfully so.

P.S. This was the first book we read and debate on at Women in Tech Cluj - Book Club #1 in 2023 and it was a deliciously critical thinking exercise.
]]> Kafka pe malul mării 6755364 536 Haruki Murakami 9734603337 Oana 0 4.29 2002 Kafka pe malul mării
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]]> <![CDATA[Engineering Management for the Rest of Us]]> 58502800 There seem to be millions of articles and "how to"s on programming and only a handful of resources on Engineering Management- why? It's very tough to talk about something that involves people processes. People are non-deterministic. Working relationships are nuanced, communication is linked with individual values, motivations, power dynamics, and skills. People also have a range of experiences and emotions that are not consistent day-to-day.
Hopefully, in the happiest, most productive sense.
It's imperative that we as managers learn as much as we can and work on ourselves, so that our teams may enjoy a healthy working life and strong relationships. It's not just important, it's crucial that we iterate on our own skills as managers so that we can properly support everyone around individuals, peers, leadership, and the business.
I'm sharing what I've learned- not so that you follow my concepts exactly, but rather so that you can be thoughtful about your own leadership and needs. The book goes from the macro to the micro- with topics ranging everywhere from "feedback" to "scoping down PRs".
Though the book is meant to address people in management, individual contributors are welcome to read the book as well- perhaps you need to manage up and need some tools to help guide the conversation, perhaps you just want a peek at other concerns within the business- everyone is invited to the conversation.]]> 220 Sarah Drasner 898676931X Oana 5 4.18 2022 Engineering Management for the Rest of Us
author: Sarah Drasner
name: Oana
average rating: 4.18
book published: 2022
rating: 5
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]]> <![CDATA[Come as You Are: The Surprising New Science that Will Transform Your Sex Life]]> 22609341
Researchers have spent the last decade trying to develop a “pink pill� for women to function like Viagra does for men. So where is it? Well, for reasons this book makes crystal clear, that pill will never exist—but as a result of the research that’s gone into it, scientists in the last few years have learned more about how women’s sexuality works than we ever thought possible, and Come as You Are explains it all.

The first lesson in this essential, transformative book by Dr. Emily Nagoski is that every woman has her own unique sexuality, like a fingerprint, and that women vary more than men in our anatomy, our sexual response mechanisms, and the way our bodies respond to the sexual world. So we never need to judge ourselves based on others� experiences. Because women vary, and that’s normal.

Second lesson: sex happens in a context. And all the complications of everyday life influence the context surrounding a woman’s arousal, desire, and orgasm.

Cutting-edge research across multiple disciplines tells us that the most important factor for women in creating and sustaining a fulfilling sex life, is not what you do in bed or how you do it, but how you feel about it. Which means that stress, mood, trust, and body image are not peripheral factors in a woman’s sexual wellbeing; they are central to it. Once you understand these factors, and how to influence them, you can create for yourself better sex and more profound pleasure than you ever thought possible.

And Emily Nagoski can prove it.]]> 400 Emily Nagoski 1476762090 Oana 0 to-read 4.28 2015 Come as You Are: The Surprising New Science that Will Transform Your Sex Life
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]]> Kafka on the Shore 4929 Kafka on the Shore, a tour de force of metaphysical reality, is powered by two remarkable characters: a teenage boy, Kafka Tamura, who runs away from home either to escape a gruesome oedipal prophecy or to search for his long-missing mother and sister; and an aging simpleton called Nakata, who never recovered from a wartime affliction and now is drawn toward Kafka for reasons that, like the most basic activities of daily life, he cannot fathom. Their odyssey, as mysterious to them as it is to us, is enriched throughout by vivid accomplices and mesmerizing events. Cats and people carry on conversations, a ghostlike pimp employs a Hegel-quoting prostitute, a forest harbors soldiers apparently unaged since World War II, and rainstorms of fish (and worse) fall from the sky. There is a brutal murder, with the identity of both victim and perpetrator a riddle—yet this, along with everything else, is eventually answered, just as the entwined destinies of Kafka and Nakata are gradually revealed, with one escaping his fate entirely and the other given a fresh start on his own.]]> 467 Haruki Murakami 1400079276 Oana 0 to-read 4.14 2002 Kafka on the Shore
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]]> To Kill a Mockingbird 2657 "Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird."

A lawyer's advice to his children as he defends the real mockingbird of Harper Lee's classic novel - a black man charged with the rape of a white girl. Through the young eyes of Scout and Jem Finch, Harper Lee explores with exuberant humour the irrationality of adult attitudes to race and class in the Deep South of the 1930s. The conscience of a town steeped in prejudice, violence and hypocrisy is pricked by the stamina of one man's struggle for justice. But the weight of history will only tolerate so much.

"To Kill A Mockingbird" became both an instant bestseller and a critical success when it was first published in 1960. It went on to win the Pulitzer Prize in 1961 and was later made into an Academy Award-winning film.]]> 323 Harper Lee 0060935464 Oana 5 4.25 1960 To Kill a Mockingbird
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]]> Three Daughters of Eve 36429751
The photograph takes Peri back to Oxford University, as an eighteen year old sent abroad for the first time. To her dazzling, rebellious Professor and his life-changing course on God. To her home with her two best friends, Shirin and Mona, and their arguments about Islam and femininity. And finally, to the scandal that tore them all apart.]]> 384 Elif Shafak 1632869977 Oana 0 to-read 3.86 2016 Three Daughters of Eve
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name: Oana
average rating: 3.86
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]]> <![CDATA[A Philosophy of Software Design]]> 39996759 190 John Ousterhout 1732102201 Oana 0 to-read 4.18 2018 A Philosophy of Software Design
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]]> <![CDATA[The Net Delusion: The Dark Side of Internet Freedom]]> 10003400
In this spirited book, journalist and social commentator Evgeny Morozov shows that by falling for the supposedly democratizing nature of the Internet, Western do-gooders may have missed how it also entrenches dictators, threatens dissidents, and makes it harder - not easier - to promote democracy. Buzzwords like "21st-century statecraft" sound good in PowerPoint presentations, but the reality is that "digital diplomacy" requires just as much oversight and consideration as any other kind of diplomacy.

Marshaling compelling evidence, Morozov shows why we must stop thinking of the Internet and social media as inherently liberating and why ambitious and seemingly noble initiatives like the promotion of "Internet freedom" might have disastrous implications for the future of democracy as a whole.]]> 432 Evgeny Morozov 1586488759 Oana 0 to-read 3.68 2010 The Net Delusion: The Dark Side of Internet Freedom
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]]> <![CDATA[Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Charlie Bucket, #1)]]> 6310 (back cover)]]> 176 Roald Dahl 0142403881 Oana 0 4.16 1964 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Charlie Bucket, #1)
author: Roald Dahl
name: Oana
average rating: 4.16
book published: 1964
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]]> Doamna Nobel 54925791
Sofie Hess lucrează la florăria lui Frau Schiegl în Baden, un mic oraș balnear de lângă Viena, unde își petrec verile oameni bogați din toată Europa. Înconjurată de frumusețe, tânăra nu este fericită: pentru ea, florăria e o închisoare, deoarece nu a ajuns aici de bunăvoie, iar Frau Schiegl îi face viața grea. Dar când celebrul Alfred Nobel, „regele dinamitei�, o cunoaște din întâmplare, viața lui Sofie se schimbă. Nobel îi promite să o ajute și o însoțește la Paris, unde o instalează în lux și îi oferă accesul la educație, nebănuind că tânăra are un secret, pe care, îndrăgostită fără speranță de el, încearcă să-l ascundă.

Bântuit de vinovăție pentru accidentele și victimele provocate de invenția lui, Alfred Nobel se luptă cu propria conștiință și cade adeseori pradă depresiei, iar Sofie îl înconjoară cu afecțiune. Pe măsură ce relația lor trece prin încercări și despărțiri, dragostea lui Sofie, bunătatea și sprijinul ei constant sunt cele care îl inspiră pe celebrul chimist să dăruiască omenirii cea mai importantă invenție a lui: o fundație care va încununa, an de an, cele mai strălucite minți.]]> 352 Lisa Strømme 6067796600 Oana 3 3.74 2018 Doamna Nobel
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average rating: 3.74
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]]> <![CDATA[From Source to Sold: Stories of Leadership in Supply Chain]]> 62856999 Insider strategies that are pushing the boundaries of what's possible in supply chain efficiency.

What makes a great supply chain leader?
What lessons can we learn from the best supply chain leaders across varied industries?
How can you reach the CEO chair or boardroom table from a supply chain role?

Join industry connectors Radu Palamariu and Knut Alicke as they unveil invaluable lessons from over two dozen seasoned supply chain veterans, thought leaders, and industry disruptors steering businesses from large multinationals to cutting-edge start-ups. Uncover smart business techniques and field-specific wisdom, guided by the CHAIN Model for Supply Chain Leadership, to navigate the evolving business landscape and propel your career forward.

Picked by leaders in companies with roles such as Chief Supply Chain Officer, Head of Supply Chain, CEOs, and COOs, From Source to Sold is a must-read for professionals seeking inspiration from industry peers. Whether you're a student of supply chain management, a corporate leader, an entrepreneur, or a journalist, this book offers invaluable mentorship and guidance to help you thrive in today's competitive business world.

This is the only book providing exclusive access to the smart business techniques and field-specific wisdom that have proven effective in navigating the rapidly evolving supply chain business environment.

Key
Exclusive Gain exclusive insights from 26 top supply chain leaders across diverse industries. Customer-Centric Explore strategies for implementing customer-centric supply chain management practices that prioritize customer satisfaction and drive business growth. Global Supply Chain Challenges and Understand the complexities of global supply chain management, including challenges such as geopolitical risks and supply chain disruptions, and explore innovative solutions to overcome them. Remarkable Career Learn firsthand accounts of remarkable career journeys and the strategies employed by successful leaders to drive organizational success. Sustainability and Delve into the importance of sustainability and ethical practices in supply chain management, and learn how to integrate them into your organization's operations. The CHAIN Learn the CHAIN Model for Supply Chain Leadership—a comprehensive framework for guiding your business through uncertain times. Bonus Access bonus content that expands on the CHAIN Leadership Model, offering additional resources to enhance your understanding and application of supply chain leadership principles.
From Source to Sold is a comprehensive, engaging, and insightful exploration of supply chain management. Whether you're a student, a business leader, or just someone curious about the inner workings of global trade, this book will broaden your understanding and appreciation of supply chains' crucial role in our world.]]> 303 Radu Palamariu 1989737900 Oana 5 4.23 From Source to Sold: Stories of Leadership in Supply Chain
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]]> <![CDATA[Să nu ne facem de râs în fața furnicilor]]> 57213983
Amanda caută adevărul despre ea și despre părinții ei, caută prietenia, caută iubirea în cei din jur și caută iubirea de sine, își caută locul în lume, în familie și în propriul corp. Tot investigând, Amanda află o mulțime de lucruri despre ceilalți și mai ales despre ea. Dar oare va afla ce o interesează cu adevărat?

Iv cel Naiv este un inginer român contemporan. Devenit scriitor. Naivitatea este lentila prin care privește lumea din jur, simțindu-i speranțele și temerile, îmbrățișându-i dorurile și neliniștile, oglindindu-i zâmbetele. Din dorința lui de a apropia oamenii de poezie și de a-i scăpa de inutila întrebare: Ce a vrut să spună poetul? au apărut pe lume șase volume de poezie. Acum, acest prim volum de proză nu vrea să scape omenirea de cine știe ce altă întrebare, ci, dimpotrivă, vrea s-o ajute să-și mai pună câteva. Romanul așteaptă să fie deschis de oameni deschiși, criticat de critici, și, mai cu seamă, citit de cititori.]]> 304 Iv Cel Naiv 6064009802 Oana 4 3.64 2021 Să nu ne facem de râs în fața furnicilor
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average rating: 3.64
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rating: 4
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]]> Maestrul şi Margareta 10921097 520 Mikhail Bulgakov 973689293X Oana 0 to-read 4.27 1967 Maestrul şi Margareta
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]]> A doua carte cu Apolodor 59511127 64 Gellu Naum 6060862357 Oana 2 poetry
Mi-a plăcut mult ”Cartea cu Apolodor� și speram să fie asta continuarea ei, cum s-a întors Apolodor acasă și cum s-a bucurat cu prietenii lui de la cor, niște lecții despre cum iarba e mereu mai verde de cealaltă parte a gardului...

Trebuie să recunosc că ai ridicat ștacheta destul de dus, mă așteptam la ceva mai wow. Noroc cu Dan, ilustratorul, așa pot ”citi� volumul cu ăsta micu'.

Nah, nu știu ce-ai făcut (cu iarba!) pe parcurs, dar s-a dus naibii volumul ăsta.

Nu-i bai, îl voi face cadou doar pe primul.

Hai noroc și (mai multă) inspirație!]]> 3.18 1964 A doua carte cu Apolodor
author: Gellu Naum
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average rating: 3.18
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Dragă Gellu,

Mi-a plăcut mult ”Cartea cu Apolodor� și speram să fie asta continuarea ei, cum s-a întors Apolodor acasă și cum s-a bucurat cu prietenii lui de la cor, niște lecții despre cum iarba e mereu mai verde de cealaltă parte a gardului...

Trebuie să recunosc că ai ridicat ștacheta destul de dus, mă așteptam la ceva mai wow. Noroc cu Dan, ilustratorul, așa pot ”citi� volumul cu ăsta micu'.

Nah, nu știu ce-ai făcut (cu iarba!) pe parcurs, dar s-a dus naibii volumul ăsta.

Nu-i bai, îl voi face cadou doar pe primul.

Hai noroc și (mai multă) inspirație!
]]> <![CDATA[How Minds Change: The Surprising Science of Belief, Opinion, and Persuasion]]> 57933312 In this lively journey through human psychology, bestselling author and creator of the You Are Not So Smart podcast David McRaney investigates how minds change--and how to change minds.

What made a prominent conspiracy-theorist YouTuber finally see that 9/11 was not a hoax? How do voter opinions shift from neutral to resolute? Can widespread social change take place only when a generation dies out? From one of our greatest thinkers on reasoning, How Minds Change is a book about the science, and the experience, of transformation.

When self-delusion expert and psychology nerd David McRaney began a book about how to change someone's mind in one conversation, he never expected to change his own. But then a diehard 9/11 Truther's conversion blew up his theories--inspiring him to ask not just how to persuade, but why we believe, from the eye of the beholder. Delving into the latest research of psychologists and neuroscientists, How Minds Change explores the limits of reasoning, the power of group-think, and the effects of deep canvassing. Told with McRaney's trademark sense of humor, compassion, and scientific curiosity, it's an eye-opening journey among cult members, conspiracy theorists, and political activists, from Westboro Baptist Church picketers to LGBTQ campaigners in California--that ultimately challenges us to question our own motives and beliefs. In an age of dangerous conspiratorial thinking, can we rise to the occasion with empathy?]]> 352 David McRaney 0593190297 Oana 0 to-read 4.13 2022 How Minds Change: The Surprising Science of Belief, Opinion, and Persuasion
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]]> Humans 53845938 Brandon Stanton’s new book, Humans—his most moving and compelling book to date—shows us the world.

Brandon Stanton created Humans of New York in 2010. What began as a photographic census of life in New York City, soon evolved into a storytelling phenomenon. A global audience of millions began following HONY daily. Over the next several years, Stanton broadened his lens to include people from across the world.

Traveling to more than forty countries, he conducted interviews across continents, borders, and language barriers. Humans is the definitive catalogue of these travels. The faces and locations will vary from page to page, but the stories will feel deeply familiar. Told with candor and intimacy, Humans will resonate with readers across the globe—providing a portrait of our shared experience."]]> 448 Brandon Stanton 1250114306 Oana 0 4.57 2020 Humans
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]]> Călătorie în jurul omului 59091845
Cu câteva zile înainte să împlinesc 30 de ani, am plecat singur într-o călătorie în jurul lumii. Primele nopți le-am dormit în jungla amazoniană, apoi zile întregi am umblat în alte două jungle � jungle urbane, pe cât de depărtate, pe atât de diferite �, Los Angeles și Beijing. M-am întors acasă mai viu, însuflețit de ce descoperisem, nu doar în lumea din jurul meu, ci și în lumea din mine � din noi, din om. 30 de ani a marcat pentru mine începutul marilor descoperiri geografice � explorând lumea am descoperit geografia ființei mele, cu continentele ei, de la cele mai luxuriante, cum sunt imaginația și iubirea, la cele mai întunecate și reci, cum este moartea. Despre fascinația acestei lumi vă povestesc aici. � ALEXANDRU N. STERMIN]]> 180 Alexandru N. Stermin 9735072386 Oana 0 4.12 2021 Călătorie în jurul omului
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average rating: 4.12
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]]> Παπούτσια με λουράκι 58620268
Είκοσι μία μικρές ιστορίες ενηλικίωσης για μεγάλες εικόνες και μνήμες με τα μάτια ενός κοριτσιού από τα τέσσερα μέχρι τα δεκατέσσερά του χρόνια, μέσα στην περίοδο της δικτατορίας και λίγο της μεταπολίτευσης. Οι αληθινές αυτές ιστορίες συνθέτουν ένα σπονδυλωτό αφήγημα όπου μας οδηγούν τα βήματα του κοριτσιού που φοράει τις πιο πολλές φορές τα απλά δερμάτινα παπούτσια του, αυτά με το λουράκι. Ιστορίες όπου το κορίτσι αρχίζει ν� ανακαλύπτει τον περίπλοκο κόσμο των μεγάλων, να εκφράζει τα αισθήματά του, να διακρίνει τη δύναμη και την ομορφιά της ζωής, να φυλάει σαν θησαυρούς όλες αυτές τις εικόνες και με τα ίδια εκείνα παπούτσια να συνεχίζει το δρόμο του.]]> 64 Φωτεινή Στεφανίδη Oana 0 4.25 2020 Παπούτσια με λουράκι
author: Φωτεινή Στεφανίδη
name: Oana
average rating: 4.25
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]]> <![CDATA[Lecții de magie: cum să-ți cultivi creativitatea]]> 27254768 După ce conferinţele sale motivaţionale TED s-au bucurat de mare succes, autoarea bestsellerului Mănâncă, roagă-te, iubeşte s-a simţit inspirată să scrie un ghid de creativitate pentru numeroşii ei cititori, şi nu numai. Cu stilul ei spumos, plin de umor, dar şi cu seriozitatea cuiva care s-a dăruit cu totul muncii creative, Elizabeth Gilbert ne adresează un îndemn esenţial: să scoatem la iveală comorile ascunse în noi şi să alegem cea mai bună dintre vieţile pe care le putem trăi. Cheia unei vieţi fericite este să ne lăsăm conduşi de curiozitate, nu de frică.]]> 236 Elizabeth Gilbert 9735050404 Oana 4 3.69 2015 Lecții de magie: cum să-ți cultivi creativitatea
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average rating: 3.69
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]]> Girl with a Pearl Earring 2865
Girl with a Pearl Earring centers on Vermeer's prosperous Delft household during the 1660s. When Griet, the novel's quietly perceptive heroine, is hired as a servant, turmoil follows. First, the 16-year-old narrator becomes increasingly intimate with her master. Then Vermeer employs her as his assistant—and ultimately has Griet sit for him as a model.]]> 233 Tracy Chevalier 0452287022 Oana 4 3.93 1999 Girl with a Pearl Earring
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name: Oana
average rating: 3.93
book published: 1999
rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[Building a Second Brain: A Proven Method to Organize Your Digital Life and Unlock Your Creative Potential]]> 59616977
Now, this eye-opening and accessible guide shows how you can easily create your own personal system for knowledge management, otherwise known as a Second Brain. As a trusted and organized digital repository of your most valued ideas, notes, and creative work synced across all your devices and platforms, a Second Brain gives you the confidence to tackle your most important projects and ambitious goals.

Discover the full potential of your ideas and translate what you know into more powerful, more meaningful improvements in your work and life by Building a Second Brain.]]> 272 Tiago Forte 1982167386 Oana 0 to-read 3.98 2022 Building a Second Brain: A Proven Method to Organize Your Digital Life and Unlock Your Creative Potential
author: Tiago Forte
name: Oana
average rating: 3.98
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]]> Trecere de pitoni 61129601
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”Poeziile lui Carmen Tiderle mizează pe umorul, istețimea, erudiția și rafinamentul copiilor cărora li se adresează. Cu alte cuvinte, îi iau pe copii în serios. Nu mă îndoiesc că și copiii vor lua în serios aceste poezii și vor zburda fără inhibiții prin spațiul lor șugubăț-subversiv, care oferă <> multe și prețioase învățături.�
Florin Bican]]> 99 Carmen Tiderle 6060864392 Oana 4 4.33 Trecere de pitoni
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name: Oana
average rating: 4.33
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]]> <![CDATA[The War of the End of the World]]> 53925
~publisher's web site]]> 568 Mario Vargas Llosa 0571139612 Oana 0 to-read 4.24 1981 The War of the End of the World
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average rating: 4.24
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]]> Hoţii de frumuseţe 13451422 256 Pascal Bruckner 973707520X Oana 3 3.68 1997 Hoţii de frumuseţe
author: Pascal Bruckner
name: Oana
average rating: 3.68
book published: 1997
rating: 3
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]]> City of Girls 51918871
Beloved author Elizabeth Gilbert returns to fiction with a unique love story set in the New York City theater world during the 1940s. Told from the perspective of an older woman as she looks back on her youth with both pleasure and regret (but mostly pleasure), City of Girls explores themes of female sexuality and promiscuity, as well as the idiosyncrasies of true love.

In 1940, nineteen-year-old Vivian Morris has just been kicked out of Vassar College, owing to her lackluster freshman-year performance. Her affluent parents send her to Manhattan to live with her Aunt Peg, who owns a flamboyant, crumbling midtown theater called the Lily Playhouse. There Vivian is introduced to an entire cosmos of unconventional and charismatic characters, from the fun-chasing showgirls to a sexy male actor, a grand-dame actress, a lady-killer writer, and no-nonsense stage manager. But when Vivian makes a personal mistake that results in professional scandal, it turns her new world upside down in ways that it will take her years to fully understand. Ultimately, though, it leads her to a new understanding of the kind of life she craves - and the kind of freedom it takes to pursue it. It will also lead to the love of her life, a love that stands out from all the rest.

Now ninety-five years old and telling her story at last, Vivian recalls how the events of those years altered the course of her life - and the gusto and autonomy with which she approached it. "At some point in a woman's life, she just gets tired of being ashamed all the time," she muses. "After that, she is free to become whoever she truly is." Written with a powerful wisdom about human desire and connection, City of Girls is a love story like no other.]]> 470 Elizabeth Gilbert 1594634742 Oana 0 to-read 4.01 2019 City of Girls
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]]> <![CDATA[The Book You Wish Your Parents Had Read [and Your Children Will Be Glad That You Did]]]> 42348818 This book is about how we have relationships with our children, what gets in the way of a good connection and what can enhance it


The most influential relationships are between parents and children. Yet for so many families, these relationships go can wrong and it may be difficult to get back on track.

In The Book You Wish Your Parents Had Read (and Your Children Will Be Glad that You Did), renowned psychotherapist Philippa Perry shows how strong and loving bonds are made with your children and how such attachments give a better chance of good mental health, in childhood and beyond.

She'll help you to:
- Understand how your own upbringing may be impacting upon your parenting style
- Contain, express, accept and validate your own and your child's feelings
- Understand that all behaviour is communication
- Break negative cycles and patterns
- Accept that you will make mistakes and what to do about them

Almost every parent loves their children, but by following the refreshing, sage and sane advice and steps in this book you will also find yourselves liking one another too.

]]> 240 Philippa Perry Oana 0 to-read 4.10 2019 The Book You Wish Your Parents Had Read [and Your Children Will Be Glad That You Did]
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]]> <![CDATA[The Art of Doing Science and Engineering: Learning to Learn]]> 530415 Provides the reader with a style of thinking that will enhance a person's ability to function as a problem-solver of complex technical issues. Consists of a collection of stories about the author's participation in significant discoveries, relating how those discoveries came about and, most importantly, provides analysis about the thought processes and reasoning that took place as the author and his associates progressed through engineering problems.]]> 376 Richard Hamming 9056995014 Oana 0 to-read 4.15 1996 The Art of Doing Science and Engineering: Learning to Learn
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name: Oana
average rating: 4.15
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]]> <![CDATA[Alegerea. Acceptă cu bucurie posibilul]]> 58868127
La 16 ani, Edith Eger a fost trimisa la Auschwitz. La cateva ore dupa ce parintii ei au fost gazati, ofiterul nazist dr. Josef Mengele a fortat-o pe Edie sa danseze si a lasat-o in viata ca sa-l distreze. Edie a fost scoasa dintr-o gramada de cadavre de catre soldatii americani care au eliberat lagarele in 1945. A petrecut decenii chinuita de flashbackuri si de vinovatia proprie, hotarata sa taca si sa se ascunda de trecut. La 35 de ani de la incheierea razboiului, s-a intors la Auschwitz si a reusit in sfarsit sa se ierte si sa se vindece. Eddie impleteste remarcabila sa calatorie cu povestile impresionante ale celor pe care i-a ajutat. Ea exploreaza modul in care putem fi incarcerati in propria minte si ne

arata cum sa ne eliberam. Alegerea este o carte care va schimba vieti si va oferi alinare multor generatii de cititori.

Dr. Edith Eva Eger (92 ani) are un cabinet de psihoterapie in La Jolla, California, si tine prelegeri la Universitatea California, San Diego.

Este, de asemenea, consultant al Fortelor armate si navale ale Statelor Unite pentru formare si tratarea sindromului de stres posttraumatic.

Si inca danseaza si isi incheie fiecare discurs cu un grand battement.

„Un volum de memorii care aminteste de Anne Frank si Viktor Frankl. Dar este mai mult decat o carte � este o opera de arta. M-a impresionat si mi-a indus acea stare de gratie pe care o ai cand asculti o sonata de Mozart, un sonet de Elizabeth Barrett Browning sau privesti tavanul Capelei Sixtine.� Adam Grant

„Un tulburator volum de memorii despre supravietuirea la Auschwitz� Nu-mi pot imagina un mesaj mai important pentru contemporani.� The New York Times Book Review

„Viata lui Edith Eger ne dezvaluie puterea de a trece prin cele mai cumplite orori si de a pune acea suferinta in slujba celorlalti. Ea a gasit adevarata libertate si iertare si ne arata ca putem face la fel.� Desmond Tutu Laureat al Premiului Nobel pentru Pace.]]> 416 Edith Eger 6069783697 Oana 0 to-read 4.78 2017 Alegerea. Acceptă cu bucurie posibilul
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]]> <![CDATA[Buddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family]]> 80890
As Mann charts the Buddenbrooks� decline from prosperity to bankruptcy, from moral and psychic soundness to sickly piety, artistic decadence, and madness, he ushers the reader into a world of stunning vitality, pieced together from births and funerals, weddings and divorces, recipes, gossip, and earthy humor.

First published in Germany in 1901, when Mann was only twenty-six, Buddenbrooks surpasses all other modern family chronicles in its immensity of scope, richness of detail, and fullness of humanity. With remarkable fidelity to the original German text, this superb translation emphasizes the magnificent scale of Mann’s achievement in this riveting, tragic novel.]]> 731 Thomas Mann 0679417370 Oana 0 to-read 4.17 1901 Buddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family
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]]> <![CDATA[A River Runs Through It and Other Stories]]> 30043 "A River Runs Through It" that he is "haunted by waters," so have readers been haunted by his novella. A retired English professor who began writing fiction at the age of 70, Maclean produced what is now recognized as one of the classic American stories of the twentieth century. Originally published in 1976, A River Runs Through It and Other Stories now celebrates its twenty-fifth anniversary, marked by this new edition that includes a foreword by Annie Proulx.

Maclean grew up in the western Rocky Mountains in the first decades of the twentieth century. As a young man he worked many summers in logging camps and for the United States Forest Service. The two novellas and short story in this collection are based on his own experiences—the experiences of a young man who found that life was only a step from art in its structures and beauty. The beauty he found was in reality, and so he leaves a careful record of what it was like to work in the woods when it was still a world of horse and hand and foot, without power saws, "cats," or four-wheel drives. Populated with drunks, loggers, card sharks, and whores, and set in the small towns and surrounding trout streams and mountains of western Montana, the stories concern themselves with the complexities of fly fishing, logging, fighting forest fires, playing cribbage, and being a husband, a son, and a father.]]> 217 Norman Maclean 0226500667 Oana 0 to-read 4.18 1976 A River Runs Through It and Other Stories
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