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2018-07-30 15:40

Çanakkale - Dönmeyi Düşünmeyenlerin Hikayesi TrendKitaplar Kütüphanesi

Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Ebabil Yayınları

The Ugly American is a story about Americans living and working in the fictional South East Asian nation of Sarkhan. Written in 1958, it is a critique of American foreign policy—specifically the work of embassies and expats abroad. In this novel, Lederer argues that the US is losing the "tiny battles" against the Soviet Union. The US is too focused on dumping money into countries and building giant infrastructure projects that host countries aren't prepared for and don't really need. "We pay for huge highways through jungles in Asian lands where there is no transport except bicycle and foot." (282). Instead, Lederer argues the US must focus more on the "tiny battles". Americans abroad must learn the local language, spend time in the countryside, assess local needs and come up with small, realistic solutions that help the every-man. Lederer makes this argument through his characters, of which there are two basic types: those that immerse themselves in luxury, hire servants, import cars, and make no attempt to understand the culture they live in. And those that live within their means, work with and listen to locals, and seek to understand the culture they live in. It is not difficult to guess which prototype Lederer believes is better suited for US foreign policy and winning hearts and minds abroad. This book is enjoyable and effective, and part of the reason for this is because it is remarkably simple. But that is also one of its faults. It doesn't try to assess the messy details. There are only good and bad people in this book. People that have good intentions and want to understand foreign cultures. And people who are condescending to locals and could care less about the cultures they live in. But what is often more fascinating (and more common) are the well-meaning people who fuck up really bad. The Ghosts of King Leopold humanitarians and the Neoconservatives who ended up creating cruelty despite their good intentions. That’s the fascinating stuff. What’s more Lederer seems to present a false choice in describing these two types of people, suggesting that a development worker can simply choose if they want to be an ugly American or a sympathetic one. In reality, it's challenging to adjust to and understand a foreign culture. It's tough to be patient, tough to change your own habits and to come around to different ways of thinking that are no more perfect than your own. It’s not as simple as hiking out into the countryside, picking up the language, playing your harmonica, making friends, and smiling your way to producing an awesome new fog-trapping irrigation system or some similarly, incredible hippie invention. In one of the stories, a village even builds a shrine to commemorate one of the development workers. This is a good book, but scenes and simplifications like this are laughable. And yet, it is its simplicity that makes the book feel helpful, even motivating. It’s practically a training pamphlet on community development. It’s soaked with Peace Corps type lessons without being preachy in tone. As a current Peace Corps Volunteer, reading this book felt like a helpful reminder of some of the things I believe in. In my work here I put pressure on myself to start a big project that can last long after I’ve left. I call this urge, statue-building. Or shrine-building. I want to build something big and memorable. Something that people can point to and say, Bart built that and it is awesome. This is obviously the wrong approach. Rather it is the tiny sum of things—the tiny battles, the relationships built, the small, incremental progress. Going out and talking with people. Allowing community members to lead. Acting more as a helper, less as a commander. Assessing needs, acting in friendship. This is how real successes are achieved. Lederer makes that point strongly when he writes, “The little things we do must be moral acts and they must be done in the real interest of the peoples whose friendship we need—not just in the interest of propaganda” (267). For this reason, the book felt relevant beyond its Cold War context. It is a sort of working-guide, holy book for development work. It's not ground breaking. Far from it. But its power is that it’s a good reminder: tiny battles, cultural sensitivity, assessing needs, acting in a supportive rather than commanding role. These are points that I wanted to be reminded of. It's not hard for this stuff to hit home.

2018-07-30 16:40

Julıeta Dvd TrendKitaplar Kütüphanesi

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HATED IT. hate hate hate.

2018-07-30 17:40

Gölgelerin Efendisi 3 - Buzlar Ülkesi - John Flanagan TrendKitaplar Kütüphanesi

Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Beyaz Balina Yayınları

reading time: 2 hours (from volume 2 up to chapter 17)(22.45) OMG little tamoe is such a cutie! The tengu I mean fallen angel isn't that bad either. There is also a loyal white snake and Tomoe and Nanami are holding hands (end chapter 16 after he saved her and there going back to the shrine)! They are starting to have feelings for each other! XD!!!! Right now I'm on chapter 17, the other volumes aren't on goodreads yet. That's such a pity.

2018-07-30 18:40

BluTV 3 Aylık Dijital Abonelik Kodu / E-pin TrendKitaplar Kütüphanesi

Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: BluTV

Anastasia's mom has to go out of town, so Anastasia is in charge. She thinks she can handle taking care of the house and her 3 year old brother, but she is sadly mistaken. Her dad is not much help. This is the most ridiculous and sexist of the Anastasia books. Although they make a big deal of titling the housekeeping schedule "Krupnik Family Non-sexist Housekeeping Schedule" it is pretty obvious that Mrs. Krupnik does all the work around there and that the rest of the family would be (and is) lost without her. The happy little ending is that Mrs. Krupnik buys a microwave and therefore is better able to do all the housework. Bull. Still a pretty funny book, though. It just offended my feminist sensibilities.

2018-07-30 19:40

Kuşku TrendKitaplar Kütüphanesi

Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Martı Yayınları

I'm in the middle of the second and now I'm to scared to finish it because i know it will leave me wanting more and how can i stand to wait till 2012! Why oh why are the fates so cruel to me. This is by far one of the best books i have read so far and she is one of my most favorite heroin, she seems so much more realistic in her thought process than most, i might be biased because she reminds me so much of myself with all the sarcastic comments. and am i alone when i say I'm rooting for Cal. I think he would be good for her, but then again I'm not done with the second book yet so who knows. Just finished the second book and i've never wanted to punch someone and hug them at the same time, and thats saying a lot when it comes to my family, lol, but seriously what is Hawkins trying to do to my poor thirsty soul?!? I would murder her but but then who would write the book to let me know what happens. Patience is not a strong suite of mine and now its going to be tested to its limits. Hawkins we now have a love hate relationship, I hate you for the wait but will love you eternally when the next book is in my hands, and if there is another after the third book the cycle will continue....... PS. i'm totally confused on the Archer/Cal situation i am now officially team undecided. PPS. Its so close i can taste it!!!

2018-07-30 20:40

Nevizade- Nevizade Meyle Sarkılar 2 Lp TrendKitaplar Kütüphanesi

Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: DMS

In the Twilight of Atheism, Alister McGrath gives readers a historical overview of atheism that includes its strengths and its flaws. His analysis is both insightful and honest without disrespect to the many great minds that believe in a godless universe. McGrath, as a Reformation scholar, even suggests, by drawing together a number of scholarly studies on the origins and development of Protestantism, that there is a significant link between the Reformation and the emergence of atheism. He reminds atheists, who seem to forget, that “The belief that there is no God is just as much a matter of faith as the belief there is a God. If ‘faith’ is defined as ‘belief lying beyond proof,’ both Christianity and atheism are faiths. While this suggestion may seem astonishing to some atheists, it is not only philosophically correct but also illuminating in shedding light on the changed fortunes of atheism in recent years.” For those who think one cannot be a legitimate scientist and still have a belief in God, McGrath cites a major survey of the religious beliefs of scientists carried out at the beginning and end of the 20th Century. The original survey taken in 1916 showed that 40 percent of scientists had some form of personal religious beliefs while 40 percent had none and 20 percent were agnostic. In 1996 the survey was repeated and the amazing results were exactly the same. One noted scientist, Albert Einstein, denied being an atheist. Walter Isaacson in his biography of Albert Einstein writes this about the great scientist beliefs, “Throughout his life, he (Einstein) was consistent in deflecting the charge that he was an atheist. ‘There are people who say there is no God,’ he told a friend. ‘But what makes me really angry is that they quote me for support of such views.’” Isaacson also writes of an interview Einstein gave to George Sylvester Viereck shortly after his fiftieth birthday. Viereck asked Einstein if he believed in God and Einstein said, “I’m not an atheist. The problem involved is too vast for our limited minds. We are in the position of a little child entering a huge library filled with books in many languages. The child knows someone must have written these books. It does not know how. It does not understand the languages in which they are written. The child suspects a mysterious order in the arrangement of the books but doesn’t know what it is. That, it seems to me, is the attitude of the most intelligent human being toward God. We see the universe marvelously arranged and obeying certain laws but only dimly understand these laws.” The reality is that there are no definitive answers on either side of the debate, so it comes down to a person making a choice as to what they believe. My problem is with the name calling that has recently been evident in the atheist camp. This new tactic takes the position that if you can’t prove something empirically then you need to verbally bludgeon the opposition by name calling such as: simple-minded, stupid, imbecilic, and other deprecatory rhetoric. This has become one of Richard Dawkins weapons against theistic belief. George Orwell in his novel Down and Out in Paris and London describes the character of Bozo in this way, ‘He was an embittered atheist (the sort of atheist who does not so much disbelieve in God as personally dislike Him). This seems to describe Dawkins’s recent diatribes against religion McGrath, at the end of the book, takes a more reasonable stand. He says this about the attitude believers need to have, “Atheism stands in permanent judgment over arrogant, complacent , and superficial Christian churches and leaders. It needs to be heard. In the closing pages of this work, its concerns will be taken seriously and to heart.” The debate, I’m sure, will continue with no definitive answers ever achieved, so perhaps it is more civil to have each side simply respect the others beliefs and let the condescending name calling finally end.

2018-07-30 21:40

Matematiksel Düşünme Seti: Paylaştırmanın Mutluluğu TrendKitaplar Kütüphanesi

Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Nesil Çocuk Yayınları

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2018-07-30 22:40

Dedemden Mektuplar- Set (10 Kitap) - Hekimoğlu İsmail TrendKitaplar Kütüphanesi

Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Timaş Çocuk

Book of Ages: 30 was a fairly entertaining little romp through the frightful and mysterious decade I'm just beginning. (Note: I am now older than 42 percent of all Americans.) Well, I see I've got the debt requirement achieved, which tends to happen when one buys a house. What I found most intriguing: More people in their 30s own firearms than those in any other decade of their lives. ... 45% of thirtysomethings own a firearm. I would have loved to have seen somes guesses as to why, but alas, there are none. Ah well, guess not much time to ponder that because At 30, your body begins a slow fade to the grave. AWESOME. EPIC WIN!

2018-07-30 23:40

Mükaşefetü'l-Kulub Kalplerin Keşfi - İmam-ı Gazali TrendKitaplar Kütüphanesi

Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Merve Yayınları

Beautiful. Fighting is lame.

2018-07-31 00:40

7Nota Csmr Saz Mızrabı Kırmızı (5 Adet ) TrendKitaplar Kütüphanesi

Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: 7Nota

A thoroughly average decent sci-fi book. Could have used a lot more editing I think.

2020-08-04 06:46

Che El Argentino (Bölüm 1 Arjantin) (Blu-Ray) TrendKitaplar Kütüphanesi

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Güreş kariyerinin sonundan bu yana birçok kişisel trajedi ve başarısızlıktan etkilenen bir adamdan çok incelikli bir biyografi.

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