Santosh Ram itibaren Gainwali, Uttarakhand , India

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12/22/2024

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2018-10-03 07:40

Mızraklı İlmihal TrendKitaplar Kütüphanesi

Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Dergah Yayınları

I remember being very perplexed when I was led to this book. I guess that's what drew me to the title in the first place. I was already aware of "Small is Beautiful" so Schumacher was a familiar name. I was very taken with his notion of philosophical map making. I don't think I had quite fully realised before that I hadn't got such a map. It helped me to understand why I felt somewhat lost in my life. This passage is still poignant. "The first principle of the philosophical map-makers seemed to be 'If in doubt, leave it out,' or put it into a museum. It occurred to me, however, that the question of what constitutes proof was a very subtle and difficult one. Would it not be wiser to turn the priciple into its opposite and say, 'If in doubt, show it prominently'? After all, matters that are beyond doubt are, in a sense, dead; they do not constitute a challenge to the living." This was a kind of watershed for me. Previously, I was only interested in the certainties of life, that which can be known. I was at my happiest working out a mathematical proof or constructing a computer program to solve a well-defined problem. From this point onwards I became fascinated with the far richer world of that which isn't known, and quite possibly can never be known. I think Schumacher's message can best be summarised by saying that in life we each have to create our own philosophical map. We are not going to get given one. He provides some useful tools to get us started.

2018-10-03 11:40

Vampir Günlükleri - Öfke Ve Karanlık Buluşma - L. J. Smith TrendKitaplar Kütüphanesi

Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Artemis Yayınları

Author Susan Hasler spent 21 years working for the CIA and knows what it is like to toil in an intelligence agency. I was keen to read this book, hoping for a good thriller that also paints a realistic picture of what life is like at the nation's best-known spy agency. The writing in Intelligence is a bit self-consciously "cute", but I might have been able to tolerate that in an otherwise enjoyable book. However, Ms.Hasler was clearly presenting such an inaccurate picture of CIA employees that she lost all credibility; I lost interest and stopped reading. I simply cannot believe that a CIA employee would call a co-worker at home and reveal the obviously classified intelligence item she has just discovered and wants to discuss with him when he gets to work, as Fran does in Chapter 15. If she had, Doc would have shushed her immediately. Later an employee's husband, who does not work at the CIA, knows more about what she is doing than she would be allowed to reveal. Ms.Hasler knows better, and my feeling is that if she cannot present such obvious details accurately, the rest of her story will be TOO MUCH fiction to be of interest. If you are going to tout your credentials as an insider when writing fiction, you owe it to your audience to present the environment you are writing about as accurately as possible. I was very disappointed. If you would like to read a more plausible thriller about the inside of an intelligence agency written by someone who knows that agency, I'd recommend instead Betsy Harrigan's 9800 Savage Road, in which a murder takes place inside the super-secret National Security Agency.

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