Andre Lawson itibaren Remouillé, France

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11/15/2024

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2018-04-22 11:40

Üç Hilafetçi Şahsiyet TrendKitaplar Kütüphanesi

Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Sebil Yayınevi

God he's such a hilarious writer. I thought this was a good book, though it was weighed down by its own intelligence in parts. The main character was simultaneously endearing and annoying, the perfect blend in some parts but also aggravating in others. Hassan was an amazing character, incredibly crafted. Throughout all of Green's book, he captures an eccentric teen voice (replete with swearing and inside jokes) that is contagiously enjoyable. Definitely not as good as Looking for Alaska, which I thought was a perfect unit of narrative goodness, but then again they are very different types of books, this one much more experimental in form. I wonder about its progression from draft to draft. This one, I imagine, was a beast to edit, but I think it turned out quite well.

2018-04-22 12:40

Senin Adın Bir Marka TrendKitaplar Kütüphanesi

Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: İnkılap Kitabevi

I just finished reading this book yesterday, and well for the most part I enjoyed it. I felt that it did drag for abit, and I was more interested in the events that happened in the past in comparison to the modern day ones. I loved the fairy tales that were added in between, really creative. I would recommend this to a friend!

2018-04-22 13:40

Auto Motor & Sport 3 Aylık Dijital Dergi Aboneliği TrendKitaplar Kütüphanesi

Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: dMags Dergi Mağazası

How can you not love these books?!

2018-04-22 14:40

Çocuğunuza Sınır Koyma - Robert J. Mackenzie TrendKitaplar Kütüphanesi

Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Yakamoz Yayınevi

Effin' sueet. David Simon, a reporter for the Baltimore Sun, spends one year in with the Baltimore Homicide Unit, and this 640 page opus is his account of the day to day operations of a big city police department and the unique fraternity of homicide detectives. Fans of the brilliant 1990s TV series Homicide: Life on the Street will recognize some of the characters, but this book is so much more than that series ever was. Written in huge, 70 page plus chapters, Simon manages to write with a narrative passion and flow that is stunning. In reading the book you feel like you're in the middle of a 24 hour shift, with all the chaos that comes along with it. Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets is way more than just a standard story of crime in the inner city, it's a stirring, often moving story of the effects of race, class, and information in late 20th century America.

2018-04-22 15:40

Karanlık Yalanlar TrendKitaplar Kütüphanesi

Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Yabancı Yayınevi

A friend at work recommended this one - so far, it's been good. Too soon, though, to really tell.

2018-04-22 16:40

Gölgelerin Efendisi 5 - Kuzeydeki Büyücü - John Flanagan TrendKitaplar Kütüphanesi

Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Beyaz Balina Yayınları

To understand this book and its context in International Relations theory, you need to be aware of the famous essay (later, book) by Francis Fukuyama http://www.sais-jhu.edu/faculty/fukuyama entitled "The End of History and the Last Man", written after the fall of the Berlin wall and the end of the Soviet Union. Fukuyama argued that, essentially, western liberal democracies and free-market ideologies were triumphant, and that the great ideological struggles in history were at an end. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_End_... This has proven to not be the case (as Fukuyama himself has since admitted). Kagan's book is a bold (if totally expected) rejoinder to Fukuyama. Since I love academic feuds, I could not resist this book. (See also Richard Posner versus Stanley Fish versus Ronald Dworkin, the movie "Arguing the World" http://www.pbs.org/arguing/ or more generally the Letters to the Editor of any edition of the New York Review of Books. The Posner v Dworkin v Fish debates were like a intellectual version of a Godzilla movie, and really awakened my slumbering mind as an undergrad English major at MSU. Reading their debates on law and literature was as transformative an experience as reading the essays of Francis Bacon.) Back to this book, Kagan writes "The great fallacy of our era has been the belief that a liberal international order rests on the triumph of ideas and on the natural unfolding of human progress. It is an immensely attractive notion, deeply rooted in the Enlightenment worldview of which all of us in the liberal world are a product. Our political scientists posit theories of modernization, with sequential stages of political and economic development that lead upward towards liberalism. Our political philosophers imagine a grand historical dialectic, in which the battle of worldviews over the centuries produces, in the end, the correct liberal democratic answer." (p.102) He responds that "progress" is not inevitable, but contingent on historical events which could have gone either way - battles, social movements, treaties, economic practices, the work of institutions. While all of this is true, Kagan also subscribes to the IR school of "realism" (note, that is just a label chosen by the theorists themselves, it's like calling your political party the "majority" party, and is not indicative of whether their arguments have a strong fidelity to actual reality). This concise book is pragmatic and a enjoyable response to Fukuyama, nuanced and complex (unlike much political commentary in America these days). It was also refreshing for me to return to the realm of international relations after spending time reading public international law texts (which suffers from insularity and granularity - never dealing with global geopolitics, economics, or any system of thought outside PIL itself). In that sense, the book was a good summary of at least one view, "Realist", of current geopolitics. However, Kagan, suffering from the cognitive blinders which ideology imparts, writes to persuade using false dichotomies, straw men, and provocative assumptions - all of which amount to, essentially, scaremongering for too much of the book. He also completely neglects to see the effect of soft power (cultural influence, technological influences and innovation, and the benefits and flexibilities of open societies over closed, autocratic ones). Additionally, any IR theory suffers from being what my friend, an economist Ph.D candidate, calls derisively "Big Think" - in that IR deals with opaque vagaries, little case-by-case explanations using its methodology, and has absolutely no predictive power. There were a few points of convergence between Kagan and I: "yet history has not been kind to the theory that strong trade ties prevent conflict between nations. The United States and China are no more dependent on each other's economies today than were Great Britain and Germany's before World War I." This would be a very provocative statement around the editorial desk of the Economist or Financial Times, and I would LOVE to hear any liberal development economist or macro-economist try to respond to this. They would sputter some vague answer... "To the extend that the data suggests that.... economics has more rigorous methodology... economics has both predictive and explanatory power.... trade ties disincentivize nations from pursing war..." I remain totally uncertain about this, however, and admit that global events are usually a lot more complex than any one discipline has the power to explain fully. International Relations theory, Economics, International Law, Critical Theory, etc., - these can only contain one facet, always incomplete, of actual reality. The place a lens over reality, highlight some features which conform to their disciple, and diminish the facts which do not fit their discipline, much less their theory. In this sense, Kagan's book (while worth the $3 I paid for it from the used remainder books pile at Books-A-Million, here in DC), is essentially a intelligent exercise in sophistry, rhetoric masked as science, and easily seen as the thoughts of an individual trapped in his own cognitive framework.

2018-04-22 17:40

Melodika Lino 32K Tuşlu Siyah Sağlık Bakanlığı Onaylı TrendKitaplar Kütüphanesi

Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Yamaha

I read this out loud to my sons and all three of us loved it. Story of a boy who lives on a ranch in Idaho with his grandparents. His mom is an artist in Europe and left when he was small. His father is being sent to Iraq to command troops in the war. His older brothers are away at school, so he, Grandpa and Grandma are left to keep up with the animals and jobs on the ranch. He is determined to prove that he can fill in for his father's absence and struggles with being the little brother when he talks to or sees his older brothers. When tragedy strikes, he must step up and prove what kind of person he truly is. A book anyone will love, but one that will especially appeal to boys!

2018-04-22 18:40

Yüzüklerin Efendisi: İki Kule (3 CD) ( VCD ) TrendKitaplar Kütüphanesi

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Schlocky but suspenseful enough to keep my attention.

2018-04-22 19:40

Küçük Prens - Antonie de Saint-Exupery TrendKitaplar Kütüphanesi

Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Can Çocuk Yayınları

Oh, Nightrise. I have mixed feelings on this one. On its own, it's great. It's exciting and action-packed, and Jamie was a *great* MC. I particularly LOVE this cover. It's a great book... but I loved Matt & Richard so much in the earlier books that it was hard to switch over to Scott & Jamie. This is my sister's favorite book of the series, and while it's great, I felt like I'd been taken away from the people I loved and forced to meet their future friends without them. So it wasn't as enjoyable, but it's all a personal thing and not a reflection on the book.

2018-04-22 20:40

Kolay Okunan Sureler - Yasin-i Şerif (Dergi Boy) (D45) TrendKitaplar Kütüphanesi

Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Tavaslı Yayınları

This book tells alot of poems and these poems tell a story.They talk alot about drugs and alcohal and to read this you have to be muture to read this.But other then that,this book is good to read and you can find this book in Ms.woodard classroom.

Okuyucu Andre Lawson itibaren Remouillé, France

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