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2018-12-02 09:41

Köstebek Kuki - Betül Sayın TrendKitaplar Kütüphanesi

Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Günışığı Kitaplığı

This was great reading in the first and third parts of the book…though the middle almost killed me with its technicality. In the early 20th century, Pierre Teilhard became a forerunner in integrating evolution with a theistic worldview, but the greatest import of his work was that he took a dead-eye shot at predicting where naturalistic evolution was heading. Advancing beyond mere rosy humanism, Teilhard fervently believed in the eons-long progress of hominization—the coming to being of humanity. He expresses god-like patience by saying, “After all, half a million years, perhaps even a million, were required for life to pass from the pre-hominids to modern man—should we now start wringing our hands because, less than two centuries after glimpsing a higher state, modern man is still at [war] with himself?” This seems to be the real crux of the book. The spiraling paths of progress may not advance much in our lifetime, but the history of life in the universe has shown that progress is all the history of biological development has ever revealed. Speculate rather, how can there NOT be progress…unless life ceases to be altogether? We have no precedent for progress NOT being made in some corner of the universe. And while this development may appear to leave some species behind while focusing on a tiny growing tip of the universe, Teilhard develops the idea early that nothing in the universe is really detached from anything else. If we can accept that proposition, which he spends some time in constructing, then we can accept seeing (or being) an ostensibly forgotten tail, while the rest moves ‘ahead’. Absolutely no pun intended. Teilhard writes to buttress hope in a ‘secret complicity between the infinite and the infinitesimal to warm, nourish and sustain to the very end…the consciousness that has emerged between the two. It is upon this complicity that we must depend’. Teilhard marvels at this ‘complicity’—what is it that causes objects in space, big and small, to attract to each other? He theorizes somewhat courageously that even the basic attraction of objects in the universe towards each other, to which we apply the name of gravity, is a type of materially evidenced ‘love’. This may sound romantic and completely absurd to our western sensibility, but as Dr. Sten Odenwald, astronomer at NASA's Goddard Spaceflight Center, stated on his website astronomycafe.net in reply to a question about our knowledge of gravity, “We don't really understand ANYTHING about our physical world at the deepest level, such as why does gravity exist?” Why couldn’t love, enlarged to subsume the law of mutual attraction that binds the universe together, seek also the unification and concord of human spirits? Would that really pose a problem in a cohesive theory of physical/relational life? To assume that love is merely an emotion, and that humanity is so different a phenomenon as the rest of nature, is to miss the mark. Teilhard boldly reasons, “The only universe capable of containing the human person is an irreversibly ‘personalizing’ universe.” And so the universe is, eo ipso, irreversibly personal. Shouldn’t that logically establish that human love has its root in a larger universal principle that has always existed, like everything else, from the beginning, in what Teilhard calls “an obscure and primordial way”? Teilhard’s conception of an Omega Point of absolute human union (globalized love) is entirely pertinent in our culture of social networking. It represents the acme of human connections: relationship to the nth degree in what he calls the ‘noosphere’ (mind-sphere), a matrix of highly concentrated and involuted communication—or ‘inter-thinking’ as Julian Huxley put it in the intro. Modern globalization may be bringing us closer in the next century to Teilhard’s reckoning quicker than he could have imagined. When he adduced that ‘totalized love’ would be ‘impossible’ to envision by mere rational projection, it suddenly struck me, by all the signs of instant communication and complex social networking, as very possible indeed. Distance doesn’t dilute dreams…only our grasp of them. Once again, doesn’t all human progress signify the eventual emergence (evolution) of a perfect union? “A universal love is not only psychologically possible; it is the only complete and final way in which we are able to love.” This seems to me what we all want, what is woven into our religions and our highest technological/scientific aspirations, and yet some will laugh at it as if it was a silly dream. But nature has taught us to hope. His views on the awakening human mind and self-awareness were certainly intriguing. I’ve always thought that the idea of a universe ‘groping’ towards consciousness and unified fulfillment through eons of evolutive progress is very romantic. The impression isn’t necessarily that God is waking up through a pantheistic becoming , but that the mind of God is somehow imprinted and bound together with the material/psychical world while extending beyond it (panentheism). The goal of awakening and full being is included in his Omega Point. I was a little disappointed with the chapter “The Christian Phenomenon”, which seemed to toss his original ideas and intellectual tour de force into the catch-all, domestic doctrines of orthodox Catholicism. It was as if he was offering something truly novel, only to conclude with a unworthy bow, “The Church was right all along.” Uh, bait-and-switch anyone? Of course, knowing the history of Teilhard’s censorship by the church, this contriteness may have been what got the book in print after all. Now, I understand Teilhard’s trying to harmonize the symbolic content of religion with the flat data of science, but I’m pretty sure his work-a-day science did a good enough job paying tribute to his religious beliefs, possibly outstripping them a tad. By his own admission, his ideas weren’t meant to be taken as strictly science, but rather an ‘interiorisation of matter’, even leading some to wonder if he had been leading them “through facts, through metaphysics, or through dreams.” To which I think Teilhard would cheerily reply, ‘Yes.’ Criticizing any claim to pure objectivity he reminds us, “There is less difference than people think between research and adoration.” I have a feeling that the thoughts and ideas introduced and reinforced by this book will be with me for a while. The more it sits with me, the more it makes a deeper change. As with every book I read, if you would like a copy of a few pages of great lines from the book, send me a message and I’ll get it to you. It’s great fodder for thought and discussion.

2018-12-02 10:41

Zihni Özgürleştirmek TrendKitaplar Kütüphanesi

Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Altın Kitaplar

Loved it. I love Tennessee Williams.

2018-12-02 11:41

Mitler Ve Efsaneler TrendKitaplar Kütüphanesi

Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Maya Kitap

One of my favorite characters, and stories have stayed strong despite the length of the series (unlike many other authors who begin to phone it in after a few novels). Character development of the sidekicks in this book is wonderful. Can't wait for more.

2018-12-02 12:41

Bil Bakalım Hızlı Mı Yavaş Mı?-Shirley Willis TrendKitaplar Kütüphanesi

Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: 1001 Çiçek Kitaplar

Fine characterization and plenty of action. Hopefully more coming. Re-read, 8/14

2018-12-02 13:41

Direniş Öyküleri TrendKitaplar Kütüphanesi

Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Özgün Yayıncılık

After seeing scenes from the movie at work every day, I want to see it just for the camera work. So I decided to give the book another shot. After she met Edward, things picked up and I've become utterly addicted to the book. Update: I finished the book. Not bad. I will continue on with the series.

2018-12-02 14:41

Filozof 2018 Pratik ALES 7 Deneme Çözümlü TrendKitaplar Kütüphanesi

Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Filozof Yayıncılık

5 star medical thriller (top 10% of the genre). For full review, see ScienceThrillers.com

2018-12-02 15:41

Editör Yayınevi 2. Sınıf Bilsem Tamamı Çözümlü Soru Bankası TrendKitaplar Kütüphanesi

Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Editör Yayınevi

Reading The Bell Jar, I am tempted to disown everyone I know, for not making sure I'd read it earlier. As an early Salinger disciple, I most certainly would have been interested in this essentially female version of The Catcher in the Rye. Sylvia Plath hits right at the heart of female alienation with the prescribed life choices. I'm sure this book would have really blown my mind if I had read it in high school; as it stands I read it 10 years after the fact and still really felt it.

2018-12-02 16:41

Mutlu Ve Başarılı Çocuk Yetiştirmek İçin Anne-Baba Rehberi TrendKitaplar Kütüphanesi

Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Erkam Yayınları

** spoiler alert ** This is an important book, of huge ambition and with a breathtaking canvas, though it occasionally, particularly towards the end, fails to quite live up to its ambitions. It has divided reviewers in every country it has been published (first written in French, relatively late translated into English.) I come down on the side of those who like it - or, rather, who admires the book while feeling rather nauseated by its contents. Jonathan Littell has attempted to write the equivalent of Claude Lanzmann's Shoah - but from the perspective of the perpetrators. the books protagonist (it is written in the first perspective) is Maximilian Aue, a fictional SS-officer with an intellectual mind and an extremely complex and warped character, who is writing his autobiography with a dire warning to the reader: While he has done despicable things, who can say they wouldn't do the same, if they had grown up like him and been put in the same circumstances? Aue joins the SS for practical reasons and gradually descends into the cesspool that was Nazi Germany, rising in the ranks and with increasingly deviant mind. On his way, he works with the Einsatzkommandos in Poland and Caucasus, narrowly escapes Stalingrad, inspects Auschwitz with a view to improving its efficiency, participates in the murder of the Hungarian Jews, and finally takes part in the fall of Berlin, always with an intellectual detachment and a cool rationalizations. A thinking SS man with powers to explore and observe, he is without will or ability to do something other than excel at his job. He is saddened by the killings but more appalled by the lack of a scientific basis for deciding who is Jewish and who is not (The description of a conference in Caucasus discussing whether a certain group is Jewish or not is obscene in its similarity to any other scientific debate, coolly trying to determine whether 6,000 people should be exterminated or not, ending with the Army blocking the extermination because they want to avoid the local population joining the partisans.) He deplores the treatment of the prisoners less for the suffering than for the reduction in productive capacity it causes: When he tries to obtain clothing and food for evacuating Auschwitz prisoners, it is not for humanitarian reasons, but because he has orders to use them as a workforce. Almost as a subplot (and less believable) are the civilian experiences of the main person: Imprinted with an incestual love for his sister, he is unable to engage with women and instead seeks out homosexual partners to act out his fantasies of his sister. As he sinks deeper and deeper, his veneer of civilization scrapes off and he loses himself in amnesic episodes, including one where he probably kills his mother and stepfather. After that, he is followed by two policemen who, like a constantly reappearing conscience (much like the chorus in a classic Greek play), calls him to justice. It all comes together in the end, with the fall of Berlin and the fall of Aue - though he survives, escapes to France, and settles down as a minor industrialist. Aue is a reprehensible, but fascinating character - he is a Nazi, but this is not rank stupidity of a Frank Suchomel (a Treblinka prison guard interviewed in Shoah) speaking, this is a cultured German with a wide intellectual foundation and some pretty screwed up, seemingly internally consistent, ideas about the world, capable of enjoying music but, significantly, not playing it. The book has been criticized for being overly long, for being sensationalistic (explicit sex and rape scenes) and for being written in an old-fashioned language. I disagree completely: The length of the book and its myriad of people assure that you forget some of them - an important reminder of the enormity of the crime described. People die like flies around Dr. Aue, and after a while you, along with him, hardly notice it anymore, aside from some single individuals (such as a 13 year old Jewish piano prodigy executed after hurting his hand and therefore not being able to play) that penetrate the protective shield the perpetrators erect around themselves. I used to work at a hospital many years ago, and recognize this protective shield and the holes in it: To function and be able to take care of patients, I had to make myself immune to their suffering - but occasionally, some single patient would break through my defenses, usually because I somehow could identify with them. Jonathan Littell, who has worked with aid organizations alleviating hunger in war-torn areas, seems to write from that perspective - but Dr. Aue does not heal people, he kills them. The book contains a number of diversionary discussions - on the languages of Caucasus, on the psychology of increasingly sadistic prison guards (they hit the prisoners not because they see them as subhuman, but because they persist in being human however much they are humiliated), on the Kantian imperative (in a discussion with Adolf Eichmann, no less), on the differences and many similarities between Communism and Nazism. The book is also a study in bureaucracy and how to do projects that look good to your superiors even though the subject is execrable and the results, in the end, the same: The discussions on how many calories each prisoner should have, how much would disappear through theft, and to what extent one should reduce rations to weak prisoners in order to make the die faster seem surreal if it wasn't for how it would sound like any other bureaucratic hearing if the subject was changed. Dr. Aue gets better at shaping his reports and steering them through the bureaucracy, but he also loses sight of the real impact of what he is doing, if he has ever had it. Jonathan Littell has derived his knowledge from books and from visits to the sites of many atrocities, and the book is historically accurate (with the stamp of approval from none less than Claude Lanzmann himself.) Aue meets many historical figures, and you can sometimes see (or think you see) influences from other books. The Communism-Nazism discussion reminds me of Pinker's The Blank Slate, Dr. Aue's reflections over word dead in many languages of how Robert Jordan reflects on death in Hemingway's For whom the bells toll, the description of the dead hippo floating in a pool in Tiergarten with an artillery shell in its back is straight out of Antony Beevor's The Fall of Berlin 1945. There is recurring symbolism with birds representing pure but vulnerable beauty: Ducks ("with beautiful green necks") are noted in reflective moments, Aue goes shooting with Albert Speer, cranes escape Berlin "not knowing how lucky they are." Overall, The Kindly Ones reminds me most of Günter Grass' Die Blechdrommel - and Grass, almost predictably, had war experiences he carefully kept secret. This is not a book to like, but to admire, because you gradually become fascinated with Dr. Aue despite his abominations. As he says in the beginning: How do you know you wouldn't do the same, given the same upbringing and the same environment? Inhabitants of Jugoslavia, Darfur, Cambodia, Chechen, and Rwanda certainly would have no problem answering that question. Those of us living in more civilized societies should perhaps count ourselves deliriously happy we have never needed to confront it.

2018-12-02 17:41

Hızrı Münazara-i Tig ü Kalem TrendKitaplar Kütüphanesi

Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Akademisyen Kitabevi

Sophie lives in Tuscon, close enough to the border with Mexico that it's not uncommon for illegal immigrants to pass through her house in their search for freedom. One night her family takes in a five-year-old boy, Pedro, whose parents died crossing the desert in search of a new life. Only Pedro survived from his party of immigrants and he is left mute and sad-eyed. Sophie slowly coaxes Pedro out of his silence and eventually he reveals his name, his age and where his family came from. When Sophie's family contacts Pedro's relatives it leads to an extended road trip to return Pedro home to Mexico. It's hard to describe this book. A coming of age story, certainly, but it feels like something more. The story is simple at times and there's not a lot of action or drama and yet the characters creep into your heart and stay firmly lodged there. I thoroughly enjoyed this book even though it has a much slower pace than my usual fare. Sophie is engaging and sympathetic. This story makes you think about the broader issues of illegal immigration and puts a face on those trying so desperately to find a new life. It is beautifully written and well worth checking out.

2018-12-02 18:41

Elit - Kiera Cass TrendKitaplar Kütüphanesi

Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Dex Kitap

What happens when a self-absorbed, idealistic abolistionist sees the reality of war, slavery, cruelty, ignorance, and useless death? The novel fills in the gap about Mr. March who has gone off to war during LITTLE WOMEN. Like March, no other character escapes unblemished or remains righteous; all appear marked by this dark, evil chapter in history. This gripping tale seems to discard innocence and lay bare the ineffectiveness of pride masquerading as idealism when faced with the darkness of reality. Particularly strong is the section narrated by Mrs. March (Marmee)as she deals with betrayal and protection from truth; as a woman, her anger and resentment seem timeless.

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