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Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Remzi Kitabevi
love it
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Pearson Education Yayıncılık
A wonderful book to read as your pregnancy progresses. A powerful reminder of just how amazing God really is!
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This was hilarious! It took me a while to read though, I kept forgetting which countries had which face/clothes. The book reads like a series of short stories. I was surprised to read that personifying countries was a foriegn conceipt to the Japanese audience. If you look at Western art, all sorts of things are represented by other things. But it's even more surprising in regards to Japanese History. When WWII ended, America had issues determining who was to be held "responsible" for their continued, er conquest. Even the emperor answered to a "higher" entity (Japan in and of itself). Maybe what the editors were refering to was the notion that other countries could also have "entities." I chuckled to myself when I read Japan's description of itself. "Unique" and "small" appeared, and I can't say that was unexpected. Japan is as unique as any other country. On a side note, there is a reason why there is so much focus on the Shinto religion (even though very few actually practice it), Mt. Fuji, and Samurai. Japan actually has very few completely original ideas culturally as much of it comes from other places, whether or not that is ever ever admitted. (For those who want to know- Alphabet: Chinese influence Buddhism: Indian -lots practice this- Government: modeled after the English, past Japanese governments, and with an American flare Industrial Model: German Educational Model: German there are lots, but my brain is getting tired.) As for the "small" part, there are over 6,000 islands that belong to Japan. Japan is not small. There are plenty of other countries that are much smaller. Now onto my favorite part, history! The history presented in this was so boiled down that it would be difficult to say that this was completely accurate. You would only be able to catch the inaccuracies if you were not only well versed in the era that was being covered in that scene, but also that country's own history. Needless to say, it was interesting reading a Japanese presceptive on world history. examples! The American Revolution As cool as it would have been for England and America to have a touching scene and end the war with a change of heart, that simply did not happen. America won because other countries found it to be an opportune time to attack other parts of English territory for their own gain. Spain had a hard time focuses on anything but attacking the Straight of Gibraltar and taking away control of the area away from England. England gave up to divert forces to protect more valuable rescources. But an interesting nuance that was "accurate" was the clothing. America played up the "simple folk" look to other nations to feed into an image that Americans were hard working and straightforward. I guess you could thank Ben Franklin for perpetuating that myth to European audiences as he would not dress up to go to political meetings or parties. (It should also be noted that he did spend a lot of time partying, and not always alone.) The Holy Roman Empire This topic was presented in an unusual way when you consider other empires were not mentioned in this volume. Also, part of the time it was represented as a person, the other part, it was represented as a house. The Ottoman Empire would have been interesting seeing as both empires not only existed at the same time, but border each other. Oh, and the name did not come about because part of the Roman Empire desired a name change. The Roman Empire had an extremely long collapse, seeing as it split as it collapsed and part of it lasted longer than the other part. Also, the Roman Empire did not unite all of it's territories into one big massive country, nor did it unify Italy in the same sense it is today. Rome itself was basically always just the city. To be a true Roman, you had to be born in the city, not just in a Roman territory. When Rome conquered a place, it basically drew up a contract saying that Rome controls it, it pays taxes to Rome and is subject to Rome's laws, it does not get to participate in creating those laws, and Rome will protect it. Basically. Each place had a different agreement, so what I just said isn't 100% true, but it's generalized just fine. haha Japanese Industry Japan wasn't actually known for it's quality in WWII. It industrialized very quickly following the German model (which was also building very quickly, as it had a lot to recover from). So, the statement about mass producing things smaller, and also building robots is a nod to the present. You might be wondering who was the industrial leader, the English. America was close behind, but let's face it, was going slow and seems to have qualms when it comes to change. Other countries industrialized at an alarming rate such as Russia, Germany, and Japan. I could talk about others, but this is why it took me a couple of days to finish this thing. I would read a cell or two, then talk it over with myself in my head, discussing the history I remembered, chuckled at the reference, and debated just how accurate it was. I wish I knew my world history better, I mean, it's been over 4 years since I've had a class that covered something outside of America. But this book was seriously fun and I look forward to reading book 2. It's so refreshing seeing someone present history as something fun and palatable to the masses.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Kobo
Leave it to Ben Bova to take a really great story line and make it weak, predictable and boring. This book was so awful that I sold it, and felt bad about having wasted my time reading it.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: 1984 Yayınları
I enjoyed this as much as her first book "The Glass Castle" She has an amazing way of telling a story and she gives her stories a voice that makes you almost certain that you want to be related to her crazy gamily
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Karekök Yayınları
I couldn't make sense of this jumble. Then I read he cut it up into sentence and paragraph fragments and pasted it back together. I don't know if that was even true, but it makes as much sense as this book. I don't get it.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Yediiklim Yayınları
A great story about family and racism in US. I love the way Mr. Atticus runs his family and the way he taken care his children. The way he lets his children learn things, etc. I learned here that result is kind of payment from the credit we take. The process means a lot, especially for people who see it (people around us) :) Good job, Mr. Lee Harper! This book already on my next-to-buy list. Just... need to make some money first since the list still long (getting longer each day, in fact) ^^;
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: GB Eye
When money talks, we should listen. ...but this one made my cranium throbbed all along. haha!
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Final Kültür Sanat Yayınları
Touching book about four generations of Japanese American women and their struggles with cultural dictates, parental relationships and their personal fights for self expression. "A tear runs down my face and I stick out my tongue to catch it; the first one tastes bitter, but they get sweeter until their wetness is like milk." Julie Shigekuni
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Ayrıkotu Yayınları
HarperCollins ARC I loved this little book of words and drawings! Ottoline and her helpful hairy friend Mr. Monroe are delightful! I will definitely be looking for more Ottoline books to read. A great find for beginning chapter book readers!
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