Cathy Briggs itibaren Jaura, Pakistan

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2018-06-19 06:41

Jim Dunlop Gels Standart Medium Yeşil Pena TrendKitaplar Kütüphanesi

Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Jim Dunlop

This book was a hard cover discovered among the collection of my grandfather when I was 14; I did not, could not, return the book to him. I'm sure I still have it in my bookshelf back in India, behind a pair of glass doors, slowly getting eaten by termites and moth, no one having touched it for at least a 35 years. The book had a maroon spine on its jacket, and a photo of Russell on the front cover, wearing a starched collar, with a quizzical smile, a pair of sparkling eyes. It certainly was the most influential book for me at that age. Russell's passion for objectivity, his sweeping summary of the impact of past scientific inquiry on human civilization until the second world war, the mischief science creates in times of war, the mischief by religion, the philosophical implications of the then 'new' physics--relativity and quantum mechanics--his engaging vision of the possible impact of science on human happiness, his utter despair in finding no reason to think that the new science will actually bring happiness instead of pain--his arguments about the futility of possessing nuclear weapons (this was written in 1953), increasing segregation of the human society into two classes of nations: the haves and the have-nots, and perpetual war among them, his predictions of the rise of belief- and idiology-driven politics, the threat of mutual annihilation by accidental or deliberate use of the nuclear arsenal--his incredible prescience was to me a staggering revelation of an acute intelligence. He became my life-long hero. The book is still relevant today. In this connection it is interesting to compare Russell's thoughts in 1953 with that of another giant intellect of today--Sydney Brenner, a Nobel Laureate, who wrote an essay with the inverse title Impact of Society on Science" [http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content...]. Certainly not having the scope of Russell's book, Brenner discusses some of the same hopelessness of solving societal problems by science, though both appear to believe that it should be possible. Both are incurable optimists. Read it.

2018-06-19 11:41

Beş Duyu: İlk Öğrendiklerim Dizisi 6-Kolektif TrendKitaplar Kütüphanesi

Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Hobi Yayınevi

Please note: This book was solicited but never published. How it has 5 reviews is a mystery to me, and yet I feel qualified to review it because it is (or rather was slated to be) a compilation collecting single issues of the original comic book series, specifically the first two years of John Ostrander's magnificent run on the Suicide Squad. John Ostrander may be the most underappreciated writer for the medium of comic books in the current age of Rockstar writers like Frank Miller, Brain Bendis, and Brian K. Vaughn. For the uninitiated the Suicide Squad concept originated in a time when the comic industry had taken a dark turn featuring antiheroes (Moore's Watchmen and Miller's seminal Batman tale shared shelf space with this series), but Ostrander ups the ante by focusing on true anti-heroes: the villains themselves. Ostrander tackles both national political topics and social issues and blends them seamless into tales featuring a number of colorful characters that you'd never want to meet, but feel (somewhat) confident that they're watching your back. One thing I particularly praise Ostrander for is his diversity and detail in crafting the story, painstakingly researching all types of antagonists from Islamic radicals, Indian cultists, Russian communists without making them into two dimensional sterotypes. Likewise he was very forward for the time avoiding racial sterotypes and bucking the trend of including a "token" African American character in a team book (think of the ones with cringe inducing names: Black Panther, Black Lightning, Black Goliath). Instead he includes not one, not two, but THREE African American leads on the Squad - the stoic Amanda Waller (often misunderstood by other writers), the tortured Bronze Tiger, and the redemption seeking Vixen (all take leadership roles I might add). My only complaint is: Why has this never been collected???

Okuyucu Cathy Briggs itibaren Jaura, Pakistan

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