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Long Walk To Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela»rank: 1435par: Nelson Mandela
Chroniques et points de vue:From :The famously taciturn South African president reveals much of himself in Long Walk to Freedom. A good deal of this autobiography was written secretly while Mandela was imprisoned for 27 years on Robben lsland by South Africa's apartheid regime. Among the book's interesting revelations is Mandela's ambivalence toward his lifetime of devotion to public works. lt cost him two marriages and kept him distant from a family life he might otherwise have cherished. Long Walk to Freedom also discloses a strong and generous spirit that refused to be broken ... |
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Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid»rank: 6416par: Douglas R. Hofstadter
Chroniques et points de vue:From :Twenty years after it topped the bestseller charts, Douglas R. Hofstadter's Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid is still something of a marvel. Besides being a profound and entertaining meditation on human thought and creativity, this book looks at the surprising points of contact between the music of Bach, the artwork of Escher, and the mathematics of Gödel. lt also looks at the prospects for computers and artificial intelligence (Al) for mimicking human thought. For the general reader and the computer techie alike, this book still sets a ... |
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Consumed»rank: 652par: Benjamin Barber
Chroniques et points de vue:From :Twenty years after it topped the bestseller charts, Douglas R. Hofstadter's Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid is still something of a marvel. Besides being a profound and entertaining meditation on human thought and creativity, this book looks at the surprising points of contact between the music of Bach, the artwork of Escher, and the mathematics of Gödel. lt also looks at the prospects for computers and artificial intelligence (Al) for mimicking human thought. For the general reader and the computer techie alike, this book still sets a ... |
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The Fix: Soccer and Organized Crime»rank: 750par: Declan Hill
Chroniques et points de vue:From :Twenty years after it topped the bestseller charts, Douglas R. Hofstadter's Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid is still something of a marvel. Besides being a profound and entertaining meditation on human thought and creativity, this book looks at the surprising points of contact between the music of Bach, the artwork of Escher, and the mathematics of Gödel. lt also looks at the prospects for computers and artificial intelligence (Al) for mimicking human thought. For the general reader and the computer techie alike, this book still sets a ... |
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Siblings Without Rivalry»rank: 1306par: Adele Faber, Elaine Mazlish
Chroniques et points de vue:From :With a title like this, it's no surprise that authors Adele Faber and Elaine Mazlish had a monster bestseller on their hands when the book first appeared in 1988. From the subsequent deluge of readers' stories, questions, and issues, they have created nearly 50 pages of new material for this, the 10th anniversary edition. The central message remains the same, and sounds almost too simple: avoid comparisons. But parents know that's easier said than done. The value of Faber and Mazlish's discussions is precisely that they talk you through ... |
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Crime and Punishment»rank: 12813par: Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Chroniques et points de vue:From :Mired in poverty, the student Raskolnikov nevertheless thinks well of himself. 0f his pawnbroker he takes a different view, and in deciding to do away with her he sets in motion his own tragic downfall. Dostoyevsky's penetrating novel of an intellectual whose moral compass goes haywire, and the detective who hunts him down for his terrible crime, is a stunning psychological portrait, a thriller and a profound meditation on guilt and retribution. |
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Our Dumb World: The Onion's Atlas of the Planet Earth»rank: 2129par: The Onion
Chroniques et points de vue:From :Mired in poverty, the student Raskolnikov nevertheless thinks well of himself. 0f his pawnbroker he takes a different view, and in deciding to do away with her he sets in motion his own tragic downfall. Dostoyevsky's penetrating novel of an intellectual whose moral compass goes haywire, and the detective who hunts him down for his terrible crime, is a stunning psychological portrait, a thriller and a profound meditation on guilt and retribution. |
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Your Inner Fish: A Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body»rank: 1684par: Neil Shubin
Chroniques et points de vue:From :Mired in poverty, the student Raskolnikov nevertheless thinks well of himself. 0f his pawnbroker he takes a different view, and in deciding to do away with her he sets in motion his own tragic downfall. Dostoyevsky's penetrating novel of an intellectual whose moral compass goes haywire, and the detective who hunts him down for his terrible crime, is a stunning psychological portrait, a thriller and a profound meditation on guilt and retribution. |
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On Writing Well 30th Anniversary Edition»rank: 761par: William K Zinsser
Chroniques et points de vue:From :Whether you write an occasional professional letter or a daily newspaper column, William Zinsser's 0n Writing Well should be required reading. Simplicity is Zinsser's mantra: he preaches a stripped-down writing style, strong and clear. He has no patience for excess (most use of adjectives and adverbs, he writes, just adds clutter) or tired phraseology (for instance, he'd like to outlaw all leads involving those 'future archaeologists' most often found 'stumbl[ing] upon the remains of our civilization'). He recommends that all writers of nonfiction read their work aloud (don't commit ... |
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Discipline & Punish: The Birth of the Prison»rank: 16537par: Michel Foucault
Chroniques et points de vue:From :Whether you write an occasional professional letter or a daily newspaper column, William Zinsser's 0n Writing Well should be required reading. Simplicity is Zinsser's mantra: he preaches a stripped-down writing style, strong and clear. He has no patience for excess (most use of adjectives and adverbs, he writes, just adds clutter) or tired phraseology (for instance, he'd like to outlaw all leads involving those 'future archaeologists' most often found 'stumbl[ing] upon the remains of our civilization'). He recommends that all writers of nonfiction read their work aloud (don't commit ... |
