The examples are really helpful: the authors really address almost every way in which the equations could be used. There are countless examples and exercises which can provide enormous support to both learners and lecturers.Įva Pogacar, student, Heriot-Watt University The explanation of the concepts is great. Milan Antonijevic, lecturer, University of Greenwich This book continuously improves and makes the learning process enjoyable. Physical chemistry can be a very mathematical and complex area, but this textbook makes it easy to understand and is something I see myself using to help me carry out both lab work and physical chemistry questions. Sophie Shearlaw, student, University of Strathclyde An excellent textbook: very easy to read and fosters great understanding.
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Very quickly, she discovered that no job is truly "unskilled," that even the lowliest occupations require exhausting mental and muscular effort. She lived in trailer parks and crumbling residential motels. Moving from Florida to Maine to Minnesota, she worked as a waitress, a hotel maid, a cleaning woman, a nursing-home aide, and a Wal-Mart sales clerk. But how does anyone survive, let alone prosper, on $6 an hour? To find out, Ehrenreich left her home, took the cheapest lodgings she could find, and accepted whatever jobs she was offered. She was inspired in part by the rhetoric surrounding welfare reform, which promised that a job - any job - can be the ticket to a better life. In 1998, Barbara Ehrenreich decided to join them. Millions of Americans work full time, year round, for poverty-level wages. Our sharpest and most original social critic goes "undercover" as an unskilled worker to reveal the dark side of American prosperity. This interview has been edited for clarity and length. It is time for a more difficult unity that acknowledges the reality of group differences and fights the deep inequities that divide us.”Ĭhua spoke to Deseret Magazine from her office in New Haven, Connecticut. “Enough false slogans of unity, which are just another form of divisiveness. Her most recent book, “Political Tribes,” offers an unlikely solution to America’s partisan polarization. Chua’s grit and determination is a thread through most of her work, which first burst into the national consciousness with her international bestseller, “Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother.” That book, in which Chua refuses to let her daughter go to the bathroom until she masters a difficult piano composition, attracted both ire and fame for Chua, but she says her fiercest critics missed the central message: The most important thing for children is unconditional love. Voltaire concludes with Candide, if not rejecting optimism outright, advocating a deeply practical precept, "we must cultivate our garden", in lieu of the Leibnizian mantra of Pangloss, "all is for the best" in the "best of all possible worlds". with this eBook or online at Title: Candide. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included. The work describes the abrupt cessation of this lifestyle, followed by Candide's slow, painful disillusionment as he witnesses and experiences great hardships in the world. The Project Gutenberg EBook of Candide, by VoltaireThis eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. But when his love for the Barons rosy-cheeked daughter is discovered, Candide is cast out to make his own way in the world. It begins with a young man, Candide, who is living a sheltered life in an Edenic paradise and being indoctrinated with Leibnizian optimism (or simply "optimism") by his mentor, Professor Pangloss. Brought up in the household of a powerful Baron, Candide is an open-minded young man, whose tutor, Pangloss, has instilled in him the belief that all is for the best. The novella has been widely translated, with English versions titled Candide: or, All for the Best (1759) Candide: or, The Optimist (1762) and Candide: or, Optimism (1947). Candide is a French satire first published in 1759 by Voltaire, a philosopher of the Age of Enlightenment. “A thrilling tale of military and political genius… Roberts is an uncommonly gifted writer.” - The Washington PostĪusterlitz, Borodino, Waterloo: his battles are among the greatest in history, but Napoleon Bonaparte was far more than a military genius and astute leader of men. The definitive biography of the great soldier-statesman by the acclaimed author of Churchill and The Last King of America-winner of the LA Times Book prize, finalist for the Plutarch prize, winner of the Fondation Napoleon prize and a New York Times bestseller The misperception may arise from his insistence on wei wu wei, literally “doing not-doing,” which has been seen as passivity. People usually think of Lao-tzu as a hermit, a dropout from society, dwelling serenely in some mountain hut, unvisited except perhaps by the occasional traveler arriving from a ’60s joke to ask, “What is the meaning of life?” But it’s clear from his teachings that he deeply cared about society, if society means the welfare of one’s fellow human beings his book is, among other things, a treatise on the art of government, whether of a country or of a child. All he left us is his book: the classic manual on the art of living, written in a style of gemlike lucidity, radiant with humor and grace and largeheartedness and deep wisdom: one of the wonders of the world. Like an Iroquois woodsman, he left no traces. Even the meaning of his name is uncertain (the most likely interpretations: “the Old Master” or, more picturesquely, “the Old Boy”). But all the information that has come down to us is highly suspect. He may have been an older contemporary of Confucius (551-479 BCE) and may have held the position of archive-keeper in one of the petty kingdoms of the time. Since it is already well known by its Chinese title, I have let that stand.Ībout Lao-tzu there is practically nothing to be said. Tao Te Ching (pronounced, more or less, Dow Deh Jing) can be translated as The Book of the Immanence of the Way or The Book of the Way and of How It Manifests Itself in the World or, simply, The Book of the Way. 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Valor on the Move (Trade Paperback / Paperback) His sedulous enabling of the murderous capriciousness of his boss is magnificently realized in Mantel's prose and at all times this is a gripping tale no matter how well you already know the historical events it describes.īefore Diarmaid MacCulloch's biography of Cromwell, these works from Mantel were some of the strongest biographical work available on this elusive figures, even if they were realized in dramatized fashion. Having seen the ascendance of Thomas Cromwell to the position of Master Secretary to Henry VIII through his dutiful machinations in legitimizing the King's marriage to Anne Boleyn, spoiler alert, its now his job, as chronicled in this volume, to undo that very marriage. Volume 2 in the Wolf Hall trilogy, "Bring up the Bodies," is everything its illustrious predecessor is and continues Hilary Mantel's tripartite masterpiece of historical fiction. The O'Bannions' best friend is Mose, a mute Sioux boy with a talent for baseball. In 1932, 12-year-old Odysseus "Odie" O'Bannion and his older brother Albert are the only two white children raised in the brutality of Lincoln Indian Training School in central Minnesota. It tracks the adventures of 12-year-old Odysseus "Odie" O'Bannion, his older brother Albert, and two of their friends after they flee the brutality of the (fictional) Lincoln Indian School, and travel by canoe down the (fictional) Gilead, Minnesota and Mississippi Rivers in hopes of reuniting with their aunt in St. I love it as much, if not more, than 'Ordinary Grace'." After these lengthy reviews, Krueger said "I am deeply in love with this book. Krueger had written a companion novel to Ordinary Grace, that was accepted and revised, but he pulled it at the last minute and revised it substantially over the next four years, incorporating elements from Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and the Odyssey. This Tender Land is a book written by William Kent Krueger and published by Atria Books (now owned by Simon & Schuster ) in September 2019. It was only able to be published due to Khrushchev’s inclinations towards de-Stalinization at that time. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich , first published in 1962, was the first book that openly talked about life in the Soviet gulag system. An unforgettable portrait of the entire world of Stalin’s forced work camps, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich is one of the most extraordinary literary documents to have emerged from the Soviet Union and confirms Solzhenitsyn’s stature as “a literary genius whose talent matches that of Dosotevsky, Turgenev, Tolstoy”–Harrison Salisbury” My Thoughts The story of labor-camp inmate Ivan Denisovich Shukhov, it graphically describes his struggle to maintain his dignity in the face of communist oppression. “First published in the Soviet journal Novy Mir in 1962, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich stands as a classic of contemporary literature. |