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In this book, you’ll learn how to:

- get everyone’s attention from your first words
- have a clear goal for your presentation
- build self-confidence for your talk
- learn from the very best public speakers of today
- persuade your audience using influence techniques

And he relates his personal story, how he gave his first presentation - terrified - to how he ended up on the TEDx stage to give the popular talk: “How to present to keep your audience’s attention��.

This book is unlike any other on public speaking. The techniques are powerful and practical. Each chapter contains exercises for you to implement what you’ve learnt. His personal story is as inspiring as it is fun to read.

And his message of positive feedback is something everyone needs to hear.

“Mark has taken the principles learnt from my course and built on them to give a great TEDx speech, a first-class presentation skills workshop and now a winning book! The powerful techniques in this book are well explained, easy to implement and will take your presentations to a new level. And his personal journey, from a terrified presenter to the TEDx stage, is inspiring to all. Highly recommended!��
Remco Claassen: Speaker & Best Selling Author]]> 363 Mark Robinson Murat 0 elena-s-halloween 4.80 2020
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]]> 37880811 From the New York Times bestselling authors of Sprint, a simple 4-step system for improving focus, finding greater joy in your work, and getting more out of every day

Nobody ever looked at an empty calendar and said, "The best way to spend this time is by cramming it full of meetings!" or got to work in the morning and thought, Today I'll spend hours on Facebook! Yet that's exactly what we do. Why?
In a world where information refreshes endlessly and the workday feels like a race to react to other people's priorities faster, frazzled and distracted has become our default position. But what if the exhaustion of constant busyness wasn't mandatory? What if you could step off the hamster wheel and start taking control of your time and attention? That's what this book is about.
As creators of Google Ventures' renowned "design sprint," Jake and John have helped hundreds of teams solve important problems by changing how they work. Building on the success of these sprints and their experience designing ubiquitous tech products from Gmail to YouTube, they spent years experimenting with their own habits and routines, looking for ways to help people optimize their energy, focus, and time. Now they've packaged the most effective tactics into a four-step daily framework that anyone can use to systematically design their days. Make Time is not a one-size-fits-all formula. Instead, it offers a customizable menu of bite-size tips and strategies that can be tailored to individual habits and lifestyles.
Make Time isn't about productivity, or checking off more to-dos. Nor does it propose unrealistic solutions like throwing out your smartphone or swearing off social media. Making time isn't about radically overhauling your lifestyle; it's about making small shifts in your environment to liberate yourself from constant busyness and distraction.
A must-read for anyone who has ever thought, If only there were more hours in the day..., Make Time will help you stop passively reacting to the demands of the modern world and start intentionally making time for the things that matter.]]> 287 Jake Knapp 0525572422 Murat 0 elena-s-halloween 4.05 2018
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]]> 49098237
Drawing upon her years of research and a wealth of remarkable experience, the world-renowned forensic anthropologist Professor Dame Sue Black takes us on a journey of revelation. From skull to feet, via the face, spine, chest, arms, hands, pelvis and legs, she shows that each part of us has a tale to tell. What we eat, where we go, everything we do leaves a trace, a message that waits patiently for months, years, sometimes centuries, until a forensic anthropologist is called upon to decipher it.

Some of this information is easily understood, some holds its secrets tight and needs scientific cajoling to be released. But by carefully piecing together the evidence, the facts of a life can be rebuilt. Limb by limb, case by case �� some criminal, some historical, some unaccountably bizarre �� Sue Black reconstructs with intimate sensitivity and compassion the hidden stories in what we leave behind.]]> 368 Sue Black 0857526901 Murat 0 elena-s-halloween 4.33 2020
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]]> 36205393 Smart, hilarious, and engaging, MATH WITH BAD DRAWINGS is a delightful re-education in math that empowers readers with a joyful appreciation and powerful understanding of how math works in our daily lives.
In MATH WITH BAD DRAWINGS, Ben Orlin answers math's three big questions: Why do I need to learn this? When am I ever going to use it? Why is it so hard? The answers come in various forms-cartoons, drawings, jokes, and the stories and insights of an empathetic teacher who believes that math should belong to everyone.

Eschewing the tired old curriculum that begins in the wading pool of addition and subtraction and progresses to the shark infested waters of calculus (AKA the Great Weed Out Course), Orlin instead shows us how to think like a mathematician by teaching us a new game of Tic-Tac-Toe, how to understand an economic crisis by rolling a pair of dice, and the mathematical reason why you should never buy a second lottery ticket.
Every example in the book is illustrated with his trademark "bad drawings," which convey both his humor and his message with perfect pitch and clarity. Organized by unconventional but compelling topics such as "Statistics: The Fine Art of Honest Lying," "Design: The Geometry of Stuff That Works," and "Probability: The Mathematics of Maybe," MATH WITH BAD DRAWINGS is a perfect read for fans of illustrated popular science.


]]> 376 Ben Orlin 0316509035 Murat 0 elena-s-halloween 4.24 2018
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]]> 43885052 An exploration of the intersection between calculus and daily life, complete with Orlin's humor and bad drawings.


By spinning 28 mathematical tales, Orlin shows us that calculus is simply another language to express the very things we humans grapple with every day -- love, risk, time, and most importantly, change. Divided into two parts, "Moments" and "Eternities," and drawing on everyone from Sherlock Holmes to Mark Twain to David Foster Wallace, Change is the Only Constant unearths connections between calculus, art, literature, and a beloved dog named Elvis. This is not just math for math's sake; it's math for the sake of becoming a wiser and more thoughtful human.]]> 320 Ben Orlin 0316509086 Murat 0 elena-s-halloween 4.27 2019
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]]> 29939161
"I raced through Radical Candor --It’s thrilling to learn a framework that shows how to be both a better boss and a better colleague. Radical Candor is packed with illuminating truths, insightful advice, and practical suggestions, all illustrated with engaging (and often funny) stories from Kim Scott’s own experiences at places like Apple, Google, and various start-ups. Indispensable." �� Gretchen Rubin author of New York Times bestseller The Happiness Project

"Reading Radical Candor will help you build, lead, and inspire teams to do the best work of their lives. Kim Scott's insights--based on her experience, keen observational intelligence and analysis--will help you be a better leader and create a more effective organization." �� Sheryl Sandberg author of the New York Times bestseller Lean In

"Kim Scott has a well-earned reputation as a kick-ass boss and a voice that CEOs take seriously. In this remarkable book, she draws on her extensive experience to provide clear and honest guidance on the fundamentals of leading others: how to give (and receive) feedback, how to make smart decisions, how to keep moving forward, and much more. If you manage people--whether it be 1 person or a 1,000--you need Radical Candor . Now." �� Daniel Pink author of New York Times bestseller Drive

From the time we learn to speak, we’re told that if you don’t have anything nice to say, don’t say anything at all. When you become a manager, it’s your job to say it--and your obligation.

Author Kim Scott was an executive at Google and then at Apple, where she worked with a team to develop a class on how to be a good boss. She has earned growing fame in recent years with her vital new approach to effective management, Radical Candor.

Radical Candor is a simple idea: to be a good boss, you have to Care Personally at the same time that you Challenge Directly. When you challenge without caring it’s obnoxious aggression; when you care without challenging it’s ruinous empathy. When you do neither it’s manipulative insincerity.

This simple framework can help you build better relationships at work, and fulfill your three key responsibilities as a leader: creating a culture of feedback (praise and criticism), building a cohesive team, and achieving results you’re all proud of.

Radical Candor offers a guide to those bewildered or exhausted by management, written for bosses and those who manage bosses. Taken from years of the author’s experience, and distilled clearly giving actionable lessons to the reader; it shows managers how to be successful while retaining their humanity, finding meaning in their job, and creating an environment where people both love their work and their colleagues.]]> 336 Kim Malone Scott 1250103509 Murat 0 to-read 4.05 2017
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]]> 59996941 Our ability to pay attention is collapsing. From the New York Times bestselling author of Chasing the Scream and Lost Connections comes a groundbreaking examination of why this is happening--and how to get our attention back.

Like so many of us, Johann Hari was finding it much harder to focus than he used to. He found that a life of constantly switching from device to device, from tab to tab, is diminishing and depressing. He tried all sorts of self-help solutions--even abandoning his phone for three months--but in the long-term, nothing seemed to work. So Hari went on an epic journey across the world to interview the leading experts on human attention and to study their scientific findings--and learned that everything we think we know about this crisis is wrong.

In the U.S., teenagers now focus on a task for only sixty-five seconds on average, and office workers manage only three minutes. We think this inability to focus is a personal flaw, an individual failure to exert enough willpower over our devices. The truth is even more Our focus has been stolen by powerful external forces, and the science shows that these forces have been ramping up for decades--leaving us uniquely vulnerable, when social media arrived, to corporations determined to raid our attention for profit. These forces have been so successful that our collapse in attention is behind many of the wider problems society faces.

In Stolen Focus, Hari embarks on a thrilling journey, taking readers from veterinarians who diagnose dogs with ADHD, to Silicon Valley dissidents who exposed social media companies' furtive attempts to hack our focus; from a favela in Rio where everyone lost their attention in a particularly catastrophic way, to an office in New Zealand that discovered a remarkable technique to restore their workers' attention.

In this urgent, deeply researched book, Hari shows that if we understand the twelve true causes of this crisis--from the collapse of sustained reading to the disruption of boredom to rising pollution--we, as individuals and as a society, can finally begin to solve it by staging an attention rebellion. Finally, we have a way to get our focus back.
]]> 354 Johann Hari 1526620243 Murat 0 to-read 4.37 2022
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]]> 59696349
Each quick 5-20 page entry builds on the previous one, charting Tony’s personal journey from a product designer to a leader, from a startup founder to an executive to a mentor. Tony uses examples that are instantly captivating, like the process of building the very first iPod and iPhone. Every chapter is designed to help readers with a problem they’re facing right now—how to get funding for their startup, whether to quit their job or not, or just how to deal with the jerk in the next cubicle.

Tony forged his path to success alongside mentors like Steve Jobs and Bill Campbell, icons of Silicon Valley who succeeded time and time again. But Tony doesn’t follow the Silicon Valley credo that you have to reinvent everything from scratch to make something great. His advice is unorthodox because it’s old school. Because Tony’s learned that human nature doesn’t change. You don’t have to reinvent how you lead and manage—just what you make.]]> 416 Tony Fadell 1787634116 Murat 0 to-read 4.28
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]]> 35356384
Drawing on decades of research and a wide range of historical and global examples, from 1930s Europe to contemporary Hungary, Turkey, and Venezuela, to the American South during Jim Crow, Levitsky and Ziblatt show how democracies die--and how ours can be saved.]]> 320 Steven Levitsky 1524762938 Murat 0 to-read 4.16 2018
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]]> 43319557 232 Jenna LeJeune 1684033217 Murat 0 to-read 4.40
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]]> 53330118
LONGLISTED FOR THE PORCHLIGHT BUSINESS BOOK AWARD �� “A masterpiece.”—Angela Duckworth, bestselling author of Grit �� Malcolm Gladwell, Susan Cain, Adam Grant, and Daniel H. Pink’s Next Big Idea Club Winter 2021 Winning Selection

One of the best new books of the year—The Washington Post, BBC, USA Today, CNN Underscored, Shape, Behavioral Scientist, PopSugar �� Kirkus Reviews, Publishers Weekly, and Shelf Awareness starred reviews

Is talking to yourself normal? The truth is that we all have a voice in our head. When we talk to ourselves, we often hope to tap into our inner coach but find our inner critic instead. When we’re facing a tough task, our inner coach can buoy us up: Focus—you can do this. But, just as often, our inner critic sinks us entirely: I’m going to fail. They’ll all laugh at me. What’s the use?

In Chatter, acclaimed psychologist Ethan Kross explores the silent conversations we have with ourselves. Interweaving groundbreaking behavioral and brain research from his own lab with real-world case studies—from a pitcher who forgets how to pitch, to a Harvard undergrad negotiating her double life as a spy—Kross explains how these conversations shape our lives, work, and relationships. He warns that giving in to negative and disorienting self-talk—what he calls “chatter”—can tank our health, sink our moods, strain our social connections, and cause us to fold under pressure.

But the good news is that we’re already equipped with the tools we need to make our inner voice work in our favor. These tools are often hidden in plain sight—in the words we use to think about ourselves, the technologies we embrace, the diaries we keep in our drawers, the conversations we have with our loved ones, and the cultures we create in our schools and workplaces.

Brilliantly argued, expertly researched, and filled with compelling stories, Chatter gives us the power to change the most important conversation we have each day: the one we have with ourselves.]]> 272 Ethan Kross 0525575235 Murat 0 to-read 3.94 2021
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]]> 25454056
This is a collection of short stories, following the adventures of the hit collection THE LAST WISH. Join Geralt as he battles monsters, demons and prejudices alike...]]> 405 Andrzej Sapkowski Murat 4 4.25 1992
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]]> 57423312 ‘Hate crimes have doubled in five years��
‘Fizzy drinks make teenagers violent��

Every day, most of us will read or watch something in the news that is based on statistics in some way. Sometimes it’ll be obvious �� ‘X people develop cancer every year�� �� and sometimes less obvious �� ‘How smartphones destroyed a generation��. Statistics are an immensely powerful tool for understanding the world; the best tool we have. But in the wrong hands, they can be dangerous.

This book will help you spot common mistakes and tricks that can mislead you into thinking that small numbers are big, or unimportant changes are important. It will show you how the numbers you read are made �� you’ll learn about how surveys with small or biased samples can generate wrong answers, and why ice cream doesn’t cause drownings.

We are surrounded by numbers and data, and it has never been more important to separate the good from the bad, the true from the false. HOW TO READ NUMBERS is a vital guide that will help you understand when and how to trust the numbers in the news �� and, just as importantly, when not to.]]> 208 Tom Chivers 1474619967 Murat 5 4.32 2021
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]]> 29342515
Drawing on years of experience training more than 10,000 busy managers from around the globe in practical, everyday coaching skills, Bungay Stanier reveals how to unlock your peoples' potential. He unpacks seven essential coaching questions to demonstrate how--by saying less and asking more--you can develop coaching methods that produce great results.

�� Get straight to the point in any conversation with The Kickstart Question
�� Stay on track during any interaction with The Awe Question
�� Save hours of time for yourself with The Lazy Question
�� and hours of time for others with The Strategic Question
�� Get to the heart of any interpersonal or external challenge with The Focus Question
�� and The Foundation Question
�� Ensure others find your coaching as beneficial as you do with The Learning Question

A fresh innovative take on the traditional how-to manual, the book combines insider information with research based in neuroscience and behavioural economics, together with interactive training tools to turn practical advice into practiced habits. Witty and conversational, The Coaching Habit takes your work--and your workplace--from good to great.

"Coaching is an art and it's far easier said than done. It takes courage to ask a question rather than offer up advice, provide and answer, or unleash a solution. giving another person the opportunity to find their own way, make their own mistakes, and create their own wisdom is both brave and vulnerable. In this practical and inspiring book, Michael shares seven transformative questions that can make a difference in how we lead and support. And he guides us through the tricky part - how to take this new information and turn it into habits and a daily practice.
--Brené Brown, author of Rising Strong and Daring Greatly]]> 117 Michael Bungay Stanier Murat 0 to-read 3.94 2016
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]]> 40603587
But not everything monstrous-looking is evil and not everything fair is good... and in every fairy tale there is a grain of truth.

Librarian's Note: Alternate cover edition of ASIN B0010SIPT4]]> 400 Andrzej Sapkowski Murat 4 4.12 1993
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]]> 747570 462 Eva Jablonka 0262600692 Murat 0 to-read 4.19 2005
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]]> 35290971
Masadan havalanıp krize konan anayasa kitapçığı�� Başbakanlık önünde sıraya giren protestocular�� Banka enkazları vardı. First class kaçıp ekonomi sınıfında polislerin arasında geri getirilen işadamları�� İsimlerinden fal tutulan yolsuzluk operasyonları�� Piyasaların görevden aldığı bakanlar�� “Başbakan sağlıksız mı yoksa sadece bakımsız mı?�� tartışmaları vardı. TÜSİAD’ın her konuda fikrinin olduğu ve bunları açıklayabildiği günler�� “Tek kişi partisi olmayacağız,�� diyen AKP’nin Anayasa Mahkemesi sayesinde “normal doğum”la dünyaya gelişi�� Askerlerin siyasetçilere bitmeyen kini...

Tüm bunların arasından uzaylıya taş atan köylü, İtalya’ya Fiorentina biletiyle gidip Milan üzerinden dönen Fatih Terim, “profesör�� lakaplı kapkaççılar, konuklarına, “Efendim siz şarlatan mısınız?�� diye soran anchorman’ler, mallarını karılarıyla paylaşmak istemeyen ama dondurulmuş embriyoya miras bırakma peşindeki milletvekilleri, Öcalan’�� İmralı’dan kaçırma teklifini reddeden PKK’lılar, cezaevinde kafa kesen çeteciler bize bakıyor. Aktörlerinin ve tanıklarının da katkılarıyla 31 kısım tekmili birden, Eski Türkiye’nin yoğun bakımdaki günlerinin hikâyesi…]]> 544 Mirgün Cabas 9750735102 Murat 0 to-read 4.22
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]]> 581365 256 Chris Frith 1405160225 Murat 0 to-read 4.09 2007
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]]> 1564231 P. W. Anderson, Andrew Assad, Nils A. Baas, Mark A. Bedau, Mathieu S. Capcarrère, David Chalmers, James P. Crutchfield, Daniel C. Dennett, J. Doyne Farmer, Jerry Fodor, Carl Hempel, Paul Humphreys, Jaegwon Kim, Robert B. Laughlin, Bernd Mayer, Brian P. McLaughlin, Ernest Nagel, Martin Nillson, Paul Oppenheim, Norman H. Packard, David Pines, Steen Rasmussen, Edmund M. A. Ronald, Thomas Schelling, John Searle, Robert S. Shaw, Herbert Simon, Moshe Sipper, Stephen Weinberg, William Wimsatt, and Stephen Wolfram]]> 480 Mark A. Bedau 0262524759 Murat 0 to-read 4.13 2008
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]]> 3828902 Thinking in Systems, is a concise and crucial book offering insight for problem solving on scales ranging from the personal to the global. Edited by the Sustainability Institute’s Diana Wright, this essential primer brings systems thinking out of the realm of computers and equations and into the tangible world, showing readers how to develop the systems-thinking skills that thought leaders across the globe consider critical for 21st-century life.

Some of the biggest problems facing the world—war, hunger, poverty, and environmental degradation—are essentially system failures. They cannot be solved by fixing one piece in isolation from the others, because even seemingly minor details have enormous power to undermine the best efforts of too-narrow thinking.

While readers will learn the conceptual tools and methods of systems thinking, the heart of the book is grander than methodology. Donella Meadows was known as much for nurturing positive outcomes as she was for delving into the science behind global dilemmas. She reminds readers to pay attention to what is important, not just what is quantifiable, to stay humble, and to stay a learner.

In a world growing ever more complicated, crowded, and interdependent, Thinking in Systems helps readers avoid confusion and helplessness, the first step toward finding proactive and effective solutions.]]> 218 Donella H. Meadows 1603580557 Murat 0 next, currently-reading 4.17 2008
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]]> 52578297
When Nora Seed finds herself in the Midnight Library, she has a chance to make things right. Up until now, her life has been full of misery and regret. She feels she has let everyone down, including herself. But things are about to change.

The books in the Midnight Library enable Nora to live as if she had done things differently. With the help of an old friend, she can now undo every one of her regrets as she tries to work out her perfect life. But things aren't always what she imagined they'd be, and soon her choices place the library and herself in extreme danger.

Before time runs out, she must answer the ultimate question: what is the best way to live?]]> 288 Matt Haig 0525559477 Murat 3 next 3.96 2020
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]]> 50776459
"This book is a guide to how we do product development at Basecamp. It’s also a toolbox full of techniques that you can apply in your own way to your own process.

Whether you’re a founder, CTO, product manager, designer, or developer, you’re probably here because of some common challenges that all software companies have to face."]]> 133 Ryan Singer Murat 5 software-engineering 4.27 2019
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]]> 37752621
With this book as your guide, you'll survive--and thrive--in any period in Earth's history. Bestselling author and time-travel enthusiast Ryan North shows you how to invent all the modern conveniences we take for granted--from first principles. This illustrated manual contains all the science, engineering, art, philosophy, facts, and figures required for even the most clueless time traveler to build a civilization from the ground up. Deeply researched, irreverent, and significantly more fun than being eaten by a saber-toothed tiger, How to Invent Everything will make you smarter, more competent, and completely prepared to become the most important and influential person ever.]]> 464 Ryan North 0753552558 Murat 0 to-read, next 4.13 2018
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]]> 12158480 Brilliant and engagingly written, Why Nations Fail answers the question that has stumped the experts for centuries: Why are some nations rich and others poor, divided by wealth and poverty, health and sickness, food and famine?

Is it culture, the weather, geography? Perhaps ignorance of what the right policies are?

Simply, no. None of these factors is either definitive or destiny. Otherwise, how to explain why Botswana has become one of the fastest growing countries in the world, while other African nations, such as Zimbabwe, the Congo, and Sierra Leone, are mired in poverty and violence?

Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson conclusively show that it is man-made political and economic institutions that underlie economic success (or lack of it). Korea, to take just one of their fascinating examples, is a remarkably homogeneous nation, yet the people of North Korea are among the poorest on earth while their brothers and sisters in South Korea are among the richest. The south forged a society that created incentives, rewarded innovation, and allowed everyone to participate in economic opportunities. The economic success thus spurred was sustained because the government became accountable and responsive to citizens and the great mass of people. Sadly, the people of the north have endured decades of famine, political repression, and very different economic institutions—with no end in sight. The differences between the Koreas is due to the politics that created these completely different institutional trajectories.

Based on fifteen years of original research Acemoglu and Robinson marshall extraordinary historical evidence from the Roman Empire, the Mayan city-states, medieval Venice, the Soviet Union, Latin America, England, Europe, the United States, and Africa to build a new theory of political economy with great relevance for the big questions of today, including:

   - China has built an authoritarian growth machine. Will it continue to grow at such high speed and overwhelm the West?
   - Are America’s best days behind it? Are we moving from a virtuous circle in which efforts by elites to aggrandize power are resisted to a vicious one that enriches and empowers a small minority?
   - What is the most effective way to help move billions of people from the rut of poverty to prosperity? More
philanthropy from the wealthy nations of the West? Or learning the hard-won lessons of Acemoglu and Robinson’s breakthrough ideas on the interplay between inclusive political and economic institutions?

Why Nations Fail will change the way you look at—and understand—the world.]]> 529 Daron Acemoğlu 0307719219 Murat 0 to-read, next 4.06 2012
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]]> 57668267
This book collects challenges engineers face when building iOS and Android apps at scale, and common ways to tackle these. By scale, we mean having numbers of users in the millions and being built by large engineering teams.

For mobile engineers, this book is a blueprint for modern app engineering approaches. For non-mobile engineers and managers, it is a resource with which to build empathy and appreciation for the complexity of world-class mobile engineering.]]> 217 Gergely Orosz 1637958447 Murat 0 4.25
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]]> 7624594
As he re-creates these extraordinary events, John Vaillant gives us an unforgettable portrait of this spectacularly beautiful and mysterious region. We meet the native tribes who for centuries have worshipped and lived alongside tigers, even sharing their kills with them. We witness the arrival of Russian settlers in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, soldiers and hunters who greatly diminished the tiger populations. And we come to know their descendants, who, crushed by poverty, have turned to poaching and further upset the natural balance of the region.

This ancient, tenuous relationship between man and predator is at the very heart of this remarkable book. Throughout we encounter surprising theories of how humans and tigers may have evolved to coexist, how we may have developed as scavengers rather than hunters, and how early Homo sapiens may have fit seamlessly into the tiger’s ecosystem. Above all, we come to understand the endangered Siberian tiger, a highly intelligent super-predator that can grow to ten feet long, weigh more than six hundred pounds, and range daily over vast territories of forest and mountain.

Beautifully written and deeply informative, The Tiger circles around three main characters: Vladimir Markov, a poacher killed by the tiger; Yuri Trush, the lead tracker; and the tiger himself. It is an absolutely gripping tale of man and nature that leads inexorably to a final showdown in a clearing deep in the taiga.]]> 329 John Vaillant 0307268934 Murat 0 to-read, next 4.04 2010
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]]> 17364 Er hat die Quantenphysik revolutioniert und war einer der ersten Popstars der Physik. Seine Autobiografie zeigt Richard P. Feynman als talentierten Geschichtenerzähler mit Sinn für Witz und Tiefgang.


Theoretische Physik ist staubig? Ein Professor denkt nur an den Nobelpreis und seine Forschung? Nicht so Richard P. Feynman! In zahlreichen Schriften und Büchern hat der Magier der Quantenelektrodynamik schon Mitte des vergangenen Jahrhunderts bewiesen, dass Wissenschaft spannend, lustig und auch ein Abenteuer für Laien ist.


»Sie belieben wohl zu scherzen, Mr. Feynman!« versammelt autobiografische Anekdoten aus dem Leben des Vordenkers zu einem witzigen Einblick in den Aufstieg und die Karriere des nonchalanten Wissenschaftlers.


Feynman-Fans und -Einsteiger lernen einen Menschen kennen, der von Anfang an der Überzeugung gewesen ist, dass Wissenschaft nicht zum Selbstzweck existiert und es keinen Grund gibt, nicht über sich selbst zu lachen.


»Ich würde nicht zwei Mal sterben wollen. Es ist so langweilig.« �� Richard P. Feynman


Einen Nobelpreisträger für Physik erlebt man selten als derart mitreißenden Geschichtenerzähler. »Sie belieben wohl zu scherzen, Mr. Feynman!« begeistert Leser authentischer Biografien genauso wie Neugierige und aufstrebende Wissenschaftler.]]> 350 Richard P. Feynman 009917331X Murat 4 4.29 1985
author: Richard P. Feynman
name: Murat
average rating: 4.29
book published: 1985
rating: 4
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]]> 38900866 New York Times bestseller Rework broadly reject the prevailing notion that long hours, aggressive hustle, and "whatever it takes" are required to run a successful business today.

In Rework, Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson introduced a new path to working effectively. Now, they build on their message with a bold, iconoclastic strategy for creating the ideal company culture—what they call "the calm company." Their approach directly attack the chaos, anxiety, and stress that plagues millions of workplaces and hampers billions of workers every day.

Long hours, an excessive workload, and a lack of sleep have become a badge of honor for modern professionals. But it should be a mark of stupidity, the authors argue. Sadly, this isn’t just a problem for large organizations—individuals, contractors, and solopreneurs are burning themselves out the same way. The answer to better productivity isn’t more hours—it’s less waste and fewer things that induce distraction and persistent stress.

It’s time to stop celebrating Crazy, and start celebrating Calm, Fried and Hansson assert.

Fried and Hansson have the proof to back up their argument. "Calm" has been the cornerstone of their company’s culture since Basecamp began twenty years ago. Destined to become the management guide for the next generation, It Doesn't Have to Be Crazy at Work is a practical and inspiring distillation of their insights and experiences. It isn’t a book telling you what to do. It’s a book showing you what they’ve done—and how any manager or executive no matter the industry or size of the company, can do it too.]]> 240 Jason Fried 0062874780 Murat 0 to-read 3.94 2018
author: Jason Fried
name: Murat
average rating: 3.94
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]]> 135742 192 Bertrand Russell 0415109248 Murat 0 to-read 4.14 1935
author: Bertrand Russell
name: Murat
average rating: 4.14
book published: 1935
rating: 0
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]]> 53364291 366 John Fitch 1734794402 Murat 0 to-read 4.22
author: John Fitch
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]]> 17375 144 Richard P. Feynman 0465023940 Murat 0 to-read 4.02 1998
author: Richard P. Feynman
name: Murat
average rating: 4.02
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]]> 376964 252 Sidney Dekker 0754648265 Murat 0 currently-reading 4.13 2002
author: Sidney Dekker
name: Murat
average rating: 4.13
book published: 2002
rating: 0
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]]> 39996759 190 John Ousterhout 1732102201 Murat 5 software-engineering 4.18 2018
author: John Ousterhout
name: Murat
average rating: 4.18
book published: 2018
rating: 5
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]]> 425217 Book by Meeus, Jean 477 Jean Meeus 0943396611 Murat 0 to-read 4.24 1991
author: Jean Meeus
name: Murat
average rating: 4.24
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]]> 15756865
Building on Eric Evans�� seminal book, Domain-Driven Design, the author presents practical DDD techniques through examples from familiar domains. Each principle is backed up by realistic Java examples–all applicable to C# developers–and all content is tied together by a single case study: the delivery of a large-scale Scrum-based SaaS system for a multitenant environment.

The author takes you far beyond “DDD-lite�� approaches that embrace DDD solely as a technical toolset, and shows you how to fully leverage DDD’s “strategic design patterns�� using Bounded Context, Context Maps, and the Ubiquitous Language. Using these techniques and examples, you can reduce time to market and improve quality, as you build software that is more flexible, more scalable, and more tightly aligned to business goals.]]> 656 Vaughn Vernon Murat 3 software-engineering 4.05 2013
author: Vaughn Vernon
name: Murat
average rating: 4.05
book published: 2013
rating: 3
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]]> 320553
In the first part of the book, Christopher Alexander discusses the process by which a form is adapted to the context of human needs and demands that has called it into being. He shows that such an adaptive process will be successful only if it proceeds piecemeal instead of all at once. It is for this reason that forms from traditional un-self-conscious cultures, molded not by designers but by the slow pattern of changes within tradition, are so beautifully organized and adapted. When the designer, in our own self-conscious culture, is called on to create a form that is adapted to its context he is unsuccessful, because the preconceived categories out of which he builds his picture of the problem do not correspond to the inherent components of the problem, and therefore lead only to the arbitrariness, willfulness, and lack of understanding which plague the design of modern buildings and modern cities.

In the second part, Mr. Alexander presents a method by which the designer may bring his full creative imagination into play, and yet avoid the traps of irrelevant preconception. He shows that, whenever a problem is stated, it is possible to ignore existing concepts and to create new concepts, out of the structure of the problem itself, which do correspond correctly to what he calls the subsystems of the adaptive process. By treating each of these subsystems as a separate subproblem, the designer can translate the new concepts into form. The form, because of the process, will be well-adapted to its context, non-arbitrary, and correct.

The mathematics underlying this method, based mainly on set theory, is fully developed in a long appendix. Another appendix demonstrates the application of the method to the design of an Indian village.]]> 224 Christopher W. Alexander 0674627512 Murat 0 to-read 4.05 1964
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name: Murat
average rating: 4.05
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]]> 27310494 How consciousness appeared much earlier in evolutionary history than is commonly assumed, and why all vertebrates and perhaps even some invertebrates are conscious.

How is consciousness created? When did it first appear on Earth, and how did it evolve? What constitutes consciousness, and which animals can be said to be sentient? In this book, Todd Feinberg and Jon Mallatt draw on recent scientific findings to answer these questions -- and to tackle the most fundamental question about the nature of consciousness: how does the material brain create subjective experience?

After assembling a list of the biological and neurobiological features that seem responsible for consciousness, and considering the fossil record of evolution, Feinberg and Mallatt argue that consciousness appeared much earlier in evolutionary history than is commonly assumed. About 520 to 560 million years ago, they explain, the great "Cambrian explosion" of animal diversity produced the first complex brains, which were accompanied by the first appearance of consciousness; simple reflexive behaviors evolved into a unified inner world of subjective experiences. From this they deduce that all vertebrates are and have always been conscious -- not just humans and other mammals, but also every fish, reptile, amphibian, and bird. Considering invertebrates, they find that arthropods (including insects and probably crustaceans) and cephalopods (including the octopus) meet many of the criteria for consciousness. The obvious and conventional wisdom--shattering implication is that consciousness evolved simultaneously but independently in the first vertebrates and possibly arthropods more than half a billion years ago. Combining evolutionary, neurobiological, and philosophical approaches allows Feinberg and Mallatt to offer an original solution to the "hard problem" of consciousness.]]> 366 Todd E. Feinberg 0262034336 Murat 0 to-read 4.25
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]]> 39933047
About this Title

The renderer is a ray tracer, which means it simulates the physics of light by tracing the path of light rays around your scene. Each exciting chapter presents a bite-sized piece of the puzzle, building on earlier chapters and setting the stage for later ones. Requirements are given language-agnostically; it’s up to you to translate them into tests and code using whatever language you prefer. When the project is complete, you’ll look back and realize you’ve built an entire system test-first!

There’s no research necessary—all the necessary formulas and algorithms are presented and illustrated right here. Dive into intriguing topics from fundamental concepts such as vectors and matrices; to the algorithms that simulate the intersection of light rays with spheres, planes, cubes, cylinders, and triangles; to geometric patterns such as checkers and rings. Lighting and shading effects, such as shadows and reflections, make your scenes come to life, and constructive solid geometry (CSG) enables you to combine your graphics primitives in simple ways to produce complex shapes.

Play and experiment as you discover the fun of writing a ray tracer. Accept the challenge today!

What You Need

Aside from a computer, operating system, and programming environment, you’ll need a way to display PPM image files. On Windows, programs like Photoshop will work, or free programs like IrfanView. On Mac, no special software is needed, as Preview can open PPM files.]]> 270 Jamis Buck 1680502719 Murat 0 to-read 4.62 2018
author: Jamis Buck
name: Murat
average rating: 4.62
book published: 2018
rating: 0
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]]> 179133 Ralph Johnson, author of Design Patterns "If you don't think you are getting value from your investment in object-oriented programming, this book will tell you what you've forgotten to do. "Eric Evans convincingly argues for the importance of domain modeling as the central focus of development and provides a solid framework and set of techniques for accomplishing it. This is timeless wisdom, and will hold up long after the methodologies du jour have gone out of fashion." --Dave Collins, author of Designing Object-Oriented User Interfaces "Eric weaves real-world experience modeling--and building--business applications into a practical, useful book. Written from the perspective of a trusted practitioner, Eric's descriptions of ubiquitous language, the benefits of sharing models with users, object life-cycle management, logical and physical application structuring, and the process and results of deep refactoring are major contributions to our field." --Luke Hohmann, author of Beyond Software Architecture "This book belongs on the shelf of every thoughtful software developer." --Kent Beck "What Eric has managed to capture is a part of the design process that experienced object designers have always used, but that we have been singularly unsuccessful as a group in conveying to the rest of the industry. We've given away bits and pieces of this knowledge...but we've never organized and systematized the principles of building domain logic. This book is important." --Kyle Brown, author of Enterprise Java(TM) Programming with IBM(R) WebSphere(R) The software development community widely acknowledges that domain modeling is central to software design. Through domain models, software developers are able to express rich functionality and translate it into a software implementation that truly serves the needs of its users. But despite its obvious importance, there are few practical resources that explain how to incorporate effective domain modeling into the software development process. Domain-Driven Design fills that need. This is not a book about specific technologies. It offers readers a systematic approach to domain-driven design, presenting an extensive set of design best practices, experience-based techniques, and fundamental principles that facilitate the development of software projects facing complex domains. Intertwining design and development practice, this book incorporates numerous examples based on actual projects to illustrate the application of domain-driven design to real-world software development. Readers learn how to use a domain model to make a complex development effort more focused and dynamic. A core of best practices and standard patterns provides a common language for the development team. A shift in emphasis--refactoring not just the code but the model underlying the code--in combination with the frequent iterations of Agile development leads to deeper insight into domains and enhanced communication between domain expert and programmer. Domain-Driven Design then builds on this foundation, and addresses modeling and design for complex systems and larger organizations.Specific topics covered include:
Getting all team members to speak the same language Connecting model and implementation more deeply Sharpening key distinctions in a model Managing the lifecycle of a domain object Writing domain code that is safe to combine in elaborate ways Making complex code obvious and predictable Formulating a domain vision statement Distilling the core of a complex domain Digging out implicit concepts needed in the model Applying analysis patterns Relating design patterns to the model Maintaining model integrity in a large system Dealing with coexisting models on the same project Organizing systems with large-scale structures Recognizing and responding to modeling breakthroughs With this book in hand, object-oriented developers, system analysts, and designers will have the guidance they need to organize and focus their work, create rich and useful domain models, and leverage those models into quality, long-lasting software implementations.]]> 560 Eric Evans 0321125215 Murat 0 4.14 2003
author: Eric Evans
name: Murat
average rating: 4.14
book published: 2003
rating: 0
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]]> 258922
Watched over by an immortal wanderer, they witnessed humanity's rebirth from ashes, and saw reenacted the eternal drama of the struggle between light and darkness, life and death.]]> 338 Walter M. Miller Jr. 0553273817 Murat 3 sci-fi 3.98 1959
author: Walter M. Miller Jr.
name: Murat
average rating: 3.98
book published: 1959
rating: 3
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]]> 100366 Visit Lookitthat, Down, and Jinx -- indeed, an entire galaxy of planets found only in these stories that trace man's expansion and colonization throughout Known Space.
A spectacular cycle of the future . . . a 10,000-year history of man on Earth and in space!

Contents:

· Neutron Star [Beowulf Shaeffer] · nv If Oct ��66
· A Relic of Empire · nv If Dec ��66
· At the Core [Beowulf Shaeffer] · ss If Nov ��66
· The Soft Weapon · nv If Feb ��67
· Flatlander [Beowulf Shaeffer] · nv If Mar ��67
· The Ethics of Madness · nv If Apr ��67
· The Handicapped [“Handicap”] · nv Galaxy Dec ��67
· Grendel [Beowulf Shaeffer] · nv *]]> 285 Larry Niven 0345336941 Murat 5 sci-fi 4.12 1966
author: Larry Niven
name: Murat
average rating: 4.12
book published: 1966
rating: 5
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]]> 16248196
Have you ever:
�� Invested time in something that, with hindsight, just wasn't worth it?
�� Overpayed in an Ebay auction?
�� Continued doing something you knew was bad for you?
�� Sold stocks too late, or too early?
�� Taken credit for success, but blamed failure on external circumstances?
�� Backed the wrong horse?

These are examples of cognitive biases, simple errors we all make in our day-to-day thinking. But by knowing what they are and how to spot them, we can avoid them and make better choices-whether dealing with a personal problem or a business negotiation; trying to save money or make money; working out what we do or don't want in life: and how best to get it.

Simple, clear and always surprising, this indispensable book will change the way you think and transform your decision-making-work, at home, every day. It reveals, in 99 short chapters, the most common errors of judgment, and how to avoid them.]]> 384 Rolf Dobelli 0062219685 Murat 3 problem-solving 3.83 2011
author: Rolf Dobelli
name: Murat
average rating: 3.83
book published: 2011
rating: 3
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]]> 36482676 'We are time. We are this space, this clearing opened by the traces of memory inside the connections between our neurons. We are memory. We are nostalgia. We are longing for a future that will not come.'

Time is a mystery that does not cease to puzzle us. Philosophers, artists and poets have long explored its meaning while scientists have found that its structure is different from the simple intuition we have of it. From Boltzmann to quantum theory, from Einstein to loop quantum gravity, our understanding of time has been undergoing radical transformations. Time flows at a different speed in different places, the past and the future differ far less than we might think, and the very notion of the present evaporates in the vast universe.

With his extraordinary charm and sense of wonder, bringing together science, philosophy and art, Carlo Rovelli unravels this mystery. Enlightening and consoling, The Order of Time shows that to understand ourselves we need to reflect on time -- and to understand time we need to reflect on ourselves.]]> 224 Carlo Rovelli 0241292522 Murat 4 with-review, science 4.08 2017
author: Carlo Rovelli
name: Murat
average rating: 4.08
book published: 2017
rating: 4
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date added: 2021/02/26
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3.5'tan 4 diyeyim. Fikirleri hoşuma gitti ama anlatımı çok zayıf buldum. Yazarın anlatım şekli ve verdiği yerli yersiz referansları özellikle beğenmedim.
]]> 36303871
Until very recently, science had no answer to the question of why we sleep, or what good it served, or why its absence is so damaging to our health. Compared to the other basic drives in life - eating, drinking, and reproducing - the purpose of sleep remained elusive.

Now, in this book, the first of its kind written by a scientific expert, Professor Matthew Walker explores twenty years of cutting-edge research to solve the mystery of why sleep matters. Looking at creatures from across the animal kingdom as well as major human studies, Why We Sleep delves in to everything from what really happens during REM sleep to how caffeine and alcohol affect sleep and why our sleep patterns change across a lifetime, transforming our appreciation of the extraordinary phenomenon that safeguards our existence.]]> 360 Matthew Walker 0141983760 Murat 5 science 4.41 2017
author: Matthew Walker
name: Murat
average rating: 4.41
book published: 2017
rating: 5
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]]> 16103625 İLBER ORTAYLI

İsmail Küçükkaya sordu, İlber Ortaylı tüm içtenliğiyle cevapladı ve ortaya Türkiye’nin geçmiş ve geleceğiyle ilgilenen her okurun mutlak okuması gereken bir başucu kitabı ortaya çıktı...

CUMHURİYET’İN İLK YÜZYILI’na yeni devletimizin yapı taşlarının döşendiği Osmanlı İmparatorluğu’nun modernleşme döneminden başladık.
Atatürk ve silah arkadaşlarının yetiştiği II. Abdülhamid’in modernlik arayışı içinde geçen yıllarını, ama aynı zamanda istibdad günlerini ve buna karşı isyan edip hürriyet arayan genç Osmanlı subaylarının maceraları hayatları��
Millî Mücadele dönemini, özgürlük havasının egemen olduğu Cumhuriyet’in ilk iki yılını ve tek partili zorlu zamanları, ardından gelen çok partili siyasal yaşamın başladığı 1950’li yılları...
1913 Babıali Baskını’yla başlayan darbeler tarihini...
Yeni devletin ilk gününden itibaren çözmeye çalıştığı kadim problemleri; Kürt Sorunu’nu, “irtica�� meselesini ve eğitim konusunu...
İslâmcılıktan milliyetçiliğe, merkez sağdan sosyal demokrasiye bütün siyasal akımları...
1876’dan 1924’e ve 1982’ye anayasa metinlerimizi... Bizleri 2023’e taşıyacak yeni anayasa özlemimizi...
Asırlık dış politikamız, ikili ilişkilerimiz, uluslararası kuruluşlardaki temsiliyetimiz, Kıbrıs Barış Harekâtı, AB macerası ve Ortadoğu politikalarımızı...
Şehirleşme, üniversiteleşme, gecekondulaşma, ekonomik büyüme, yolsuzluklar, gündelik yaşamdaki nitelik ve kalite kaybı gibi en güçlü sosyolojik dinamik ve gelişmeleri...
Yani bizi biz yapan ve bugünlere taşıyan önemli tarihsel dinamikleri konuştuk��

CUMHURİYET’İN İLK YÜZYILI, İlber Ortaylı'nın kaleminden 1923'ten günümüze, günümüzden 2023'e uzanan, bir geçmiş ve gelecek muhasebesi...]]> 336 İlber Ortaylı 6050804982 Murat 3 history 3.73 2012
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name: Murat
average rating: 3.73
book published: 2012
rating: 3
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]]> 10284614 210 Robert C. Martin 0137081073 Murat 4 software-engineering 4.24 2011
author: Robert C. Martin
name: Murat
average rating: 4.24
book published: 2011
rating: 4
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]]> 18656030 The fourth novel in James S.A. Corey’s New York Times bestselling Expanse series

The gates have opened the way to thousands of habitable planets, and the land rush has begun. Settlers stream out from humanity's home planets in a vast, poorly controlled flood, landing on a new world. Among them, the Rocinante, haunted by the vast, posthuman network of the protomolecule as they investigate what destroyed the great intergalactic society that built the gates and the protomolecule.

But Holden and his crew must also contend with the growing tensions between the settlers and the company which owns the official claim to the planet. Both sides will stop at nothing to defend what's theirs, but soon a terrible disease strikes and only Holden - with help from the ghostly Detective Miller - can find the cure.]]> 581 James S.A. Corey Murat 4 sci-fi 4.18 2014
author: James S.A. Corey
name: Murat
average rating: 4.18
book published: 2014
rating: 4
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]]> 16131032
For generations, the solar system - Mars, the Moon, the Asteroid Belt - was humanity's great frontier. Until now. The alien artefact working through its program under the clouds of Venus has emerged to build a massive structure outside the orbit of Uranus: a gate that leads into a starless dark.

Jim Holden and the crew of the Rocinante are part of a vast flotilla of scientific and military ships going out to examine the artefact. But behind the scenes, a complex plot is unfolding, with the destruction of Holden at its core. As the emissaries of the human race try to find whether the gate is an opportunity or a threat, the greatest danger is the one they brought with them.]]> 539 James S.A. Corey Murat 3 sci-fi 4.26 2013
author: James S.A. Corey
name: Murat
average rating: 4.26
book published: 2013
rating: 3
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]]> 12591698
In the vast wilderness of space, James Holden and the crew of the Rocinante have been keeping the peace for the Outer Planets Alliance. When they agree to help a scientist search war-torn Ganymede for a missing child, the future of humanity rests on whether a single ship can prevent an alien invasion that may have already begun . . .]]> 624 James S.A. Corey 1841499900 Murat 4 with-review, sci-fi
Bir önceki kitap için, 'diziyi seyredin, okumaya pek gerek yok' demiştim, ama bu kitap için aynısını diyemeyeceğim. Kitaptaki karakterlerin dizidekilere göre daha mantıklı/gerçeğe uygun davrandığını düşünüyorum. Dizide, Rocinante'nin mürettebat arasında, nedensizce (veya saçma nedenlerden) gerginlik yaşanıyor. Oysa kitapta da karakterler arasında bazı çatışmalar geçiyor ama mantıklı nedenlerden dolayı. Ayrıca bazı olayların oluş yerlerinde veya şekillerinde farklar var. Ben, olayların kitap versiyonunu daha gerçekçi buldum.

Tabi bu protomolekül fizik yasalarını saçma sapan yerlerde delmezse iyi olur.
]]> 4.36 2012
author: James S.A. Corey
name: Murat
average rating: 4.36
book published: 2012
rating: 4
read at: 2018/02/07
date added: 2021/02/26
shelves: with-review, sci-fi
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Caliban'ın Savaşı, serinin bir önceki kitabının kaldığı yerden, James Holden ve ekibinin serüvenine devam ediyor. Akıcı bir anlatıma sahip ve heyecanlı buldum.

Bir önceki kitap için, 'diziyi seyredin, okumaya pek gerek yok' demiştim, ama bu kitap için aynısını diyemeyeceğim. Kitaptaki karakterlerin dizidekilere göre daha mantıklı/gerçeğe uygun davrandığını düşünüyorum. Dizide, Rocinante'nin mürettebat arasında, nedensizce (veya saçma nedenlerden) gerginlik yaşanıyor. Oysa kitapta da karakterler arasında bazı çatışmalar geçiyor ama mantıklı nedenlerden dolayı. Ayrıca bazı olayların oluş yerlerinde veya şekillerinde farklar var. Ben, olayların kitap versiyonunu daha gerçekçi buldum.

Tabi bu protomolekül fizik yasalarını saçma sapan yerlerde delmezse iyi olur.

]]> 326790 Minsky brilliantly portrays the mind as a "society" of tiny components that are themselves mindless. Mirroring his theory, Minsky boldly casts The Society of Mind as an intellectual puzzle whose pieces are assembled along the way. Each chapter -- on a self-contained page -- corresponds to a piece in the puzzle. As the pages turn, a unified theory of the mind emerges, like a mosaic. Ingenious, amusing, and easy to read, The Society of Mind is an adventure in imagination.]]> 336 Marvin Minsky 0671657135 Murat 5 with-review, science 4.04 1985
author: Marvin Minsky
name: Murat
average rating: 4.04
book published: 1985
rating: 5
read at: 2017/01/20
date added: 2021/02/26
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Minsky, zihnimizde, varlığından haberdar bile olmadığımiz düşünsel birçok karmaşık süreçten ve bu süreçlerin basit, temel ve birbirleriyle çalışabilir süreçlerden oluştuğu bir modelden bahsediyor. Kendisi MIT Yapay Zeka Lab.ının kurucusu. Modeli bir çok varsayıma dayanıyor ancak çok detaylı düşünülmüş. Mass Effect'teki Geth'leri hatırlattı bana.
]]> 25248507 Homo sapiens neden ekolojik bir seri katile dönüştü?
Para neden herkesin güvendiği tek şey?
Kadınlar üstün sosyal becerilere sahipken, neden çoğu toplum erkek egemen?
Güç elde etmekte böylesine yetenekli olan insanlar neden bu gücü mutluluğa dönüştürmekte başarısızlar?
Geleceğin dini bilim mi?
İnsanların miadı çoktan doldu mu?
100 bin yıl önce yeryüzünde en az altı farklı insan türü vardı. Günümüzdeyse sadece Homo sapiens var. Diğerlerinin başına ne geldi ve bize ne olacak?

Çoğu çalışma insanlığın serüvenini ya tarihi ya da biyolojik bir yaklaşımla ele alır, ancak Harari 70 bin yıl önce gerçekleşen Bilişsel Devrim'le başlattığı bu kitabında gelenekleri yerle bir ediyor. İnsanların küresel ekosistemde oynadıkları rolden imparatorlukların yükselişine ve modern dünyaya kadar pek çok konuyu irdeleyen Sapiens, tarihle bilimi bir araya getirerek kabul görmüş anlatıları yeniden ele alıyor.

Harari ayrıca geleceğe bakmaya da zorluyor okuru. Yakın zamanda insanlar, dört milyar yıldır yaşama hükmeden doğal seçilim yasalarını esnetmeye başladılar. Artık sadece dünyayı değil, kendimizi ve diğer canlıları tasarlama becerisi de kazandık. Peki bu bizi nereye götürüyor, bizi neye dönüştürebilir?

30'dan fazla dile çevrilmiş bu kışkırtıcı çalışma özellikle Jared Diamond, James Gleick, Matt Ridley ve Robert Wright'ın eserlerine aşina okurlar için muhteşem bir kaynak!

"Sapiens, tarihin ve modern dünyanın en büyük sorularını gayet yalın bir dille ele alıyor. Çok seveceksiniz!" - Jared Diamond, Tüfek, Mikrop ve Çelik'in yazarı

"Harari'nin eseri kabul görmüş doktrinlerin karşısında duran fikirler ve şaşırtıcı gerçeklerle bezeli." - John Gray, Financial Times]]> 411 Yuval Noah Harari 6055029359 Murat 5 science 4.43 2011
author: Yuval Noah Harari
name: Murat
average rating: 4.43
book published: 2011
rating: 5
read at: 2017/01/10
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]]> 17349
Casting a wide net through history and culture, Sagan examines and authoritatively debunks such celebrated fallacies of the past as witchcraft, faith healing, demons, and UFOs. And yet, disturbingly, in today's so-called information age, pseudoscience is burgeoning with stories of alien abduction, channeling past lives, and communal hallucinations commanding growing attention and respect. As Sagan demonstrates with lucid eloquence, the siren song of unreason is not just a cultural wrong turn but a dangerous plunge into darkness that threatens our most basic freedoms.]]> 459 Carl Sagan 0345409469 Murat 5 science 4.28 1995
author: Carl Sagan
name: Murat
average rating: 4.28
book published: 1995
rating: 5
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]]> 18007564
Now, he’s sure he’ll be the first person to die there.

After a dust storm nearly kills him and forces his crew to evacuate while thinking him dead, Mark finds himself stranded and completely alone with no way to even signal Earth that he’s alive—and even if he could get word out, his supplies would be gone long before a rescue could arrive.

Chances are, though, he won’t have time to starve to death. The damaged machinery, unforgiving environment, or plain-old “human error�� are much more likely to kill him first.

But Mark isn’t ready to give up yet. Drawing on his ingenuity, his engineering skills �� and a relentless, dogged refusal to quit �� he steadfastly confronts one seemingly insurmountable obstacle after the next. Will his resourcefulness be enough to overcome the impossible odds against him?

]]> 384 Andy Weir 0804139024 Murat 5 sci-fi 4.41 2011
author: Andy Weir
name: Murat
average rating: 4.41
book published: 2011
rating: 5
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]]> 89186 Rockhopper, push ice. They mine comets. But when Janus, one of Saturn's ice moons, inexplicably leaves its natural orbit and heads out of the solar system at high speed, Bella is ordered to shadow it for the few vital days before it falls forever out of reach.

In accepting this mission she sets her ship and her crew on a collision course with destiny—for Janus has many surprises in store, and not all of them are welcome...]]> 458 Alastair Reynolds 0441014011 Murat 3 sci-fi 4.06 2005
author: Alastair Reynolds
name: Murat
average rating: 4.06
book published: 2005
rating: 3
read at: 2015/04/17
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]]> 63742 480 Stephen Baxter 034543076X Murat 4 sci-fi 3.81 1999
author: Stephen Baxter
name: Murat
average rating: 3.81
book published: 1999
rating: 4
read at: 2014/06/16
date added: 2021/02/26
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]]> 1396528
She had driven the first—and only—mind-reading robot out of its mind, and coaxed the childlike Brain to invent the interstellar engine.

Finally, at the end of her career, she faced the final question: who was really in charge; and who should be?

In these stories of the early days of robots, Isaac Asimov established the Three Laws of Robotics and demonstrated the abilities that have made him one of the world's leading science fiction writers.

Contents:
* Robbie
* Runaround
* Reason
* Catch That Rabbit
* Liar!
* Little Lost Robot
* Escape!
* Evidence
* The Evitable Conflict]]> 192 Isaac Asimov 0345321405 Murat 4 sci-fi 4.03 1950
author: Isaac Asimov
name: Murat
average rating: 4.03
book published: 1950
rating: 4
read at: 2014/04/08
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]]> 8648
On Lusitania, Ender found a world where humans and pequininos and the Hive Queen could all live together; where three very different intelligent species could find common ground at last. Or so he thought.

Lusitania also harbors the descolada, a virus that kills all humans it infects, but which the pequininos require in order to become adults. The Starways Congress so fears the effects of the descolada, should it escape from Lusitania, that they have ordered the destruction of the entire planet, and all who live there. The Fleet is on its way, a second xenocide seems inevitable.

Xenocide is the third novel in Orson Scott Card's The Ender Saga.]]> 592 Orson Scott Card 0312861877 Murat 5 sci-fi 3.81 1991
author: Orson Scott Card
name: Murat
average rating: 3.81
book published: 1991
rating: 5
read at: 2014/03/06
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]]> 61663 384 Carl Sagan 0345376595 Murat 5 science 4.33 1994
author: Carl Sagan
name: Murat
average rating: 4.33
book published: 1994
rating: 5
read at: 2013/12/14
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]]> 70539 2001: A Space Odyssey first shocked, amazed, and delighted millions in the late 1960s, the novel was quickly recognized as a classic. Since then, its fame has grown steadily among the multitudes who have read the novel or seen the film based on it. Yet, along with almost universal acclaim, a host of questions has grown more insistent through the years:

Who or what transformed Dave Bowman into the Star-Child? What purpose lay behind the transformation? What would become of the Star-Child?

What alien purpose lay behind the monoliths on the Moon and out in space?

What could drive HAL, a stable, intelligent computer, to kill the crew? Was HAL really insane? What happened to HAL and the spaceship Discovery after Dave Bowman disappeared?

Would there be a sequel?

Now all those questions and many more have been answered. In this stunning sequel to his international bestseller, Clarke has written what will truly be one of the great books of the '80s. Cosmic in sweep, eloquent in its depiction of Man's place in the Universe, and filled with the romance of space, this novel is a monumental achievement.]]> 320 Arthur C. Clarke 0345413970 Murat 5 sci-fi 3.94 1982
author: Arthur C. Clarke
name: Murat
average rating: 3.94
book published: 1982
rating: 5
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]]> 70535
So great are the implications of this discovery that for the first time men are sent out deep into our solar system.

But long before their destination is reached, things begin to go horribly, inexplicably wrong...

One of the greatest-selling science fiction novels of our time, this classic book will grip you to the very end.]]> 297 Arthur C. Clarke Murat 4 sci-fi 4.17 1968
author: Arthur C. Clarke
name: Murat
average rating: 4.17
book published: 1968
rating: 4
read at: 2013/11/18
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]]> 3869
Told in language we all can understand, A Brief History of Time plunges into the exotic realms of black holes and quarks, of antimatter and “arrows of time,�� of the big bang and a bigger God—where the possibilities are wondrous and unexpected. With exciting images and profound imagination, Stephen Hawking brings us closer to the ultimate secrets at the very heart of creation.]]> 226 Stephen Hawking 0553380168 Murat 3 science 4.22 1988
author: Stephen Hawking
name: Murat
average rating: 4.22
book published: 1988
rating: 3
read at: 2013/08/08
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]]> 61179 288 Larry Niven 0575077026 Murat 5 sci-fi 3.96 1970
author: Larry Niven
name: Murat
average rating: 3.96
book published: 1970
rating: 5
read at: 2013/06/23
date added: 2021/02/26
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]]> 4099 The Pragmatic Programmer cuts through the increasing specialization and technicalities of modern software development to examine the core process--taking a requirement and producing working, maintainable code that delights its users. It covers topics ranging from personal responsibility and career development to architectural techniques for keeping your code flexible and easy to adapt and reuse. Read this book, and you'll learn how to

Fight software rot; Avoid the trap of duplicating knowledge; Write flexible, dynamic, and adaptable code; Avoid programming by coincidence; Bullet-proof your code with contracts, assertions, and exceptions; Capture real requirements; Test ruthlessly and effectively; Delight your users; Build teams of pragmatic programmers; and Make your developments more precise with automation. Written as a series of self-contained sections and filled with entertaining anecdotes, thoughtful examples, and interesting analogies, The Pragmatic Programmer illustrates the best practices and major pitfalls of many different aspects of software development. Whether you're a new coder, an experienced programmer, or a manager responsible for software projects, use these lessons daily, and you'll quickly see improvements in personal productivity, accuracy, and job satisfaction. You'll learn skills and develop habits and attitudes that form the foundation for long-term success in your career. You'll become a Pragmatic Programmer.]]> 321 Dave Thomas 020161622X Murat 5 software-engineering 4.32 1999
author: Dave Thomas
name: Murat
average rating: 4.32
book published: 1999
rating: 5
read at: 2012/12/17
date added: 2021/02/26
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]]> 4808763
En un relato aparentemente sencillo sobre un asunto sobrecogedor, el fin de los días, Asimov demuestra, una vez más, una mente preclara y una mano maestra para sobrecoger al lector y dejarlo en vilo, incluso después de la lectura.]]> 9 Isaac Asimov 1884214495 Murat 5 sci-fi 4.56 1956
author: Isaac Asimov
name: Murat
average rating: 4.56
book published: 1956
rating: 5
read at: 2012/10/19
date added: 2021/02/26
shelves: sci-fi
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]]> 32778040 306 Gregor Hohpe 1537082981 Murat 3 software-architecture 4.29
author: Gregor Hohpe
name: Murat
average rating: 4.29
book published:
rating: 3
read at: 2020/02/28
date added: 2021/02/26
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]]> 39021521 Intermediate level, for programmers fairly familiar with Java, but new to the functional style of programming and lambda expressions.

Get ready to program in a whole new way. Functional Programming in Java will help you quickly get on top of the new, essential Java 8 language features and the functional style that will change and improve your code. This short, targeted book will help you make the paradigm shift from the old imperative way to a less error-prone, more elegant, and concise coding style that's also a breeze to parallelize. You'll explore the syntax and semantics of lambda expressions, method and constructor references, and functional interfaces. You'll design and write applications better using the new standards in Java 8 and the JDK.

Lambda expressions are lightweight, highly concise anonymous methods backed by functional interfaces in Java 8. You can use them to leap forward into a whole new world of programming in Java. With functional programming capabilities, which have been around for decades in other languages, you can now write elegant, concise, less error-prone code using standard Java. This book will guide you though the paradigm change, offer the essential details about the new features, and show you how to transition from your old way of coding to an improved style.

In this book you'll see popular design patterns, such as decorator, builder, and strategy, come to life to solve common design problems, but with little ceremony and effort. With these new capabilities in hand, Functional Programming in Java will help you pick up techniques to implement designs that were beyond easy reach in earlier versions of Java. You'll see how you can reap the benefits of tail call optimization, memoization, and effortless parallelization techniques.

Java 8 will change the way you write applications. If you're eager to take advantage of the new features in the language, this is the book for you.

What you need:

Java 8 with support for lambda expressions and the JDK is required to make use of the concepts and the examples in this book.]]> 196 Venkat Subramaniam 1680503545 Murat 2
Maybe beginners in Java would get more out of this book. ]]> 2.00 2013
author: Venkat Subramaniam
name: Murat
average rating: 2.00
book published: 2013
rating: 2
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I usually like the language of Mr. Subramaniam, however too much of a good thing could be a bad thing I guess. This book feels too verbose, I think it could easily be one third of its size.

Maybe beginners in Java would get more out of this book.
]]> 127931 312 Joshua Bloch 032133678X Murat 5 software-engineering 4.24 2005
author: Joshua Bloch
name: Murat
average rating: 4.24
book published: 2005
rating: 5
read at: 2019/07/04
date added: 2021/02/26
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]]> 35755822 190 Neal Ford 1491986360 Murat 0 3.68 2022
author: Neal Ford
name: Murat
average rating: 3.68
book published: 2022
rating: 0
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]]> 22512931
Microservice technologies are moving quickly. Author Sam Newman provides you with a firm grounding in the concepts while diving into current solutions for modeling, integrating, testing, deploying, and monitoring your own autonomous services. You'll follow a fictional company throughout the book to learn how building a microservice architecture affects a single domain.


Discover how microservices allow you to align your system design with your organization's goals
Learn options for integrating a service with the rest of your system
Take an incremental approach when splitting monolithic codebases
Deploy individual microservices through continuous integration
Examine the complexities of testing and monitoring distributed services
Manage security with user-to-service and service-to-service models
Understand the challenges of scaling microservice architectures]]> 473 Sam Newman 1491950358 Murat 0 4.19 2014
author: Sam Newman
name: Murat
average rating: 4.19
book published: 2014
rating: 0
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date added: 2021/02/26
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]]> 85012 736 Gregor Hohpe 0321200683 Murat 0 4.11 2003
author: Gregor Hohpe
name: Murat
average rating: 4.11
book published: 2003
rating: 0
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]]> 17255186
The company's new IT initiative, code named Phoenix Project, is critical to the future of Parts Unlimited, but the project is massively over budget and very late. The CEO wants Bill to report directly to him and fix the mess in ninety days or else Bill's entire department will be outsourced.

With the help of a prospective board member and his mysterious philosophy of The Three Ways, Bill starts to see that IT work has more in common with manufacturing plant work than he ever imagined. With the clock ticking, Bill must organize work flow streamline interdepartmental communications, and effectively serve the other business functions at Parts Unlimited.

In a fast-paced and entertaining style, three luminaries of the DevOps movement deliver a story that anyone who works in IT will recognize. Readers will not only learn how to improve their own IT organizations, they'll never view IT the same way again.]]> 345 Gene Kim 0988262592 Murat 0 4.23 2013
author: Gene Kim
name: Murat
average rating: 4.23
book published: 2013
rating: 0
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]]> 44144493
Authors Neal Ford and Mark Richards help you learn through examples in a variety of popular programming languages, such as Java, C#, JavaScript, and others. You'll focus on architecture principles with examples that apply across all technology stacks.]]> 422 Mark Richards 1492043451 Murat 0 4.25 2020
author: Mark Richards
name: Murat
average rating: 4.25
book published: 2020
rating: 0
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]]> 35135772 Fully Revised and Updated-Includes New Refactorings and Code Examples "Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand."
--M. Fowler (1999) For more than twenty years, experienced programmers worldwide have relied on Martin Fowler's Refactoring to improve the design of existing code and to enhance software maintainability, as well as to make existing code easier to understand.
This eagerly awaited new edition has been fully updated to reflect crucial changes in the programming landscape. Refactoring, Second Edition, features an updated catalog of refactorings and includes JavaScript code examples, as well as new functional examples that demonstrate refactoring without classes.
Like the original, this edition explains what refactoring is; why you should refactor; how to recognize code that needs refactoring; and how to actually do it successfully, no matter what language you use.
Understand the process and general principles of refactoring Quickly apply useful refactorings to make a program easier to comprehend and change Recognize "bad smells" in code that signal opportunities to refactor Explore the refactorings, each with explanations, motivation, mechanics, and simple examples Build solid tests for your refactorings Recognize tradeoffs and obstacles to refactoring Includes free access to the canonical web edition, with even more refactoring resources. (See inside the book for details about how to access the web edition.)]]> 448 Martin Fowler 0134757599 Murat 0 4.31 1999
author: Martin Fowler
name: Murat
average rating: 4.31
book published: 1999
rating: 0
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]]> 3735293 Noted software expert Robert C. Martin presents a revolutionary paradigm with Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship . Martin has teamed up with his colleagues from Object Mentor to distill their best agile practice of cleaning code on the fly into a book that will instill within you the values of a software craftsman and make you a better programmer but only if you work at it.
What kind of work will you be doing? You'll be reading code - lots of code. And you will be challenged to think about what's right about that code, and what's wrong with it. More importantly, you will be challenged to reassess your professional values and your commitment to your craft.
Clean Code is divided into three parts. The first describes the principles, patterns, and practices of writing clean code. The second part consists of several case studies of increasing complexity. Each case study is an exercise in cleaning up code - of transforming a code base that has some problems into one that is sound and efficient. The third part is the payoff: a single chapter containing a list of heuristics and "smells" gathered while creating the case studies. The result is a knowledge base that describes the way we think when we write, read, and clean code.
Readers will come away from this book understanding

�� How to tell the difference between good and bad code
�� How to write good code and how to transform bad code into good code
�� How to create good names, good functions, good objects, and good classes
�� How to format code for maximum readability
�� How to implement complete error handling without obscuring code logic
�� How to unit test and practice test-driven development

This book is a must for any developer, software engineer, project manager, team lead, or systems analyst with an interest in producing better code.]]> 464 Robert C. Martin 0132350882 Murat 0 4.36 2007
author: Robert C. Martin
name: Murat
average rating: 4.36
book published: 2007
rating: 0
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]]> 149063 229 Arthur C. Clarke 0553290959 Murat 0 to-read 3.75 1951
author: Arthur C. Clarke
name: Murat
average rating: 3.75
book published: 1951
rating: 0
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]]> 2385228
To be successful in life, one needs to ask essential questions: essential questions when reading, writing, and speaking; when shopping, working, and parenting; when forming friendships, choosing life-partners, and interacting with the mass media and through the internet. This thinker’s guide is a starting place for understanding concepts that, when applied, lead to essential questions.]]> 54 Linda Elder 0944583164 Murat 5 4.12 2002
author: Linda Elder
name: Murat
average rating: 4.12
book published: 2002
rating: 5
read at: 2021/01/18
date added: 2021/01/19
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review:

]]> 1069827 350 Michael T. Nygard 0978739213 Murat 0 4.24 2007
author: Michael T. Nygard
name: Murat
average rating: 4.24
book published: 2007
rating: 0
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]]> 40024831 In each later chapter, the author returns to explore in more detail one aspect of Europe's remarkable history: its political evolution; its linguistic boundaries and their defining influence; the crucial role played by power struggles between Pope and Emperor; and the great invasions and conquests that have transformed the continent. Along the way we meet a cast of highly distinctive characters, from pious knights to belligerent popes, from German romanti spouting folklore to French revolutionaries imitating their Roman heroes.
Written with clarity, feeling and wit, The Shortest History of Europe is a tour-de-force of compression: it will be read in an afternoon, but remembered for a lifetime.]]> 240 John Hirst 1910400807 Murat 5 with-review, history
Tabii "Avrupa" derken odak noktada, bütün kıta Avrupa'sına değil, "Batı Uygarlığı" var. Özetle, Antik Yunan ve Roma İmparatorluğu'ndan başlayarak genellikle bu günkü İngiltere, Fransa ve Almanya'nın nasıl şekillendiğini öğreniyoruz. Diğer milletlerin 1. Dünya Savaşı'na kadar sözü pek geçmiyor.

Yazarın sadece tarihsel süreci değil, belli dönemlerdeki (Antik Yunan, Roma, Reform ve Rönesans Avrupa'sı ve endüstriyel devrim) toplumların ve yönetimlerin yapısını da anlatmasını beğendim. Ayrıca, Avrupa uygarlığını Çin uygarlığı ile kıyasladığı bölümü de çok faydalı buldum.]]> 3.95 2009
author: John Hirst
name: Murat
average rating: 3.95
book published: 2009
rating: 5
read at: 2019/08/11
date added: 2021/01/01
shelves: with-review, history
review:
Bu kitapta John Hirst, Avrupa'nın Antik Yunan'dan başlayarak 2. Dünya savaşı sonuna kadar olan tarihini, kısa ve sıkıcı olmayan bir özet şeklinde sunmuş. Yazar, kitaptaki materyali, Avusturalya'daki üniversite öğrencilerine Batı uygarlığını anlattığı dersten uyarlamış.

Tabii "Avrupa" derken odak noktada, bütün kıta Avrupa'sına değil, "Batı Uygarlığı" var. Özetle, Antik Yunan ve Roma İmparatorluğu'ndan başlayarak genellikle bu günkü İngiltere, Fransa ve Almanya'nın nasıl şekillendiğini öğreniyoruz. Diğer milletlerin 1. Dünya Savaşı'na kadar sözü pek geçmiyor.

Yazarın sadece tarihsel süreci değil, belli dönemlerdeki (Antik Yunan, Roma, Reform ve Rönesans Avrupa'sı ve endüstriyel devrim) toplumların ve yönetimlerin yapısını da anlatmasını beğendim. Ayrıca, Avrupa uygarlığını Çin uygarlığı ile kıyasladığı bölümü de çok faydalı buldum.
]]> 8473471 318 Michael Lopp 0596155409 Murat 3 3.65 2010
author: Michael Lopp
name: Murat
average rating: 3.65
book published: 2010
rating: 3
read at: 2019/01/27
date added: 2021/01/01
shelves: software-engineering, with-review
review:
It's more like a handbook for Software Developers who has walked into the land of the "Management". I found it an easy read, motivating in some parts and irrelevant in most others.
]]> 7003902
With contributions from some of the most experienced and respected practitioners in the industry--including Michael Feathers, Pete Goodliffe, Diomidis Spinellis, Cay Horstmann, Verity Stob, and many more--this book contains practical knowledge and principles that you can apply to all kinds of projects.

A few of the 97 things you should know:


"Code in the Language of the Domain" by Dan North
"Write Tests for People" by Gerard Meszaros
"Convenience Is Not an -ility" by Gregor Hohpe
"Know Your IDE" by Heinz Kabutz
"A Message to the Future" by Linda Rising
"The Boy Scout Rule" by Robert C. Martin (Uncle Bob)
"Beware the Share" by Udi Dahan]]> 255 Kevlin Henney 0596809484 Murat 3
2.5 / 5

]]> 3.63 2010
author: Kevlin Henney
name: Murat
average rating: 3.63
book published: 2010
rating: 3
read at: 2017/02/27
date added: 2021/01/01
shelves: software-engineering, with-review
review:
This book is a compilation of short essays from 97 authors that describe a random aspect of Software Engineering. The articles are missing any references and are somewhat subjective. Also they could be organised better.

2.5 / 5


]]> 433567 [sic �� ed.], a mathematician and resident of the two-dimensional Flatland, where women-thin, straight lines-are the lowliest of shapes, and where men may have any number of sides, depending on their social status.
Through strange occurrences that bring him into contact with a host of geometric forms, Square has adventures in Spaceland (three dimensions), Lineland (one dimension) and Pointland (no dimensions) and ultimately entertains thoughts of visiting a land of four dimensions—a revolutionary idea for which he is returned to his two-dimensional world. Charmingly illustrated by the author, Flatland is not only fascinating reading, it is still a first-rate fictional introduction to the concept of the multiple dimensions of space. "Instructive, entertaining, and stimulating to the imagination." �� Mathematics Teacher.]]> 96 Edwin A. Abbott 048627263X Murat 4 sci-fi, with-review
A really mind boggling book. I suggest this book to everyone, who is curious about dimensions and universe. ]]> 3.82 1884
author: Edwin A. Abbott
name: Murat
average rating: 3.82
book published: 1884
rating: 4
read at: 2012/11/09
date added: 2021/01/01
shelves: sci-fi, with-review
review:
How many spatial dimensions exists? What if you could visit a 2D world, with living things of its own? What would it be like to be visited by beings from worlds with higher dimensions?

A really mind boggling book. I suggest this book to everyone, who is curious about dimensions and universe.
]]> 16690 288 Robert A. Heinlein 0340837942 Murat 4 with-review, sci-fi
The premise is really interesting, the book reads like a prequel of the Expanse. The physics work like it does in the real world, including some non-obvious limitations. Colonies are a closed habitat that have to reuse everything - air, water, even the organics in people. Working from there, the author explores the structure, social and political aspects of such a society.

I had to take 1 star off, mainly because of extreme sexism against women - not just in Luna, but also on Earth. Also, author uses the antagonist's native dialect extensively (an amalgamation of most languages of inmates), making the novel too hard to read. I suggest trying to look past these issues if you intend to read this awesome novel.]]> 4.16 1966
author: Robert A. Heinlein
name: Murat
average rating: 4.16
book published: 1966
rating: 4
read at: 2020/11/24
date added: 2021/01/01
shelves: with-review, sci-fi
review:
It's 2070s and humanity is finally colonizing the moon - around 40 million people is living in multiple subterranean (sublunaean?) cities, connected with tube systems and all controlled with a huge, central mainframe computer with so much computing power that it becomes conscious. Sadly, ethical progress lags behind the technological progress. The Luna colonies are prison colonies, Earth is dumping convicts of all kinds (regardless of country) there. There are no laws, the Wardens are only interested in the food delivered to Earth via a huge railgun. Earth is suffering from overpopulation and food shortage, and depending on food shipped from Luna. You can guess where it goes from there.

The premise is really interesting, the book reads like a prequel of the Expanse. The physics work like it does in the real world, including some non-obvious limitations. Colonies are a closed habitat that have to reuse everything - air, water, even the organics in people. Working from there, the author explores the structure, social and political aspects of such a society.

I had to take 1 star off, mainly because of extreme sexism against women - not just in Luna, but also on Earth. Also, author uses the antagonist's native dialect extensively (an amalgamation of most languages of inmates), making the novel too hard to read. I suggest trying to look past these issues if you intend to read this awesome novel.
]]> 8855321
Jim Holden is XO of an ice miner making runs from the rings of Saturn to the mining stations of the Belt. When he and his crew stumble upon a derelict ship, the Scopuli, they find themselves in possession of a secret they never wanted. A secret that someone is willing to kill for—and kill on a scale unfathomable to Jim and his crew. War is brewing in the system unless he can find out who left the ship and why.

Detective Miller is looking for a girl. One girl in a system of billions, but her parents have money and money talks. When the trail leads him to the Scopuli and rebel sympathizer Holden, he realizes that this girl may be the key to everything.

Holden and Miller must thread the needle between the Earth government, the Outer Planet revolutionaries, and secretive corporations—and the odds are against them. But out in the Belt, the rules are different, and one small ship can change the fate of the universe.]]> 592 James S.A. Corey 1841499889 Murat 4 sci-fi, with-review 4.30 2011
author: James S.A. Corey
name: Murat
average rating: 4.30
book published: 2011
rating: 4
read at: 2018/01/20
date added: 2021/01/01
shelves: sci-fi, with-review
review:
Dizi yapılırken kitabına gerçekten çok bağlı kalınmış, çoğu olay paralel bir şekilde ilerliyor. Sanırım en kitapta en sevdiğim nokta, Holden'in dizideki kadar salakça davranmaması. Ancak, UN'in içinde geçen olaylar da kitapta yoktu. Kanımca, dizisini izlediyseniz kitabı okumaya pek gerek yok.
]]> 3981669 177 Barbara Minto 0273710516 Murat 4 problem-solving, with-review
As an engineer, the ideas presented in the book resonated very well with me. Author herself used that structure in the book, which made it a relatively easy reading. However, the examples (exhibits) presented are related to business and I had hard time following, hence the 1 star off. ]]> 4.08 1987
author: Barbara Minto
name: Murat
average rating: 4.08
book published: 1987
rating: 4
read at: 2019/12/29
date added: 2021/01/01
shelves: problem-solving, with-review
review:
This book introduces a structured approach, called the Pyramid Principle, which is a logical ordering of the ideas presented in a written document. Author argues that this is a top-down ordering of ideas, and more understandable by readers. Abstract concepts are in the beginning (the top of the pyramid). These ideas are then refined using induction and deduction in the rest of the writing (the lower layers of the pyramid). Each of the lower levels support the upper, more abstract layers in a structured way, which recursively goes as deep as the subject requires.

As an engineer, the ideas presented in the book resonated very well with me. Author herself used that structure in the book, which made it a relatively easy reading. However, the examples (exhibits) presented are related to business and I had hard time following, hence the 1 star off.
]]> 26217429 224 Jules Verne 6053327123 Murat 4 sci-fi, with-review
Daha önce kısaltılmış basımlardan okumuştum. Ancak bu basımda bazı yerlerde hatalar ve eksiklikler nedeniyle o kadar sevemedim. Çevirmen, eski ölçü birimlerinin bazılarını yanlış çevirmiş (örn: 'toise' için 1949 metre denmiş, gerçek değeri 1,949 metre - yaklaşık 2 metre). Ayrıca, kitabın orjinalinde değişik ölçü birimleri kullanılmış, bunlar Metrik Sistem'e dipnot olarak çevrilebilirdi. Neredeyse elimde hesap makinesi ile okudum diyebilirim.

]]> 3.86 1865
author: Jules Verne
name: Murat
average rating: 3.86
book published: 1865
rating: 4
read at: 2019/05/03
date added: 2021/01/01
shelves: sci-fi, with-review
review:
Benim puanım: hikaye: 5/5, çeviri: 3/5

Daha önce kısaltılmış basımlardan okumuştum. Ancak bu basımda bazı yerlerde hatalar ve eksiklikler nedeniyle o kadar sevemedim. Çevirmen, eski ölçü birimlerinin bazılarını yanlış çevirmiş (örn: 'toise' için 1949 metre denmiş, gerçek değeri 1,949 metre - yaklaşık 2 metre). Ayrıca, kitabın orjinalinde değişik ölçü birimleri kullanılmış, bunlar Metrik Sistem'e dipnot olarak çevrilebilirdi. Neredeyse elimde hesap makinesi ile okudum diyebilirim.


]]> 26150770
In short chapters filled with intriguing historical anecdotes, personal asides, and rigorous exposition, readers learn the difference between how the world works at the quantum level, the cosmic level, and the human level--and then how each connects to the other.  Carroll's presentation of the principles that have guided the scientific revolution from Darwin and Einstein to the origins of life, consciousness, and the universe is dazzlingly unique.

Carroll shows how an avalanche of discoveries in the past few hundred years has changed our world and what really matters to us. Our lives are dwarfed like never before by the immensity of space and time, but they are redeemed by our capacity to comprehend it and give it meaning.

The Big Picture is an unprecedented scientific worldview, a tour de force that will sit on shelves alongside the works of Stephen Hawking, Carl Sagan, Daniel Dennett, and E. O. Wilson for years to come.]]> 480 Sean Carroll 0525954821 Murat 5 science, with-review Poetic Naturalism as a way to understand the world around us.
He defines Core Theory as the physics describing how everyday things work - and he is very comprehensive there. Core Theory considers quantum field theory, gravitation, electromagnetism, some part of nuclear physics (that explain how quarks come together to form protons and neutrons) - among other things as "the reality". Of course, Core Theory falls short in extreme environments like how quantum stuff near black holes behave, but he argues this is fine since we are not subject to that kind of physics in daily life.
This could also form the basis of Naturalism in which only the underlying Quantum Fields are the reality and nothing else exist. Sean Carroll extends Naturalism by arguing that the abstractions we form on the foundations (the quantum fields) are also real, as special arrangement of real particles, the stories are a part of reality as well - effectively avoiding the mind/matter duality. Then he sets on to discuss physical, biological, individual and social constructs with the light of Poetic Naturalism.
Well, to me, the name "Poetic Naturalism" is too to poetic for my taste. Of course the idea itself makes a lot of sense and what's better, it works! Combined with Sean Carroll's excellent writing style, it was a very nice book that I'd like to read again!]]> 4.18 2016
author: Sean Carroll
name: Murat
average rating: 4.18
book published: 2016
rating: 5
read at: 2020/11/03
date added: 2021/01/01
shelves: science, with-review
review:
Sean Carroll explains us how well the "Core Theory" describes the world we live in and uses it the push forward the idea of Poetic Naturalism as a way to understand the world around us.
He defines Core Theory as the physics describing how everyday things work - and he is very comprehensive there. Core Theory considers quantum field theory, gravitation, electromagnetism, some part of nuclear physics (that explain how quarks come together to form protons and neutrons) - among other things as "the reality". Of course, Core Theory falls short in extreme environments like how quantum stuff near black holes behave, but he argues this is fine since we are not subject to that kind of physics in daily life.
This could also form the basis of Naturalism in which only the underlying Quantum Fields are the reality and nothing else exist. Sean Carroll extends Naturalism by arguing that the abstractions we form on the foundations (the quantum fields) are also real, as special arrangement of real particles, the stories are a part of reality as well - effectively avoiding the mind/matter duality. Then he sets on to discuss physical, biological, individual and social constructs with the light of Poetic Naturalism.
Well, to me, the name "Poetic Naturalism" is too to poetic for my taste. Of course the idea itself makes a lot of sense and what's better, it works! Combined with Sean Carroll's excellent writing style, it was a very nice book that I'd like to read again!
]]> 783510
1919 senesi Mayısının 19. günü Samsun'a çıktım. Vaziyet ve manzara-i umumiye:

Osmanlı Devleti'nin dahil bulunduğu grup, Harb-i Umumide mağlup olmuş, Osmanlı ordusu her tarafta zedelenmiş, şeriaiti ağır bir mütarekename imzalanmış. Büyük harbin uzun seneleri zarfında, millet, yorgun ve fakir bir halde. Millet ve memleketi Harb-i Umumiye sevk edenler, kendi hayatları endişesine düşerek, memleketten firar etmişler. Saltanat ve hilafet mevkiini işgal eden Vahdettin, mütereddi, şahsını ve yalnız tahtını temin edebileceğini tahayyül ettiği deni tedbirler araştırmakta. Damat Ferit Paşa'nın riyasetindeki kabine; aciz, haysiyetsiz, cebin, yalnız Padişah'ın iradesine tabi ve onunla beraber şahıslarını vikaye edebilecek herhangi bir vaziyete razı.

Ordu'nun elinden esliha ve cephanesi alınmış ve alınmakta...

İtilaf Devletleri, mütareke ahkamına rivayete lüzum görmüyorlar. Birer vesile ile, İtilaf donanmaları ve askerleri İstanbul'da. Adana vilayeti Fransızlar; Urfa, Maraş, Ayıntap İngilizler tarafından işgal edilmiş. Antalya ve Konya'da, İtalyan kıtaat-ı askeriyesi; Merzifon ve Samsun'da İngiliz askerleri bulunuyor. Her tarafta, ecnebi zabit ve memurları ve hususi adamları faaliyette. Nihayet, mebde-i kelam kabul ettiğimiz tarihten dört gün evvel, 15 Mayıs 1919'da İtilaf Devletleri'nin muvafakatiyle Yunan ordusu İzmir'e ihraç ediliyor.(Kitabın İçinden)]]> 610 Mustafa Kemal Atatürk 975160401X Murat 5 with-review 4.80 1927
author: Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
name: Murat
average rating: 4.80
book published: 1927
rating: 5
read at: 2015/09/02
date added: 2021/01/01
shelves: with-review
review:
Okudukça, daha önce okumadığıma üzüldüğüm bir eser. Millet olarak Atatürk'ü ve Cumhuriyetin ilk yıllarını çok daha iyi tanımalıymışız. Mutlaka okuyun.
]]> 45440297 Improving your life is much easier than you think. Whether it’s losing weight, sleeping more, or restoring your work/life balance �� the secret is to start small.


For years, we’ve been told that being more healthy and productive is a matter of willpower: that we should follow the latest fad and make constant changes to our lifestyles. But whether in our diets, fitness plans or jobs, radical overhauls never work. Instead we should start with quick wins �� and embed new, tiny habits into our everyday routines.

The world expert on this is Silicon Valley legend BJ Fogg, pioneering research psychologist and founder of the iconic Behaviour Design Lab at Stanford. Now anyone can use his science-based approach to make changes that are simple to achieve and sticky enough to last.

In the hugely anticipated Tiny Habits, BJ Fogg shows us how to change our lives for the better, one tiny habit at a time. Based on twenty years research and his experience coaching over 40,000 people, it cracks the code of habit formation. Focus on what is easy to change, not what is hard; focus on what you want to do, not what you should do. At the heart of this is a startling truth �� that creating happier, healthier lives can be easy, and surprisingly fun.]]> 288 B.J. Fogg 0753553236 Murat 2 4.15 2019
author: B.J. Fogg
name: Murat
average rating: 4.15
book published: 2019
rating: 2
read at: 2020/12/29
date added: 2021/01/01
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]]> 24113 777 Douglas R. Hofstadter 0465026567 Murat 2 4.29 1979
author: Douglas R. Hofstadter
name: Murat
average rating: 4.29
book published: 1979
rating: 2
read at: 2020/06/01
date added: 2021/01/01
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]]> 4900662 336 David Layzer 0195069080 Murat 0 to-read 4.47 1990
author: David Layzer
name: Murat
average rating: 4.47
book published: 1990
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2020/12/27
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]]> 43713 657 Harold Abelson 0262510871 Murat 0 to-read 4.46 1984
author: Harold Abelson
name: Murat
average rating: 4.46
book published: 1984
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2020/12/16
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]]> 36510196
The good news is that humanity finally made it into interstellar space. The bad news is that planets fit to live on are scarce-- and alien races willing to fight us for them are common. So: we fight. To defend Earth, and to stake our own claim to planetary real estate. Far from Earth, the war has been going on for decades: brutal, bloody, unyielding.

Earth itself is a backwater. The bulk of humanity's resources are in the hands of the Colonial Defense Force. Everybody knows that when you reach retirement age, you can join the CDF. They don't want young people; they want people who carry the knowledge and skills of decades of living. You'll be taken off Earth and never allowed to return. You'll serve two years at the front. And if you survive, you'll be given a generous homestead stake of your own, on one of our hard-won colony planets.

John Perry is taking that deal. He has only the vaguest idea what to expect. Because the actual fight, light-years from home, is far, far harder than he can imagine--and what he will become is far stranger.]]> 318 John Scalzi Murat 0 to-read 4.25 2005
author: John Scalzi
name: Murat
average rating: 4.25
book published: 2005
rating: 0
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]]> 23197269 Brilliantly imagined and beautifully told, it is the work of a writer at the height of his powers.

Our voyage from Earth began generations ago.
Now, we approach our new home.
AURORA.]]> 466 Kim Stanley Robinson 0316098108 Murat 5 sci-fi 3.76 2015
author: Kim Stanley Robinson
name: Murat
average rating: 3.76
book published: 2015
rating: 5
read at: 2020/12/16
date added: 2020/12/16
shelves: sci-fi
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]]> 98248 288 David A. Whitsett 1570281823 Murat 5 4.17 1998
author: David A. Whitsett
name: Murat
average rating: 4.17
book published: 1998
rating: 5
read at: 2020/12/13
date added: 2020/12/13
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]]> 48890486
There is nothing more essential to our health and well-being than breathing: take air in, let it out, repeat twenty-five thousand times a day. Yet, as a species, humans have lost the ability to breathe correctly, with grave consequences.

Journalist James Nestor travels the world to figure out what went wrong and how to fix it. The answers aren't found in pulmonology labs, as we might expect, but in the muddy digs of ancient burial sites, secret Soviet facilities, New Jersey choir schools, and the smoggy streets of Sao Paulo. Nestor tracks down men and women exploring the hidden science behind ancient breathing practices like Pranayama, Sudarshan Kriya, and Tummo and teams up with pulmonary tinkerers to scientifically test long-held beliefs about how we breathe.

Modern research is showing us that making even slight adjustments to the way we inhale and exhale can jump-start athletic performance; rejuvenate internal organs; halt snoring, asthma, and autoimmune disease; and even straighten scoliotic spines. None of this should be possible, and yet it is.

Drawing on thousands of years of medical texts and recent cutting-edge studies in pulmonology, psychology, biochemistry, and human physiology, Breath turns the conventional wisdom of what we thought we knew about our most basic biological function on its head. You will never breathe the same again.]]> 280 James Nestor 0735213615 Murat 0 to-read 4.13 2020
author: James Nestor
name: Murat
average rating: 4.13
book published: 2020
rating: 0
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]]> 40604658
Until something goes wrong. . . .

In Jurassic Park, Michael Crichton taps all his mesmerizing talent and scientific brilliance to create his most electrifying technothriller.]]> 450 Michael Crichton 0307763056 Murat 5 sci-fi 4.38 1990
author: Michael Crichton
name: Murat
average rating: 4.38
book published: 1990
rating: 5
read at: 2020/05/22
date added: 2020/11/15
shelves: sci-fi
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]]> 48828741
1866 yılında dünya denizlerinde çeşitli gemiler tarafından gözlemlenen bir deniz canavarı peyda olur. Kimi deniz kazalarından, bazı gemilerin kayboluşundan sorumlu tutulan ve “bir balinadan katbekat büyük ve hızlı bir nesne�� olarak tarif edilen bu muazzam deniz hayvanı bilim dünyasında da hararetli tartışmalara yol açar. Bunun üzerine harekete geçen Birleşik Devletler, Abraham Lincoln adlı fırkateyni canavarın peşine düşmek üzere bir sefer için hazırlar. Paris Doğa Tarihi Müzesi’nden Professör Aronnax, sadık hizmetkârı Conseil ve Kanadalı zıpkıncı Ned Land de bu sefere katılırlar. Onları gizemli Kaptan Nemo’nun eline düşmeleriyle başlayan olağanüstü maceralar beklemektedir.]]> 532 Jules Verne 6052959827 Murat 4 sci-fi 4.17 1869
author: Jules Verne
name: Murat
average rating: 4.17
book published: 1869
rating: 4
read at: 2020/10/17
date added: 2020/11/15
shelves: sci-fi
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]]> 43852758 The world's most entertaining and useless self-help guide, from the brilliant mind behind the wildly popular webcomic xkcd and the #1 New York Times bestsellers What If? and Thing Explainer

For any task you might want to do, there's a right way, a wrong way, and a way so monumentally complex, excessive, and inadvisable that no one would ever try it. How To is a guide to the third kind of approach. It's full of highly impractical advice for everything from landing a plane to digging a hole.

Bestselling author and cartoonist Randall Munroe explains how to predict the weather by analyzing the pixels of your Facebook photos. He teaches you how to tell if you're a baby boomer or a 90's kid by measuring the radioactivity of your teeth. He offers tips for taking a selfie with a telescope, crossing a river by boiling it, and powering your house by destroying the fabric of space-time. And if you want to get rid of the book once you're done with it, he walks you through your options for proper disposal, including dissolving it in the ocean, converting it to a vapor, using tectonic plates to subduct it into the Earth's mantle, or launching it into the Sun.

By exploring the most complicated ways to do simple tasks, Munroe doesn't just make things difficult for himself and his readers. As he did so brilliantly in What If?, Munroe invites us to explore the most absurd reaches of the possible. Full of clever infographics and amusing illustrations, How To is a delightfully mind-bending way to better understand the science and technology underlying the things we do every day.]]> 308 Randall Munroe 0525537090 Murat 4 4.14 2019
author: Randall Munroe
name: Murat
average rating: 4.14
book published: 2019
rating: 4
read at: 2020/11/12
date added: 2020/11/12
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]]> 44245196
The more tools you have at your disposal, the more likely you'll use the right tool for the job �� and get it done right.

The same is true when it comes to your thinking. The quality of your outcomes depends on the mental models in your head. And most people are going through life with little more than a hammer.

Until now.

The Great Mental Models: General Thinking Concepts is the first book in The Great Mental Models series designed to upgrade your thinking with the best, most useful and powerful tools so you always have the right one on hand.

This volume details nine of the most versatile, all-purpose mental models you can use right away to improve your decision making, productivity, and how clearly you see the world. You will discover what forces govern the universe and how to focus your efforts so you can harness them to your advantage, rather than fight with them or worse yet�� ignore them.

Upgrade your mental toolbox and get the first volume today!]]> 216 Shane Parrish Murat 0 to-read 4.05 2018
author: Shane Parrish
name: Murat
average rating: 4.05
book published: 2018
rating: 0
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]]> 52200318 Solve problems. Think with clarity. Achieve your goals.
The secret to better decision-making is learning things that won’t change. Mastering a small number of versatile concepts with broad applicability enables you to rapidly grasp new areas, identify patterns, and understand how the world works. Don’t waste your time on knowledge with an expiry date - focus on the fundamentals.
The Farnam Street latticework of mental models gives you the durable cognitive tools you need to avoid problems and make better decisions.
A mental model is a representation of how something works. Constructing mental models helps you to navigate the world efficiently and intelligently. Time and time again, great thinkers such as Charlie Munger and Warren Buffett have found mental models indispensable in both solving problems and preventing them in the first place. Cultivating stronger mental models is one of the most powerful things you can do to become a better thinker. 





The Great Mental Volume 2 covers essential models from chemistry, biology, and physics.  


The hard sciences offer a wealth of useful tools you can use to develop critically important skills like curiosity, relationship-building, and leadership. Formal expertise in science is not necessary, though if you have it you may see parts of your discipline in a new light. 
This second volume of the Great Mental Models series shows you how to make connections between concepts from the sciences and your own life. You'll not only get a better understanding of the forces that influence the world around you, but you'll learn how to direct those forces to create outsized advantages in the areas of your life that matter most to you.
Volume 2 will teach you how


And much more... 





Mastering The Great Mental Models helps you thrive in an uncertain world. The right cognitive tools prepare you for any type of challenge. From parenting to healthy eating, relationships to personal productivity, and from learning to product design, this book will give you new lenses for understanding life.
A wonderful resource you’ll keep returning to year after year. As you incorporate the models in this book into your mental toolbox, you’ll see the world with fresh eyes.
START BUILDING YOUR LATTICEWORK TODAY!



Praise for The Great Mental Models


“I’m really glad this exists in the world and I can see that I will be recommending it often.��
�� Matt Mullenweg, co-founder of WordPress, founder and CEO of Automattic


“If you’ve read Charlie Munger’s Almanack this is the book you deeply crave in its wake. �� Learn the big ideas from the big disciplines and you’ll be able to twist and turn problems in interesting ways at unprecedented speeds. �� You owe yourself this book.��
�� Simon Eskildsen


“This is what non-fiction books should aspire to be like. Informative, concise, universal, practical, visual, sharing stories and examples for context. Definitely, a must-read if you’re into universal multi-disciplinary thinking.��
�� Carl Rannaberg


“I can truly say it is one of the best books I’ve ever had the pleasure of getting lost in. I loved the book and the challenges to conventional wisdom and thinking it presents.��
�� Rod Berryman


“Want to learn? Read This! This should be a standard text for high school and university students.��
�� Code Cubitt]]> 397 Shane Parrish 1999449037 Murat 0 to-read 4.14 2019
author: Shane Parrish
name: Murat
average rating: 4.14
book published: 2019
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2020/11/05
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