Huyen's bookshelf: all en-US Sun, 16 Mar 2025 17:50:19 -0700 60 Huyen's bookshelf: all 144 41 /images/layout/goodreads_logo_144.jpg Xinjiang Year Zero 60213170 338 Darren Byler 1760464945 Huyen 4 4.29 2022 Xinjiang Year Zero
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]]> <![CDATA[Great and Small Games in Central Asia and the South Caucasus (International Relations in Asia, Africa and the Americas: Politics, Economy, Society - Transdisciplinary Perspectives, 14)]]> 75414132 372 Tomasz Pugacewicz 3631745613 Huyen 4 4.00 Great and Small Games in Central Asia and the South Caucasus (International Relations in Asia, Africa and the Americas: Politics, Economy, Society - Transdisciplinary Perspectives, 14)
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]]> <![CDATA[Lost Enlightenment: Central Asia's Golden Age from the Arab Conquest to Tamerlane]]> 17847856
In this sweeping and richly illustrated history, S. Frederick Starr tells the fascinating but largely unknown story of Central Asia's medieval enlightenment through the eventful lives and astonishing accomplishments of its greatest minds¨Dremarkable figures who built a bridge to the modern world. Because nearly all of these figures wrote in Arabic, they were long assumed to have been Arabs. In fact, they were from Central Asia¨Ddrawn from the Persianate and Turkic peoples of a region that today extends from Kazakhstan southward through Afghanistan, and from the easternmost province of Iran through Xinjiang, China.

Lost Enlightenment recounts how, between the years 800 and 1200, Central Asia led the world in trade and economic development, the size and sophistication of its cities, the refinement of its arts, and, above all, in the advancement of knowledge in many fields. Central Asians achieved signal breakthroughs in astronomy, mathematics, geology, medicine, chemistry, music, social science, philosophy, and theology, among other subjects. They gave algebra its name, calculated the earth's diameter with unprecedented precision, wrote the books that later defined European medicine, and penned some of the world's greatest poetry. One scholar, working in Afghanistan, even predicted the existence of North and South America¨Dfive centuries before Columbus. Rarely in history has a more impressive group of polymaths appeared at one place and time. No wonder that their writings influenced European culture from the time of St. Thomas Aquinas down to the scientific revolution, and had a similarly deep impact in India and much of Asia.

Lost Enlightenment chronicles this forgotten age of achievement, seeks to explain its rise, and explores the competing theories about the cause of its eventual demise. Informed by the latest scholarship yet written in a lively and accessible style, this is a book that will surprise general readers and specialists alike.]]> 634 S. Frederick Starr 0691157731 Huyen 0 to-read 4.24 2013 Lost Enlightenment: Central Asia's Golden Age from the Arab Conquest to Tamerlane
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]]> <![CDATA[The Silk Roads: A New History of the World]]> 25812847
Frankopan realigns our understanding of the world, pointing us eastward. It was on the Silk Roads that East and West first encountered each other through trade and conquest, leading to the spread of ideas, cultures and religions. From the rise and fall of empires to the spread of Buddhism and the advent of Christianity and Islam, right up to the great wars of the twentieth century¡ªthis book shows how the fate of the West has always been inextricably linked to the East.]]> 636 Peter Frankopan 1408839970 Huyen 4 4.16 2015 The Silk Roads: A New History of the World
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average rating: 4.16
book published: 2015
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More maps in the early chapters would help the reader a lot. The book is initially quite dry but gets better over time. Really admire the author for writing such a remarkable, sweeping history book.
]]> <![CDATA[The Power of Geography: Ten Maps That Reveal the Future of Our World]]> 56696339
Delivered with Marshall¡¯s trademark wit and insight, this is a lucid and gripping exploration of the power of geography to shape humanity¡¯s past, present ¨C and future.

¡®Another outstanding guide to the modern world. Marshall is a master at explaining what you need to know and why.¡¯ Peter Frankopan]]> 360 Tim Marshall 1783965371 Huyen 3 4.18 2021 The Power of Geography: Ten Maps That Reveal the Future of Our World
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average rating: 4.18
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The geography elements in this book are pretty weak and not quite as compelling as his first book. Each chapter is a very condensed overview of an area's history/policies and each deserves to be its own book. Highly informative, especially the chapters on Turkey and the Sahel.
]]> <![CDATA[Central Peripheries: Nationhood in Central Asia (FRINGE)]]> 59249589 ?
Committed to internationalism, Kazakhstan and other central Asian states nevertheless embrace classically nationalist conceptions of the nation-state. Their unabashed celebration of borders and citizenship challenges Western views of nationalism as a dying ideology transcended by cosmopolitanism. Drawing on twenty years of fieldwork, Central Peripheries reveals the origin of central Asian national consciousness in imaginary and ritualized efforts to grapple with the Soviet past.
?]]> 262 Marl¨¨ne Laruelle 180008014X Huyen 5 4.10 Central Peripheries: Nationhood in Central Asia (FRINGE)
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]]> <![CDATA[Central Asia: A New History from the Imperial Conquests to the Present]]> 55836275 A major history of Central Asia and how it has been shaped by modern world events



Central Asia is often seen as a remote and inaccessible land on the peripheries of modern history. Encompassing Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, and the Xinjiang province of China, it in fact stands at the crossroads of world events. Adeeb Khalid provides the first comprehensive history of Central Asia from the mid-eighteenth century to today, shedding light on the historical forces that have shaped the region under imperial and Communist rule.

Predominantly Muslim with both nomadic and settled populations, the peoples of Central Asia came under Russian and Chinese rule after the 1700s. Khalid shows how foreign conquest knit Central Asians into global exchanges of goods and ideas and forged greater connections to the wider world. He explores how the Qing and Tsarist empires dealt with ethnic heterogeneity, and compares Soviet and Chinese Communist attempts at managing national and cultural difference. He highlights the deep interconnections between the Russian and Chinese parts of Central Asia that endure to this day, and demonstrates how Xinjiang remains an integral part of Central Asia despite its fraught and traumatic relationship with contemporary China.

The essential history of one of the most diverse and culturally vibrant regions on the planet, this panoramic book reveals how Central Asia has been profoundly shaped by the forces of modernity, from colonialism and social revolution to nationalism, state-led modernization, and social engineering.]]> 576 Adeeb Khalid 0691161399 Huyen 5 4.26 Central Asia: A New History from the Imperial Conquests to the Present
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Long but extremely informative, well-written, nuanced, enjoyable book. Can't recommend highly enough!
]]> Ali and Nino 474078 Dr. Zhivago and Romeo and Juliet.??Its mysterious author was recently the subject of a feature article in the New Yorker, which has inspired a forthcoming biography. Out of print for nearly three decades until the hardcover re-release last year, Ali and Nino is Kurban Said's masterpiece. It is a captivating novel as evocative of the exotic desert landscape as it is of the passion between two people pulled apart by culture, religion, and war.

It is the eve of World War I in Baku, Azerbaijan, a city on the edge of the Caspian Sea, poised precariously between east and west.??Ali Khan Shirvanshir, a Muslim schoolboy from a proud, aristocratic family, has fallen in love with the beautiful and enigmatic Nino Kipiani, a Christian girl with distinctly European sensibilities.?? To be together they must overcome blood feud and scandal, attempt a daring horseback rescue, and travel from the bustling street of oil-boom Baku, through starkly beautiful deserts and remote mountain villages, to the opulent palace of Ali's uncle in neighboring Persia.??Ultimately the lovers are drawn back to Baku, but when war threatens their future, Ali is forced to choose between his loyalty to the beliefs of his Asian ancestors and his profound devotion to Nino.??Combining the exotic fascination of a tale told by Scheherazade with the range and magnificence of an epic, Ali and Nino is a timeless classic of love in the face of war.]]> 282 Kurban Said 0385720408 Huyen 3 3.93 1937 Ali and Nino
author: Kurban Said
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average rating: 3.93
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]]> <![CDATA[The Miracles of the Namiya General Store]]> 44287550
By acclaimed author Keigo Higashino, The Miracles of the Namiya General Store is a work that has touched the hearts of readers around the world.]]> 314 Keigo Higashino 1975382579 Huyen 4 4.40 2012 The Miracles of the Namiya General Store
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average rating: 4.40
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]]> <![CDATA[House of Many Ways (Howl's Moving Castle, #3)]]> 2173611
By opening that door, Charmain has become responsible for not only the house, but for an extremely magical stray dog, a muddled young apprentice wizard, and a box of the king's most treasured documents. She has encountered a terrifying beast called a lubbock, irritated a clan of small blue creatures, and wound up smack in the middle of an urgent search. The king and his daughter are desperate to find the lost, fabled Elfgift¡ªso desperate that they've even called in an intimidating sorceress named Sophie to help. And where Sophie is, can the Wizard Howl and fire demon Calcifer be far behind?

Of course, with that magical family involved, there's bound to be chaos¡ªand unexpected revelations. No one will be more surprised than Charmain by what Howl and Sophie discover.]]> 404 Diana Wynne Jones 0061477958 Huyen 3 4.05 2008 House of Many Ways (Howl's Moving Castle, #3)
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average rating: 4.05
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]]> <![CDATA[Lands of Lost Borders: Out of Bounds on the Silk Road]]> 41155177 you are different, woken up in new ways by the mile."

As a teenager, Kate Harris realized that the career she most craved--that of a generalist explorer, equal parts swashbuckler and philosopher--had gone extinct. From her small-town home in Ontario, it seemed as if Marco Polo, Magellan and their like had long ago mapped the whole earth. So she vowed to become a scientist and go to Mars.
To pass the time before she could launch into outer space, Kate set off by bicycle down a short section of the fabled Silk Road with her childhood friend Mel Yule, then settled down to study at Oxford and MIT. Eventually the truth dawned on her: an explorer, in any day and age, is by definition the kind of person who refuses to live between the lines. And Harris had soared most fully out of bounds right here on Earth, travelling a bygone trading route on her bicycle. So she quit the laboratory and hit the Silk Road again with Mel, this time determined to bike it from the beginning to end.
Like Rebecca Solnit and Pico Iyer before her, Kate Harris offers a travel narrative at once exuberant and meditative, wry and rapturous. Weaving adventure and deep reflection with the history of science and exploration, Lands of Lost Borders explores the nature of limits and the wildness of a world that, like the self and like the stars, can never be fully mapped.]]> 300 Kate Harris 0345816781 Huyen 2 3.82 2018 Lands of Lost Borders: Out of Bounds on the Silk Road
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average rating: 3.82
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This book didn't grab me. Lots of irrelevant bits that I couldn't care less about (eg her ex-boyfriend and his own adventures) and little insight. The description of the people and cultures is very superficial and she didn't seem interested in learning more about them. There was little of engaging in any meaningful ways with people along her journey. Just found it a rather boring travel memoir.
]]> <![CDATA[The Secret History of the Five Eyes: The Untold Story of the International Spy Network]]> 62206253
Richard Kerbaj, an award-winning investigative journalist and filmmaker, bypasses the usual censorship channels to tell the definitive account of authoritative but unauthorised stories of the Western world's most powerful but least known intelligence alliance made up of the US, Britain, Australia, Canada, and New Zealand. As Kerbaj shows, spy stories are never better than when they are true - and these span from 1930s Nazi spy rings to the most recent developments in Ukraine and China.

Through personal interviews with world leaders - including British Prime Ministers Theresa May and David Cameron - and more than 100 intelligence officials, this book explores the complex personalities who helped shape the Five Eyes. They include a Scotland Yard detective who became a spymaster and inspired the first exchanges between MI5 and the FBI. An American home economics teacher who helped create one of the most effective programmes to counter Soviet espionage. The CIA's lone officer in Budapest during the Hungarian Revolution. GCHQ's chief during the Edward Snowden intelligence leak. And the Australian politician turned diplomat whose tip-off to the FBI instigated the inquiry into Russia's meddling in the US presidential contest between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton in 2016.

Richard Kerbaj is able to draw from deep inside the secret corridors of power and his unparalleled access spans all 5 countries. Some of the people he has interviewed include former GCHQ director Sir Iain Lobban, CIA director General David Petraeus, MI5 director-general Eliza Manningham-Buller, NSA director Admiral Mike Rogers, British National Security Advisor Kim Darroch, ASIO chief Mike Burgess, the Canadian Security Intelligence Service's chief Richard Fadden, and Ciaran Martin, the official who oversaw Britain's assessments on whether the Chinese telecoms firm, Huawei, should have had a role in the creation of the UK's 5G network.

This page-turning book will lift the lid on spy stories from across the English-speaking world, question the future of the alliance, and our place within it.]]> 416 Richard Kerbaj 1789465567 Huyen 5 3.81 The Secret History of the Five Eyes: The Untold Story of the International Spy Network
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]]> <![CDATA[Options, Futures and Other Derivatives]]> 100827 Again, John Hull has done a great job revising and updating this best-selling book. Changes in the fifth edition include:

A new chapter on credit derivatives (Chapter 21). New! Business Snapshots highlight real-world situations and relevant issues. The first six chapters have been -reorganized to better meet the needs of students and .instructors. A new release of the Excel-based software, DerivaGem, is included with each text.

A useful Solutions Manual/Study Guide, which includes the worked-out answers to the "Questions and Problems" sections of each chapter, can be purchased separately (ISBN: 0-13-144570-7).

]]> 816 John C. Hull 8120328795 Huyen 4 4.18 Options, Futures and Other Derivatives
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]]> <![CDATA[The Origins of the Second World War]]> 22501 324 A.J.P. Taylor Huyen 4 4.01 1961 The Origins of the Second World War
author: A.J.P. Taylor
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average rating: 4.01
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]]> <![CDATA[The Last Drop: Solving the World's Water Crisis]]> 125070173 The Times Book of the Year pick

¡®Smart, sobering, and scholarly. ¡¯ ¨C Steve Brusatte, the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Rise and Fall of Dinosaurs

A gripping, thought-provoking and ultimately optimistic investigation into the world¡¯s next great climate crisis ¨C the scarcity of water.

Water scarcity is the next big climate crisis. Water stress ¨C not just scarcity, but also quality issues caused by pollution ¨C is already driving the first waves of climate refugees. Rivers are drying out before they meet the oceans and ancient lakes are disappearing. It¡¯s increasingly clear that human mismanagement of water is dangerously unsustainable, for both ecological and human survival. And yet in recent years some key countries have been quietly and very successfully addressing water stress.

How are Singapore and Israel, for example ¨C both severely water-stressed countries ¨C not in the same predicament as Chennai or California?

In The Last Drop, award-winning environmental journalist Tim Smedley meets experts, victims, activists and pioneers to find out how we can mend the water table that our survival depends upon. He offers a fascinating, universally relevant account of the environmental and human factors that have led us to this point, and suggests practical ways to address the crisis, before it¡¯s too late.]]> 417 Tim Smedley 1529058139 Huyen 4 4.37 The Last Drop: Solving the World's Water Crisis
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]]> <![CDATA[Bad Data: Why We Measure the Wrong Things and Often Miss the Metrics That Matter]]> 43736666
Big data is often touted as the key to understanding almost every aspect of contemporary life. This critique of "information hubris" shows that even more important than data is finding the right metrics to evaluate it.

The author, an expert in environmental design and city planning, examines the many ways in which we measure ourselves and our world. He dissects the metrics we apply to health, worker productivity, our children's education, the quality of our environment, the effectiveness of leaders, the dynamics of the economy, and the overall well-being of the planet. Among the areas where the wrong metrics have led to poor outcomes, he cites the fee-for-service model of health care, corporate cultures that emphasize time spent on the job while overlooking key productivity measures, overreliance on standardized testing in education to the detriment of authentic learning, and a blinkered focus on carbon emissions, which underestimates the impact of industrial damage to our natural world.

He also examines various communities and systems that have achieved better outcomes by adjusting the ways in which they measure data. The best results are attained by those that have learned not only what to measure and how to measure it, but what it all means.

By highlighting the pitfalls inherent in data analysis, this illuminating book reminds us that not everything that can be counted really counts.]]> 323 Peter Schryvers 1633885909 Huyen 4 3.74 2019 Bad Data: Why We Measure the Wrong Things and Often Miss the Metrics That Matter
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average rating: 3.74
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]]> <![CDATA[Why Data Science Projects Fail (Chapman & Hall/CRC Data Science Series)]]> 210812238 222 Evan Shellshear 103266133X Huyen 3 3.00 Why Data Science Projects Fail (Chapman & Hall/CRC Data Science Series)
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]]> Too Much Lip 40229412 A dark and funny new novel from the multi-award-winning author of Mullumbimby.

Wise-cracking Kerry Salter is part of an Aboriginal family living on the mid-north coast of New South Wales. She has spent a lifetime avoiding two things - her hometown and prison. But now her Pop is dying and she's an inch away from the lockup, so she heads south on a stolen Harley. Kerry plans to spend 24 hours, tops, over the border.

She quickly discovers, though, that Bundjalung country has a funny way of grabbing on to people. Old family wounds open as the Salters fight to stop the development of their beloved river. And the unexpected arrival on the scene of a good-looking dugai fella intent on loving her up only adds more trouble - but then trouble is Kerry's middle name. Gritty and darkly hilarious, Too Much Lip offers redemption and forgiveness where none seemed possible.]]> 328 Melissa Lucashenko 0702259969 Huyen 3 4.03 2018 Too Much Lip
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average rating: 4.03
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]]> <![CDATA[How to Read Numbers: A Guide to Stats in the News (and Knowing When to Trust Them)]]> 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 ¨C ¡®X people develop cancer every year¡¯ ¨C and sometimes less obvious ¨C ¡®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 ¨C 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 ¨C and, just as importantly, when not to.]]> 208 Tom Chivers 1474619967 Huyen 5 4.32 2021 How to Read Numbers: A Guide to Stats in the News (and Knowing When to Trust Them)
author: Tom Chivers
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average rating: 4.32
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]]> <![CDATA[22 Immutable Laws of Branding. Abridged.]]> 13619366 0 Al Ries 0060871016 Huyen 4 3.68 1998 22 Immutable Laws of Branding. Abridged.
author: Al Ries
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average rating: 3.68
book published: 1998
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]]> <![CDATA[If One Day My Mother Is No Longer in This World (Vietnamese Edition)]]> 205900897 0 Kang Sung Wha 6043140209 Huyen 0 4.00 If One Day My Mother Is No Longer in This World (Vietnamese Edition)
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]]> <![CDATA[After Steve: How Apple Became a Trillion-Dollar Company and Lost Its Soul]]> 58733657 From the Wall Street Journal's Tripp Mickle, the dramatic, untold story inside Apple after the passing of Steve Jobs by following his top lieutenants--Jony Ive, the Chief Design Officer, and Tim Cook, the COO-turned-CEO--and how the fading of the former and the rise of the latter led to Apple losing its soul.

Steve Jobs called Jony Ive his "spiritual partner at Apple." The London-born genius was the second-most powerful person at Apple and the creative force who most embodies Jobs's spirit, the man who designed the products adopted by hundreds of millions the world over: the iPod, iPad, MacBook Air, the iMac G3, and the iPhone. In the wake of his close collaborator's death, the chief designer wrestled with grief and initially threw himself into his work designing the new Apple headquarters and the Watch before losing his motivation in a company increasingly devoted more to margins than to inspiration.

In many ways, Cook was Ive's opposite. The product of a small Alabama town, he had risen through the ranks from the supply side of the company. His gift was not the creation of new products. Instead, he had invented countless ways to maximize a margin, squeezing some suppliers, persuading others to build factories the size of cities to churn out more units. He considered inventory evil. He knew how to make subordinates sweat with withering questions.

Jobs selected Cook as his successor, and Cook oversaw a period of tremendous revenue growth that has lifted Apple's valuation to $2 trillion. He built a commanding business in China and rapidly distinguished himself as a master politician who could forge global alliances and send the world's stock market into freefall with a single sentence.

Author Tripp Mickle spoke with more than 200 current and former Apple executives, as well as figures key to this period of Apple's history, including Trump administration officials and fashion luminaries such as Anna Wintour while writing After Steve. His research shows the company's success came at a cost. Apple lost its innovative spirit and has not designed a new category of device in years. Ive's departure in 2019 marked a culmination in Apple's shift from a company of innovation to one of operational excellence, and the price is a company that has lost its soul.]]> 512 Tripp Mickle 0063009811 Huyen 5 4.05 2022 After Steve: How Apple Became a Trillion-Dollar Company and Lost Its Soul
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]]> <![CDATA[How to Make an Entrepreneurial State: Why Innovation Needs Bureaucracy]]> 62132177 A ground-breaking account which shows how the public sector must adapt, but also persevere, in order to advance technology and innovation



From self-driving cars to smart grids, governments are experimenting with new technologies to significantly change the way we live. Innovation has become vitally important to states across the world.



Rainer Kattel, Wolfgang Drechsler and Erkki Karo explore how public bodies pursue innovation, looking at how new policies are designed and implemented. Spanning Europe, the USA and Asia, the authors show how different institutions finance new technologies and share cutting-edge information. They argue for the importance of ¡®agile stability¡¯, demonstrating that in order to successfully innovate, state organizations have to move nimbly like start-ups and yet ensure stability at the same time. And that, particularly in the light of the Covid-19 pandemic, governments need both long-term policy and dynamic capabilities to handle crises.



This vital account explores the complex and often contradictory positions of innovating public bodies¡ªand shows how they can overcome financial and political resistance to change for the good of us all.]]> 289 Rainer Kattel 0300235372 Huyen 3 4.06 How to Make an Entrepreneurial State: Why Innovation Needs Bureaucracy
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]]> Lola in the Mirror 167582092
'Mirror, mirror, on the grass, what's my future? What's my past?' A girl and her mother are on the lam. They've been running for sixteen years, from police and the monster they left in the kitchen with the knife in his throat. They've found themselves a home inside an orange 1987 Toyota HiAce van with four flat tyres parked in a scrapyard by the edge of the Brisbane River ¨C just two of the 100,000 Australians sleeping rough every night. The girl has no name because names are dangerous when you're on the run. But the girl has a dream. Visions in black ink and living colour. A vision of a life as a groundbreaking artist of international acclaim. A life outside the grip of the Brisbane underworld drug queen 'Lady' Flora Box. A life of love with the boy in the brown suit who's waiting for her in the middle of the bridge that stretches across a flooding and deadly river. A life far beyond the bullet that has her name on it. And now that the storm clouds are rising, there's only one person who can help make her dreams come true. That person's name is Lola and she carries all the answers. But to find Lola, the girl with no name must first do one of the hardest things we can sometimes ever do. She must look in the mirror. A big, moving, blackly funny, violent, heartbreaking and beautiful novel of love, fate, life and death and all the things we see when we look in the mirror. All of the past, all of the present, and all of our possible futures. 'Mirror, mirror, please don't lie. Tell me who you are. Tell me who am I.']]> 512 Trent Dalton 146071332X Huyen 4 4.37 2023 Lola in the Mirror
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average rating: 4.37
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]]> The Queen's Gambit 62022 258 Walter Tevis 1400030609 Huyen 3 4.14 1983 The Queen's Gambit
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average rating: 4.14
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]]> <![CDATA[How to Live Forever and 34 Other Really Interesting Uses of Science]]> 10592785 224 Jha Alok 1849164827 Huyen 3 3.67 2011 How to Live Forever and 34 Other Really Interesting Uses of Science
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average rating: 3.67
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]]> <![CDATA[Industrial Policy: The Coevolution of Public and Private Sources of Finance for Important Emerging and Evolving Technologies (Elements in Evolutionary Economics)]]> 61440129 0 Kenneth I. Carlaw 1009227475 Huyen 3 3.00 Industrial Policy: The Coevolution of Public and Private Sources of Finance for Important Emerging and Evolving Technologies (Elements in Evolutionary Economics)
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]]> <![CDATA[The Four Workarounds: Strategies from the World's Scrappiest Organizations for Tackling Complex Problems]]> 60784362 "Groundbreaking" ¨DNext Big Idea Club

"This book helps us live happier, successful, and more fulfilling lives." ¨DJenn Lim, CEO and cofounder of Delivering Happiness, and bestselling author of Beyond Happiness

We constantly encounter complex problems at home, in our places of work, and in society at large. Even if we had all the time and money in the world, sometimes no good solution can be found. So, what should we do, especially when we can¡¯t wait? The a workaround .

For ages, global corporations have been lecturing small organizations and not-for-profits on how to get things done. As it turns out, it should have been the other way around. In this groundbreaking book, award-winning researcher Paulo Savaget shows how the most valuable lessons about problem-solving can be learned from the scrappiest groups.

Savaget draws most of his examples from small organizations dedicated to social action that have made an art form out of subverting the status quo and have proved themselves adept at achieving massive wins with minimal resources. Through his research, Savaget identified the four workarounds that these groups commonly the piggyback, the loophole, the roundabout, and the next best. With vivid and fascinating examples from his life and travels, he demonstrates how each one works and how to know which one to use when.

The Four Workarounds shows how seemingly intractable problems¨Dfrom public urination to the challenges of delivering lifesaving medicine to remote communities¨Dwere addressed using unconventional tactics. Some of the world¡¯s biggest and most admired companies are already using Savaget¡¯s research to transform the ways they do business. And these same lessons can also revolutionize the ways we approach the challenges we all encounter every day of our lives.]]> 304 Paulo Savaget 1250789400 Huyen 3 3.51 The Four Workarounds: Strategies from the World's Scrappiest Organizations for Tackling Complex Problems
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]]> INNOVATION THE SWEDISH WAY 124973484 200 9171265929 Huyen 4 4.00 INNOVATION THE SWEDISH WAY
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]]> <![CDATA[Seeing the Unseen: Behind Chinese Tech Giants' Global Venturing]]> 59862534 Meet the overnight tech success stories of China¡¯s globalizing business landscape In the last few years, we have seen a meteoric rise of Chinese tech companies across the world. Alibaba stock price movements unnerved investors globally, venture capitalists searched for the next Meituan or Pinduoduo in Southeast Asia and Latin America, and of course, Tik Tok, the most popular content platform in the world today, originated from China. The founders of such companies are typically credited with the ¡°tenacity to rough it out,¡± the ¡°courage to venture into the unknown,¡± and the ¡°vision to take their companies to new heights.¡± However, the same can be said about Silicon Valley founders, or any successful entrepreneur. So, what gives Chinese founders and their companies the advantage in becoming multi-billion global enterprises? How does their leadership set strategies? How do they motivate their people? How do they move so fast and defend their turf in China¡¯s hyper-competitive tech market? When they expand overseas, how do they determine what they keep and what they need to let go of? And most importantly, what do these things mean to you as a competitor, investor, regulator, or even as an executive or customer of such companies?

Seeing the Behind Chinese Tech Giants¡¯ Global Venturing answers these questions and delves into the fascinating world of Chinese logic that shapes how tech leaders make and implement decisions, many of which are seldom seen outside China.

In this book, you will gain an accurate, concise understanding of Chinese tech companies' reflections as they scale. You will understand the different generations of Chinese tech giants from Alibaba, Tencent, Baidu and Huawei to Pinduoduo, Meituan, ByteDance, Xiaomi and more.

In this Seeing the Unseen, the analysis behind the success and lessons learned is summarized into a unique framework that touches on People, Organization, and Product and Leadership (POP-Leadership). The book

How Chinese history, folklore and Mao Zadong¡¯s political strategies have shaped the strategies of Chinese tech leaders, even today The mindsets of Chinese tech and internet companies and how they have evolved over the last two decades The unique business culture and leadership styles that steered these companies through uncertain and ultra-competitive periods How Chinese companies structure their organizations and products and how they remain agile as they scale The limitations of Chinese POP-Leadership, and what these companies must shed to keep up with international players in global markets How Chinese POP-Leadership is now becoming international, and how international players are leveraging these learnings How the worldwide expansion of Chinese companies will alter the business landscape in the coming decades Chinese firms undertaking overseas ventures can challenge our thinking on global strategy and implementation. This book gives you a better understanding of these emergent players in the global arena.]]> 227 Guoli Chen 1119885841 Huyen 4 3.97 Seeing the Unseen: Behind Chinese Tech Giants' Global Venturing
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]]> <![CDATA[False Alarm: How Climate Change Panic Costs Us Trillions, Hurts the Poor, and Fails to Fix the Planet]]> 49089453 Enough, argues bestselling author Bjorn Lomborg. Climate change is real, but it's not the apocalyptic threat that we've been told it is. Projections of Earth's imminent demise are based on bad science and even worse economics. In panic, world leaders have committed to wildly expensive but largely ineffective policies that hamper growth and crowd out more pressing investments in human capital, from immunization to education.

False Alarm will convince you that everything you think about climate change is wrong -- and points the way toward making the world a vastly better, if slightly warmer, place for us all.]]> 320 Bj?rn Lomborg 1541647467 Huyen 2 4.10 2020 False Alarm: How Climate Change Panic Costs Us Trillions, Hurts the Poor, and Fails to Fix the Planet
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]]> <![CDATA[Fifty Things that Made the Modern Economy]]> 35192961 Based on the series produced for the BBC World Service

Who thought up paper money? How did the contraceptive pill change the face of the legal profession? Why was the horse collar as important for human progress as the steam engine? How did the humble spreadsheet turn the world of finance upside-down?

The world economy defies comprehension. A continuously-changing system of immense complexity, it offers over ten billion distinct products and services, doubles in size every fifteen years, and links almost every one of the planet's seven billion people. It delivers astonishing luxury to hundreds of millions. It also leaves hundreds of millions behind, puts tremendous strains on the ecosystem, and has an alarming habit of stalling. Nobody is in charge of it. Indeed, no individual understands more than a fraction of what's going on.
How can we make sense of this bewildering system on which our lives depend?

From the tally-stick to Bitcoin, the canal lock to the jumbo jet, each invention in Tim Harford's fascinating new book has its own curious, surprising and memorable story, a vignette against a grand backdrop. Step by step, readers will start to understand where we are, how we got here, and where we might be going next.

Hidden connections will be laid bare: how the barcode undermined family corner shops; why the gramophone widened inequality; how barbed wire shaped America. We'll meet the characters who developed some of these inventions, profited from them, or were ruined by them. We'll trace the economic principles that help to explain their transformative effects. And we'll ask what lessons we can learn to make wise use of future inventions, in a world where the pace of innovation will only accelerate.

]]> 394 Tim Harford 1408709139 Huyen 5 4.16 2017 Fifty Things that Made the Modern Economy
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]]> Elon Musk 122765395 From the author of Steve Jobs and other bestselling biographies, this is the astonishingly intimate story of the most fascinating and controversial innovator of our era¡ªa rule-breaking visionary who helped to lead the world into the era of electric vehicles, private space exploration, and artificial intelligence. Oh, and took over Twitter.

When Elon Musk was a kid in South Africa, he was regularly beaten by bullies. One day a group pushed him down some concrete steps and kicked him until his face was a swollen ball of flesh. He was in the hospital for a week. But the physical scars were minor compared to the emotional ones inflicted by his father, an engineer, rogue, and charismatic fantasist.

His father¡¯s impact on his psyche would linger. He developed into a tough yet vulnerable man-child, prone to abrupt Jekyll-and-Hyde mood swings, with an exceedingly high tolerance for risk, a craving for drama, an epic sense of mission, and a maniacal intensity that was callous and at times destructive.

At the beginning of 2022¡ªafter a year marked by SpaceX launching thirty-one rockets into orbit, Tesla selling a million cars, and him becoming the richest man on earth¡ªMusk spoke ruefully about his compulsion to stir up dramas. ¡°I need to shift my mindset away from being in crisis mode, which it has been for about fourteen years now, or arguably most of my life,¡± he said.

It was a wistful comment, not a New Year¡¯s resolution. Even as he said it, he was secretly buying up shares of Twitter, the world¡¯s ultimate playground. Over the years, whenever he was in a dark place, his mind went back to being bullied on the playground. Now he had the chance to own the playground.

For two years, Isaacson shadowed Musk, attended his meetings, walked his factories with him, and spent hours interviewing him, his family, friends, coworkers, and adversaries. The result is the revealing inside story, filled with amazing tales of triumphs and turmoil, that addresses the are the demons that drive Musk also what it takes to drive innovation and progress?]]> 688 Walter Isaacson 1982181281 Huyen 5 4.29 2023 Elon Musk
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]]> <![CDATA[Volt Rush: The Winners and Losers in the Race to Go Green]]> 60137558 'A remarkably hopeful and useful book...The climate crisis leaves us no choice but to build a new world and as Sanderson makes clear, we are capable of making it a better one than the dirty and dangerous planet we¡¯ve come to take for granted.' Bill McKibben, Observer book of the week

We depend on a handful of metals and rare earths to power our phones and computers. Increasingly, we rely on them to power our cars and our homes. Whoever controls these finite commodities will become rich beyond imagining.

Sanderson journeys to meet the characters, companies, and nations scrambling for the new resources, linking remote mines in the Congo and Chile¡¯s Atacama Desert to giant Chinese battery factories, shadowy commodity traders, secretive billionaires, a new generation of scientists attempting to solve the dilemma of a ¡®greener¡¯ world.]]> 300 Henry Sanderson 0861543769 Huyen 4 4.05 Volt Rush: The Winners and Losers in the Race to Go Green
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]]> <![CDATA[Tr?i N¨¤y Qu¨¢ ??p ?? Bu?n - ??i N¨¤y Qu¨¢ ??p L?i Bu?n]]> 206089140 Hay m¨¬nh mang m?y ?i?u ch?t h?p ra ph?i
N?ng hong kh? t?m ¨¢o ch?i v?i
T?m ¨¢o th?m th? l¨¤ t?m l¨°ng m¨¬nh r?ng¡­¡±

¡°Tr?i n¨¤y qu¨¢ ??p ?? bu?n - ??i n¨¤y qu¨¢ ??p l?i bu?n¡± l?u gi? nh?ng suy t??ng v? con ng??i, t¨¬nh y¨ºu v¨¤ cu?c s?ng, ch?y theo nh?p c?m x¨²c t? d?u d¨¤ng ??n tr?m l?ng, k? g?i qua t?ng c?u ch? m?c m?c c?a t¨¢c gi? L¨º Ho¨¤i ??ng v¨¤ ???c h?a s? Ch¨ºn Ch¨ºn ¡°ghi l?i¡± qua c¨¢c tranh minh h?a m¨¤u. T?p th? kh?ng c? t? v? m?t cu?c s?ng t??i ??p m¨¤u h?ng. ? ?¨® c¨® nh?ng kho?nh kh?c m¨¤ g?n nh? ai c?ng t¨¬m th?y m.¨¬nh trong ?¨®: khi ?em l¨°ng y¨ºu ai ?¨®; khi nh? v? gia ?¨¬nh; khi b? t?n th??ng, c?m th?y ch?i v?i ho?c b??c ra kh?i m?t m?i quan h? ?? k?t th¨² L?n gi? qua t?ng trang th?, ??c gi? kh?ng ch? c¨® th¨ºm chi¨ºm nghi?m s?u s?c v? nh?ng n?i bu?n t??ng ch?ng to v¨¤ nh?ng ni?m vui t??ng ch?ng nh? ?? s?ng ch?m h?n, l?ng nghe tr¨¢i tim soi x¨¦t qua t?ng c?u ch?, ?? t? t??ng h?n v? ng??i, v¨¤ v? m.¨¬nh.

T?m g¨¢c l?i nh?ng b?c b?i b?n b? c?a ??i s?ng, h?y th? m?t l?n trao cho ch¨ªnh m.¨¬nh c? h?i ?? k?t n?i s? ??ng ?i?u v¨¤ rung c?m tr??c nh?ng ?i?u gi?n d? ??p ?? c?a ??i th??ng, ?? th¨ºm y¨ºu th??ng v¨¤ tr?n qu? nh?ng ?i?u m.¨¬nh ?ang c¨® trong hi?n t?i.

¡°M¨¬nh l?i thong dong con ???ng m¨¬nh ch?n
M?y ?i?u nh? m?n c?ng kh?ng c?n ???c b??c ch?n
N?u mai n¨¤y l? c¨® l¨²c ph?n v?n
Em ?i nh?, ng¨¤y sau v?n l¨¤ ng¨¤y n?ng ??p
M?y ?i?u ch?t h?p
M¨¬nh c?t ?i th?i.¡±

V? t¨¢c gi?
L¨º Ho¨¤i ??ng l¨¤ m?t ng??i vi?t sinh n?m 1994 t?i Ph¨² Y¨ºn, hi?n ?ang s?ng ? S¨¤i G¨°n. Nh?ng suy t?, chi¨ºm nghi?m ??c ?¨¢o, s?u s?c c?a anh v? ??i s?ng v¨¤ con ng??i th??ng ???c th? hi?n d??i d?ng th?, t?n v?n, ??c tr?ng ? c¨¢ch gieo v?n, ch?i ch?.]]> 120 L¨º Ho¨¤i ??ng Huyen 4 3.71 Tr?i N¨¤y Qu¨¢ ??p ?? Bu?n - ??i N¨¤y Qu¨¢ ??p L?i Bu?n
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]]> <![CDATA[Astrophysicien (Un): ENTRETIEN AVEC JACQUES VAUTHIER]]> 6447734 158 Tr?nh Xu?n Thu?n 208081317X Huyen 3 4.25 1992 Astrophysicien (Un): ENTRETIEN AVEC JACQUES VAUTHIER
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]]> <![CDATA[The Beijing Bureau: 25 Australian Correspondents Reporting China's Rise]]> 57810345 The Beijing Bureau?is a collection of essays revealing the insights of?twenty-five Australian foreign correspondents into China, from the 1970s to present the lives of its people, its government and its culture, and what China's rise means for Australia and the world community. China dominates the headlines across the world as the country takes for itself a global role. As governments, businesses and individuals increasingly rely on news reports to make decisions,?The Beijing Bureau?brings together Australia¡¯s most acclaimed journalists to share their hard-won knowledge of China and stories of life as a ?including Mike Smith, Stan Grant, Stephen McDonell, Rowan Callick and Richard McGregor, reporting for international news outlets like the ABC, The New York Times, the BBC, CNN and more. Vital political and trading relationships are changing?¨C China is flexing its muscles internationally, through the Belt and Road Initiative and trading relationships, through Wolf Warrior diplomacy, through the control of the diaspora and militarily. At home in China, the country is intensifying its hold and extending patriotism; at the same time, Chinese people are experiencing prosperity unrivalled in their history. With essays that cover a range of subjects and written by journalists who have worked and lived in China,?The Beijing Bureau?provides readers with a thoughtful perspective of this powerful nation.]]> 309 Trevor Watson 1743587759 Huyen 5 4.28 The Beijing Bureau: 25 Australian Correspondents Reporting China's Rise
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]]> <![CDATA[Blessed Are the Weird: A Manifesto for Creatives]]> 31936215
In this book, author Jacob Nordby offers a bold new definition of success in the modern era.

¡°The only success now is living and creating a work-of-art life: unique, rich with meaning, naked of anything we don¡¯t care about, and ruthless about carving out something absolutely real from a world that has gorged itself on fakeness and become critically ill from it. The only failure now is pulling back from that quest because of fear.¡±
Expanding upon his short original ¡°Blessed Are the Weird¡± piece that became a viral phenomenon, he traces the roots of soulful artistry and creation to ancient times and back again to reveal the insistent, eternal quest of our true natures that demands something real¡ªas if our very existence depends upon it.

This book is a call to creatives (and those who want to be) with the clear message that it has never been more critical to heed the call of soul than it is during this exciting, dangerous new renaissance epoch on Planet Earth.

Heartfelt and sometimes humorous, it lights a signal fire for all who feel out of place in the modern world and invites them to claim their heritage as members in an ancient lineage¡ªthose tenders of soul and beauty who have always kept the flame alive for humanity.

This is a book for everyone who wants to lead a deep, true, and passionate life and leave the world better for having passed this way.

Blessed Are the Weird. Your time has come to define the new normal.]]> 183 Jacob Nordby 0996898905 Huyen 4 4.17 2016 Blessed Are the Weird: A Manifesto for Creatives
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]]> <![CDATA[Ph¨¢ B?y T¨ªch C?c ??c H?i - Trung Th?c V?i C?m X¨²c Trong M?t Th? Gi?i ?m ?nh V?i H?nh Ph¨²c]]> 205323190 Ph¨¢ B?y T¨ªch C?c ??c H?i - Trung Th?c V?i C?m X¨²c Trong M?t Th? Gi?i ?m ?nh V?i H?nh Ph¨²c.

B?n c¨® nh?n ra phi¨ºn b?n ¡°t?t nh?t¡± v¨¤ ¡°h?nh ph¨²c nh?t¡± m¨¤ ch¨²ng ta ?ang theo ?u?i s? lu?n ? ngo¨¤i t?m v?i? N?i ¨¢m ?nh v? vi?c c?i thi?n b?n th?n, lu?n ph?i ¡°t¨ªch c?c b?ng m?i gi¨¢¡± v¨¤ h?nh ph¨²c b?t k? t¨¬nh hu?ng n¨¤o ch?a bao gi? ph? bi?n ??n v?y. Th? nh?ng, n?u nh?ng ?i?u t¨ªch c?c l¨¤ ?¨ªch ??n sau c¨´ng th¨¬ t?i sao m?i ng??i v?n lo l?ng, ch¨¢n n?n v¨¤ ki?t s?c?

H?n c?u tr? l?i kh?ng n?m ? vi?c ch?i b? m¨¤ l¨¤ ?¨¤o s?u v¨¤o vi?c ??i m?t v?i nh?ng th?i kh?c kh¨® kh?n v¨¤ tr??ng th¨¤nh t? ch¨²ng, thay v¨¬ gi? v? li¨ºn t??ng ??n m?t th?c t?i kh¨¢c. ¡°Ph¨¢ b?y t¨ªch c?c ??c h?i¡± s? gi¨²p b?n nh¨¬n nh?n c¨¢c v?n ?? c?a s? t¨ªch c?c ??c h?i, ??ng th?i h??ng d?n c¨¢c gi?i ph¨¢p v¨¤ chi?n l??c ?? ch?p nh?n c?m x¨²c t? nhi¨ºn, h?c c¨¢ch x?y d?ng t? duy linh ho?t ?? ?¨®n nh?n nh?ng th?ng tr?m c?a cu?c s?ng.

Trong t?a s¨¢ch ch?n th¨¤nh v¨¤ m?i m? n¨¤y, t¨¢c gi? Whitney Goodman s? chia s? nh?ng nghi¨ºn c?u m?i nh?t c¨´ng nhi?u v¨ª d? h¨¤ng ng¨¤y v¨¤ ?? c?p ??n c¨¢c c?u chuy?n c?a kh¨¢ch h¨¤ng, t? ?¨® ti?t l? m?c ?? t?n h?i c?a s? t¨ªch c?c ??c h?i ??i v?i t?ng c¨¢ nh?n v¨¤ trong c¨¢c m?i quan h? c?a ch¨²ng ta. Th?c ch?t, s?ng m?t cu?c ??i ?¨ªch th?c ??ng ngh?a v?i vi?c ph?i ??i m?t v?i nh?ng th?i kh?c kh¨® kh?n v¨¤ tr??ng th¨¤nh t? ch¨²ng, thay v¨¬ gi? v? r?ng m?i vi?c ??u ho¨¤n h?o.]]> 272 Whitney Goodman 6047787177 Huyen 3 3.00 2022 Ph¨¢ B?y T¨ªch C?c ??c H?i - Trung Th?c V?i C?m X¨²c Trong M?t Th? Gi?i ?m ?nh V?i H?nh Ph¨²c
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]]> <![CDATA[Stop Overthinking: 23 Techniques to Relieve Stress, Stop Negative Spirals, Declutter Your Mind, and Focus on the Present (The Path to Calm Book 1)]]> 57280624 Overcome negative thought patterns, reduce stress, and live a worry-free life.Overthinking is the biggest cause of unhappiness. Don't get stuck in a never-ending thought loop. Stay present and keep your mind off things that don't matter, and never will.Break free of your self-imposed mental prison.Stop Overthinking is a book that understands where you¡¯ve been through,the exhausting situation you¡¯ve put yourself into, and how you lose your mind in the trap of anxiety and stress. Acclaimed author Nick Trenton will walk you through the obstacles with detailed and proven techniques to help you rewire your brain, control your thoughts, and change your mental habits.What¡¯s more, the book will provide you scientific approaches to completely change the way you think and feel about yourself by ending the vicious thought patterns.Stop agonizing over the past and trying to predict the future.Nick Trenton grew up in rural Illinois and is quite literally a farm boy. His best friend growing up was his trusty companion Leonard the dachshund. RIP Leonard. Eventually, he made it off the farm and obtained a BS in Economics, followed by an MA in Behavioral Psychology.Powerful ways to stop ruminating and dwelling on negative thoughts.-How to be aware of your negative spiral triggers-Identify and recognize your inner anxieties-How to keep the focus on relaxation and action-Proven methods to overcome stress attacks-Learn to declutter your mind and find focusUnleash your unlimited potential and start living. No more self-deprecating talk. No more sleepless nights with racing thoughts. Free your mind from overthinking and achieve more, feel better, and unleash your potential. Finally be able to live in the present moment. Live a stress-free life and conquer overthinking -- BUY NOW.]]> 191 Nick Trenton Huyen 4 3.76 2021 Stop Overthinking: 23 Techniques to Relieve Stress, Stop Negative Spirals, Declutter Your Mind, and Focus on the Present (The Path to Calm Book 1)
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]]> <![CDATA[Nam Ph??ng - Ho¨¤ng h?u cu?i c¨´ng Tri?u Nguy?n]]> 16156271
Sinh ra trong m?t gia ?¨¬nh gi¨¤u c¨®, l? ra cu?c ??i c?a ng??i con g¨¢i mang t¨ºn Nguy?n H?u Th? Lan ?? b¨¬nh l?ng v¨¤ sung s??ng h?n nhi?u n?u nh? kh?ng c¨® cu?c g?p g? ??nh m?nh v?i v? Ho¨¤ng ?? tr? tu?i c?a n??c ??i Nam - Ho¨¤ng ?? B?o ??i. Tr? th¨¤nh v? c?a vua c?a m?t n??c, cu?c ??i b¨¤ ?? b??c sang m?t ng? r? ho¨¤n to¨¤n kh¨¢c, nh?ng t??ng ??y l¨¤ danh v?ng l?n quy?n l?c nh?ng h¨®a ra l?i ?au kh? v¨¤ c? ??n cho ??n t?n nh?ng n?m th¨¢ng cu?i ??i.

Cu?c h?n nh?n gi?a Vua B?o ??i v¨¤ Ho¨¤ng h?u Nam Ph??ng ?? tr?i qua m?i th?ng tr?m, t? nh?ng ng¨¤y h?nh ph¨²c ¨ºm ??m cho ??n nh?ng th¨¢ng n?m chia ly v¨¤ ?au kh? khi Vua B?o ??i li¨ºn ti?p c¨® c¨¢c m?i quan h? t¨¬nh ¨¢i ngo¨¤i lu?ng. D?u v?y, b¨¤ Nam Ph??ng v?n lu?n m?t l¨°ng m?t d? ch?m s¨®c con c¨¢i v¨¤ th?y chung v?i ch?ng, kh?ng h? than tr¨¢ch n?a l?i. Su?t cu?c ??i m¨¬nh, b¨¤ ?? s?ng ?¨²ng v?i b?n ch? c?ng, dung, ng?n, h?nh - kh?ng ch? x?ng ?¨¢ng l¨¤ m?t ng??i v?, ng??i m? ho¨¤n h?o m¨¤ c¨°n x?ng l¨¤ m?t b?c m?u nghi trong thi¨ºn h?, c?ng nh? m?t ph? n? ti¨ºu bi?u c?a n??c Vi?t Nam th?i hi?n ??i: h?t m¨¬nh v¨¬ gia ?¨¬nh, ch?ng con, nh?ng c?ng kh?ng qu¨ºn tr¨¢ch nhi?m c?a m?t c?ng d?n v?i T? Qu?c.]]> L? Nh?n Phan Th? Lang Huyen 2 3.53 2017 Nam Ph??ng - Ho¨¤ng h?u cu?i c¨´ng Tri?u Nguy?n
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average rating: 3.53
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]]> AI Chuy?n ch?a k? 198971239
¡°T?i mu?n bi?t c?ng vi?c v¨¤ s? nghi?p c?a m¨¬nh s? thay ??i nh? th? n¨¤o n?u ?ng d?ng AI¡±, m?t doanh nh?n b¨¤y t?.

Cu?n s¨¢ch AI Chuy?n ch?a k? c?a t¨¢c gi? Tomoe Ishizumi s? gi?i th¨ªch ho?t ??ng kinh doanh AI theo c¨¢ch di?n ??t d? hi?u nh?t c¨® th? v¨¤ c? g?ng kh?ng s? d?ng c¨¢c thu?t ng? chuy¨ºn ng¨¤nh, ??y l¨¤ cu?n s¨¢ch d¨¤nh cho nh?ng ng??i kh?ng ph?i l¨¤ chuy¨ºn gia v? c?ng ngh? AI ?ang c¨® b?n kho?n, lo l?ng, nghi ng? v? l?nh v?c n¨¤y.

N¨® c?ng s? gi¨²p ¨ªch cho sinh vi¨ºn, doanh nh?n, nh¨¤ qu?n l?, nh?ng ng??i mu?n bi?t c?ng vi?c c?a h? s? li¨ºn quan nh? th? n¨¤o ??n AI trong t??ng lai. ??i v?i c¨¢c chuy¨ºn gia v¨¤ k? s? chuy¨ºn m?n, t?i hy v?ng th?ng qua cu?n s¨¢ch n¨¤y, c¨¢c b?n c¨® th? bi?t ???c r?ng kh¨¢ch h¨¤ng c?a c¨¢c b?n, nh?ng doanh nghi?p kh?ng chuy¨ºn v? AI kh¨® c¨® th? l? gi?i ???c v?n ?? g¨¬ hay c¨® th? d? d¨¤ng n?m b?t ???c v?n ?? d??i g¨®c ?? nh? th? n¨¤o.]]> 268 ʯ½ÇÓÑ°® 6043625016 Huyen 2 2.67 AI Chuy?n ch?a k?
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]]> <![CDATA[Power Failure: The Rise and Fall of an American Icon]]> 60621064
The New Yorker Best Books of 2022?? Financial Times Best Books of 2022?? The Economist Best Books of 2022

The dramatic rise¡ªand unimaginable fall¡ªof America's most iconic corporation by New York Times bestselling author and?pre-eminent financial journalist William D. Cohan

No company embodied American ingenuity, innovation, and industrial power more spectacularly and more consistently than the General Electric Company. GE once developed and manufactured many of the inventions we take for granted today, nearly everything from the lightbulb to the jet engine. GE also built a cult of financial and leadership success envied across the globe and became the world¡¯s most valuable and most admired company. But even at the height of its prestige and influence, cracks were forming in its formidable foundation.

In a masterful re-appraisal of a company that once claimed to ¡°bring good things to life,¡± pre-eminent financial journalist William D. Cohan argues that the incredible story of GE¡¯s rise and fall is not only a paragon, but also a prism through which we can better understand American capitalism. Beginning with its founding, innovations, and exponential growth through acquisitions and mergers, Cohan plumbs the depths of GE's storied management culture, its pioneering doctrine of shareholder value, and its seemingly hidden blind spots, to reveal that GE wasn't immune from the hubris and avoidable mistakes suffered by many other corporations.?

In Power Failure , Cohan punctures the myth of GE, exploring in a rich narrative how a once-great company wound up broken and in tatters¡ªa cautionary tale for the ages.]]> 816 William D. Cohan 0593084160 Huyen 4 4.20 Power Failure: The Rise and Fall of an American Icon
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]]> <![CDATA[K? Nguy¨ºn Park Chung Hee V¨¤ Qu¨¢ Tr¨¬nh Ph¨¢t Tri?n Th?n K? C?a H¨¤n Qu?c]]> 143264925 0 Huyen 3 3.00 K? Nguy¨ºn Park Chung Hee V¨¤ Qu¨¢ Tr¨¬nh Ph¨¢t Tri?n Th?n K? C?a H¨¤n Qu?c
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]]> <![CDATA[Delicious: The Evolution of Flavor and How It Made Us Human]]> 55271761
Blending storytelling with the latest science, Delicious is a deep history of flavor that will informs on human evolution and the gustatory pleasures of the foods we eat.]]> 304 Rob Dunn 0691199477 Huyen 3 3.57 2021 Delicious: The Evolution of Flavor and How It Made Us Human
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]]> <![CDATA[Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization]]> 125937631
The fiber-optic cables that weave the World Wide Web, the copper veins of our electric grids, the silicon chips and lithium batteries that power our phones and though it can feel like we now live in a weightless world of information¡ªwhat Ed Conway calls ¡°the ethereal world¡±¡ªour twenty-first-century lives are still very much rooted in the material.

In fact, we dug more stuff out of the earth in 2017 than in all of human history before 1950. For every ton of fossil fuels, we extract six tons of other materials, from sand to stone to wood to metal. And in Material World, Conway embarks on an epic?journey across continents, cultures, and epochs to reveal the underpinnings of modern life on Earth¡ªtraveling from the sweltering depths of the deepest mine in Europe to spotless silicon chip factories in Taiwan to the eerie green pools where lithium originates.

Material World is a celebration of the humans and the human networks, the miraculous processes and the little-known companies, that combine to turn?raw materials into things of wonder. This is the story of human civilization from an entirely new the ground up.]]> 512 Ed Conway 0593534344 Huyen 0 to-read 4.48 2023 Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization
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]]> <![CDATA[The Book of Crypto: The Complete Guide to Understanding Bitcoin, Cryptocurrencies and Digital Assets]]> 61118397


Written by a leading industry expert?and thought leader who advises some of the leading?organisations in the digital assets space globally, this book is ideal foranyone looking to acquire a solid foundational knowledge base of this fast-growing field and understand its potential impact on the future of money.


]]> 680 Henri Arslanian 3030979512 Huyen 5 4.37 The Book of Crypto: The Complete Guide to Understanding Bitcoin, Cryptocurrencies and Digital Assets
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]]> <![CDATA[The Lords of Easy Money: How the Federal Reserve Broke the American Economy]]> 58485511 The New York Times bestseller from business journalist Christopher Leonard infiltrates one of America¡¯s most mysterious institutions¡ªthe Federal Reserve¡ªto show how its policies spearheaded by Chairman Jerome Powell over the past ten years have accelerated income inequality and put our country¡¯s economic stability at risk.

If you asked most people what forces led to today¡¯s unprecedented income inequality and financial crashes, no one would say the Federal Reserve. For most of its history, the Fed has enjoyed the fawning adoration of the press. When the economy grew, it was credited to the Fed. When the economy imploded in 2008, the Fed got credit for rescuing us.

But here, for the first time, is the inside story of how the Fed has reshaped the American economy for the worse. It all started on November 3, 2010, when the Fed began a radical intervention called quantitative easing. In just a few short years, the Fed more than quadrupled the money supply with one to encourage banks and other investors to extend more risky debt. Leaders at the Fed knew that they were undertaking a bold experiment that would produce few real jobs, with long-term risks that were hard to measure. But the Fed proceeded anyway¡­and then found itself trapped. Once it printed all that money, there was no way to withdraw it from circulation. The Fed tried several times, only to see the market start to crash, at which point the Fed turned the money spigot back on. That¡¯s what it did when COVID hit, printing 300 years¡¯ worth of money in a few short months.

Which brings us to Ten years on, the gap between the rich and poor has grown dramatically, inflation is raging, and the stock market is driven by boom, busts, and bailouts. Middle-class Americans seem stuck in a stage of permanent stagnation, with wage gains wiped out by high prices even as they remain buried under credit card debt, car loan debt, and student debt. Meanwhile, the ¡°too big to fail¡± banks remain bigger and more powerful than ever while the richest Americans enjoy the gains of a hyper-charged financial system.

The Lords of Easy Money ¡°skillfully¡± (The Wall Street Journal) tells the ¡°fascinating¡± (The New York Times) tale of how quantitative easing is imperiling the American economy through the story of the one man who tried to warn us. This is the first inside story of how we really got here¡ªand why our economy rests on such unstable ground.]]> Christopher Leonard 1797135546 Huyen 5 4.29 2022 The Lords of Easy Money: How the Federal Reserve Broke the American Economy
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]]> <![CDATA[One Flew Over the Cuckoo¡¯s Nest]]> 332613 9780451163967

Tyrannical Nurse Ratched rules her ward in an Oregon State mental hospital with a strict and unbending routine, unopposed by her patients, who remain cowed by mind-numbing medication and the threat of electric shock therapy. But her regime is disrupted by the arrival of McMurphy ¨C the swaggering, fun-loving trickster with a devilish grin who resolves to oppose her rules on behalf of his fellow inmates. His struggle is seen through the eyes of Chief Bromden, a seemingly mute half-Indian patient who understands McMurphy's heroic attempt to do battle with the powers that keep them imprisoned. Ken Kesey's extraordinary first novel is an exuberant, ribald and devastatingly honest portrayal of the boundaries between sanity and madness.]]> 325 Ken Kesey Huyen 4 4.20 1962 One Flew Over the Cuckoo¡¯s Nest
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]]> Think Like a Freak 17331349
Now, with Think Like a Freak, Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner have written their most revolutionary book yet. With their trademark blend of captivating storytelling and unconventional analysis, they take us inside their thought process and teach us all to think a bit more productively, more creatively, more rationally¡ªto think, that is, like a Freak.

Levitt and Dubner offer a blueprint for an entirely new way to solve problems, whether your interest lies in minor lifehacks or major global reforms. As always, no topic is off-limits. They range from business to philanthropy to sports to politics, all with the goal of retraining your brain. Along the way, you¡¯ll learn the secrets of a Japanese hot-dog-eating champion, the reason an Australian doctor swallowed a batch of dangerous bacteria, and why Nigerian e-mail scammers make a point of saying they¡¯re from Nigeria.

Some of the steps toward thinking like a

First, put away your moral compass¡ªbecause it¡¯s hard to see a problem clearly if you¡¯ve already decided what to do about it. Learn to say ¡°I don¡¯t know¡±¡ªfor until you can admit what you don¡¯t yet know, it¡¯s virtually impossible to learn what you need to. Think like a child¡ªbecause you¡¯ll come up with better ideas and ask better questions. Take a master class in incentives¡ªbecause for better or worse, incentives rule our world. Learn to persuade people who don¡¯t want to be persuaded¡ªbecause being right is rarely enough to carry the day. Learn to appreciate the upside of quitting¡ªbecause you can¡¯t solve tomorrow¡¯s problem if you aren¡¯t willing to abandon today¡¯s dud.Levitt and Dubner plainly see the world like no one else. Now you can too. Never before have such iconoclastic thinkers been so revealing¡ªand so much fun to read.]]> 0 Steven D. Levitt 0062218360 Huyen 3 3.83 2014 Think Like a Freak
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]]> <![CDATA[Xuy¨ºn M? (B?t H?nh L¨¤ M?t T¨¤i S?n, #2)]]> 22013414 376 Phan Vi?t 6041052019 Huyen 3 3.80 2014 Xuy¨ºn M? (B?t H?nh L¨¤ M?t T¨¤i S?n, #2)
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]]> <![CDATA[M?t m¨¬nh ? ch?u ?u (B?t H?nh L¨¤ M?t T¨¤i S?n, #1)]]> 17336704
H? c¨® th? l¨¤ sinh vi¨ºn m?i ra tr??ng, mu?n ??n Paris ?? vi?t v?n; c¨® th? l¨¤ ng??i ?? ?i qua m?t cu?c h?n nh?n, gi? ??n ?¨® ?? nh¨¬n l?i; c¨® th? l¨¤ ng??i b?y l?u v?n m¨°n m?i ch? ??i m?i t¨¬nh l?n c?a ??i m¨¬nh v¨¤ mong n¨® x?y ra ? ch?u ?u¡­ Ho?c h? c¨® th?, nh? t¨¢c gi? c?a cu?n s¨¢ch n¨¤y, ??n ch?u ?u m?t m¨¬nh ?? du l?ch nh? m?t ng??i kh?ng qu¨¢ kh?, kh?ng r¨¤ng bu?c; v¨¤ ?? h?i nh?ng c?u h?i b??c ngo?t v? t¨¬nh y¨ºu v¨¤ h?n nh?n¡­

Cu?n s¨¢ch n¨¤y, h?n c? m?t cu?n du k? v? nh?ng ng¨¤y du ngo?n qua c¨¢c th¨¢nh ??a m? ??c ? ch?u ?u, c¨°n l¨¤ m?t h¨¤nh tr¨¬nh n?i t?m xuy¨ºn su?t, dai d?ng, v¨¤ kh?ng ph?i kh?ng ?au ??n.

C¨® th? th?y ?i?u ?¨®, d?u ch?ng ? ch?u ?u m?t m¨¬nh.]]> 344 Phan Vi?t Huyen 3 3.66 2013 M?t m¨¬nh ? ch?u ?u (B?t H?nh L¨¤ M?t T¨¤i S?n, #1)
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]]> <![CDATA[A Short History of Drunkenness]]> 35074090
A Short History of Drunkenness traces humankind's love affair with booze from our primate ancestors through to Prohibition, answering every possible question along the way: What did people drink? How much? Who did the drinking? Of the many possible reasons, why? On the way, learn about the Neolithic Shamans, who drank to communicate with the spirit world (no pun intended), marvel at how Greeks got giddy and Romans got rat-arsed, and find out how bars in the Wild West were never quite like in the movies.

This is a history of the world at its inebriated best.]]> 248 Mark Forsyth 0241297680 Huyen 5 3.98 2017 A Short History of Drunkenness
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]]> Coraline 17061
In Coraline's family's new flat are twenty-one windows and fourteen doors. Thirteen of the doors open and close.

The fourteenth is locked, and on the other side is only a brick wall, until the day Coraline unlocks the door to find a passage to another flat in another house just like her own.

Only it's different.

At first, things seem marvelous in the other flat. The food is better. The toy box is filled with wind-up angels that flutter around the bedroom, books whose pictures writhe and crawl and shimmer, little dinosaur skulls that chatter their teeth. But there's another mother, and another father, and they want Coraline to stay with them and be their little girl. They want to change her and never let her go.

Other children are trapped there as well, lost souls behind the mirrors. Coraline is their only hope of rescue. She will have to fight with all her wits and all the tools she can find if she is to save the lost children, her ordinary life, and herself.

Critically acclaimed and award-winning author Neil Gaiman will delight readers with his first novel for all ages.]]> 176 Neil Gaiman 0061139378 Huyen 5 4.13 2002 Coraline
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]]> <![CDATA[The Body: A Guide for Occupants]]> 43582376 A Short History of Nearly Everything, Bill Bryson achieved the seemingly impossible by making the science of our world both understandable and entertaining to millions of people around the globe.

Now he turns his attention inwards to explore the human body, how it functions and its remarkable ability to heal itself. Full of extraordinary facts and astonishing stories, The Body: A Guide for Occupants is a brilliant, often very funny attempt to understand the miracle of our physical and neurological make up.

A wonderful successor to A Short History of Nearly Everything, this book will have you marvelling at the form you occupy, and celebrating the genius of your existence, time and time again.]]> 450 Bill Bryson 0385539304 Huyen 5 4.30 2019 The Body: A Guide for Occupants
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]]> <![CDATA[Power System Energy Storage Technologies (The Power Generation)]]> 36804277 100 Paul Breeze 0128129026 Huyen 5 5.00 Power System Energy Storage Technologies (The Power Generation)
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]]> <![CDATA[A Pathway to Decarbonise the Shipping Sector by 2050]]> 106640374 211 929260385X Huyen 4 4.00 A Pathway to Decarbonise the Shipping Sector by 2050
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]]> <![CDATA[Hydrogen: A renewable energy perspective]]> 53768148 102 9292602071 Huyen 4 4.44 Hydrogen: A renewable energy perspective
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]]> <![CDATA[Bezonomics: How Amazon Is Changing Our Lives and What the World's Best Companies Are Learning from It]]> 52770569 336 Brian Dumaine 1982113650 Huyen 4 3.77 2020 Bezonomics: How Amazon Is Changing Our Lives and What the World's Best Companies Are Learning from It
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]]> <![CDATA[Deployment of Deep Decarbonization Technologies: Proceedings of a Workshop]]> 50151751 126 0309670632 Huyen 4 4.00 Deployment of Deep Decarbonization Technologies: Proceedings of a Workshop
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]]> <![CDATA[Energy Policies of Iea Countries: Australia 2001 Review]]> 115471644 170 Iea 9264187332 Huyen 4 4.00 Energy Policies of Iea Countries: Australia 2001 Review
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]]> <![CDATA[Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology]]> 60321447
You may be surprised to learn that microchips are the new oil¡ªthe scarce resource on which the modern world depends. Today, military, economic, and geopolitical power are built on a foundation of computer chips. Virtually everything¡ª from missiles to microwaves, smartphones to the stock market ¡ª runs on chips. Until recently, America designed and built the fastest chips and maintained its lead as the #1 superpower. Now, America's edge is?slipping, undermined by competitors in Taiwan, Korea,?Europe, and, above all, China. Today, as Chip War reveals, China, which spends more money each year importing chips than it spends importing oil,?is pouring billions into a chip-building initiative to catch up to the US. At stake is America's military superiority and economic prosperity.

Economic historian Chris Miller explains how the semiconductor came to play a critical role in modern life and how the U.S. become dominant in chip design and manufacturing and applied this technology to military systems. America's victory in the Cold War and its global military dominance stems from its ability to harness computing power more effectively than any other power. But here, too, China is catching up, with its chip-building ambitions and military modernization going hand in hand.?America has let key components of the chip-building process slip out of its grasp, contributing not only to a worldwide chip shortage but also a new Cold War with a superpower adversary that is desperate to bridge the gap.

Illuminating, timely, and fascinating, Chip War shows that, to make sense of the current state of politics, economics, and technology, we must first understand the vital role played by chips.]]> 464 Chris Miller 1982172002 Huyen 5 4.38 2022 Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology
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]]> <![CDATA[Green hydrogen for industry: A guide to policy making]]> 192158742 149 9292604759 Huyen 4 4.00 Green hydrogen for industry: A guide to policy making
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]]> <![CDATA[Green Hydrogen Supply: A Guide to Policy Making]]> 60464986 124 9292603779 Huyen 4 4.67 Green Hydrogen Supply: A Guide to Policy Making
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]]> <![CDATA[The Wires That Bind: Electrification and Community Renewal (Quarterly Essay, #89)]]> 123978844
The country is at a crossroads. In The Wires That Bind, inventor, engineer and visionary Saul Griffith reveals the world that awaits us if we make the most of Australia¡¯s energy future.

Griffith paints an inspiring yet practical picture of empowered local communities acting collectively when it comes to renewable energy, and benefiting financially. He considers both equity and security ¨C an end to dependence on foreign oil, for instance. He explores the rejuvenation of regional Australia, as well as the rise of a new populist movement driven by Australian women. And he explodes once and for all the trees v. jobs binary.

This is an electrifying essay about building a better world, one community at a time.

¡®We need a realistic and achievable vision for the future because the future is coming fast. We have only about one-quarter of one century, twenty-five years, one human generation, to get ourselves out of this climate quandary. If we get this right, if we design the incentives and the policies and the regulations correctly, communities will thrive. Every Australian will benefit economically, socially and even health-wise. So let¡¯s hit the road.¡¯ Saul Griffith, The Wires That Bind]]> 147 Saul Griffith 176064420X Huyen 4 4.07 The Wires That Bind: Electrification and Community Renewal (Quarterly Essay, #89)
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]]> <![CDATA[Energy Economics: Concepts, Issues, Markets and Governance]]> 13347813 747 Subhes C. Bhattacharyya 0857292676 Huyen 3 3.74 2011 Energy Economics: Concepts, Issues, Markets and Governance
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]]> <![CDATA[Energy Primer: A Hand Book of Energy Market Basics]]> 26393964 128 1514665662 Huyen 3 3.25 2015 Energy Primer: A Hand Book of Energy Market Basics
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]]> <![CDATA[Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?]]> 6452731
Affirmative action, same-sex marriage, physician-assisted suicide, abortion, national service, the moral limits of markets¨DSandel relates the big questions of political philosophy to the most vexing issues of the day, and shows how a surer grasp of philosophy can help us make sense of politics, morality, and our own convictions as well.

Justice is lively, thought-provoking, and wise¨Dan essential new addition to the small shelf of books that speak convincingly to the hard questions of our civic life.]]> 308 Michael J. Sandel 0374180652 Huyen 5 4.30 2007 Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?
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]]> The Biggest Footprint 57297324 Making use of brain-bending stats and smoosh theory, The Biggest Footprint is a journey of self-discovery suitable for anyone and everyone identifying as human.]]> 96 Rob Sears 1838853499 Huyen 5 4.69 2021 The Biggest Footprint
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]]> <![CDATA[Financial Modeling in Excel For Dummies (For Dummies (Lifestyle))]]> 34855358 336 Danielle Stein Fairhurst Huyen 3 3.85 2017 Financial Modeling in Excel For Dummies (For Dummies (Lifestyle))
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]]> Notes on Grief 57032570 Notes on Grief is an exquisite work of meditation, remembrance, and hope, written in the wake of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's beloved father¡¯s death in the summer of 2020. As the COVID-19 pandemic raged around the world, and kept Adichie and her family members separated from one another, her father succumbed unexpectedly to complications of kidney failure.

Expanding on her original New Yorker piece, Adichie shares how this loss shook her to her core. She writes about being one of the millions of people grieving this year; about the familial and cultural dimensions of grief and also about the loneliness and anger that are unavoidable in it. With signature precision of language, and glittering, devastating detail on the page--and never without touches of rich, honest humor--Adichie weaves together her own experience of her father¡¯s death with threads of his life story, from his remarkable survival during the Biafran war, through a long career as a statistics professor, into the days of the pandemic in which he¡¯d stay connected with his children and grandchildren over video chat from the family home in Abba, Nigeria. In the compact format of We Should All Be Feminists and Dear Ijeawele, Adichie delivers a gem of a book--a book that fundamentally connects us to one another as it probes one of the most universal human experiences. Notes on Grief is a book for this moment¡ªa work readers will treasure and share now more than ever--and yet will prove durable and timeless, an indispensable addition to Adichie's canon.]]> 86 Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie 0593320808 Huyen 4 4.26 2021 Notes on Grief
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]]> <![CDATA[Techno-Economic Challenges of Green Ammonia as an Energy Vector]]> 60163848 340 Agustin Valera-Medina 0128208864 Huyen 4 3.67 Techno-Economic Challenges of Green Ammonia as an Energy Vector
author: Agustin Valera-Medina
name: Huyen
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]]> Half of a Yellow Sun 18749 A masterly, haunting new novel from a writer heralded by The Washington Post Book World as ¡°the 21st-century daughter of Chinua Achebe,¡± Half of a Yellow Sun re-creates a seminal moment in modern African history: Biafra¡¯s impassioned struggle to establish an independent republic in Nigeria in the 1960s, and the chilling violence that followed.

With astonishing empathy and the effortless grace of a natural storyteller, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie weaves together the lives of three characters swept up in the turbulence of the decade. Thirteen-year-old Ugwu is employed as a houseboy for a university professor full of revolutionary zeal. Olanna is the professor¡¯s beautiful mistress, who has abandoned her life of privilege in Lagos for a dusty university town and the charisma of her new lover. And Richard is a shy young Englishman in thrall to Olanna¡¯s twin sister, an enigmatic figure who refuses to belong to anyone. As Nigerian troops advance and the three must run for their lives, their ideals are severely tested, as are their loyalties to one another.

Epic, ambitious, and triumphantly realized, Half of a Yellow Sun is a remarkable novel about moral responsibility, about the end of colonialism, about ethnic allegiances, about class and race¡ªand the ways in which love can complicate them all. Adichie brilliantly evokes the promise and the devastating disappointments that marked this time and place, bringing us one of the most powerful, dramatic, and intensely emotional pictures of modern Africa that we have ever had.]]> 435 Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie 1400044162 Huyen 3 4.34 2006 Half of a Yellow Sun
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name: Huyen
average rating: 4.34
book published: 2006
rating: 3
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]]> The Painted Drum 52528 ¡°Haunted and haunting. . . . With fearlessness and humility, in a narrative that flows more artfully than ever between destruction and rebirth, Erdrich has opened herself to possibilities beyond what we merely see¡ªto the dead alive and busy, to the breath of trees and the souls of wolves¡ªand inspires readers to open their hearts to these mysteries as well.¡±¡ª?Washington Post Book World


From the author of the National Book Award Winner?The Round House,?Louise Erdrich's?breathtaking, lyrical novel of a priceless Ojibwe artifact and the effect it has had on those who have come into contact with it over the years.


While appraising the estate of a New Hampshire family descended from a North Dakota Indian agent, Faye Travers is startled to discover a rare moose skin and cedar drum fashioned long ago by an Ojibwe artisan. And so begins an illuminating journey both backward and forward in time, following the strange passage of a powerful yet delicate instrument, and revealing the extraordinary lives it has touched and defined.

Compelling and unforgettable, Louise Erdrich's Painted Drum explores the often-fraught relationship between mothers and daughters, the strength of family, and the intricate rhythms of grief with all the grace, wit, and startling beauty that characterizes this acclaimed author's finest work.]]> 277 Louise Erdrich 0060515112 Huyen 0 to-read 3.90 2005 The Painted Drum
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]]> <![CDATA[A Little History of Philosophy (Little Histories)]]> 11527504
In forty brief chapters, Nigel Warburton guides us on a chronological tour of the major ideas in the history of philosophy. He provides interesting and often quirky stories of the lives and deaths of thought-provoking philosophers from Socrates, who chose to die by hemlock poisoning rather than live on without the freedom to think for himself, to Peter Singer, who asks the disquieting philosophical and ethical questions that haunt our own times.

Warburton not only makes philosophy accessible, he offers inspiration to think, argue, reason, and ask in the tradition of Socrates. A Little History of Philosophy presents the grand sweep of humanity's search for philosophical understanding and invites all to join in the discussion.]]> 252 Nigel Warburton 0300152086 Huyen 3 4.12 2011 A Little History of Philosophy (Little Histories)
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name: Huyen
average rating: 4.12
book published: 2011
rating: 3
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]]> <![CDATA[One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich]]> 17125 The only English translation authorized by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

First published in the Soviet journal Novy Mir in 1962, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich stands as a classic of contemporary literature. The story of labor-camp inmate Ivan Denisovich Shukhov, it graphically describes his struggle to maintain his dignity in the face of communist oppression. An unforgettable portrait of the entire world of Stalin's forced work camps, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich is one of the most extraordinary literary documents to have emerged from the Soviet Union and confirms Solzhenitsyn's stature as "a literary genius whose talent matches that of Dosotevsky, Turgenev, Tolstoy"--Harrison Salisbury

This unexpurgated 1991 translation by H. T. Willetts is the only authorized edition available, and fully captures the power and beauty of the original Russian.]]> 182 Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Huyen 4 literature 3.98 1962 One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
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name: Huyen
average rating: 3.98
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rating: 4
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I never actually knew what to expect before I started reading. But it doesn't take that long to realize it's an expose' of one of the thousand Soviet Gulags during the Communist rule. It actually makes me laugh a bit, the sort of "my-life-always-sucks-but-today-sucks-the-least" humor. It's the story of an ordinary prisoner Ivan Denisovich, who was accused of being a traitor for Nazi Germany and thrown into a labor camp for ten years. the conditions of the prison camp were, of course, horrendous and cruel but there are sparks of genuine friendship, sympathy and blithe optimism. but the book is merely description, hardly emotional or thrilling. which might be more real, because understandably, after ten years living the same routine in despair, you'll lose all sense of time and feelings. I find it has the power to shock, but not to touch, as "Music through the Dark". maybe, I'd give it 3 stars, but one extra for the author's bravery.
]]> The True Story Of Ah Q 64980 52 Lu Xun 1419185950 Huyen 4 literature 3.64 1922 The True Story Of Ah Q
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rating: 4
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Lu Xun exposes all the ugliness and backwardness in Chinese society at the turn of the twentieth century. Interestingly, I can see many things he describes in my own society and the Asian mentality in general.
]]> The Successor 63269919 A book about power, apprenticeship, and succession in the first family of media

An heir apparent to the first global media dynasty, Lachlan Murdoch has been waiting to run his father Rupert¡¯s empire all his life. In this riveting first biography of a little-understood but hugely influential figure, acclaimed journalist Paddy Manning can the dutiful son hang onto the empire, or will the third generation of Murdoch moguls prove the last?

Despite a life in the spotlight, Lachlan¡¯s personality, politics, and business acumen remain enigmatic. Is he the ultra-conservative ideologue media reports maintain, or a free-thinking libertarian, as some friends suggest?


After emerging victorious from the Murdoch family¡¯s turbulent succession wars, Lachlan is stepping up at a time of unprecedented instability. What can we expect from his time at the helm, and does he have what it takes to chart a future for this century-old company? This is a book about the good, the bad, and the ugly of the global media world, and about America in the age of Trump and Murdoch. It is a book about power, apprenticeship, and succession.]]> 0 Paddy Manning 1760642363 Huyen 3 3.78 The Successor
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]]> A Man Called Ove 18774964
Meet Ove. He's a curmudgeon, the kind of man who points at people he dislikes as if they were burglars caught outside his bedroom window. He has staunch principles, strict routines, and a short fuse. People call him the bitter neighbor from hell, but must Ove be bitter just because he doesn't walk around with a smile plastered to his face all the time?

Behind the cranky exterior there is a story and a sadness. So when one November morning a chatty young couple with two chatty young daughters move in next door and accidentally flatten Ove's mailbox, it is the lead-in to a comical and heartwarming tale of unkempt cats, unexpected friendship, and the ancient art of backing up a U-Haul. All of which will change one cranky old man and a local residents' association to their very foundations.]]> 337 Fredrik Backman 1476738017 Huyen 5 4.35 2012 A Man Called Ove
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average rating: 4.35
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]]> <![CDATA[Sex, Time, and Power: How Women's Sexuality Shaped Human Evolution]]> 100749 Homo sapiens suddenly emerge some 150,000 years ago? The key, according to Leonard Shlain, is female sexuality. Drawing on an awesome breadth of research, he shows how, long ago, the narrowness of the newly bipedal human female's pelvis and the increasing size of infants' heads precipitated a crisis for the species.

Natural selection allowed for the adaptation of the human female to this environmental stress by reconfiguring her hormonal cycles, entraining them with the periodicity of the moon. The results, however, did much more than ensure our existence; they imbued women with the concept of time, and gave them control over sex--a power that males sought to reclaim. And the possibility of achieving immortality through heirs drove men to construct patriarchal cultures that went on to dominate so much of human history.

From the nature of courtship to the evolution of language, Shlain's brilliant and wide-ranging exploration stimulates new ways of thinking about very old matters.

"A masterpiece of ideas and a unique contribution to our understanding of gender and history, sexuality and evolution."
-- Jean Houston

[Note: includes Reader's Guide]]]> 464 Leonard Shlain 0142004677 Huyen 0 to-read, biology-brain 4.04 2003 Sex, Time, and Power: How Women's Sexuality Shaped Human Evolution
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]]> <![CDATA[How Big Things Get Done: The Surprising Factors That Determine the Fate of Every Project, from Home Renovations to Space Exploration and Everything In Between]]> 61327449 The secrets to successfully planning and delivering projects on any scale¡ªfrom home renovation to space exploration¡ªby the world¡¯s leading expert on megaprojects
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¡°This book is important, timely, instructive, and entertaining. What more could you ask for?¡±¡ªDaniel Kahneman, Nobel Prize¨Cwinning author of Thinking, Fast and Slow
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¡°Over-budget and over-schedule is an inevitability. Incompetence and grift is outrageous. Bent Flyvbjerg, with this terrific data-driven book, has shown that there is another way.¡±¡ªFrank Gehry

Nothing is more inspiring than a big vision that becomes a triumphant, new?reality. Think of how the Empire State Building went from a sketch to the jewel of New York¡¯s skyline in twenty-one months, or how Apple¡¯s iPod went from a project with a single employee to a product launch in eleven months.

These are wonderful stories. But most of the time big visions turn into nightmares. Remember Boston¡¯s ¡°Big Dig¡±? Almost every sizeable city in the world has such a fiasco in its backyard. In fact, no less than 92% of megaprojects come in over budget or over schedule, or both. The cost of California¡¯s high-speed rail project soared from $33 billion to $100 billon¡ªand won¡¯t even go where promised. More modest endeavors, whether launching a small business, organizing a conference, or just finishing a work project on time, also commonly fail. Why?

Understanding what distinguishes the triumphs from the failures has been the life¡¯s work of Oxford professor Bent Flyvbjerg, dubbed ¡°the world¡¯s leading megaproject expert.¡± In How Big Things Get Done, he identifies the errors in judgment and decision-making that lead projects, both big and small, to fail, and the research-based principles that will make you succeed with yours. For example:

? Understand your odds. If you don¡¯t know them, you won¡¯t win.
? Plan slow, act fast. Getting to the action quick feels right. But it¡¯s wrong.?
? Think right to left. Start with your goal, then identify the steps to get there.
? Find your Lego. Big is best built from small.
? Be a team maker. You won¡¯t succeed without an ¡°us.¡±
? Master the unknown unknowns. Most think they can¡¯t, so they fail. Flyvbjerg shows how you can.
? Know that your biggest risk is you.

Full of vivid examples ranging from the building of the Sydney Opera House, to the making of the latest Pixar blockbusters, to a home renovation in Brooklyn gone awry, How Big Things Get Done reveals how to get any ambitious project done¡ªon time and on budget.]]> 304 Bent Flyvbjerg 0593239512 Huyen 5 4.28 2023 How Big Things Get Done: The Surprising Factors That Determine the Fate of Every Project, from Home Renovations to Space Exploration and Everything In Between
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]]> <![CDATA[Negative Emissions Technologies and Reliable Sequestration: A Research Agenda]]> 42519490 510 0309484529 Huyen 4 4.00 Negative Emissions Technologies and Reliable Sequestration: A Research Agenda
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]]> Of Mice and Men 890 ¡°I got you to look after me, and you got me to look after you, and that's why.¡±

They are an unlikely pair: George is "small and quick and dark of face"; Lennie, a man of tremendous size, has the mind of a young child. Yet they have formed a "family," clinging together in the face of loneliness and alienation. Laborers in California's dusty vegetable fields, they hustle work when they can, living a hand-to-mouth existence. But George and Lennie have a plan: to own an acre of land and a shack they can call their own.

While the powerlessness of the laboring class is a recurring theme in Steinbeck's work of the late 1930s, he narrowed his focus when composing Of Mice and Men, creating an intimate portrait of two men facing a world marked by petty tyranny, misunderstanding, jealousy, and callousness. But though the scope is narrow, the theme is universal: a friendship and a shared dream that makes an individual's existence meaningful.

A unique perspective on life's hardships, this story has achieved the status of timeless classic due to its remarkable success as a novel, a Broadway play, and three acclaimed films.]]> 107 John Steinbeck 0142000671 Huyen 3 3.88 1937 Of Mice and Men
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]]> <![CDATA[Converge: A futurist's insights into the potential of our world as technology and humanity collide]]> 61665592
The answer in many cases is, ¡®Because we don¡¯t know about them!¡¯ Well, now we do. Dr Catherine opens our eyes to the amazing, wide world of technological advancements and explores the role we all have in learning more, owning the conversations, and determining what we want technology to be.

What is the role AI can play in the resurgence of local manufacturing and creating new jobs? Can we vaccinate against cancer? How can drones save lives and assist Mother Nature in her fight to stop humans destroying our beloved planet? And how can we utilise the best modern technologies to live longer, healthier, and happier lives? Written with wit, tenacity, and deeply personal experiences, Converge offers an optimistic, in-depth, and fascinating investigation into the possibilities of a world where humans fully embrace technology.]]> 208 Catherine Ball 1922611522 Huyen 5 to-read 3.75 Converge: A futurist's insights into the potential of our world as technology and humanity collide
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]]> <![CDATA[The New Australian Dream: Rethinking Our Homes and Cities to Solve the Housing Crisis]]> 63097799
Sergio Famiano, an urban enthusiast and practitioner, explores the history of the Australian Dream of home ownership-from its humble beginnings in colonial Australia to the current status symbol and national obsession we know today; from post-war paradise to suburban sprawl; from new family homes affordable on a single income to million dollar housing in most major cities.

The New Australian Dream explores the mounting health, environmental and economic 'shadows' that are spreading with the growth and cost of suburban 'paradise'. As issues, such as the demographic time-bomb and changing economic conditions, develop and loom in our future, so too does the realisation that property may not be 'as safe as bricks and mortar'.

But hope is offered through an alternative vision for the Australian Dream-through rethinking housing, urban design, transport, and government policy.

By reimagining the Australian Dream, we can make housing affordable for ourselves and for future generations.]]> 486 Sergio Famiano 1922697818 Huyen 4 3.67 The New Australian Dream: Rethinking Our Homes and Cities to Solve the Housing Crisis
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]]> Corporate Finance 15768877 736 Ivo Welch 0984004955 Huyen 4 3.88 2008 Corporate Finance
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average rating: 3.88
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]]> <![CDATA[Arriving Today: From Factory to Front Door-Why Everything Has Changed About How and What We Buy]]> 56816996 Arriving Today, Christopher Mims goes deep, far, and wide to uncover how a single product, from creation to delivery, weaves its way from a factory on the other side of the world to our doorstep. He analyzes the evolving technologies and management strategies necessary to keep the product moving to fulfill consumers¡¯ demand for ¡°arriving today¡± gratification. Mims reveals a world where the only thing moving faster than goods in an Amazon warehouse is the rate at which an entire industry is being gutted and rebuilt by innovation and mass shifts in human labor practices. He goes behind the scenes to uncover the paradoxes in this shift¡ªinto the world¡¯s busiest port, the cabin of an 18-wheeler, and Amazon¡¯s automated warehouses¡ªto explore how the promise of ¡°arriving today¡± is fulfilled through a balletic dance between humans and machines.?

The scope of such large-scale innovation and expended energy is equal parts inspiring, enlightening, and horrifying. As he offers a glimpse of our future, Mims asks us to consider the system¡¯s vulnerability and its resilience, and who shoulders the burden, as we hurtle toward a fully automated system¡ªand what it will mean when we are there.]]> 352 Christopher Mims 006298795X Huyen 4 3.97 2021 Arriving Today: From Factory to Front Door-Why Everything Has Changed About How and What We Buy
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average rating: 3.97
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]]> S¨¤i G¨°n th??ng v¨¤ nh? 58799022
?, S¨¤i Gon c?a t?i ?¨®. Kh?ng ph?i l¨¤ nh?ng b? bi?n, ??i th?ng... m¨¤ l¨¤ n?i th?n quen t?ng nh?n bao ti?ng c??i c?ng nh? gi?t n??c m?t c?a t?i v¨¤ b?n b¨¨ v?i nh?ng th?ng tr?m trong cu?c s?ng. M?t n?i n¨¢o nhi?t, ?n ¨¤o, l¨¤ ??t h?a cho nh?ng ng??i mu?n l¨¤m m?t cu?c ??i ??i. V¨¤ khi bu?n phi?n, t?i v?n c¨® th? t¨¬m cho m¨¬nh nh?ng d?u l?ng ? nh?ng n?i t?ng l¨¤ k? ni?m c?a m?t th?i ?? xa l?m.]]> Nguy?n Ng?c H¨¤ Huyen 4 to-read 4.33 S¨¤i G¨°n th??ng v¨¤ nh?
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]]> <![CDATA[Amazon Unbound: Jeff Bezos and the Invention of a Global Empire]]> 56695159 Bloomberg journalist Brad Stone captured the rise of Amazon in his bestseller The Everything Store. Since then, Amazon has expanded exponentially, inventing novel products like Alexa and disrupting countless industries, while its workforce has quintupled in size and its valuation has soared to well over a trillion dollars. Jeff Bezos¡¯s empire, once housed in a garage, now spans the globe. Between services like Whole Foods, Prime Video, and Amazon¡¯s cloud computing unit, AWS, plus Bezos¡¯s ownership of The Washington Post, it¡¯s impossible to go a day without encountering its impact. We live in a world run, supplied, and controlled by Amazon and its iconoclast founder.

In Amazon Unbound, Brad Stone presents a deeply reported, vividly drawn portrait of how a retail upstart became one of the most powerful and feared entities in the global economy. Stone also probes the evolution of Bezos himself¡ªwho started as a geeky technologist totally devoted to building Amazon, but who transformed to become a fit, disciplined billionaire with global ambitions; who ruled Amazon with an iron fist, even as he found his personal life splashed over the tabloids.]]> 496 Brad Stone 1982132612 Huyen 4 4.03 2021 Amazon Unbound: Jeff Bezos and the Invention of a Global Empire
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]]> <![CDATA[Powering Up: Unleashing the Clean Energy Supply Chain]]> 123319577 Former chief scientist Alan Finkel shares his compelling insights and expertise and makes the case for Australia leading the way in the global transition to clean energy.



The clean energy transition is humanity's biggest ever economic challenge. In Powering Up, former Australian chief scientist Alan Finkel shows how to remove the barriers that prevent nations transforming from petrostate to electrostate.



Finkel considers the entire supply chain, from raw materials through power infrastructure, the workforce, transportation and household customers. He reveals the outlines of a new geo-economic order and explains in persuasive, practical terms how we can get there.



If governments, investors, industry and consumers get this right over the next three decades, history will judge us as the generation who ushered in the Electric Age and helped to save the planet. The world will be transformed ¨C with Australia, if we seize the opportunity, as a global leader.]]> 374 Alan Finkel 174382307X Huyen 3 4.24 Powering Up: Unleashing the Clean Energy Supply Chain
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]]> Siddhartha 52036 152 Hermann Hesse Huyen 4 4.07 1922 Siddhartha
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]]> The Happiest Man on Earth 53239311 Life can be beautiful if you make it beautiful. It is up to you.

Eddie Jaku always considered himself a German first, a Jew second. He was proud of his country. But all of that changed in November 1938, when he was beaten, arrested and taken to a concentration camp.

Over the next seven years, Eddie faced unimaginable horrors every day, first in Buchenwald, then in Auschwitz, then on a Nazi death march. He lost family, friends, his country.

Because he survived, Eddie made the vow to smile every day. He pays tribute to those who were lost by telling his story, sharing his wisdom and living his best possible life. He now believes he is the 'happiest man on earth'.

Published as Eddie turns 100, this is a powerful, heartbreaking and ultimately hopeful memoir of how happiness can be found even in the darkest of times.]]> 208 Eddie Jaku 1760980080 Huyen 5 4.59 2020 The Happiest Man on Earth
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]]> The Midnight Library 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 Huyen 4 3.96 2020 The Midnight Library
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average rating: 3.96
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]]> The Book Thief 19063 Librarian's note: An alternate cover edition can be found here

It is 1939. Nazi Germany. The country is holding its breath. Death has never been busier, and will be busier still.

By her brother's graveside, Liesel's life is changed when she picks up a single object, partially hidden in the snow. It is The Gravedigger's Handbook, left behind there by accident, and it is her first act of book thievery. So begins a love affair with books and words, as Liesel, with the help of her accordian-playing foster father, learns to read. Soon she is stealing books from Nazi book-burnings, the mayor's wife's library, wherever there are books to be found.

But these are dangerous times. When Liesel's foster family hides a Jew in their basement, Liesel's world is both opened up, and closed down.

In superbly crafted writing that burns with intensity, award-winning author Markus Zusak has given us one of the most enduring stories of our time.

(Note: this title was not published as YA fiction)]]> 592 Markus Zusak Huyen 3 4.38 2005 The Book Thief
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]]> <![CDATA[The Tattooist of Auschwitz (The Tattooist of Auschwitz, #1)]]> 38359036 T?towierer (the German word for tattooist), tasked with permanently marking his fellow prisoners.

Imprisoned for more than two and a half years, Lale witnesses horrific atrocities and barbarism¡ªbut also incredible acts of bravery and compassion. Risking his own life, he uses his privileged position to exchange jewels and money from murdered Jews for food to keep his fellow prisoners alive.

One day in July 1942, Lale, prisoner 32407, comforts a trembling young woman waiting in line to have the number 34902 tattooed onto her arm. Her name is Gita, and in that first encounter, Lale vows to somehow survive the camp and marry her.

A vivid, harrowing, and ultimately hopeful re-creation of Lale Sokolov's experiences as the man who tattooed the arms of thousands of prisoners with what would become one of the most potent symbols of the Holocaust, The Tattooist of Auschwitz is also a testament to the endurance of love and humanity under the darkest possible conditions.]]> 272 Heather Morris 006287067X Huyen 5 4.32 2018 The Tattooist of Auschwitz (The Tattooist of Auschwitz, #1)
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average rating: 4.32
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]]> Ng??i X?a C?nh T?nh 57683312
Ngo¨¤i ra trong ph?n II c?a cu?n s¨¢ch n¨¤y c¨® th¨ºm b¨¤i vi?t ¡°T?ng thu?t th¨®i h? t?t x?u ng??i Vi?t¡± c?a t¨¢c gi? Tr?n V?n Ch¨¢nh, nh? m?t c¨¢ch b? sung cho ?? t¨¤i ¡°Ng??i x?a c?nh t?nh¡±. Cu?n s¨¢ch n¨¤y s? gi¨²p ¨ªch r?t nhi?u cho th? h? tr? h?m nay trong vi?c nh?n th?c l?i m?t c¨¢ch ch¨ªnh x¨¢c v? nh?ng ?u khuy?t ?i?m c?a d?n t?c m¨¬nh, c¨® ph?n kh¨¢c h?n nh?ng g¨¬ h? ?? t?ng ???c h?c trong c¨¢c s¨¢ch gi¨¢o khoa, t? ?¨® n?y sinh t?m huy?t ?¨®ng g¨®p v¨¤ bi?t c¨¢ch ?¨®ng g¨®p h?u hi?u x?y d?ng x? h?i Vi?t Nam t?t ??p h?n trong m?t t??ng lai kh?ng xa.]]> 290 V??ng Tr¨ª Nh¨¤n Huyen 4 4.00 Ng??i X?a C?nh T?nh
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]]> <![CDATA[V? nh¨¤ (B?t H?nh L¨¤ M?t T¨¤i S?n, #3)]]> 34816365 Ti?ng kinh c? vang vang. Kh?ng gian ??y tr¨¤n m?t th? t?i kh?ng th? t?.¡±

B?t ??u t? nh?ng b??c ch?n b? ng?, h¨¢o h?c nh?ng c?ng ??n c?i, c? ??c trong M?t m¨¬nh ? Ch?u ?u, t¨¢c gi?, ng??i ph? n? k? chuy?n, trong Xuy¨ºn M? ?? b??n ch?i qua nhi?u ch?ng ???ng ??y nh?c nh?n, t?m tr?ng d?c ngang n??c M?. V?i t?p s¨¢ch n¨¤y, c? ti?p t?c h¨¤nh tr¨¬nh ?a chi?u, ph?c t?p, c? trong n?i t?m l?n gi?a nh?ng d?m d¨¤i ??a l?, sau nh?ng t?n th??ng v¨¤ s? h?i. V? nh¨¤, v?i c¨¢ch t??ng thu?t c? th? v¨¤ trung th?c tra v?n ??n t?n c¨´ng, ch¨ªnh l¨¤ t? truy?n v? m?t c¨¢ t¨ªnh, m?t con ng??i kh?ng m?t m?i truy t¨¬m nguy¨ºn nh?n c?a h?nh ph¨²c v¨¤ b?t h?nh, h¨°ng nh¨¬n th?y c¨¢i "ch?n b?n lai di?n m?c" c?a ch¨ªnh m¨¬nh, ?? l?i b¨¬nh an c?t b??c, sau bao nhi¨ºu ?au kh?, ?? v?, tr¨ºn con ???ng "v? nh¨¤".]]> 395 Phan Vi?t Huyen 4 4.17 2017 V? nh¨¤ (B?t H?nh L¨¤ M?t T¨¤i S?n, #3)
author: Phan Vi?t
name: Huyen
average rating: 4.17
book published: 2017
rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Sherlock Holmes, #3)]]> 3590 The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes is the series of short stories that made the fortunes of the Strand magazine, in which they were first published, and won immense popularity for Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson. The detective is at the height of his powers and the volume is full of famous cases, including 'The Red-Headed League', 'The Blue Carbuncle', and 'The Speckled Band'.
The editor of this volume, Richard Lancelyn Green is editor of The Uncollected Sherlock Holmes and The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. With John Michael Gibson, he compiled the Soho Series Bibliography of A. Conan Doyle.
1. A Scandal In Bohemia
2. The Red-Headed League
3. A Case Of Identity
4. The Boscombe Valley Mystery
5. The Five Orange Pips
6. The Man With The Twisted Lip
7. The Adventure Of The Blue Carbuncle
8. The Adventure Of The Speckled Band
9. The Adventure Of The Engineer's Thumb
10. The Adventure Of The Noble Bachelor
11. The Adventure Of The Beryl Coronet
12. The Adventure Of The Copper Beaches]]> 389 Arthur Conan Doyle Huyen 4 4.32 1892 The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Sherlock Holmes, #3)
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average rating: 4.32
book published: 1892
rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn]]> 2956 327 Mark Twain 0142437174 Huyen 3 3.82 1884 The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
author: Mark Twain
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average rating: 3.82
book published: 1884
rating: 3
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]]> The Adventures of Tom Sawyer 24583
Unlike his brother Sid, Tom receives "lickings" from his Aunt Polly; ever the mischief-maker, would rather play hooky than attend school and often sneaks out his bedroom window at night to adventure with his friend, Huckleberry Finn ? the town's social outcast. Tom, despite his dread of schooling, is extremely clever and would normally get away with his pranks if Sid were not such a "tattle-tale."

As punishment for skipping school to go swimming, Aunt Polly assigns Tom the chore of whitewashing the fence surrounding the house. In a brilliant scheme, Tom is able to con the neighborhood boys into completing the chore for him, managing to convince them of the joys of whitewashing. At school, Tom is equally as flamboyant, and attracts attention by chasing other boys, yelling, and running around. With his usual antics, Tom attempts to catch the eye of Becky Thatcher, a new girl in town, and persuades her to get "engaged" by kissing him. But their romance collapses when she learns Tom has been "engaged" previously to Amy Lawrence. Shortly after Becky shuns him, he accompanies Huckleberry Finn to the graveyard at night, where they witness the murder of Dr. Robinson.

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"TOM!"
No answer.
"TOM!"
No answer.
"What's gone with that boy, ?I wonder? You TOM!"
No answer.
The old lady pulled her spectacles down and looked over them about the room; then she put them up and looked out under them. She seldom or never looked?through?them for so small a thing as a boy; they were her state pair, the pride of her heart, and were built for "style," not service¡ªshe could have seen through a pair of stove-lids just as well. She looked perplexed for a moment, and then said, not fiercely, but still loud enough for the furniture to hear:
"Well, I lay if I get hold of you I'll¡ª"
She did not finish, for by this time she was bending down and punching under the bed with the broom, and so she needed breath to punctuate the punches with. She resurrected nothing but the cat.
"I never did see the beat of that boy!"]]> 244 Mark Twain Huyen 4 3.92 1876 The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
author: Mark Twain
name: Huyen
average rating: 3.92
book published: 1876
rating: 4
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