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- Koyasan
- The spirits are waiting
- By Darren Shan
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- Gemstones
- By R. Harding
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It is a book with good illustration about gemstones, mainly talking about there properties. The illustration is really beautiful, really.
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- Geography
- 150 Facts You Won't Believe!
- By Hugh Westrup
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- Ghost Camp
- (Goosebumps, No 45)
- By R. L. Stine
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- Schaum's Easy Outline Intermediate Algebra
- By Kerry Bailey, Ray Steege
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Schaum's Easy Outline Intermediate Algebra
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I learn the method and formula of solving quadratic equation and way of express a series from this book . The part of basic axioms of algebra is too easy but the last part talking about logarithm, factorial, matrix and determinant.
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- Q.E.D.
- Beauty in Mathematical Proof
- By Burkard Polster
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Finished in 2009
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Some concepts in geometry or algebra are difficult to understand or comprehend without illustration or descriptive language. Moreover, the explanation written is too brief for beginners.
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- The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (104)
- By C.S. Lewis
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Finished in 2008
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The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
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The book has been rewritten as a film before. The book and the film are surely not exactly the same but they still can keep the plot of the story. In addition, the perfect ending set a good opening for the next book. I am looking forward to reading the next story in the series of the Chronicles of N ... (continue)
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- Who Moved My Cheese? (28)
- An Amazing Way to Deal with Change in Your Work and in Your Life
- By Kenneth H. Blanchard, Spencer Johnson
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Finished in 2008
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The story is not good but the moral is quite useful and meaningful. I, however, only think that it is only a small reminder for us, since everyone should know that the world is always changing. If we cannot follow the world, we will be obsolete, or just a fool in other's eyes.
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- Hydrogen (Sparks of Life
- Chemical Elements That Make Life Possible)
- By Jean F. Blashfield
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- The Martian Chronicles (44)
- By Ray Bradbury
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- Schaum's Easy Outline of Biology
- By George H. Fried, George J. Hademenos
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David T
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Koyasan
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It is an interesting and meaningful story, without any doubt. It is a bit childish but everyone will love it. It is fairy tale-styled and also realistic.
People are always superficial, looking only the surface of things, without knowing the deep. Well, it is the widest gap between people, which ... (continue)
It is an interesting and meaningful story, without any doubt. It is a bit childish but everyone will love it. It is fairy tale-styled and also realistic.
People are always superficial, looking only the surface of things, without knowing the deep. Well, it is the widest gap between people, which separates us.
(The last 2 paragraph is the conclusion, if the evidence and analysis is too long, you may skip)
Of course, the only way to know about people is to ask direct questions about the one, and listen direct answers, but who will do this to a person you don't know very well? Most of us don't. Therefore, quarrels between people grows larger and larger. It is what I am afraid of.
Moreover, our defensive thinking stops us from further knowing a person, who may be harmful. In fact, it is not true most of the time. Why are we so defensive? Because of experience? Fear? All of them are excuse. The one is prejudice. People believe the one they know, who may give wrong suggestions, but not the one they don't know. We were once childs, who should be protected, and we were taught to be defensive indirectly (don't touch that, don't talk to strangers, don't eat that etc.) . It is not bad but also not good. There should be a reason given why not to do this and that. The reason of that is danger, but no one told us how dangerous it is, why it is dangerous or even it is dangerous.
We don't know that who the stranger is, and we cannot make accurate prediction. Therefore, saying that strangers are dangerous is irrational at all.
Who should we believe? Ourselves. We may make wrong decision and regret. But at least we can learn lessons. We may make a decision to believe others, but not believing irrationally. (Believing what I say without thinking is also irrational)
Prejudice is made because we don't know about unknown, which is not predictable, but it is neutral instead of negative.
The story is about death, which can be considered as a stranger to us. For me, death is also unknown, and which is neutral, not negative.
What I want to say is, unknown is not scary, our prejudice and misunderstanding towards unknown is dreadful.
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