How to Read a Book is divided into four parts: Take-away Lesson #1: Active Reading is the Effort to Understand His later successes as a University of Chicago philosopher and an educator had an colossal influence on American education in the twentieth century. To Adler, the art of reading well is deeply correlated to the art of thinking clearly, critically, and freely.Īfter the publication of How to Read a Book (1940,) Adler advanced his ideas on educational theory further by starting the Great Books of the Western World program and the Great Books Foundation. The book stemmed from Adler’s belief that students of liberal education needed to be grounded in the “great ideas” of humankind, as represented in the canon of Western classic literature. If you’re interested in sharpening up your ability to read, comprehend, and debate, Mortimer Adler and Charles Van Doren’s bestselling How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading (1972 first published in 1940 under only Adler’s name) is the definitive guidebook.
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Why is Mez so good at predicting the future of technology? Part of it is his personal experience - as a Microsoft engineer, he led the teams working on a number of core software products. This isn’t Mez’ doing, of course, but he saw it before others did. The resulting explosion in solar installation and electric vehicles has utterly changed scientists’ outlook for climate change - catastrophe may still strike, but the most apocalyptic scenarios now look distinctly unlikely. Over the next decade, his prediction became conventional wisdom, not just for solar but for batteries as well. But Ramez (or “Mez”, to his friends) was right. This came at a time when almost everyone in public discourse still thought of solar as an unworkably expensive pipe dream. My favorite example: In 2011 he wrote a guest post for Scientific American entitled “Smaller, cheaper, faster: Does Moore's law apply to solar cells?” that alerted the world to the startling, consistent, and seemingly unstoppable cost declines for solar energy. Over the years, his spyglass has seemed to peer just a little farther into the future than other people’s. When I want to know what the future is going to be like, I go ask Ramez Naam. Meg feels like she isn’t doing enough for the war effort, isn’t strong enough to hold her family together after Beth’s death and wonders whether marrying John, whom Amy has dismissed as a “boring old fuddy-duddy,” will make her happy. Jo yearns to write again and to understand how she feels about her adventurous reporter friend, Charlie Yates. Amy wrestles with the secret life she’s living, which becomes a bigger issue when she encounters Jo’s friend Laurie in a hospital in England. Meg has remained at home with Marmee to teach high school English and wait for John Brooke to return home from the war.Įach sister struggles with her choices and who she is growing up to become. Amy has set aside her art, lied about her age and, without telling her family, joined the American Red Cross in London, where she serves as a Clubmobile girl. Jo has given up writing and moved to a big-city boardinghouse to work in an airplane factory. The remaining March sisters have had a bitter falling-out and are scattered across the world. The novel opens a few months after Beth’s death. In Great or Nothing, a creative retelling of Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women co-written by Joy McCullough, Caroline Tung Richmond, Tess Sharpe and Jessica Spotswood, Meg, Jo and Amy March face choices and sacrifices after their sister Beth dies and the United States enters World War II. During times of war, every person must make their own choices-and their own sacrifices. This isn’t exactly a holiday story because there’s no holiday celebrated other than pebble gifting when Lewis comes of age. Their love for each other wasn’t just something that materialized like it is often written in romance books. I’m not a fan of time jumps, but I think it worked in this book because it was used to show that Lewis and Todd were friends for quite a long time before becoming romantic. The plot is written so that there are jumps in years, usually around certain events, that show the progression of their relationship and how it develops from friendship to something more. They even reside in different parts of the town. Polar bears and penguins have their own social and relationship rules, lots of rules, that are totally different which encourages them to avoid each other. This story was so darn cute! The author created a detailed and unique shifter world. 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As long as the script by Trevor Sands is as "coherent and unconfusing" as promised, then we might have the next great sci-fi film coming up in the next few years to look forward to. In my original article on the Hyperion Cantos, I specifically said, "Dan Simmons' world in Hyperion seems grand enough to fulfill my desires, it will just come down to who they get as a director and whether Sands' script is any good." While I wasn't the biggest fan of The Day the Earth Stood Still, I do think Derrickson has a lot of potential, and if anything, working on that film gave him a chance to learn and develop his sci-fi directing. The story is set in the distant future, and regards a space war that threatens Hyperion, a planet known for Time Tombs - large artifacts that can move through time and are guarded by a gruesome monster called the Shrike. While there are four total novels in the series, Derrickson will be directing a film that combines the first two books, "Hyperion" and "The Fall of Hyperion". These novels focus on seven pilgrims who travel to the world Hyperion, the homeland of the creature known as Shrike, in search of answers to mysterious riddles that plague them. It looks like they've found their director - Scott Derrickson of The Day the Earth Stood Still most recently. The Hyperion Cantos books, written by Dan Simmons, became a staple of the Sci-Fi genre during the 1990s surge. Back in April of last year, we announced that Warner Brothers had picked up the rights to Dan Simmons' Hyperion Cantos series of sci-fi books. The liveship Vivacia is about to undergo her quickening: Althea Vestrit waits for the ship that she loves more than anything in the world to awaken. They quicken only when three family members from successive generations have died upon their deck. But only a liveship can negotiate the perilous waters of the Rain Wild River, and liveships are hard to come by. Wizardwood, the most precious commodity in the world, comes only from the Rain Wilds. Now, having finished the book, I have to say it was absolutely amazing! I had high expectations to say the least. I fully expected this book not to live up to the hype. I’d heard smashing reviews from HiuGregg, and Sharade’s non stop gushing over Hobb. The Ship of Magic was my first taste of Robin Hobb. It’s just turned midnight on a Sunday night, I enjoy a cup of peppermint tea and wonder to myself, “How important is tomorrow’s class? Could I start The Mad Ship now? Do I need sleep tonight” Unfortunately the answers to those questions seem to be very important yes, but I shouldn’t and probably, so I’ll leave The Mad Ship for another day. I write this review, minutes after finishing Ship of Magic. |