imagining objects and moments into existence
mojej sesternici vyšla knižka v sobotu večer sme s Mišom pri živej hudbe popíjali vínko u bývalého Mišovho spolužiaka: nie sú lacní, ale bolo to veľmi príjemné tak a po týchto reklamách očakávané linky: výzva pre slovenských novinárov I don’t know how she does it (táto veta aj mňa dosť vytáča) I don’t know how she does it. I don’t know…
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Táto kniha má podnadpis “Prečo treba, aby na rodičoch záležalo viac ako na rovesníkoch”. Niekedy pred časom som tu písala o knihe Nurture assumption, ktorá mala pre zmenu podnadpis “Na rodičoch záleží menej, než si myslíte a na rovesníkoch viac”. V niečom sú tieto knihy protikladmi, ale v niečom sa dosť dopĺňajú. Hovorí o tom, že rovesníci naše deti ovplyvňujú rôznymi…
ďalej...By Orrin H. Pilkey & Linda Pilkey-Jarvis, 2006, 221 pages, amazon Or why environmental scientists can’t predict the future? The answer given by the authors is simple. Because the scientists are trying to find exact answers to quantitative questions using models in which many parameters and interactions are still unknown. They demonstrate this using various examples from fishing industry, sea-level…
ďalej...By Khaled Hosseini, 2003, 371 pages, amazon I’ve read some good reviews about this book and then (without reading it first) gave it as a Christmas present to one of my friends (of course, with the intention to borrow it one day). Sometime later I asked her how was the book. She told me she had to stop reading it….
ďalej...By Christof Koch, 2004, 429 pages, partial text, amazon People know Francis Crick as one on the discoverers of the DNA structure. What they usualy do not know is that for the rest of his life he was pondering another, maybe even more exciting, problem: the question of consciousness. Where does it originate? What is that awareness inside our heads?…
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