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리뷰 Grave new world unless we act on it.

I finished this book when the new corona virus, COVID-19, is everywhere in the world. The book is not about COVID-19. But it depicts today and, perhaps, tomorrow kindly and gravely. We are in the middle of a great paradigm change between globalization and protectionism. My country, South Korea, has ...

2020.03.24 공감 횟수 0 댓글 수 0

리뷰 Sensational.

Sensational. This book is a guiding light to make me understand how things have gone this way. Intellectual property rights like patents, differently from the original objectives, are now more hampering than helping the innovations. The author used Disney as a good example to avoid copyright issue...

2019.09.29 공감 횟수 1 댓글 수 0

리뷰 The struggle is ours.

The time that I finished reading this book is very timely. Not only in America, we, in other parts of the world, have also many questions toward the elites of society. In P. 76, there is a citation of Watnkins, “Money makes a lot of people rationalize behavior that they normally would not participat...

2019.09.26 공감 횟수 0 댓글 수 0

리뷰 Hard to recommend this book for reading.

Some mentioned about this book for the wisdom inside. It was relatively short and concise. I do not find any outstanding value of this book, since it talks about many good things that I already learned. But it could be worthwhile to read once if you want to make sure that you know. One sentence tha...

2019.05.18 공감 횟수 0 댓글 수 0

리뷰 When hope becomes futile.

I thought I would get to know more about me after reading this book. As I turned the last page of the book, the hope becomes futile. This book contains a lot of facts on aging men. Unless you are interested in such details and your major interests includes biology, I would guess that you might h...

2018.11.27 공감 횟수 0 댓글 수 0

리뷰 Really about the history of food and people.

I really enjoyed reading this book. It is really hard to meet a book that describes history and food at the same time. And the author of the book successfully untangled the stories of food and the corresponding history in a good story. The later section of the book (i.e., the 20th century part) ...

2017.10.30 공감 횟수 0 댓글 수 0

리뷰 Don't be fooled by statistics.

I teach probability and statistics. And that explains why this book is worth reading. The author lets us know that there are times that statistics can fool you, that what experts say may not be as accurate as a lay person thinks, and that sometimes luck is the only that can explain a situation.&...

2017.06.12 공감 횟수 0 댓글 수 0

리뷰 An amazing story that I want to read again.

I felt really happy when I finished the first book: the city of Ember. And I wished that there was a sequel to the novel. Yes, in fact, there was! This is the 2nd of the city of Ember series. This is a very touching story (again from the first novel) that we all have to think about how to live t...

2017.06.10 공감 횟수 0 댓글 수 0

리뷰 Could be a lot shorter in presenting the main message.

After reading the book, the summary is quite simple. Human endeavor should not stop because we can reach a new summit. And there is (almost) no limit in human capabilities unless we stop. Simply putting 10,000 hrs would not be sufficient if you do not spend 10,000 hrs carefully in a focused way....

2016.10.12 공감 횟수 1 댓글 수 0

리뷰 A must read.

It was a great pleasure to read this book. I completely agree with the author in that Language is Diversity. A must read.   Hmm. This blog requires me to write at least 150 characters....

2016.01.22 공감 횟수 0 댓글 수 0

리뷰 It may be boring to read all the pages, but it is worthwhile.

This book is a translated version from French to English. So, it was difficult to read in two ways: 1) translation and 2) French-notations. I think I am very accustomed to easy and concise writing style. So, whenever I come across a long and have-it-all-in-one-single-sentence structure, I do not lik...

2016.01.12 공감 횟수 0 댓글 수 0

리뷰 We are entering a new paradigm.

I came up with this book while reading some economy-related articles in Internet. I found the English version in the library, which is lucky considering that I am in Korea. This is a very well written book with good examples that you can reuse, with good analysis on what has been going on, and with ...

2015.12.15 공감 횟수 0 댓글 수 0

리뷰 Healing starts from your own body.

Ever since I started to learn about medicine, I tried different basic topics such as biology, physiology, and so on. Most introductory books (almost in every field of knowledge) are not really an introduction but an encyclopedia by themselves. For this reason, you can start reading but before long y...

2015.12.09 공감 횟수 0 댓글 수 0

리뷰 worth reading

The second book is also worth reading. If you already read the first book, you might have guessed that the second hunger game is not really something on the table, but something big is coming as the next wave. So, I was a bit surprised to know that this book was all about the second game. However, i...

2015.10.10 공감 횟수 0 댓글 수 0