Book Reviews

"From book-burning to the iPad, or what Pompeii has to do with Gutenberg and the future of reading. Books are a tremendous presence and inspiration around here — we’ve previously explored how they’ve been made from the Middle Ages to today, what the future might have in store for them, and why analog books still enchant us. (...) - Amira from Bookmarklet

"Time is the most fundamental common denominator between our existence and that of everything else, it’s the yardstick by which we measure nearly every aspect of our lives, directly or indirectly, yet its nature remains one of the greatest mysteries of science. Last year, we devoured BBC’s excellent What Is Time? and today we turn to seven essential books that explore the grand question on a deeper, more multidimensional level, spanning everything from quantum physics to philosophy to art." - Amira from Bookmarklet

"The amazing thing about social networks, unlike other networks that are almost as interesting — networks of neurons or genes or stars or computers or all kinds of other things one can imagine — is that the nodes of a social network — the entities, the components — are themselves sentient, acting individuals who can respond to the network and actually form it themselves.”" -- Harvard physician and sociologist Nicholas Christakis "I felt I was entering a 14th-century cathedral — not in the 14th century but in the 12th century, while it was being built [...] The whole human memory can be, and probably in a short time will be, made accessible to every individual [...] Wells foresaw not only the distributed intelligence of the World Wide Web, but the inevitability that this intelligence would coalesce, and that power, as well as knowledge, would fall under its domain.” -- George Dyson in “Turing’s Cathedral” - Amira from Bookmarklet

"Peterson, a Professor of Physics and Mathematics, explains the book’s origins: The beginnings of this project were some observations about mathematics and the arts in the late Middle Ages and early Renaissance. I was especially intrigued by some mathematical ideas that I had noticed in Dante, unexpected mathematical sophistication centuries before Galileo. I also became fascinated with Galileo, and I began to wonder where he had come from. This question seemed to organize my thoughts. What was Galileo’s intellectual inheritance, and how did it form him? Galileo’s education was in the humanities and the arts, so the question is a sprawling one. And even that is not enough, because Galileo’s ultimate enthusiasm was for mathematics, and that is another broad intellectual stream. Where all these streams mixed, that is where Galileo came from, or so I imagined. To understand it, I had to follow the streams back to their sources. The book summarizes the classical legacy in mathematics and... more... - Amira from Bookmarklet

I still don't understand what the claim is? 'Mathematics of Renaissance arts'? Like perspective and golden ratio and junk? - Eivind

çünkü insanları onlara hissettirmeden saran görkemli mizah sanatı,akıllı insanların hep birlikte çıldırmasını önler.'' - Ali Numan

Pdf formatında olmasa bile doc haliyle burda da buldum.Ben Çü'nün kütüphanesinden alıp okudum iade ettim sizlere de tavsiye eder. Rica ederim. - Ali Numan

Twitter kuşları :) - Ali Numan

biri burda - Ali Numan

The Creating Brain: The Neuroscience of Genius - Ali Numan

İsmail Tufan değerli araştırmasında ''İndigo, Türkçesi ile "Hintli" kimin elindeyse, ona zenginlik getiriyordu. Bugün petrol neyse, 19. yüzyılın sonlarına kadar indigo oydu. Biz onu daha çok çivit adıyla tanırız. Bitkisel boyarmaddelerin en değerlisi ve en çok kullanılanı. Eskisi kadar olmasa bile, hâlâ önemini koruyor. Onun mavi renk tonunu tutturmak çok zor olduğu için, her zaman değerli boyarmaddeler grubunun en tanınmış üyesi. Burada çivitin çok özel bir hikayesi anlatılıyor.'' diyor, dolayısıyla sadece bu senenin değil çok senenin özel renklerinden olacağı belli 2002-2003 senesinde kotlarda patlamıştı 2007-2008 de yeniden patladı etkisi hala devam ediyor bitmez o. - Ali Numan

↑ ↓ ← → ↖ ↗ - Ali Numan

ya da ben malım - gilliamesk

Kitabın içeriği o şekilde. Tabii Oda yayınları biraz kısaltmış sanırım eseri. Bu da zaten zorlu olan kitabı labirente çevirmiş olabilir. Ben MEB yayınlarından okumuştum sanıyorum. Kısaca dikkatli okumak lazım. :) - Tolga

kitap şeysi - gilliamesk from Bookmarklet

adı yeter, ggm diğer dedeme çok benziyo ama onu da hiç sevmem - gilliamesk

If you believe Lin Yutang, author of The Importance of Living, man is a curious wayward dreamer who is furiously pursuing all the wrong things. Yutang has a very specific philosophy for living life which will bring genuine contentment, and he begins with the idea of detachment, which is similar to Buddhist philosophy. Yutang says that in order to be happy, man must go through life with a certain amount of nonchalance, and distance himself from outcomes and results. He feels that we could be a lot happier if we were more like the country squire and less like the Wall Street banker. - Lethe Bashar

This novel has been following me through my life since college. I first discovered it while reading Salman Rushdie's Satanic Verses. And so, I have Mr. Rushdie to thank for laying out the breadcrumbs which would ultimately lead me--in my American university-mindset--to exploring a whole new breed of literature, or many breeds, that you cannot find in colleges and universities in the United States because they don't teach them. If I could pinpoint the exact moment when I broke free from my narrow cell of academic reading lists, it would have to be with the epigraph of The Obscene Bird of Night, quoted on page 411 of Rushdie's Satantic Verses. - Lethe Bashar

The epigraph is taken from a letter by Henry James Sr. to his two sons. While you are reading this odd, delightful, puzzling, challenging quotation, put yourself in the mind of a college student, one with a passion for reading and learning. Every man who has reached even his intellectual teens begins to suspect that life is no farce; that it is not genteel comedy even; that it flowers... more... - Lethe Bashar

The Casa is a huge, gothic convent with labyrinthine hallways, "endless courts and cloisters connected by corridors that never end," many of them being boarded up now that the building is no longer used as a convent. Instead, it has become a refuge for a horde of old women who inhabit the dark, sequestered rooms. Much of the story takes place inside this ghastly building. The narrator's... more... - Lethe Bashar

The seductive power of the novel lies in the charm and charisma of its hero--the idealized prince, "the Shining Genji". Genji's extreme good looks, his poetic sensibility, and the many women he seduces all interest us, but it is the contradiction he seems to have been born with that lends his character even greater mystery. - Lethe Bashar