**spoiler alert** Best book of this year and perhaps the last as well.
The author is a 20 smth years chemist in the skincare products industry with a P**spoiler alert** Best book of this year and perhaps the last as well.
The author is a 20 smth years chemist in the skincare products industry with a PHD in chemistry.
I loved this book because it delivered a topic such as Skincare as an engineering course.
I understood in 250 pages what skincare is all about, how to tackle different conditions like pigmentation, wrinkles, acne...etc
The most important part and probably the most interesting was categorizing the elements of skincare and displaying how a daily/nightly routine should look like.
Basically there are 4 pieces of the puzzle: - cleansers - moisturizers - suncreens - Actives (Exfoliants, Retinoids, Vitamin C, Niacinamides - Vit B6)
The author goes in depth explaining each of them what role they play, what types you can find in the market, what molecules they contain and how they interact with different types of skin. Most importantly how do you mix them up to create a balanced routine that befits your lifestyle.
While the first 3 elements should be considered the cornerstone, the Actives are the most interesting as they are actively improving/maintaining your skin/slowing aging process
Can't believe it made a grunt like me interested in such a "womanly" topic.
Congrats to the author for delivering such a functional book !...more
**spoiler alert** Woow , what a great book ! What a read ! I knew from the start this is great having been written by a couple of PHD's
So much interes**spoiler alert** Woow , what a great book ! What a read ! I knew from the start this is great having been written by a couple of PHD's
So much interesting information on why women have sex, the way they use sex to get what they want , how they can use it as a weapon for bonding, fending off poachers (rivals) , revenge, spiritual ....
Probably the most interesting chapter was the first explaining how women can actually smell good genes in a man. How their senses are way more developed than men in order to get "honest signals" of mates with good genes for reproduction and how there is always this compromise they must make: - a very good mating partner would ensure good genes for offsprings but would not use all his reosurces on them and the mother , he will likely cheat and find other females, while a good father would be a provider and ensure comfort but would not give the best genes.
Add to this the really interesting fact that women are attracted to the superior gene men while nearing ovulation after which they prefer the providers.
If i had this book wheh i was first starting out my career, i would've considered it a must read. Its like going back in time a bit, seeing first hand If i had this book wheh i was first starting out my career, i would've considered it a must read. Its like going back in time a bit, seeing first hand how the author disembowels legacy monster code - providing both C++ /Java code snippets examples (the monster+ the solution). I really enjoyed the chapters on slaying sticky singletons, blocking I/O static calls to databases and untested concrete hierarchies of classes.
The lesson of this book for me was: as soon as you get into a brown project, start writing tests, start putting your classes into test harnesses and see how deep you have to dive into the guts of the underlying system.
Once you do that you'll get a fairly good idea of the difficulty of your task
On the negatives: I found the examples in this book too focused on C++ (i got an iffy feeling when a book is too focused on a single programming languge).
I totally recommend this book for people that have to deal with legacy code or are not yet accustomed with the "modern approaches" (DRY, SOLID - which aren't that modern anymore anyway) or junior just starting out....more
Supet carte ! Cititi asta inainte sa va puna naiba sa cumparati un apartament. Cartea trateaza fiecare camera a unui apartament cu tepele tipice. Te tSupet carte ! Cititi asta inainte sa va puna naiba sa cumparati un apartament. Cartea trateaza fiecare camera a unui apartament cu tepele tipice. Te trece prin tot ce poate fi de kkt fie ca vorbim de baie in care deschiderea usii sparge closetul, apartamente "vin turcii" fara vestibul, sufragerii in care nu ai cum sa circuli si sa ai si masa cu televizor...etc.
Must-read si must keep cand va cumparati un apartament !...more
**spoiler alert** Great book covering the life of the junior british officrs in WW1 from their public schools draft, the journey from Britain to Franc**spoiler alert** Great book covering the life of the junior british officrs in WW1 from their public schools draft, the journey from Britain to France and Flanders , the entrance in the trenches, trench life , troop composition , morale, trench dangers, death , cammarederie, injury, billets , fun on leave and the eventual end of the war, getting back to civiliam life, wounds phisical and psichological and adendum.
This book is about the young britsh generation which was lost in WW1; young lords, knights, barons which attended the public schools like Eton, Oxford, Cambridge, imbued with the valors of honor, courage, fairplay , the creme a la creme, the most patriotic, and with high ideals part of the British society , THE ones that died in the largest proportion in WW1 compared to any other military rank.
They were the ones in the first line, the ones who had to jump over the trench parapet and run towards the noman's land straught into german machine guns and shelling, to inspire the regular soldiers to follow them .
The germans were prioritizing them over any other rank since they represented the core of the british doggedness and valor.
A whole generation of elite boys wiped out in just 4 years. It is said by many , this was a reason Britain lacked the skill to navigate the turbulent politics of the 30's.
Awesome read, penetrating all aspects of these young men short but glorious life....more
**spoiler alert** My experience with Faulkner's books so far has been like the sawtooth , a great book followed by a total garbage blabbering.
First bo**spoiler alert** My experience with Faulkner's books so far has been like the sawtooth , a great book followed by a total garbage blabbering.
First book was Light in August which was awesome, cut to the point, murder of black upon white neatly packed with southern atmosphere.
The next was Absalom a total trash , waiting 400 pages without any hint , and getting the whole story in the last 20 pages, full of useless southie blabber.
Then The Mansion was a total masterpiece happening in Mississippi...
And now behold the rule stands, another trash !
300 pages of useless southie negro blabber with hints here and there, add to this the fact that we have a Quentin female and a Quentine male , whose arcs overlap (similar to what Vargas Llosa does with multiple timelines) and you get a total shit show of trying to understand what the fuck happens there.
I didn't understand the plot completely , hell i didn't understand why Quentin was sometimes called as 'he' and sometimes as 'she'.
The ending was something along the lines of "shit happened , we move with our life"
Hemingway was right when he said to Faulkner he doesn't need 100 complicated to write a good story....
If i would've read this book first and only , i would've probably ditched Faulkner forever, now i feel like every book of his is like a tossing of a coin. Heads for masterpiece, tails for utter garbage.
And this shit book gets so much attention , unbelievable !...more