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Michael’s 2025 Year in Books
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Michael David S. Sy
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Cries and Whispers: The Philippine Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic
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Pandemic: The Philippine Response to COVID-19
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The Lies that Sanitized a Dictatorship
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Albert Einstein transformed the topography of modern physics with his theories of relativity that deviated from the established notions of classical mechanics. These theories expanded the capabilities of physical science. It was such a landmark disco
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| This provided a luculent summary of the Old Testament that I wasn't able to obtain anywhere else. While it also provided insight as regards the New Testament, I think that many passages were superfluous. Overall, it's a great reviewer for the Bible. ...more | |
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"five stars for the book, zero for the ugly as fuck cover design, srsly. so painful to the retinas "
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| As someone who has worked in pharmacovigilance, the revelations in Harris’s No More Tears were unexpected, yet unsurprising: J&J’s conduct was salient from a business standpoint, but ethically indefensible. The section on Prolift and Risperdal were p ...more | |
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| Nicholas II was a complex figure, imbued with the domineering ideals of his father, Alexander III, and of his tutor, Konstantin Pobedonostsev. Both believed in the absolute power of the monarchy, and both were out of touch with the evolving political ...more | |
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I love that Robson tackles subjects that I also deem relevant to my life, such as exercise and intelligence. Were I to summarize the book in a sentence, it would be: "The mind is a powerful weapon and tool to improve and transcend one's limits." The ...more |
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| There are two major issues I have with this book: first, its essays are inconsistent, and second, there are many concepts which are repetitive. It might have helped if there were fewer experts tapped, but the number of people involved with this work ...more | |
“...I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire...I give it to you not that you may remember time, but that you might forget it now and then for a moment and not spend all of your breath trying to conquer it. Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought. The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.”
― The Sound and the Fury
― The Sound and the Fury
“Perhaps they were right putting love into books. Perhaps it could not live anywhere else.”
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