So we were promised that electronic “books” would kill paper books. But in practice it turned out that electronic “books” killed layout, typography, design, illustrations, common sense, eyesight, but not paper books.
Looking death in the face isn’t as scary as looking at the gray screen of an electronic …
On my way to work in the morning, my eye caught on a book stall. I was disappointed to find it had nothing but fiction. But today the seller got lucky: I noticed a book by Anton Semyonovich Makarenko titled “Pedagogical Poem.” Anton Makarenko is our countryman, an outstanding educator …
I finished reading Jiří Toman’s book “How to Improve Yourself.” The book was published in 1980 in Prague, and in 1988 it was translated into Ukrainian and published in Kyiv by the publishing house for political literature.
The book covers questions such as:
What would you like to achieve …
I recently finished reading Jiří Toman’s book “The Art of Speaking.” As the title makes clear, this book is about how to speak beautifully and competently. Communication is a very important skill. You need to communicate a lot and often: with family, with friends, with colleagues at work; some …
Last month I started thinking that I’ve been reading way too little. I wanted something for the soul, and something I could reread more than once. The choice fell on a book by Edward Tufte (Edward Tufte), “The Visual Display of Quantitative Information”. I love all sorts of things …