Book

Outliers

published by s.b.f on 3 December, 2009 - 16:56

Someone recommended me to read: 'Outliers' by Malcolm Gladwell.

I haven't yet.

But I was reading about it.

"Outlier" is a scientific term to describe things or phenomena that lie outside normal experience. In the summer, in Paris, we expect most days to be somewhere between warm and very hot. But imagine if you had a day in the middle of August where the temperature fell below freezing. That day would be outlier.

So we all know what an Outlier is.

In this book I'm interested in people who are outliers—in men and women who, for one reason or another, are so accomplished and so extraordinary and so outside of ordinary experience that they are as puzzling to the rest of us as a cold day in August.

Sounds good doesn't it?

How messy it all is

published by s.b.f on 5 November, 2009 - 21:39

The argument of this fascinating and deeply provoking book is easy to summarise: among rich countries, the more unequal ones do worse according to almost every quality of life indicator you can imagine.

The evidence that Wilkinson and Pickett supply to make their case is overwhelming. Whether the test is life expectancy, infant mortality, obesity levels, crime rates, literacy scores, even the amount of rubbish that gets recycled, the more equal the society the better the performance invariably is.

"The family" by Jeff Sharlet

published by You on 3 September, 2009 - 05:02

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They are the Family—fundamentalism’s avant-garde, waging spiritual war in the halls of American power and around the globe. They consider themselves the new chosen, congressmen, generals, and foreign dictators who meet in confidential cells, to pray and plan for a “leadership led by God,” to be won not by force but through “quiet diplomacy.” Their base is a leafy estate overlooking the Potomac in Arlington, Virginia, and Jeff Sharlet is the only journalist to have written from inside its walls.

Irfan ul Quran-latest modern & Scientific english translation of the Holy Quran

published by Muslimah_Traveller on 22 July, 2009 - 14:49

Irfan ul Quran is one of the latest modern and Scientific english translations of the Holy Quran. This is for people who are new to Islam and for people who wish to understand the Quran in modern terminology.

Indeed it is a great blessing, joy and a great gift for the Ummah of our Beloved Prophet Muhammad (saw); to inform you of the English comprehensive and self-sufficient translation of the Holy Qur'an, translated by Shaykh-ul-Islam Dr. Muhammad Tahir-Ul-Qadri.

It is translated in such a manner that it acts like a commentary of the Quran. At the same time its very fluent and easily understandable with interlinking of Ayah. We can't find a single example of such translation.

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