Rolando Ruiz

Beautiful history

Revisado: 09-18-21

This is a book about how to see the world from a different angle and perspective

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design reference

Revisado: 07-28-21

To me, as a designer, this book needs to be part of theory in the field of design studies. it helps understanding the ways in which human beings alter the world and the planet.

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Eye opener

Revisado: 01-20-21

50% of the population has been systematically neglected. If we want a better world, we need to make it better for women.
I learned a lot with this broad display of statistics but much more by the deep insights of the author whom is capable of seeing beyond the absence of dissagregated data on women.

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A must read for colombians

Revisado: 01-12-21

I enjoyed a lot listening to Wade Davis. Being.a colombian myself the story telled in this audiobook has helped me connect many dots as the river Magdalena has ports. It is true we have our backs facing the river and realizing this brought me to tears many times while walking and listening how for decades we have turn this artery of the country in our flowing graveyard.
Realizing we are an anfibian culture is something I will keep from this reading. This is a reminder of an idea developed early on by Orlando Fals Borda, founder of sociolocy as an academic career at the Universidad Nacional de Colombia. It is an idea that hopefully not comes too late in my career as a teacher. I intend to spread this meme on to my students.
Wade Davis' profound love for Colombia is felt in every sentence in this book. We colombians need to feel it too in order to give the river, and therefore the country, a chance

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This is a hidden treasure in the woods of Umberto

Revisado: 08-15-20

it is a tour that makes stops in fiction and in reality through literature. I didn'n want it to end

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El profesor que quisiera ser

Revisado: 04-11-20

Es decir, un hombre que lee su tiempo y su contexto y lo vive, se hace parte de la historia, con una militancia que se manifiesta en lucidez. al narrar su realidad la transforma. es como un viajero del tiempo que indefectiblemente termina por ayudar a construir la realidad de sus contemporáneos.
Está además leído con gran calidez y captura el ritmo del autor, con ese acento argentino pausado y grato de escuchar.
las ideas en estas lecciones reverberan en mi mente aun cuando no sea escritor. tiene que ver con todos. estoy seguro.
pienso reescuchar.
haría la sugerencia de titular los capítulos para que sea algo más sencillo volver a ciertas ideas.
gracias

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Insightful all the way

Revisado: 05-25-19

We connect to the world through our emotions. I have never thought about this like that. The proffesor has the ability to show how there are nuances to every emotion and how they vary according to language and culture.
Got me thinking and making notes. I feel like going through some topics more than once.
I felt the joy to be in a classroom again.

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Enlightening

Revisado: 10-13-17

This book has been illuminating on how people think in English, and offers guidance on how to think better through better use of language

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Revelating !

Revisado: 12-12-16

I found this course excellent. It situates classical mithology in its literary sources so you build a map of future readings, and it also explains the implications of those foundational stories in our current context.
The professor is a tremendous storyteller

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Great companion for a walk

Revisado: 04-21-16

I work in wayfinding and environmental graphics. Understanding better the notion of walkability has given me a bigger picture of the problem. I guess it is easy to become one of the specialists Speck critizes, but the arguments actually tend to enforce wayfinding decisions. In other words it has helped me get a sense of the subtle structure and hidden logics of the urban fabric

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