Historiografi yang berkembang di era keterbukaan seperti yang terjadi saat ini telah membuka lebar peluang versi-versi yang berbeda tentang suatu peristiwa sejarah. Hal ini berpotensi menimbulkan beberapa kemungkinan dalam masyarakat. Pertama, kecenderungan perubahan pola pikir dari masyarakat itu menjadi lebih dewasa. Akan tetapi, ada pula kecenderungan yang bertolak belakang dengan kemungkina…
Kamis, 30 Januari 1997 diingat sebagai ketika kota Rengasdengklok dilanda huru hara, ratusan rumah, took, gudang beras dan mobil milik orang Cina dirusak. Beberapa gereja dan vihara juga dirusak serta dibakar. Sebagian malah dijarah habis.rnKerusuhan dipicu setelah sepasang suami istri peranakan Cina bertengkar mulut dengan beberapa remaja muslim tetangganya. Kou Gue Nio marah karena beduk dibu…
Updated in 2014 with a new epilogue. North Korea is Orwell's 1984 made reality: it is the only country in the world not connected to the internet; Gone with the Wind is a dangerous, banned book; during political rallies, spies study your expression to check your sincerity. After the death of the country's great leader Kim Il Sung in 1994, famine descended: people stumbled over dead bodies in th…
The contents this book is: birth of the earth; earth on the move; how the weather shapes the land; air, wind and clouds; the power of wataer; the world of maps; hidden in the earth.
The contents this book is: where did the Aborigines come from?; Voyages of discovery; the first settlers; new lands; gold fever!; outlawed; founders and pioneers; modern Australia
Kepulauan Anambas merupakan sebuah kabupaten terluar yang berbatasan langsung dengan Laut Cina Selatan. Kawasan perairan Kepulauan Anambas menyimpan ber ba gai potensi hayati yang sangat tinggi dan beragam di antaranya luasan terumbu karang 3.705,84 hektar, terdiri dari 339 spesies karang yang menjadi rumah bagi 407 spesies ikan laut dari 10 famili.rn rnUntuk melindungi keberlanjutan kekayaan …
After twenty years building a reputation as one of the savviest political commentators in the country, Molly Ivins finally put together a book. Molly Ivins Can't Say That, Can She? was on the New York Times bestseller list for over twelve months. The field about her was strewn with the wounded carcasses of the Bushwazee, members of the Texas Legislature, and assorted other soundrels, while the …
When Winston Churchill was asked by George VI to take the reins pf power in May 1940 he later recalled that I felt as if I were walking with destiny, and that all my past life had been but a preparation for this hour and for this trial.rnrnOur relationship with Greatest Briton is similarly framed by this same sense of an inevitable fare. It is difficult, from our perspective, to disentangle the…
TIME invites readers to explore the life and times of one of history's greatest minds, the genius selected by TIME as the Most Infl uential Person of the 20th Century. The book provides an illuminating overview of Albert Einstein's life, work and theories, presented for the everyday reader. It also explores the great physicist's life beyond the laboratory as an engaged citizen in an era of worl…
Charles Darwin has become one of the most important men in history. The quiet, unsure polymath who avoided confrontation, ensconced in his family home at Downe House in Kent, was also a revolutionary who developed his idea of Natural Selection in isolation. Aydon's short biography is considered one of the best introductions to the life and times of Darwin.