Yan Daryono atau nama lainnya Indra Gamatana, lahir di Jakarta 20 Januari 1957, sebagai anak sulung dari empat bersaudara. Kegiatannya menulis dimulai sejak remaja diantaranya menulis puisi, cerpen, esai dan novel. Beberapa tulisannya pernah dimuat di Harian Umum Sinar Harapan, Harian Merdeka, Buana Minggu, majalah sastra Horison dan sebagainya. Karir Jurnalistik dimulai dari bekerja di Maja…
Kita tidak akan pernah dapat menghitung siapa saja pahlawan yang telah berjasa dalam perjuangan kemerdekaan dan perjuangan untuk kemajuan bangsa. Namun, pemerintah melalui surat keputusan presiden telah menetapkan penagnkatan beberapa diantara ribuan bahkan ratusan ribu pahlawan. Sebgai generasi penerus bangsa, selayaknya kita meneruskan tongkat estafet perjuangan para pahlawan. Para pelajar…
What he sciencets say : 1. You can make a simple telephone using youghurt and a piece of string. 2. Sound can be sent by light signals in fibre-optic cables. 3. The cone shape of megaphone stops sound waves spreading out too quickly and makes them travel futher. 4. Mobile phones transmit your calls by radio waves.
Plowing a potato field in 1920, a fourteen-year-old farm boy had a brainstorm. He saw in the parallel rows of overtuned earth a way to "make pictures fly throught the air." And just eight years later, he made his idea a reality when he transmitted the world's first television image. The boy was not a magician; he was a scientific genius. Kathleen Krull's lively text and Greg Couch's inspired…
Take a look inside a shakespearean theatre. Removing his gloves, a gentlemen lights his pipe as a cutpurse pushers past. Stinkards shout and hurl apples at he stage, where a clown leaps from a trapdoor and holds out a bloody skull.. This book describes life in shakespeare's time through the actors, audience and accessories found in a theatre. It raises the curtain on a stage full of peculiar…
Take a look inside an Egyptian tomb. Baboons wrapped in bandgaes, painted processions and statues of golden gods come to life in the flickering torchlight. At the coffin, a priest wearing the mask of a jackal reaches for the mummy's grinning mouth.. This book describes the amazing life and beliefs of the Ancient Egyptions through the mysterious treasures that were buried in a Pharaoh;s tomb.…
Step into the past and read all about the ancient Romans. What was it like to live in the mighty Roman Empire? Who were the emperors who ruled Rome? What did the Romans eat and what clothers did they wear? This books tells you all about life in ancient Roman times. Anita Ganeri is an experienced author who has written many history books for children of all ages.
Step into the past and read all about the ancient Greeks. What was it like to live in a Greek city? Which gods and goddesses did the ancient Grekks believe in? What food did people did eat and what clothes did they wear? This book tells you all about life in ancient Greek times. John Malam is an experienced author and editor who has written many history books for children.
I can remember the 1930s what was it really like to live in the 1930s? In this book eight people share their memories. 1. Joyce remembers growing up in a big family of 10 children. 2. Sisters Kathleen, Brenda and Peggy recall vilagge life in Soham. 3. Val and her family had seaside holidays in Whitley Bay. 4. Eric was a teenager in Wigan during the depression. 5. Bill left school at 14 an…
What was it really like to live in the 1980s? In this book seven people share their memories. 1. Brother and Sister Mark and Helen were teenagers growing up on the Wirral in Cheshire. 2. Lesley left village life to join the army and see the world. 3. Nick remembers some of the major events og the 1980s. 4. Gus went to Madonna's first concert in London. 5. Keith was a miner who come out o…