Dua tahun setelah aksi berdarah gerakan 30 September, Sjam Kamaruzaman baru muncul di depan publik. Ketika itu, Juli 1967, ia menjadi saksi dalam pengadilan Sudisman, Sekretaris Jendral Partai Komunis Indonesia. Sebelumnya ia hanya bayang dalam halimun: keberadaannya setengah dipercaya, setengah tidak. Biro Chusus, badan rahasia PKI yang dipimpinnya, semula diduga hanya khayalan tentara untu…
Meskipun terkenal karena romansa ilmiahnya yang membuka jalan bagi genre fiksi ilmiah modern, H. G. Wells (1866-1946) menghasilkan karya signifikan dalam ruang politik, masyarakat, sains dan sejarah. Terpesona dengan dunia nyata sebagai imajinernya, dan tidak senang dengan kualitas buku teks sejarah pada akhir Perang Dunia I, Wells mengambil tugas untuk menulis bukunya sendiri tentang sejarah d…
Menentang feodalisme, Haji Oemar Said Tjokroaminoto punya andil menempa para tokoh perherakan nasional. Pemerintah Belanda menjulukinya "Raja Tanpa Mahkota". sementara rakyat jelata menganggapnya "Ratu Adil". Di tangan Tjokro, Sarekat Islam berubah dari organisasi saudagar batik pribumi menjadi gerakan politik yang besar dan kuat. Pelajaran membaca ayat Al-Quran yang disarikan dari pengalamann…
And famous he become. But does he qualify as a "Giant of science"? Certainly his road to greatness had some prculier detours. As a young physician, he was convinced that cocaine was a miracle sure for nervous afflictions. And at one time, he traced the root of all ailments-both physical and emotional-to a single organ... the nose. Yet Kathleen Krull proveds that Sigmund Freud deserves his place…
What is Japan? It's everything new and modern: The Tokyo Sky Tree, 634 metres high; amazing cameras and phones,; karaoke and manga; trains going past at 300 kilometres an hour. And it is everything timeless too: beautiful palaces; high mountains and hot springs; cherry blossom; quiet gardens with water and trees. Here the past meets the future all the time. From sumo wrestlers to robots, Japan …
'I want to learn to fly,' Amelia Earhart tells her family one evening. But it is 1920. Flying is expensive and dangerous, and most people think it is for men, not women. But nothing can stop Amelia Earhart, and she works hard to be a pilot. Soon, she is breaking records for flying further and higher than anyone before. Her photograph is in the newspapers, and everyone wants to know about her. …
Some people in the world of sport are heroes only because they are the best at their sport. But the sportsmen and sportswomen in this book - Oscar Pistorius, Michael Phelps, Wilma Rudolph ans Natalie du Toit - are all that and much more. All of them went through bad times and learned to be stronger people through sport. Because it isn't living through good times, but living through bad times t…
Perbedaan budaya tidak menjadi hambatan bagi Pangeran Siasip dan Alina Guan. Anehnya, jalinan kasih mereka justru bermasalah setelah direstui Raja Balok Cakraningrat II. Dalam pelarian, mereka mengungkapkan rahasia legenda Yin Galema. Sementara itu, hubungan Kerajaan Balok sedang memanas dengan Kerajaan Mataram. Balok memang kerajaan kecil, tetapi perannya di salah satu jalur pelayaran penting…
Perbedaan budaya tidak menjadi hambatan bagi Pangeran Siasip dan Alina Guan. Anehnya, jalinan kasih mereka justru bermasalah setelah direstui Raja Balok Cakraningrat II. Dalam pelarian, mereka mengungkapkan rahasia legenda Yin Galema. Sementara itu, hubungan Kerajaan Balok sedang memanas dengan Kerajaan Mataram. Balok memang kerajaan kecil, tetapi perannya di salah satu jalur pelayaran penting…
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.…