E-book Psychopolitical Anaphylaxis : Steps Towards a Metacosmics

Let me begin by expressing my sincere gratitude for your decision to crack open at least the first page of this volume. Given that mass lit-eracy is an idea that has only been around a few centuries, given that thus far some 130 million titles have been published and more than two million new ones are added each year, given that a human being who dedicated his or her life to reading…

E-book Human Evolution: A Very Short Introduction

The recent discovery of the diminutive Homo floresiensis (nicknamed "the Hobbit") in Indonesia has sparked new interest in the study of human evolution. In this Very Short Introduction, renowned evolutionary scholar Bernard Wood traces the history of paleoanthropology from its beginnings in the eighteenth century to today's latest fossil finds. Along the way we are introduced to the lively cast…

E-book Jewish History: A Very Short Introduction

How have the Jews survived? For millennia, they have defied odds by overcoming the travails of exile, persecution, and recurring plans for their annihilation. Many have attempted to explain this singular success as a result of divine intervention. In this engaging book, David N. Myers charts the long journey of the Jews through history. At the same time, it points to two unlikely-and decidedly …

E-book 100 Tokoh yang Mengubah Indonesia : Biografi Singkat Seratus Tokoh Pal…

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xvi, 288 halaman : ilustrasi ; 21 cm.

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E-book Exceptional Lifespans

Extreme longevity has long been a topic of interest to the media and to the broader public. There are many legends of people who set longevity records, with tales of individuals who lived 200, 500, and even 969 years. Unfortunately, it is almost impossible to validate the ages of long-lived individuals until the twentieth century. In the second half of the twentieth century, the nu…

E-book A Grammar of Akajeru : Fragments of a traditional North Andamanese dia…

The primary sources for this work are the fragments of Akajeru (words, phrases and some short sentences) contained (passim) in the pages of Alfred R. Radcliffe-Brown’s monograph The Andaman Islanders (1922), which gathers the results of his anthropological research carried out on the Andamans between 1906 and 1908. Although the languages of the archipelago wer…

E-book Armoede en sociale uitsluiting : Jaarboek 2021 = Kemiskinan dan Penguc…

n het kader van de coronapandemie, waarin we vertoeven bij het schrijven van deze uitgave van het Jaarboek Armoede en Sociale Uitsluiting, blijkt een aantal werken uit de literaire rijkdom erg goed te scoren. Zo ziet uitgeverij Penguin een opmerkelijke stijging in de verkoop van zogenaamde pandemie- en rampenliteratuur. In Frankrijk en Italië is de verkoop van La Peste van Albert Camus, versch…

E-book A Country of Shepherds: Stories of a Changing Mediterranean Landscape

This book draws on the life stories told by shepherds, farmers, and their families in the Andalusian region in Spain to sketch out the landscapes, actions, and challenges of people who work in pastoralism. Their narratives highlight how local practices interact with regional and European communities and policies, and they help us see a broader role for extensive grazing practices and sustainabi…

E-book Letters from the Earth

The Creator sat upon the throne, thinking. Behind him stretched the illimitable continent of heaven, steeped in a glory of light and color; before him rose the black night of Space, like a wall. His mighty bulk towered rugged and mountain-like into the zenith, and His divine head blazed there like a distant sun. At His feet stood three colossal figures, diminished to extinction, almost, by cont…

E-book Monster

When the guards came over, they made us line up against the wall. The guy who was hit they made sit at the table while they waited for another guard to bring them rubber gloves. When the gloves came, the guards put them on, handcuffed the guy, and then took him to the dispensary. He was still bleeding pretty bad. They say you get used to being in jail, but I don’t see how. Every morning I wak…

E-book Disturbing Times : Medieval Pasts, Reimagined Futures

These are disturbing times. Scholars in medieval and premod-ern studies are tired of explaining why, yet this labor continues to be performed by those who often have the least personal and professional security.1 A case in point here is Mary Rambaran-Olm, who consistently advocated, and with considerable risk for her own scholarly career and personal well-being, for the re-tire…

E-book Entertainment-Education Behind the Scenes Case Studies for Theory and…

This book tracks the latest trends in the theory, research, and practice of entertainment-education, the field of communication that incorporates social change messaging into entertaining media. Sometimes called edutainment, social impact television, narrative persuasion, or cultural strategy, this approach to social and behavior change communication offers new opportunities including transmedi…

E-Book Assassin: Kaum Pembunuh dari Lembah Alamut

Di Suriah, pada pertengahan abad ke-12, muncul sebuah kelompok rahasia pengisap ganja bernama Assassin, yang berusaha merebut takhta kepemimpinan Islam dengan cara-cara kekerasan. Kelompok ini juga berkembang di wilayah Persia. Pemimpin tertinggi mereka, Hasan bin Sabbah, terkenal dengan julukan "Orang Tua dari Gunung". Ia membangun istana megah yang merangkap sebagai benteng kokoh di Lembah A…

E-book Caesar and cleopatra

An October night on the Syrian border of Egypt towards the end of the XXXIII Dynasty, in the year 706 by Roman computation, afterwards reckoned by Christian computation as 48 B.C. A great radiance of silver fire, the dawn of a moonlit night, is rising in the east. The stars and the cloudless sky are our own contemporaries, nineteen and a half centuries younger than we know them; but you w…

E-book Major barbara

It is after dinner on a January night, in the library in Lady Britomart Undershaft's house in Wilton Crescent. A large and comfortable settee is in the middle of the room, upholstered in dark leather. A person sitting on it [it is vacant at present] would have, on his right, Lady Britomart's writing table, with the lady herself busy at it; a smaller writing table behind him on his left; t…

Jokowi from zero to hero : Kisah nyata anak miskin yang menjadi orang besar

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978-602-8931-64

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160 hlm; illus;14 x 20 cm

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Jokowi from zero to hero: Kisah nyata anak miskin yang menjadi orang besar

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978-602-8931-64

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160 hlm; illus;14 x 20 cm

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110 TAU j

Jokowi from zero to hero: Kisah nyata anak miskin yang menjadi orang besar

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978-602-8931-64

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160 hlm; illus;14 x 20 cm

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Empat (4) teori kepribadian jadilah orang yang anda inginkan : Eksistensialis…

"Kenalilah dirimu." (Socrates) .... Sayang sekali, banyakk orang mencurahkan sebagian besar waktu dan tenaga mereka dengan tujuan untuk mengerti orang lain, sedangkan kesadaran sendiri diabaikan. Mereka sering berkata. "Saya tahu siapa kau. Kau tidak dapat membodohi saya. "Saya tidak mengerti mengapa saya lakukan itu?". Dewasa ini banyak orang dilanda oaleh desakan kesibukan dari kekomplekan …

The Book of art - How to look at art : A pictorial encyclopedia of painting, …

Quality set Printed in Italy, this set features gold leaf page edges, good paper, and lush illustrations. Front cover quote "The Book of Art Set is designed as an intro to the visual arts: painting, drawing, and sculpture. It provides a comprehensive survey, in 10 volumes of one of the most creative aspects of human effort, especially organized for the reader who does not have an extensive know…