Kisah-Kisah Tengah Malam berisi tiga belas cerita pendek karya klasik Edgar Allan Poe. Masing-masing cerita di sini akan membawa pembaca menuju pengalaman unik yang penuh ketegangan, teror, dan misteri. Beberapa cerpen Edgar Allan Poe yang terkenal seperti Black Cat, The Fall of the Usher, dan Tell-Tale Heart bisa anda temukan dalam kumpulan cerpen ini. Saat membaca Kisah-Kisah Tengah Malam, a…
Kelam, gelap, dan mendebarkan; kisah-kisah yang menunggumu dalam ratusan halaman di balik sampul buku ini. Kau akan bertemu para tokoh dan cerita yang belum pernah kau bayangkan sebelumnya. Bangsawan keji dan kuda misteriusnya yang membara, pria yang terobsesi pada gigi tunangannya, dokter yang menghipnosis pasiennya yang berada di ambang kematian, seekor gagak yang menjumpai seorang kekasih ya…
Each Friday my colleagues and I gather to discuss the week’s wins and losses. As we share ideas and experiences, we focus on the messages we are constructing and hearing. Sometimes, when topics are delicate, we are careful with phrasing and vocal tone, and when the space fills with people, we adjust our volume or move our bodies into closer proximity. The te…
Budding artists can master the toughest and most treasured technique of all: portraying the beauty, grace, and personality of the human body. This wonderful tutorial, and a variety of inspiring sketches on every page, provide the solid technical foundation needed to depict every type of figure—young or old, male or female, standing, sitting, or in motion—and with style. Intricately detailed…
Price stability is low and stable (non-volatile) changes in the general price level, generally referred to as the inflation rate. History has shown that when inflation is low, it tends to be non-volatile. What is low inflation? The majority of the world tends to subscribe 2-3% pa. Why 2-3% pa and not 0% pa? The jury is out on this one, but present economic lore holds that 0% pa is too close to …
"'There are other things deep in the jungle, my lord, that no man may look upon and live.' "'What, for example?' demanded King. "'The ghosts of my ancestors,' answered the Cambodian, 'the Khmers who dwelt here in great cities ages ago. Within the dark shadows of the jungle the ruins of their cities still stand, and down the dark aisles of the forest pass the ancient kings and warriors and lit…
Private sector banks play a significant role in the financial system and the real economy. They intermediate between all sectors of the economy and other financial intermediaries and institutions, and some of them provide the payments system, which most of us use every day. Banks are innovative, largely a function of intense competition, and they are therefore at the forefront of new developmen…
The 4.15 from Victoria to Lewes had been held up at Three Bridges in consequence of a derailment and, though John Lexman was fortunate enough to catch a belated connection to Beston Tracey, the wagonette which was the sole communication between the village and the outside world had gone. "If you can wait half an hour, Mr. Lexman," said the station-master, "I will telephone up to the villa…
Here is a story that has lain dormant for seven hundred years. At first it was suppressed by one of the Plantagenet kings of England. Later it was forgotten. I happened to dig it up by accident. The accident being the relationship of my wife's cousin to a certain Father Superior in a very ancient monastery in Europe. He let me pry about among a quantity of mildewed and musty manuscripts an…
"The entire affair is shrouded in mystery," said D'Arnot. "I have it on the best of authority that neither the police nor the special agents of the general staff have the faintest conception of how it was accomplished. All they know, all that anyone knows, is that Nikolas Rokoff has escaped." John Clayton, Lord Greystoke--he who had been "Tarzan of the Apes"--sat in silence in the apartm…