Sails are boat's engine and they produce power in one of two ways. When the wind is coming from the side of the boat, it flows around both sides of the sail (like an airplane wing), creating lift which "puls" the boat forward. When the wind is coming form behind the boat, it "pushes" against the sail and simply shoves the boat forward.
As we gradually saw, there is more to the dialogue form of our expositions than we initially realized – something new, perhaps, in poetry criticism; we could call it dialogical poetics. We are accustomed to seeing all extended commentary on poetry as the vision of some individual consciousness – the more individual and “original,” the better. There is almost always a significant degree …
In the war-torn London of 1939, fourteen-year-old Hazel and five-year-old Flora are evacuated to a rural village to escape the horrors of the Second World War. Living with the kind Bridie Aberdeen and her teenage son, Harry, in a charming stone cottage along the River Thames, Hazel fills their days with walks and games to distract her young sister, including one that she creates for her sister …
Lebih dari 2000 tahun lalu, sebuah mazhab filsafat menemukan akar masalah dan juga solusi dari banyak emosi negatif. Stoisisme atau Filosofi Teras adalah filsafat Yunani-Romawi kuno yang bisa membantu kita mengatasi emosi negatif dan menghasilkan mental yang tangguh dalam menghadapi naik turunnya kehidupan. Jauh dari kesan filsafat sebagai topik berat dan mengawang-awang, Filosofi Teras justru …
Alpha Female adalah para perempuan yang menginspirasi, memimpin, menggerakkan orang sekitarnya, dan membawa perubahan. Mereka cerdas, percaya diri, dan independen. Bagaimana remaja dan perempuan muda bisa mengembangkan diri menjadi mereka? The Alpha Girl's Guide akan membahas tip-tipnya, seperti: Mana yang lebih penting, nilai atau pengalaman berorganisasi? Apakah teman kamu teman sejati ata…
Digital media have been responsible for some of the most wide-ranging changes in society over the past quarter-century. At the same time, there is little agreement in the social sciences about how these changes should be understood. One reason is increasing disciplinary specialization. For example, media and communication studies concentrates on specific areas such as the news or influe…
The web has been with us for more than a quarter of a century. It has become a daily and ubiquitous source of information in many peoples’ lives around the globe. But what does it tell us about historical and social change? For a researcher in the twenty-second century, it will seem unimaginable that someone studying the twenty-first c…
The Alpha Girl’s Guide akan membahas tip-tipnya, seperti: Mana yang lebih penting, nilai atau pengalaman berorganisasi? Apakah teman kamu teman sejati atau teman yang menghambat? Bagaimana mengetahui cowok parasit dan manipulatif? Bagaimana bersikap saat patah hati? Apakah kamu akan menikah untuk alasan yang tepat? Apa yang penting dilakukan saat memulai bekerja? Buku ini adalah hasil pengam…
It was due to a mysterious dispensation of Providence, and a good deal to Leslie Graeme, that I found myself in the heart of the Selkirks for my Christmas Eve as the year 1882 was dying. It had been my plan to spend my Christmas far away in Toronto, with such Bohemian and boon companions as could be found in that cosmopolitan and kindly city. But Leslie Graeme changed all that, for, disco…
In Kentucky, during the spring of 1861, every shade of opinion prevailed, from the most pronounced Union sentiment to the most ultra secession sympathy. The Government at Washington wished to enlist Kentucky heartily in support of the Union, while every effort was made by the rebel leaders to secure the secession of the State from the Union, and to have it join its fortunes to those of th…
The parents were abed and sleeping. The clock on the wall ticked loudly and lazily, as if it had time to spare. Outside the rattling windows there was a restless, whispering wind. The room grew light, and dark, and wondrous light again, as the moon played hide-and-seek through the clouds. The boy, wide-awake and quiet in his bed, was thinking of the Stranger and his stories. "It was not …
The boys lived in the town of Fairview, a country place, located on the Rocky River, about ten miles above a fine sheet of water called Lake Cameron. The town boasted of a score of stores, several churches, a hotel, and a neat railroad station at which, during the summer months, as high as ten trains stopped daily. On the outskirts of the town were a saw mill, a barrel factory, and several …
Two men were sitting beside a camp-fire at Saddle Pass, a shallow notch in the lower end of the Sangre de Cristo Range in southern Colorado. Although it was the middle of June and summer had come to the valleys below, up here in the mountains the evenings were still chill, and the warmth of the crackling fire felt grateful to tired bodies. Daylight yet held, although it was fast deepening t…
Judul asli : Dictionary of accounting
Apakah anak saya normal? Setiap orangtua tentu pernah mempertanyakan kekhawatiran tersebut dan bisa jadi Anda adalah salah satnya. Sudah saatnya Anda membuang kekhawatiran tersebut jauh-jauh, karena Anda bisa menemani pertumbuhan dan perkembangan buah hati Anda denan penuh ketenangan. Buku Konseling dan Psikoterapi Anak yang ditulis oleh salah satu ahli kesehatan mental anak terbaik di Amerika …
ILMU PENGETAHUAN TENTANG LINGKUNGAN ( Halaman 1-108) Apakah bumi akan merupakan tempat tinggal yang cocok bagi generasi yang akan datang? Pada bagian ini kita akan menyelidiki jenis tanaman, hewan terancam punah, dan rimba raya yang dilindungi, tentang lingkungan mulai dari sumber daya alam bumi-air, hutan, mineral, sampai industri, pertanian, transportasi, dan kegiatan lainnya. ILMU KIMIA…