Beberapa waktu lalu, Eragon-Shadeslayer, Penunggang Naga bukanlah siapa-siapa, hanya bocah petani miskin. Naganya, Saphira cuma batu biru di hutan. Sekarang, nasib seluruh umat manusia berada di tangan mereka. Latihan dan pertempuran selama berbulan-bulan yang panjang membawa kemenangan dan harapan, tapi juga duka mencekam. Namun, pertempuran yang sesungguhnya belumlah terjadi: mereka harus ber…
Eragon dan naganya, Saphira berhasil bertahan hidup setelah pertempuran kolosal melawan para prajurit Kekaisaran di Dataran Membara. Namun masih banyak yang harus dihadapi sang Penunggang dan naganya ini. Eragon harus menyelamatkan Katrina, kekasih Roran dari cengkeraman Raja Galbatorix, sesuai janjinya pada abangnya itu. Tetapi kaum Varden, elf, dan kurcaci pun membutuhkan sang Penunggang. Ket…
Eragon dan naganya, Saphira, berhasil menyelamatkan para pemberontak dari Raja Galbatorix, penguasa kejam Kekaisaran. Sekarang Eragon harus pergi ke Ellesmera, negeri para elf, untuk mempelajari lebih dalam ilmu sihir dan ilmu pedang, keahlian utama Penunggang Naga. Perjalanan yang luar biasa itu membuatnya sampai di banyak tempat yang memikat dan menemui orang-orang yang menakjubkan. Setiap ha…
Suatu hari Eragon, anak petani miskin berusia lima belas tahun, telah menemukan "batu" berwarna biru yang indah. Ternyata batu itu telur naga! Ditemani Brom si pendongeng tua dan naga yang dinamainya Saphira, Eragon belajar berbagai hal mengenai sejarah dan naga. Brom juga mengajarkan ilmu sihir dan ilmu pedang karena ternyata Eragon adalah penerus klan para Penunggang Naga. Klan ini punah kare…
Elizabeth Bennet dan Fitzwilliam Darcy sama sekali tidak cocok. Elizabeth menilai Mr. Darcy sebagai pria yang sok, angkuh, dan mengesalkan, sementara Mr. Darcy menganggap Elizabeth tidak anggun dan terlalu sering berprasangka. Mereka saling bermusuhan, bahkan sering kali saling melontarkan sindiran pedas.Tapi kebencian mereka berangsur menjadi ketertarikan. Seiring berja- lannya waktu, Eliza…
Inilah 3 cerita tentang 3 sahabat pecinta kopi dan puisi yang memiliki 3 jalan yang berbeda untuk menemukan kebahagiaan sejati. Ilyaa Si Pencari Komitmen putus asa karena pacar putus nyambungnya, Wahyu malah berselingkuh. Donna Si Tak Peduli Komitmen dengan cueknya menikah dengan Galih tanpa menyadari bahwa Galih sesuatu yang freak. Dan, Shiva Si Takut Komitmen terus berharap mimpinya bersandi…
Roald Dahl kecil bandel sekali. BErsama teman-teman sekolahnya, ia melakukan berbagai kenakalan: memasukkan bangkai tikus ke stoples permen karena sebal pada penjaga tokonya, berbohong sakit usus buntu supaya diizinkan pulang ke rumah dari asrama, bahkan menggantitembakau di pipa teman kakaknya dengan kotoran kambing karena orang itu sangat sombong! Banyak hal seru lain terjadi selama masa kan…
Mr. Wonka memang jenius kalau menyangkut soal cokelat, tapi Charlie dan keluarganya sedikit pun tidak mempercayai kemampuannya dalam soal terbang. Terutama kalau yang diterbangkannya elevator kaca yang yang melesat tak terkendali ke luar angkasa. Tapi hidup tak pernah membosankan dengan Mr. Wonka, dan kalau gara-gara dirinya mereka jadi terlibat masalah, ia akan bisa membereskannya. Betul, kan?
Bong jatuh cinta pada gadis yang dipanggil Keka. Itu biasa, karena selama ini ada lelaki lain yang juga naksir Keka. Juga biasa, kalau cinta menggebu sekaligus ragu tak berakhir di pernikahan. Yang tak biasa, Keka memberi nama anak perempuannya keka juga. Ternyata keka generasi kedua ini tertarik pada Bong, walau ia hamil dengan lelaki lain. Bong menyelamatkan bayi yang nyaris digugurkan. Bayi …
Gue terharu banget Pak Boss mandang gue begitu tinggi. Dia super yakin Christopher Reeves is not the real Superman, but I am. Boss: Saya gak mau tau! Pokoknya kapal harus jalan tanggal 15! Apa pun caranya! Gue: Cannot. Kita bukan pemilik kapal. Kapal mundur jadwalnya, kita gak bisa buat apa pun. Boss: Saya gak mau tau! Gue: Ok, apa boleh buat... saya pulang dulu ke rumah ambil sayap Super…
Sebuah buku segar yang ok untuk dijadikan pilihan sebagai bacaan dikala kemumetan kerja, kemacetan jalan raya ataupun menemani leyeh – leyeh di hari Minggu yang ceria. Terpingkalah ketika menikmatinya, jangan membacanya sambil mengemudi, atau pun di lokasi umum tanpa teman. Alasannya sederhana, yang pertama bisa nimbulin kecelakaan yang kedua karena akan tampak gila jika kita tertawa tanpa te…
Ini bukan tentang penyakit kanker dramatis, seperti buku "berdasarkan kisah nyata" pada umumnya. Kisah ini mengenai aku, Esther Earl, yang mengidap penyakit yang cukup menakutkan bernama Kanker Tiroid. Namun, bahkan lebih dari itu, kisah ini adalah tentang pengalaman yang mengubah hidup seorang gadis.
To Kill a Mockingbird adalah novel terbesar dan satu-satunya yang ditulis Harper Lee. Berkat kisah indah tersebut yang memenangi penghargaan Pulitzer Award 1961, dia dianugerahi Presidential Medal of Freedom 2007, the Highest Civilian Honor USA. Kehidupan Scout dan Jem Finch berubah total saat ayah mereka menjadi pembela seorang kulit hitam. Ketika Atticus membela seorang yang dianggap samp…
Boss: Kamu ngomong apa? Gue: hah? Gak ngomong apa-apa.. Boss: Kok mulut kamu bergerak-gerak? Gue: Engga ah. Boss: Wah mesti ganti kacamata nih.. (ngelepas kacamatanya dan tengok tengok) Gue: (Pake Biscular aja) Boss: Tuh kan bibir kamu komat kamit lagi! Gue: Engga kok! Boss: Iya! Gue: Ya udah terus kenapa rupanya dengan ruangan saya? Apa yang terjadi? Boss: Iya ruangan kita berjauhan…
Buku ini adalah kumpulan curhat seorang Amoy Kerani (sekretaris) terhadap boss-nya yang di buku ke-4 ini dapat julukan kesayangan : Velociraptor. Yah nama si bos banyak sih. Ada kloningan lele, rantang, iguanadon, badak dan favorit saya : Sangkutan Sarung. Sudahlah, bisa penuh ini 1 postingan cuma bahas nama panggilan si bos aja. Pokoknya semua julukan sudah disematkan pada si bossman, kecuali …
Sophie has the great misfortune of being the eldest of three daughters, destined to fail miserably should she ever leave home to seek her fate. But when she unwittingly attracts the ire of the Witch of the Waste, Sophie finds herself under a horrid spell that transforms her into an old lady. Her only chance at breaking it lies in the ever-moving castle in the hills: the Wizard Howl's castle. To…
I stuck my finger under the edge of the paper and jerked it under the tape. 'Shoot,' I muttered when the paper sliced my finger. A single drop of blood oozed from the tiny cut. It all happened very quickly then. 'No!' Edward roared ...Dazed and disorientated, I looked up from the bright red blood pulsing out of my arm - and into the fevered eyes of the six suddenly ravenous vampires. For Bella …
To be an airline passenger in transit is to move through states without permanently adopting them. The very legal nature of a transit lounge embodies this perfectly. When one is in tran-sit, one does not pass through immigration and enter the legal boundaries of a nation-state. The strange nature of transit is best exemplified by its failures — the case of Mehran Karimi Nas…
During the Paris pandemic confinement period of 2020, the dread of viral death was in the air. Confined to the indoors, I took the hint and finished in May my second (and, I think, last) book of drôle poetry called Styling Sagaciousness: Oh Great No! Drollness being essential to a good life, I fashioned Styling Sa-gaciousness as a death farce epic poem divided into seve…
What is Literature? According to Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten, Literature is perfect sensate discourse. Based on this insight Baumgarten offers the first modern theory of literature. His uniquely holistic approach encompasses a methodology, epistemology, metaphysics, narratology, and ethics.
‘A useful godsend are you to me now,’ are the trickster god’s first words to the tortoise in Shelley’s translation,2 and the Homeric shell is clearly a useful godsend for Shelley as well: as Gary Farnell has argued, the pun on ?????/Shelley enables the poet to claim the allegorical account of the origins of lyric poetry ‘as emblem of his own general …
William Sharp was born on September 12, 1855, at 4 Garthland Place in Paisley, Scotland. He was the oldest in a family of five daughters and three sons. His father, David Galbreath Sharp, was a partner in a mercantile house, and his mother, Katherine Brooks, was the daughter of the Swedish Vice Consul in Glasgow. Sharp spent the summers of his chi…
Things got better after my first months in the city. I made a few friends, got a job through the new AmeriCorps program at a high school on the Lower East Side, and hung around with radi-cal environmental activists who wondered why anybody would leave New Hampshire for New York. But I was still unmoored. By my third year at NYU, I realized the world of professional theater was not…
Wrapped in modernist architect Marcel Breuer’s 1971 addition to the Cleveland Museum of Art, A Treatise on the Marvelous for Prestigious Museums considers the global ecological catastrophe by way of a speculative address to the art museums of the future, revisiting mid-century modes of site-specificity and speculative collage as utopian practices for the present. Written over the course of a …
After the three most famous poets – Li Bo ?? (701–762?), Wang Wei?? (701–761), Du Fu ?? (712–770) – of the reign of the Tangemperor Xuanzong ?? (r. 712–756) and extending roughly a decadeafterward, a half-century generally regarded as comprising the finestperiod of Tang poetry (i.e., the so-called “High Tang”), it is the poetMeng Haoran ??? (689–740) whose…
There is a curious incident in the first episode of the television seriesStranger Things. The four teenage boys Will, Mike, Dustin, and Lucas arecut short in the middle of theDungeons & Dragonssession they are con-ducting in Mike’s basement. The game ends, rather unfortunately, witha dice roll miscast on the floor. It’s dinnertime, and the boys have to gohome without finishing their campaig…
Luck is all around us.1 There is a certain school of cultural anthropology that is intent on tracking the structures, categories and beliefs that recur across all human societies, transcending the profound differences in history and culture that separate them. This school of ambitious universalists – which is by no mean uncontroversial, both within the field of anthropology…
Meliora is the motto of the University of Rochester. It translates to “ever better.” We have chosen Meliora as the theme of this volume and the title of this section. In the one essay in this section, Carlos Stroud documents how from its very incep-tion The Institute had a mission that was different from that of a usual academic department in a…
Ahn Su-Yeon Usia 27 tahun. Karier gemilang sebagai pengacara. Punya pacar seorang aktor yang sedang naik daun. Dikelilingi para sahabat yang menyayanginya. Namun, satu hal yang tidak dimilikinya, yaitu restu orang tua untuk meresmikan hubungan dengan Rye-On, kekasihnya. Alasannya hanya satu, ibunya tidak suka punya menantu seorang selebritas. Heol! Kim Rye-On Usia 27 tahun. Lulusan sekolah…
Haena sudah terbiasa mengikuti punggung Tae Joon selama bertahun-tahun. Bagi Haena, perasaan kepada Tae Joon adalah cinta malu-malu yang tak bisa diungkapkan. Namun, dia tidak tahu kalau perasaan manusia begitu cepat berubah. Dia tahu Joon tidak menyukainya, tapi... bagaimana dengannya? Mengapa Haena mendadak ragu saat Ajisaka muncul dalam hidupnya? Harusnya, jantung Haena tidak secepat itu b…
This Very Short Introduction to Classics links a haunting temple on a lonely mountainside to the glory of ancient Greece and the grandeur of Rome, and to Classics within modern culture-from Jefferson and Byron to Asterix and Ben-Hur. We are all Classicists - we come into touch with the Classics daily: in our culture, politics, medicine, architecture, language, and literature. What are the tr…
Mendung, sesuai namanya selalu menjalani hari-hari dengan penuh mendung dan nuansa abu-abu. Ia nyaris tidak merasakan bahagia dalam hidupnya apalagi setelah kedua orang tuanya meninggal saat ia duduk di bangku SMA. Namun kehadiran Verani membuat hidup Mendung tak lagi sepi. Bertahun-tahun bersahabat dengan Verani ternyata malah membuat Mendung tidak mandiri. Sampai kemudian Verani merebut cinta…
Apa yang sangat kau benci dalam hidupmu? Meta, seorang bidan, akan menjawab: kucing jantan - yang mencakar setiap pria - dan seorang playboy. Takdir seakan tak mengerti Meta. Dia pun dipertemukan dengan seorang playboy pemilik masa lalu kelam dengan bantuan seekor kucing yang memiliki kelakuan ajaib. Playboy itu bernama Ega, seorang dokter hewan tampan yang sangat mudah mendapatkan setiap pe…
Paris, Mei 1968. Ketika gerakan mahasiswa berkecamuk di Paris, Dimas Suryo, seorang eksil politik Indonesia, bertemu Vivienne Deveraux, mahasiswa yang ikut demonstrasi melawan pemerintah Perancis. Pada saat yang sama, Dimas menerima kabar dari Jakarta: Hananto Prawiro, sahabatnya, ditangkap tentara dan dinyatakan tewas. Di tengah kesibukan mengelola Restoran Tanah Air di Paris, Dimas bersama …
Over recent years, Arabic popular culture has become a focal point of West Asian and North African studies. Most of the new research dealing with it concentrates on the ‘popular’ as opposed to an intellectual ‘high’ culture far from the harsh and hierarchically organized reality many Arabic-speaking societies face today. Popular cultural practices are thus seen as a rejection of the eli…
The Tales of Beedle the Bard is a collection ofstories written for young wizards and witches. They have been popular bedtime reading for centuries, with the result that the Hopping Pot and the Fountain of Fair Fortune are as familiar to many of the students at Hogwarts as Cinderella and Sleeping Beauty are to Muggle (non-magical) children.
This glorious new Kindle in Motion edition of Newt Scamander's Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (considered a classic throughout the wizarding world) features an extraordinary array of magical creatures, from Acromantula to Yeti via ten different breeds of dragon – all beautifully illustrated in full colour in a beautifully designed digital reading experience by the brilliantly inventi…
It was the summer of 1843, and in Tai County the okra flowers had just bloomed. Lu Yitian’s aunt, Madame Zhou, enjoyed making medi-cal concoctions and people came from all around seeking her treat-ment. There was a man who had been severely scalded, so that his body was covered in festering sores, and no one had been able to affect a cure. He came to beg for …
J.K. Rowling’s five-film Fantastic Beasts adventure series continues with the original screenplay for Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald At the end of Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, the powerful Dark wizard Gellert Grindelwald was captured in New York with the help of Newt Scamander. But, making good on his threat, Grindelwald escapes custody and sets about gathering follo…
Approaches tomediating and mediated agencywere first developed in responseto Actor-Network-Theory (ANT), which has been booming since the 1990s (La-tour 2005; Blok et al. 2020), leading to subsequent drafts of an emerging“actormedia theory”(Schüttpelz 2013; Krieger and Belliger 2014; Spöhrer and Ochsner2017). Most existing approaches to mediating and mediated agency, despite allinternal d…
But Captain Howard Stansbury, who knew better, watched the distant Wasatch pass as he piloted, serpentine, his ship counter-clockwise around the lake, at ease in his prime, his personal timepiece stashed to a satchel, the company’s chronometers safely placed in their soft-cushioned, velvet-lined case, prepared for the purpose, and always strapped, on the trail, with care in…
This book examines how literary fiction depicts multilingual practices and incorporates them on the level of the text. Multiple languages surround us today, rendered more visible in the digital and globalized age. In literature, too, languages intermingle, often to striking effect. The early twenty-first century has seen a new fascination with the age-old phenomena of literary multilingualism a…
The Summer Book has never been out of print in Scandinavia. Its allure is the allure of summer itself for these people who spend so much of the year in the dark. “We are captivated, charmed, dependent,” says Jansson’s Finnish editor. But it is also her mix of humour and psychology, the character of the island, and the protective love she so clearly has for it. Sophia tells me that sometim…
‘Mighty are numbers; joined with art, resistless.’1 The quotation from Euripides’ play Hecuba joins the two elements at the heart of this book, and it expresses the pleasure resulting from the combination of mathematics and literature – domains that are often regarded as alien or opposed to each other. The context of the quotation reveals, however, that it does not refer to th…
It's a daunting task. Even the most seasoned professionals find business school application essays to be among the hardest pieces they ever write. With a diverse pool of talented people applying to the nation's top schools from the most successful companies and prestigious undergraduate programs in the world, a simple biography detailing accomplishments and goals isn't enough. Applicants need c…
In the blurb for his planned 20-volumeThe History of Persian Literature, thelate Ehsan Yarshater (1920–2018), a Nestor of Iranian Studies, characterisedPersian poetry as the jewel in the crown of Persian culture.1This is notan exaggeration; poetry plays a role in every domain of Persian culture. IfPersian culture is the body of Persian-speaking peoples, poetry is the soul,the stamina, and the…
One such concern is the lack of clear differentiation between the Russian imperial and national identities, a phenomenon that is typical of contiguous empires in general, but that seems to be particularly prominent in the Russian case.36 Some scholars suggest that for various reasons—mainly related to its status as a land empire—Russia failed to create a nation altogether, and its inte…
The seven articles in this volume, written by French and German specialists in book history, address various aspects of the materiality of print culture, examining both the processes of book production and the paths of book circulation. They explore notions of composition, collection and circulation of texts and images, from manuscript to books designed for specific readers. They are based on a…
The application of rhetorical and narrative approaches to science have been used to analyze the discourse of popular culture and how it relates to complex social phenomena such as the proliferation of pseudoscience or antipsychiatry. The rhet-oric of science studies how scientists—as part of a discursive community—frame and communicate their knowledge; what they argue about and how…
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