WHY ARE SOME NATIONS RICH AND OTHERS POOR, DIVIDED BY WEALTH AND POVERTY, HEALTH AND SICKNESS, FOOD AND FAMINE? Is it culture, the weather, geography that determines prosperity or poverty? As Why Nations Fail shows, none of these factors is either definitive or destiny. Drawing on fifteen years of original research, Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson conclusively show that it is man-made p…
Si Pitung adalah pemuda yang berani melawan Babah Liem, antek Belanda. Berbekal ilmu dari Haji Naipin, gurunya, si Pitung membela rakyat kecil. Tentu, Belanda tak tinggal diam. Dengan segala kelicikannya, mereka menjebak si Pitung. Si Pitung pun tertangkap. Bagaimana nasib si Pitung kemudian? Akankah dia berhasil menyelamatkan diri atau harus berkorban demi rakyatnya?
Where have ideas about masculinity come from? How does stereotyping affect children? What is the future of masculinity? Masculinity is in the news and being talked about more than ever before. But people do not all agree on their definitions of masculinity and how it influences behaviour. Our aim in this book is to get you to think about the big questions relating to masculinity. We…
In 1920, Susan B. Anthony passed a law that gave voting rights to women in the United States. RIGHT? WRONG! Susan B. Anthony wasn't even alive when the Nineteeth Amendment was ratified. Plus, it takes a lot more than one person to amend the constitution. Did you know that when women's rights activists picketed President Wilson to get his support for voting rights, some men beat them up, t…