Known for both his bestselling books and his work on black holes, physicist Stephen Hawking beat the odds and lived with ALS—a form of motor neuron disease—for longer than doctors ever expected. This engrossing biography shows why Hawking is such an inspiring example of someone who pursued his dreams in spite of his disability. Born into a family of thinkers who loved reading books at the d…
Kisah ini dimulai ketika Mary Lennox, yang ditinggal mati oleh ayah dan ibunya karena kolera, harus pindah ke Inggris dari India. Di India, Mary memiliki banyak pelayan yang memanjakannya, tetapi mereka semua pun pergi akibat kolera. Tak seorang pun mengingat Mary masih tinggal di rumahnya. Kini Mary tinggal di Inggris, di rumah pamannya, Mr. Archibald Craven. Sang paman digambarkan sebagai …
It's the eve of Rachel Chu's wedding, and she should be over the moon. She has a flawless oval-cut diamond, a wedding dress she loves, and a fiancé willing to thwart his meddling relatives and give up one of the biggest fortunes in Asia in order to marry her. Still, Rachel mourns the fact that her birth father, a man she fact that her birth father, a man she never knew, won't be there to walk …
When New Yorker Rachel Chu agrees to spend the summer in Singapore with her boyfriend, Nicholas Young, she envisions a humble family home and quality time the man she hopes to marry. But Nick has failed to give his girlfriends a few key details. One, that his childhood home looks like a palace; two, that he grew up riding in more private planes than cars; and three, that he just happens to be t…
Nicholas Young's grandmother Su Yi is on her deathbed. While he rushes to be by her side, he's not the only one. The entire Shang-Young clan has convened from all corners of the globe to stake claim on their matriarch's massive fro tune. With all parties vying to inherit a trophy estate in the heart of Singapore, Nicholas's childhood home turns into a hotbed of sabotage and scandal. Taking us f…
Albert Einstein, ilmuwan fisika teoretis yang sangat terkenal dalam abad ke-20. Menerima Penghargaan Nobel atas pengabdiannya terhadap ilmu fisika teoritis yang mengembangkan teori umum relativity pada tahun 1921. Salah satu rumus yang paling terkenal adalah rumus Teori Relativitas yaitu E=mc². “Orang yang tidak pernah berbuat salah adalah orang yang tidak pernah melakukan sesuatu.” (Alber…
Sayangku Marwan, kupandang lekuk wajahmu di bawah sinar bulan yang nyaris penuh, Anakku, bulu matamu bagaikan kaligrafi, tertutup dalam tidur yang nyenyak. Dan kukatakan kepadamu, “Genggam erat tanganku. Tidak akan ada hal buruk yang terjadi.” Khaled Hosseini menulis buku ini sebagai keprihatinan atas krisis pengungsi yang saat ini terjadi di dunia. Dia tergugah oleh foto Alan Kurdi…
Every day in middle school can feel like the end of the world. Eleanor Dross knows a thing or two about the end of the world, thanks to a survivalist grandfather who stockpiles freeze-dried food and supplies--just in case. So when she reads about a Harvard scientist's prediction that an asteroid will strike Earth in April, Eleanor knows her family will be prepared. Her classmates? They're on th…
In this stunning new book, Malcolm Gladwell takes us on an intellectual journey through the world of "outliers"--the best and the brightest, the most famous and the most successful. He asks the question: what makes high-achievers different? His answer is that we pay too much attention to what successful people are like, and too little attention to where they are from: that is, their culture, th…