Leiden 2020-1920

Pertemuan Syamil dengan Maryati dan Kasman di Padang Panjang secara ajaib membawa mahasiswa jurusan sejarah itu jauh dari rumah. Lewat potongan naskah berusia seratus tahun yang dicatat oleh seorang mantan tentara Belanda bernama Alex van deer Meer, Syamil menjelajah ke Sawahlunto pada tahun 1920 hingga ke Leiden pada tahun 2020. Sembari menelusuri kembali setiap jengkal sejarah bangsanya, S…

Anna Karenina

The heroine of Tolstoy's epic of love and self-destruction, Anna Karenina has beauty, wealth, popularity and an adored son, but feels that her life is empty until she encounters the impetuous officer Count Vronsky. Their subsequent affair scandalizes society and family alike, and brings jealousy and bitterness in its wake. Contrasting with this is the vividly observed story of Levin, a man stri…

How animals defend themselves

Why does the pearlfish hide inside a sea cucumber's bum? which animal plays dead to escape being eaten? how do scientists know not to rub a tarantula against their skin? Discover how creatures big and small defend themselves in clever and sometimes surprising ways to stay alive. Zany brains animals explores a wide range of animal behaviours from how animals learn and communicate, to developing …

Getaran

Setelah tersengat listri, Prim mendadak menjadi genius. Ia bisa memperbaiki apa saja, bahkan mencoba merancang sendiri pesawat gravitasi.

Selaput biru

Dari balik selaput biru, ia melihat dunia lewat beragam jendela yang memberinya makna dan kedalaman: sastra, puisi, seni rupa, musik, sejarah, makanan, film, olahraga. Juga perempuan, keluarga, pertemanan, dan cinta yang mengendap bersama usia.

Happiness falls

“We didn’t call the police right away.” Those are the electric first words of this extraordinary novel about a biracial Korean American family in Virginia whose lives are upended when their beloved father and husband goes missing. Mia, the irreverent, hyperanalytical twenty-year-old daughter, has an explanation for everything—which is why she isn’t initially concerned when her fath…

Children's Book of Politics

Why would the ancient Greeks think modern democracies are undermocratic?

The Swiss family robinson

While travelling from Switzerland to Australia, William, Elizabeth and their four sons, Fritz, Ernest, Jack and Franz, are caught in a terrible storm. Shipwrecked on a desert island, they are left to fend for themselves, equipped with supplies salvaged from the wreckage and surrounded by an array of animals. Every day brings new challenges to overcome, and the family must use their wits to s…

Beauty is a wound

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9781805331964

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Celana

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9786020381862

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811 PIN c