Betapa panjang perjalanan yang telah ditempuhnya, orang yang namanya sekarang dikenal seluruh dunia: Barack Obama. Orang yang ingin menyatukan berbagai kalangan, mengatasi perbedaan, bukan hanya di Amerika, namun juga di seluruh dunia.
Empat puluh tahun sejak Sukarno meninggal, nama serta wajahnya tidak pernah benar-benar lumat terkubur. Kampanye puluhan tahun Orde Baru untuk mem benamkannya justru hanya mem perkuat kenang an orang akan kebe sar an nya. Sukarno tak pernah berhenti menjadi ikon revo lusi nasional Indonesia yang paling me nonjol—mung kin seperti Che Guevara bagi Kuba. Di ba nyak rumah, foto-fotonya, k…
In HOW TO WRITE SHORT, Roy Peter Clark turns his attention to the art of painting a thousand pictures with just a few words. Short forms of writing have always existed-from ship logs and telegrams to prayers and haikus. But in this ever-changing Internet age, short-form writing has become an essential skill. Clark covers how to write effective and powerful titles, headlines, essays, sales pitch…
Everyone agrees that what we do in schools should be based on what we know about how the brain learns. Until recently, however, we have had few clues to unlock the secrets of the brain. Now, research from the neurosciences has greatly improved our understanding of the learning process, and we have a much more solid foundation on which to base educational decisions. In this completely revised…
"Anyone who finds it is finding a jewel. Its themes are profound and universal." THE WALL STREET JOURNAL It is the now-classic story of two fathers and two sons and the pressures on all of them to pursue the religion they share in the way that is best suited to each. And as the boys grow into young men, they discover in the other a lost spiritual brother, and a link to an unexplored world tha…