Mohammad Natsir orang yang puritan. Hidupnya tak berwarna-warni seperti cerita tonil. Tapi kadang kala orang yang lurus bukan tak menarik. Ia punya daya tarik sendiri: santun, bersih, konsisten, toleran, tapi tegus berpendirian. Indonesia sekarang seakan-akan hidup di sebuah lingkarang setan yang tak terputus: regenerasi kepemimpinan terjadi, tapi birokrasi dan politik yang bersih, kesejaht…
From Abraham Lincoln to Nelson Mandela, and from Aristotle to George Orwell, 50 Politics Classics distills the essence of the books, pamphlets, and speeches of the major leaders and great thinkers that drive real-world change. Spanning 2,500 years, left and right, thinkers and doers, Tom Butler-Bowdon's new book covers activists, war strategists, visionary leaders, economists, philosophers of f…
Buku ini menggambarkan tentang naik turunnya hubungan antara Tiongkok dan Malaysia sejak republik Rakyat Tiongkok (RRT) berdiri pada 1949. Bahkan, pada saat Malaya masih berada di bawah cengkraman kolonialisme Inggris. Digambarkan pula dukungan RRT terhadap Partai Komunis Malaya (PKM) yang melakukan perang gerilya dengan para pemimpin dan pejuangnya sebagian besar terdiri dari etnik Tionghoa…
ONE CHOICE A CHOICE Becomes a sacrifice A SACRIFICE Becomes a loss A LOSS Becomes a burden A BURDEN Becomes a battle ONE CHOICE CAN DESTROY YOU Tris has survived a brutal attack on her former home and family. But she has paid a terrible price. Wracked by grief and guilt, she becomes ever more reckless as she struggles to accept her new future. Yet if Tris wants to unco…
Since the Bali bombings of 2002 and the rise of political Islam, Indonesia has frequently occupied media headlines. Nevertheless, the history of the fourth largest country on earth remains relatively unknown. Adrian Vickers's book, first published in 2005, traces the history of an island country, comprising some 240 million people, from the colonial period through revolution and independence to…
This sophisticated study, now brought back into print as the second book in Equinox Publishing's Classic Indonesia series, delineates the ideology of the Indonesian Communist Party (PKI) during a crucial period in its history. After sketching the evolution of the Party's doctrines between 1951 and 1959, Professor Mortimer analyzes the ideas, programs, and policies of the PKI during Guided Democ…
Peril is supplemented throughout with never-before-seen material from secret orders, transcripts of confidential calls, diaries, emails, meeting notes and other personal and government records, making for an unparalleled history. It is also the first inside look at Biden’s presidency, revealing the background to his controversial decision to leave Afghanistan. He took office faced with the…