When you drop your Diet Coke can or yesterday's newspaper in the recycling bin, where does it go? Probably halfway around the world, to people and places that clean up what you don't want and turn it into something you can't wait to buy. In Junkyard Planet, Adam Minter--veteran journalist and son of an American junkyard owner--travels deep into a vast, often hidden, five-hundred-billion-dollar …
In An Appeal to the World, His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama of Tibet illuminates the way to peace in our time, arguing for a form of universal ethics that goes beyond religion - values we all share as humans that can help us create unity and peace to heal our world.
Mary Shelley's classic work, published when she was just twenty years old, tells the tale of eccentric scientist Victor Frankenstein, who creates a terrifying creature in an unorthodox scientific experiment. Inspired after a competition between Shelley, her husband Percy, Lord Byron and John Polidori to see who could write the best horror story, Frankenstein is in part a gothic novel and consid…
A Midsummer Night's Dream, Much Ado About Nothing, As You like It, Twelfth Night, Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth
"I have great honor," The Giver said. "So will you. But you will find that is not the same as power." Life in the community where Jonas lives is idyllic. Designated birthmothers produce newchildren, who are assigned to appropriate family units: one male, one female, to each. Citizens are assigned their partners and their jobs. No one thinks to ask questions. Everyone obeys. The community is …
Apa yang menyebabkan Nahi Adam diturunkan ke muka bumi? Kenapa Iblis meminta umur panjang sampai hari kiamat datang? Mengapa Allah membiarkan anak dan isteri seorang Nabi ikut hancur bersama orang-orang kufur? Bahkan ada seorang ibu yang tega menghanyutkan puteranya ke sungai. Kenapa pula para Nabi dan Rasul selalu dimusuhi lawan-lawannya, bahkan diusir oleh umatnya sendiri. Padahal mereka puny…
Ada 100 Cerita Rakyat yang diceritakan dalam buku ini, simak cuplikan salah satu cerita dalam buku tersebut. Nanggroe Aceh Darussalam Jauh di sudut terpencil Tanah Gayo, hiduplah sebuah keluarga yang amat miskin. U ntuk makan sehari-hari, Ayah berburu ke dalam hutan. Namun, dia sering pulang dengan tangan kosong. Jika sudah begi- tu, dia akan menangkap belalang untuk dimasak…
A bear explores a carton on a truck and gets carried away. By the time he has returned, the reader will be exposed to the concepts of ''inside, outside, upside down.''