Cold Mountain is a novel about a soldier’s perilous journey back to his beloved near the Civil War's end. At once a love story & a harrowing account of one man’s long walk home, Cold Mountain introduces a new talent in American literature. Based on local history & family stories passed down by Frazier’s great-great-grandfather, Cold Mountain is the tale of a wounded Confederate soldier, …
In a rural village in December 2004 Chechnya, a failed doctor Akhmed harbors the traumatized 8-year-old daughter of a father abducted by Russian forces and treats a series of wounded rebels and refugees while exploring the shared past that binds him to the child.
Our ship veered out into the bay, heading towards the open sea. 'I'll wait for you', I called to him. The wind whipped my words away and he was lost to sight. Exiled to a strange new land, Sigrun must face the dangers surrounding her as past secrets are uncovered. Can she protect those she loves - and will she ever return to them?
The lid gave, eventually, with surprisingly little noise. Nothing splintered. Nothing broke. No hinges flew, or even creaked, and for a second or two nothing happened at all. Then came the first scream. It blew out a candle, that scream ...'Shut the lid! For the love of God ...SHUT THE LID!' And so the box was slammed shut, hidden away, and forgotten about. But what lay within was only dormant …
Asia Timur merupakan penamaan subwilayah benua Asia. Terdapat tiga kebudayaan besar yang mendominasi wilayah tersebut, yaitu Tiongkok, Jepang, dan Korea. Kini, masing-masing kebudayaan telah terpecah menjadi negara-negara berdaulat, seperti Tiongkok yang meliputi Tiongkok, Hongkong, Macau, dan Taiwan. Kemudian, Korea yang menjadi Korea Selatan dan Korea Utara. Jepang yang masih menguasai Kekais…
Buku “Jejak Mataram Islam Di Yogyakarta” adalah buku yang ditulis oleh V. Wiranata Sujarweni. Beliau adalah seorang Dosen Fakultas ilmu sosial dan ekonomi, jurusan Akuntansi di Universitas Respati Yogyakarta. Beliau mengajar bidang Akuntansi sektor publik. Beliau juga aktif dalam melakukan penelitian-penelitian di bidang Akuntansi sektor public yang juga aktif dalam penyusunan buku sejak ta…
Peradaban umat manusia seperti sebuah roda yang berputar. Kemajuan adalah sebuah siklus―dari puncak ke penurunan dan kemudian, perlahan dan susah payah, kembali ke puncak―bukan jalur lurus dan menanjak sepanjang waktu. Setiap kerajaan berumur panjang memiliki suksesi zaman keemasan dan kegelapan; dan berkali-kali peradaban manusia telah menciptakan pemerintahan luar biasa yang dalam beberap…
Banyak orang mengatakan bahwa sejarah ditulis oleh para pemenang. Hal ini sama sekali tak mengejutkan alias wajar belaka. Tetapi, bagaimana jika sejarah—atau apa yang kita ketahui sebagai sejarah—ditulis oleh orang yang salah? Bagaimana jika semua yang telah kita ketahui hanyalah bagian dari cerita yang salah tersebut? Dalam buku kontroversial yang sangat tersohor ini, Jonathan Black mengu…
Day 264: It's morning. Soft gray light slips over the tall redbrick wall. It stretches across the exercise yard and reaches through the high, barred windows. In a cell on the ground floor, the light shifts dark shapes into a small stool, a scrawny table, and a bed made of wooden boards with no mattress or blanket. On that bed, a thin, huddled figure, Helmuth, a boy of seventeen, lies awake. Shi…
Written in 1513 for the Medici, following their return to power in Florence, The Prince is a handbook on ruling and the exercise of power. It remains as relevant today as it was in the sixteenth century. Widely quoted in the Press and in academic publications, The Prince has direct relevance to the issues of business and corporate governance confronting global corporations as they enter a new m…