Be transported to a place like other: a tiny, man-made island in the bay of Nagasaki, for two hundred years the sole gateway between Japan and the West. Here, in the dying days of the 18th-century, a young Dutch clerk arrives to make his fortune. Instead he loses his heart. Step onto the streets of Dejima and mingle with scheming traders, spies, interpreters, servants and concubines as two cult…
Readers can discover all the foul facts about the Cut-throat Celts, including why weird Celt warriors fought with no clothes on, how to preserve your enemy's brain and why the Celts laughed at funerals."
Siapa yang tidak mengenal orang paling berpengaruh di Rusia ini, ya Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin? Pasti Anda sudah tak asing lagi bukan? Dia adalah seorang presiden kebanggan negara tirai besi bahkan berita menyebutkan ia adalah sosok tak tergantikan. Nama Presiden Rusia Vladimir Putin mulai banyak dibincangkan publik karena sosoknya yang sudah berani mengumumkan serangan terhadap Ukraina. …
Buku Jejak Peradaban Kerajaan Hindu Jawa 1042-1527 M ini membahas jejak-jejak peradaban kerajaan Hindu di Jawa, durasi 1042 hingga 1527 Masehi, mulai dari Medang, Kahuripan, Tumapel, Singasari hingga Majapahit. Disajikan sejarah berdirinya, konflik yang mewarnai, peristiwa penting yang terjadi, peninggalan - peninggalan hingga keruntuhan Dinasti Hindu di Jawa. Membaca Buku Jejak Peradaban Keraj…
30 kisah tentang persahabatan, kasih sayang, perjuangan, dan perdamaian yang dikemas dalam bentuk cerita pendek kehidupan anak sehari-hari. Ada kisah perseteruan dua saudara kembar Qaila dan Qiana, Dito dan kardus rahasianya, permintaan sederhana Ayah, kado special Emil, liburan Julian, jas dokter cilik, dermawan cilik, dan lain-lain. 30 cerita yang asyik dan menarik ini akan membuat anak mak…
The day the First World War broke out, Alfie Summerfield's father promised he wouldn't go away to fight―but he broke that promise the following day. Four years later, Alfie doesn't know where his father might be, other than that he's away on a special, secret mission. Then, while shining shoes at King's Cross Station, Alfie unexpectedly sees his father's name on a sheaf of papers belonging to…
The deck was tilting. Even the passengers who hadn't believed the Titanic could sink were frantic with fear. Many of them refused to climb into the lifeboats. Now the lifeboats were gone. The doomed passengers rushed this way and that, looking for safety where there was none
Falsely accused of theft and murder, an orphaned peasant boy in fourteenth-century England flees his village and meets a larger-than-life juggler who holds a dangerous secret.