Rio selalu ingin menjadi seperti Profesor Nuka—seorang ilmuwan hebat yang melakukan hal-hal besar untuk menyelamatkan lautan. Namun, kenyataannya, Rio hanyalah asisten laboratorium kampus biasa dengan kehidupan yang datar. Tak ada yang istimewa dari dirinya atau apa yang dia lakukan. Hingga suatu hari semua berubah drastis.
Salah satu kekayaan Indonesia yang diperhitungkan dunia adalah kopi. Indonesia tak hanya menjadi produsen kopi dunia, tetapi juga menyedia varietas kopi berkat kesuburan tanahnya. Di negeri ini kopi berkembang tak sekadar sebagai komoditas, tetapi juga menjadi kekayaan plasma nutfah hingga budaya. Awalnya, biji kopi didatangkan kali pertama di Nusantara pada 1696. la ditanam untuk menghasilkan …
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens is a historical novel set during the French Revolution, following the lives of people in London and Paris. The story revolves around Charles Darnay, a kind-hearted French aristocrat who leaves his family’s cruel legacy behind, and Sydney Carton, a clever but troubled English lawyer. Both men love the same woman, Lucie Manette, whose father was imprisone…
The very first of the Sherlock Holmes Mysteries, A Study in scarlet reveals the early days of Holmes and Watson's friendship, and exactly how the former doctor became involved in a life of crime-solving. A body is found in a grimy house in south London, its face twisted by fear and horror, with the word 'RACHE' scrawled on the wall in blood beside it -- yet the corpse itself is completely un…
Heralded as Virginia Woolf's greatest novel, this is a vivid portrait of a single day in a woman's life. When we meet her, Mrs. Clarissa Dalloway is preoccupied with the last-minute details of party preparation while in her mind she is something much more than a perfect society hostess. As she readies her house, she is flooded with remembrances of faraway times. And, met with the realities of t…
There was, until a year ago, a little and very grimy looking shop near Seven Dials, over which, in weather-worn yellow lettering, the name of ”C. Cave, Naturalist and Dealer in Antiquities,” was inscribed. The contents of its window were curiously variegated. They comprised some elephant tusks and an imperfect set of chessmen, beads and weapons, a box of eyes, two skulls of tigers and one h…