The definitive story of Amazon.com, one of the most successful companies in the world, and of its driven, brilliant founder, Jeff Bezos. Amazon.com started off delivering books through the mail. But its visionary founder, Jeff Bezos, wasn't content with being a bookseller. He wanted Amazon to become the everything store, offering limitless selection and seductive convenience at disruptively …
Percy Julian discovered medicines. Shirley Jackson studied atoms. George Washington Carver discovered ways to help farmers. Read about these great scientists and more!
Kisah hidup Michelangelo'
from the back cover: Buku sejarah hidup Nabi sudah berlimpah. Lalu mengapa menulis yang lain lagi? Dengan mencurahkan segenap cinta, kedalaman ilmu, dan keluasan wawasan seorang cendekiawan-ulama, Tariq Ramadan menarik berbagai pelajaran penting untuk manusia hari ini dari setiap peristiwa yang terjadi dalam fase kehidupan Nabi Muhammad. Kala ditanya tentang perilaku beliau, Aisyah menjawa…
First published in 1942 at the height of her popularity, Dust Tracks on a Road is Zora Neale Hurston's candid, funny, bold, and poignant autobiography, an imaginative and exuberant account of her rise from childhood poverty in the rural South to a prominent place among the leading artists and intellectuals of the Harlem Renaissance. As compelling as her acclaimed fiction, Hurston's very persona…
Benjamin Franklin is a famous colonial inventor and multitasker who may be best remembered as one of America’s Founding Fathers. But he was also a “natural philosopher” (the term for scientists back in the 1700s), whose experiments led to important discoveries about the nature of electricity—including his famous demonstration that electricity and lightning were one and the same. In a fa…