Puji syukur ke hadirat Allah SWT. Minggu kemarin Ghina dengan mama papanya (mbak Yeti dan Mas Budi) dan juga Zahra si bontot, berkunjung ke rumah bunda. Dengan wajah ceria Ghina menyampaikan buku yang akhirnya terbit berjudul Ghina. Tentu saja sesuai dengan nama gadis kecil yang menulisnya. Buku berjudul Ghina betul-betul merupakan Kisah Nyata perjuangan seorang anak penderita Crouzon Syndrome…
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 …
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…
Blessed with enormous talents and the energy and ambition to go with them, Franklin was a statesman, author, inventor, printer, and scientist. He helped draft the Declaration of Independence and later was involved in negotiating the peace treaty with Britain that ended the Revolutionary War. He also invented bifocals, a stove that is still manufactured, a water-harmonica, and the lightning rod.…
“Kamu ini belum terkenal saja sudah sombong sekali. Begitu banyak orang menginginkan peran itu, kamu malah menolaknya! Kamu lupa dengan perjuangan kamu selama ini? Dengan jilbab kamu tidak akan pernah bisa jadi apa-apa!” Hidup penuh lika-liku: sedih, bahagia, tawa, duka, canda, dan ceria. Semampu apa seseorang mengelola emosi-emosi jiwa ini, setinggi itu pula sikap mental yang akan dimil…
Kisah Sir Alex Ferguson yang penuh anekdot dan selalu blakblakan berawal di Govan, distrik galangan kapal di Glasgow: dengan kejujuran dan keterbukaan, dia merenungkan kembali perjalanan hidupnya yang luar biasa serta perjalanan kariernya sebagai manajer yang menghadirkan kesuksesan di tingkat Eropa bagi Aberdeen dan 27 tahun penuh kejayaan bersama Manchester United. Selama seperempat abad t…
Malcolm X's blazing, legendary autobiography, completed shortly before his assassination in 1965, depicts a remarkable life: a child born into rage and despair, who turned to street-hustling and cocaine in the Harlem ghetto, followed by prison, where he converted to the Black Muslims and honed the energy and brilliance that made him one of the most important political figures of his time – an…
Bulosan's America Is in the Heart is one of the few books that detail the migrant workers' struggles in the United States during the 1930s through the 1940s, a time when signs like "Dogs and Filipinos not allowed" were common. The struggles included "beatings, threats, and ill health". In this book, Bulosan also narrated his attempts to establish a labor union.