Sinopsis : Walt Whitman has somewhere a fine and just distinction between “loving by allowance” and “loving with personal love.” This distinction applies to books as well as to men and women; and in the case of the not very numerous authors who are the objects of the personal affection, it brings a curious consequence with it. There is much more difference as to their best work than …
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Wise, funny, and heartbreaking, Persepolis is Marjane Satrapi’s acclaimed graphic memoir of growing up in Iran during the Islamic Revolution. “A wholly original achievement…. Satrapi evokes herself and her schoolmates coming of age in a world of protests and disappearances…. A stark, shocking impact.” —The New York Times: “The 50 Best Memoirs of th…
Saya ingin menunjukkan kepada Anda bahwa dunia nyata, seperti yang dipahami lewat sains, memiliki sihirnya tersendirijenis yang saya sebut sihir puitis: kecantikan yang mengilhami, yang semakin ajaib karena nyata sifatnya dan karena kita bisa memahami bagaimana cara kerjanya.... Sihir realitas sungguh mengagumkan. Mengagumkan, dan nyata. Mengagumkan karena nyata. Ada berbagai pertanyaan be…
KOSMOS adalah salah satu buku sains paling laris sepanjang sejarah. Dengan prosa jernih memukau, ahli astronomi Carl Sagan mengungkapkan alam semesta yang dihuni suatu bentuk kehidupan yang baru saja mulai berpetualang menjelajahi luasnya antariksa. Kosmos menelusuri empat belas miliar evolusi kosmik yang telah mengubah zat menjadi kesadaran, asal-usul kehidupan, misi wahana antariksa, rupa ber…
Can a robot survive in the wilderness? When robot Roz opens her eyes for the first time, she discovers that she is all alone on a remote, wild island. She has no idea how she got there or what her purpose is--but she knows she needs to survive. After battling a violent storm and escaping a vicious bear attack, she realizes that her only hope for survival is to adapt to her surroundings and lear…
Connor Bailey thinks his fairy-tale adventures are behind him - until he discovers a mysterious clue left by the famous Brothers Grimm. With help from his classmate Bree and the outlandish Mother Goose, Conner sets off on a mission across Europe to crack a two-hundred-year-old code. Meanwhile, Alex Bailey is training to become the next Fairy Godmother... but her attempts at granting wishes n…
CLB02648Nobody Owens, known to his friends as Bod, is a perfectly normal boy. Well, he would be perfectly normal if he didn't live in a graveyard, being raised and educated by ghosts, with a solitary guardian who belongs to neither the world of the living nor the world of the dead. There are dangers and adventures for Bod in the graveyard: the strange and terrible menace of the Sleer; a grav…