from the back cover: England and Scotland in the 1500s. Two famous queens - Mary, the Catholic Queen of Scots, and Elizabeth I, the Protestant Queen of England. It was an exciting and a dangerous time to be alive, and to be a queen. Mary was Queen of Scotland when she was one week old. At sixteen, she was also Queen of France. She was tall and beautiful, with red-gold hair. Many men loved h…
Dinosaurus adalah hewan luar biasa yang berhasil bertahan hidup. Mereka bisa merajai Bumi selama 165 juta tahun. Dalam buku 3-D Pop Up Digital Dinosaurus ini, anak-anak dapat mempelajari tentang kehidupan berbagai jenis dinosaurus, dari dinosaurus yang hidup di darat, udara, hingga lautan. Dikemas dengan ilustrasi gambar yang menarik, buku ini sangat cocok untuk mengenalkan dunia dinosaurus kep…
What do you find in these two countries at the end of the world? One is an enormous island, where only twenty million people live - and the other is two long, narrow islands, with ten sheep for every person. One country has the biggest rock in all the world, and a town where everybody lives under the ground; the other has a beach where you can sit beside the sea in a pool of hot water, and lake…
A human drama that sheds light on the courage, dedication and humour of those trying to rebuild Iraq. This work presents an account of how one man found himself in the middle of one of the most crucial episodes in modern history.
In Russia's War: 1941-1945 , Richard Overy re-creates the Soviet Union's apocalyptic struggle against Nazi Germany, from the point of view both of the troops and of the ordinary civilians. In the course of human history there has probably been more terrible place than Eastern Europe in 1941-45. Estimates of total Soviet military and civilian deaths in the period w stand at more than 25 million.…
Don Oberdorfer has written a gripping narrative history of Korea's travails and triumphs over the past three decades. The Two Koreas places the tensions between North and South within a historical context, with a special emphasis on the involvement of outside powers.
Buku sejarah Indonesia yang sangat lengkap sejak zaman prasejarah hingga era Indonesia modern. Para sejarahwan, arkeolog, antropolog, filolog, dan ilmuwan sosial terkemuka lainnya terlibat dalam penulisan buku besar ini. Ingin tahu bagaimana sejarah nasional, sejarah yang 'resmi', inilah bukunya.