ssential Managers encompasses: -A practical how-to approach complete with step-by-step instructions and checklists -Diagrams and illustrations to complement the tips and tricks featured throughout -'In focus' panels to explore and reflect on key subjects in depth -Effective 'ask yourself' questions to promote self-growth in a business environment
Buku Sosiologi Sastra karya Sapardi Djoko Damono ini memaparkan dengan jelas pendekatan terhadap sastra yang mempertimbangkan segi-segi kemasyarakatan. Juga dibahas fungsi dan peran sastra dalam masyarakat. Sebuah pengantar singkat yang mengemukakan bahwa sastra bisa mengandung gagasan yang mungkin dimanfaatkan untuk menumbuhkan sikap sosial dalam suatu masyarakat atau bahkan untuk mencetuskan …
Indonesia's Muslims are still pondering the role of religion in public life. Although the religious violence marring the transition towards democratic reform has ebbed, the Muslim community has polarised into reactionary and progressive camps with increasingly antagonistic views on the place of Islam in society. Debates over the underlying principles of democratisation have further heated up a…
Liv Varanakis doesn’t like to think about her father much, which makes sense—he fled to Greece when she was only eight, leaving her with just a few painful memories of their shared love for the lost city of Atlantis. So when teenage Liv suddenly receives a postcard from her father, who explains that National Geographic is supporting a documentary about his theories on Atlantis—and asks if…
The House of the Dead is a stark account of Dostoyevsky's own experience of penal servitude in Siberia. In graphic detail he describes the suffering of the convicts their squalor and degradation, their terror and resignation, from the rampages of a psychopath to the brief serenity of Christmas Day. Amid the horror of labour in the sub-zero work camp, we hear the stories of the prisoners, and li…
Eleven-year-old Nikolas--nicknamed Christmas--has received only one toy in his life: a doll carved out of a turnip. But he's happy with his turnip doll, because it came from his parents who love him. Then one day his father goes missing, and Nikolas must travel to the North Pole to save him. Along the way, Nikolas befriends a surly reindeer, bests a troublesome troll, and discovers a hidden wo…
Clever, rich - and single - Emma Woodhouse is perfectly content with her life and sees no need for either love or marriage. Nothing, however, delights her more than interfering in the romantic lives of others. But when she ignores the warnings of her good friend Mr. Knightley and attempts to arrange a suitable match for her protegee Harriet Smith, her carefully laid plans soon unravel and have …
Anne Shirley is an eleven-year-old orphan who has hung on determinedly to an optimistic spirit and a wildly creative imagination through her early deprivations. She erupts into the lives of aging brother and sister Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert, a girl instead of the boy they had sent for. Thus begins a story of transformation for all three; indeed the whole rural community of Avonlea comes u…
In 1942, with the Nazis occupying Holland, a thirteen-year-old Jewish girl and her family fled their home in Amsterdam and went into hiding. For the next two years, until their whereabouts were betrayed to the Gestapo, the Franks and another family lived cloistered in the “Secret Annexe” of an old office building. Cut off from the outside world, they faced hunger, boredom, the constant crue…
Julukan ini pantas dimiliki oleh Elon Musk, pengusaha yang memimpin era Revolusi Industri ke-4. Kesuksesannya memimpin perusahaan mobil listrik Tesla dan perusahaan transportasi luar angkasa SpaceX membuat namanya semakin dikenal. Namun siapa sangka, pengusaha inovatif dan kaya raya ini dahulu adalah seorang kutu buku yang sering diolok-olok oleh teman-teman sekolahnya. Keberhasilannya saat ini…